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When he abdicated April 11, 1814 his "parting gifts" were a yearly pension & sovereignty over Elba |
Napoleon
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This Galilean fisherman was originally named Simon |
Peter
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Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum type of this device in 1656 |
a clock
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Rivers emptying into this sea include the Ebro from Spain & the Nile |
the Mediterranean
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Prime minister Harold Macmillan turned diplomat to help resolve this 1962 international crisis |
(Art: What was Suez?)
the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Robert Mills designed this 555' U.S. monument in 1836; it wasn't finished until 1884, 29 years after his death |
the Washington Monument
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This group was formed in the 1950s to oppose the corrupt regime of Ngo Dinh Diem |
the Vietcong
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This king "Slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coast thereof" |
Herod
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Friedrich Miescher discovered this organic chemical; Watson & Crick, its double helix structure |
DNA
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Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania all border its eastern coast |
the Baltic
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Having moved to South Africa for health reasons, he later mined diamonds & became the Cape Colony's PM |
Rhodes
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Sir John Oldcastle, who once plotted to kidnap Henry V, was a model for this Shakespeare character |
Falstaff
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The Montreux Convention of 1936 recognized this county's right to fortify the Dardanelles |
Turkey
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He describes the visions he received on the Isle of Patmos in the book of Revelation |
John
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Lewis E. Waterman invented this type of pen in 1884 |
(Art: What is the ballpoint?)
fountain pen
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This sea's southern entrance is partly blocked by the islands of Crete & Rhodes |
(Art: What is the Adriatic?)
the Aegean
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When he became naturalized in 1947, he gave up the right of accession to the Greek & Danish thrones |
(Dennis: Who was Mountbatten?) ... (Alex: He's of the Mountbatten family. Who is [*]?)
the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip)
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Used in welding, this gas is polymerized to make neoprene, a synthetic rubber |
acetylene
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Because hiding in the Paris sewers worsened this revolutionary's skin disease, he needed warm baths to treat it |
(Art: Who is Robespierre?) ... (Alex: You remember the famous painting of him being stabbed by Charlotte Corday.)
Jean-Paul Marat
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Jesus was betrayed by Judas & arrested in this garden |
the Garden of Gethsemane
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In Russia, about 1910, he discovered the conditioned reflex |
Pavlov
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The Crimean Peninsula lies between the world's shallowest sea, the Sea of Azov, & this sea |
the Black Sea
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As Lloyd George's foreign secretary, he came up with a declaration concerning Palestine |
Balfour
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Boomtowns like Washoe City & Virginia City grew around the 1859 silver strike known as this |
(Art: What is the Homestake Mine?)
the Comstock Lode
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This general led the coup that removed Salvador Allende from office |
(Augusto) Pinochet
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This apostle was shipwrecked on Malta for 3 months |
Paul
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In 1906 he created the syphilis test known by his name |
Wassermann
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It separates Australia from New Zealand |
(Art: What is the Tasmanian Sea?)
the Sea of Tasman
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This actress had 2 sons by Charles II; one went on to become Duke of St. Albans |
Nell Gwyn
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This Nicaraguan coast was named after the Indians, not the insects |
the Mosquito Coast
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