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The Persian government ran this service using relay stations with remounts & fresh riders a day's ride apart |
the postal service
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Completes the quote, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty" |
fallen
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Women who kept these after they wed were called Lucy Stoners, after Lucy Stone who did it in 1855 |
maiden names
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In existence for 289 years, it's the state's oldest university |
Yale
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17th-century painter Jan van Goyen was one of this country's most gifted landscape artists |
Holland
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Innkeeper, Captain of the Inquisition, dancing horses, Sancho Panza |
Man of La Mancha
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Known in Greek mythology for his treasures of gold, this Phrygian king really existed |
Midas
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Gertrude Stein said, "In" this country "there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is" |
the USA
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Mahalia Jackson was among those who sang old slave spirituals at his 1963 March on Washington |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Bridgeport's Mountain Grove Cemetery is the burial place of Tom Thumb & this showman who employed him |
P.T. Barnum
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In 1514 Pope Leo X made Raphael Chief Architect of this building |
(Adelaide: What is the Vatican?) (Alex: No.) (Adelaide: St. Peter—)
St. Peter's (Basilica)
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Cassie, Zach, Sheila, Maggie |
A Chorus Line
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11 rulers of the Byzantine Empire, including the first & last, bore this name |
Constantine
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On August 25, 1944, Hitler asked this famous question about France's capital |
"Is Paris burning?"
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She was the first woman mayor of Chicago |
Jane Byrne
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Connecticut's highest point is on Mount Frissell, but the peak's top is further north in this state |
Massachusetts
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This woman whose life spanned a century was known for painting flowers & cattle skulls |
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Lt. Joseph Cable, Liat, Bloody Mary |
South Pacific
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Rome was ruled by these non-Latin neighbors from the late 7th century BC to about 509 BC |
the Etruscans
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Joyce Kilmer wrote about one of these "upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain" |
a tree
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At age 91, Anna Hauptmann is still trying to clear her husband of this 1932 crime |
the Lindbergh baby kidnapping
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You can visit the house in which Mark Twain lived from 1874 to 1891 in this city |
Hartford
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Spanish cubist José Victoriano González changed his name to this, keeping the initials J.G. |
Juan Gris
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Queenie, Capt. Andy, Gaylord Ravenal |
Show Boat
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A type of camel is named for this ancient country in southwest Asia |
(Alex: The [*]n camel.)
Bactria
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Phrase that completes John Donne's line, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls" |
"it tolls for thee"
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She and Harold Ickes were FDR's only original Cabinet members to serve to 1945 |
Frances Perkins
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In 1687, when Governor Andros came to seize the colonial constitution, it was hidden in this tree |
the Charter Oak
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In 1977, the city of Antwerp celebrated the 400th anniversary of the birth of this Baroque artist |
(Jim: Who was Bosch?)
Peter Paul Rubens
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Chief Commissar, President of the Politburo, French Comrades, Ninotchka |
Silk Stockings
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