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This woman who led an army to the relief of Orleans in 1429 was illiterate but a good seamstress |
Joan of Arc
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Ferde Grofe did the original orchestration of his "Rhapsody In Blue" |
Gershwin
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In 1977 this "Nightline" host co-authored a thriller entitled "In the National Interest" |
Ted Koppel
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A new plate tectonics theory says that North America was connected to this cold continent for a billion yrs. |
Antarctica
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The flags of Chile, Cuba & Texas each display a single one of these |
a star
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According to 3:20, all men are the same—they begin & end as this substance |
dust
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In 1792 this hero of the American Revolution made a futile attempt to save the French monarchy |
Lafayette
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This "Flight of the Bumblebee" composer revised "Boris Godunov" after Mussorgsky's death |
Rimsky-Korsakov
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In 1939 he published an "official guide of the Tarzan Clans of America" |
(Tina: Who is Weissmuller?)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tremolite, crocidolite & chrysotile are varieties of this fibrous fireproof material |
asbestos
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During the Middle Ages, this 1-horned mythical beast sometimes represented Christ |
the unicorn
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to" them |
the strong
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In an 1870-71 war, France was defeated by a group of German states led by this one |
Prussia
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In 1883 he was interred in a vault at his villa, Wahnfried, in Bayreuth |
Wagner
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Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover" is based on the love triangle of Wm. & Emma Hamilton & this man |
(Lord Horatio) Nelson
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The largest rock size recognized by sedimentologists, it describes anything over 256 mm in diameter |
a boulder
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A white one of these flowers was a symbol of the House of York |
a rose
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These dead insects "cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour" |
flies
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Named for its length, this 1756-1763 war led to the loss of most of the French colonial empire |
the Seven Years' War
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The original family name of this "Tales of Hoffmann" composer was Eberst |
(Jean: Who is Mendelssohn?)
Jacques Offenbach
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At her death, Olive Ann Burns was working on "Leaving Cold Sassy", the sequel to this novel |
Cold Sassy Tree
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This portion of the Earth is everything past the Gutenberg Discontinuity, 1800 miles on down |
the core
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Sign of the zodiac often represented by the symbol seen here: |
Sagittarius
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Authorship of the book is attributed to this son of David |
Solomon
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Under Henry V the English defeated a French force 3 times as large at this October 1415 battle |
Agincourt
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On his 80th birthday in 1945, the Finnish government issued a stamp bearing his likeness |
Sibelius
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In 1993 he had 2 No. 1 books simultaneously, "The Client" in hardback & "The Pelican Brief" in paperback |
(John) Grisham
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This Earth measurement is 5.976 x 1027 grams |
(Jean: What is volume?) (Tina: What is the density?)
the mass (the weight)
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A sun disk was the personal symbol of this Egyptian sun god |
Ra
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Chapter 11 advises doing this with your loaf "for thou shalt find it after many days" |
cast (your bread) upon the waters
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