STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC |
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Tchaikovsky got ahead of his contemporaries & used the then-new celesta in the music for this ballet, now a Christmas favorite |
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"The Nun's Priest's Tale" (circa 1400) |
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(I'm Brendan Hunt.) While doing improv together in Amsterdam, Jason Sudeikis and I became friends & fell in love with soccer; we put our affection for that sport into this Emmy-winning comedy that we co-created |
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These tusk-y pigs were feared, hunted, roasted up & often depicted in art |
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The Cuzco School was a group of multiethnic artists centered in what's now this country |
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It can refer to an advantageous trait, or money or property that is owned |
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This 1829 opera has the title Swiss mister take on the evil Gesler |
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The 1926 poem "Harlem Night Club" |
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TV's longest-running live-action sitcom is this one set at Paddy's Pub in the city of Brotherly Love |
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No camel riding per the Pact of Umar, limiting the rights of these 2 non-Muslim groups in newly Muslim-controlled areas |
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Seen here, the ñanduti style of this 4-letter fabric is a treasured construct of Paraguayan crafters |
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Using just the edges of your vocal cords produces this artificially high type of singing |
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He was born in 1756, created more than 600 works of music before his 36th birthday but never got to his 36th birthday |
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"A Passage to India" (1924) |
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This mockumentary series focuses on vampires, who, naturally, live together on Staten Island |
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One legend says this son of Erik the Red came to America in a boat he bought from a merchant who'd told of seeing a land of trees |
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"Yo soy Betty, la fea", the progenitor of "Ugly Betty", was one of these soap operas in Colombia |
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The petals are actually modified leaves called bracts on this decorative favorite |
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Truly a man for all seasons, this Italian composed the serenata called "La Gloria e Imeneo" for King Louis XV's wedding |
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"Chorus of the Captains", a poem performed via video at the 2021 Super Bowl |
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This guy is the creator & star of the deadpan & awkwardly funny "The Rehearsal" |
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Around 1300 this fabled city just north of the Niger River, a center of trade & learning, became part of the Mali Empire |
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A folk hero of Argentina is this nomadic cowboy of the grasslands of the Pampas |
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Divided into 100 centimos, this former monetary unit of Spain & Andorra was replaced by the euro in 2002 |
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Let's go Bach in time to the 1700s & these concertos with a German state name; No. 2 kicks a trumpet solo to new heights |
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"No Country for Old Men" (2005) & "The Passenger" (2022) |
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(I'm Hasan Minhaj.) I won a Peabody Award for this comedy show that took its name from the not-so-funny 2001 legislation, increasing the surveillance powers of law enforcement agencies |
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The innocent-if-you-sink, guilty-if-you-float method of justice was called trial by this, a word meaning any painful experience |
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Isabel Allende "casts a spell" with this 2-word writing style in which myth & fantasy are key elements |
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The babies of this primate from the forests of South America are usually born as twins |
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