FUN WITH THE ANCIENT LYDIANS |
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One of these astronomical events brought an end to King Alyattes' war with the Medes |
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In 1972, the same year her "Delta Dawn" charted, she had a cameo role in the film "Jeremiah Johnson" |
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George Kelly's wife Kathryn bought him this weapon that became his nickname |
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The highest sand dunes in the world are in this, the world's largest desert |
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When the captain calls for "all" these body parts "on deck", he means everybody up top |
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Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view |
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This father of history reports that the ancient Etruscans were originally Lydians |
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Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was known as the mastermind of this fixed 1919 sporting event |
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Samaria isn't a gorge of the jungle, it's on this Greek isle that was home to the Minoans |
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It's not flotsam, admiral; it's goods deliberately thrown overboard to lighten the ship |
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Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine |
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This Lydian king was tortured in Hades with food & water kept out of his reach |
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Before she became a star, this daughter of Mel Tillis sang commercial jingles for Equal |
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Best-known nickname of accused Milwaukee murderer Lawrencia Bembenek |
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First measured in 1852 & called Peak XV, it's 1.65 miles taller than the tallest mountain in North America |
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Methinks it's a high sail on a ship, or a tall building on land |
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This author of "Beyond Good and Evil" is often wrongly represented as sympathetic to Nazi ideas |
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This Lydian girl got into a web of trouble when she challenged Athena to a weaving contest |
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Albert DeSalvo, known as this, died in a Walpole, Mass. state prison where he was ironically, making women's chokers |
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The ancient fortress of Masada sits on a rock on the shore of this "lake" |
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The sun's over this, lads, which means it's time for a drink |
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This ancient Greek's "Metaphysics" begins, "All men by nature desire to know" |
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This last king of Lydia never had to sing "If I Were A Rich Man", 'cause boy was he ever |
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Billboard Magazine's top female country artist of all time, she's had No. 1 hits in the '70s, '80s & '90s |
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This Chicago mobster linked to CIA plots against Castro was affectionately known as "Momo" |
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Hundreds of thousands of tourists boat up to the national monument seen here in this state |
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Mateys, if we sever our anchor line & leave quickly, we've done this |
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Kant said the work of this 18th c. Scottish skeptic awoke him from his dogmatic slumbers |
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