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The execution of Mary Stuart was one reason Philip II sent this naval group against England in 1588 |
the Spanish Armada
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He had to delay finishing "The Last Judgment" for the Sistine Chapel after he fell from a scaffold |
Michelangelo
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It owns all of the Apollo capsules & loans them out to other museums around the world |
the Smithsonian
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Appropriately, this agency's toll-free number ends with the number 1040 |
the IRS
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To make beurre noisette, heat this until it's as brown as a nut |
butter
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In a Longfellow poem, Nokomis, the old woman, stands on its shore pointing westward |
Lake Gitche Gumee
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After it crashed in 1937, this German dirigible burned well into the night |
the Hindenburg
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Alice Neel was noted for her portraits of the people of this city's Spanish Harlem |
New York
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In June 1985 the U.S. sent a prince from this country into space |
Saudi Arabia
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This Massachusetts Democrat is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources |
Ted Kennedy
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English name of the creatures that the French serve on a special dish called an escargotiere |
snails
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Type of tree that George Pope Morris pleaded with the woodman to spare |
an oak
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In 1979 Greece was elected to full membership in this "Continental" organization |
(Brian: What is the EC? [*]?)
the European (Economic) Community
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In 1888 Gauguin spent a short time in Arles visiting this artist |
Van Gogh
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The Russian equivalent of this U.S. craft is the Buran, which can fly by remote control |
the Space Shuttle
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This term for a slate of candidates sounds like you have to buy it at the box office |
a ticket
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It's a style of frying fish & serving it with tomato sauce, as well as an airport near Paris |
Orly
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According to Tennyson, it's what the 600 had left, right & in front of them in the Valley of Death |
(Alex: About a minute to go, Fred.)
cannon
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Hosokawa Masamoto, a warlord, drove Shogun Yoshitane out of this capital city in 1493 |
(Fred: What is Edo?) (Alex: No.) (Fred: Tokyo?)
Kyoto
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His signature on his paintings was sometimes followed by Kres, for Cretan |
El Greco
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It was the Soviet successor to the Salyut Space Station |
(Byron: What is the Soyuz?)
Mir
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This adjective describes a legislature with a single chamber, such as Nebraska's |
unicameral
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These salad ingredients known as coeurs de palmier may also be braised & served in sauce |
(Fred: What are artichoke hearts?)
hearts of palm
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Her poem number 280 begins, "I felt a funeral, in my brain, and mourners to and fro" |
Dickinson
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During WWI this British officer & archaeologist was made advisor to Faisal, son of the Sharif of Mecca |
Lawrence of Arabia
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This sculptor of "Bird in Space" also executed a work called "Flying Turtle" |
(Byron: Who is Calder?)
Constantine Brancusi
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The last Saturn V moon rocket used to put this into orbit May 14, 1973 |
Skylab
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Late Kansas governor whose daughter Nancy is a senator from Kansas |
(Alf) Landon
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Larousse Gastronomique suggests soaking these framboises "with sugar in good red wine" |
(Brian: What are strawberries?)
raspberries
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Said to be Abraham Lincoln's first love, she's the subject of a poem by Edgar Lee Masters |
(Byron: Who is Annabel Lee?)
Ann Rutledge
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