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Name shared by 8 Byzantine emperors & over 20 Popes |
John
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A memorial to this British statesman can be found at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. |
(Alex: He gave a famous speech there.)
Churchill
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Philip Glass has written operas on Akhnaten, on Gandhi & on this E=mc2 physicist |
Albert Einstein
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Ainu, unrelated to any other language, is spoken by about 12,000 on this country's Hokkaido island |
Japan
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In addition to mysteries, this presidential daughter has written a biography of her mother, Bess |
Margaret Truman
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This musical partner of Sir Arthur Sullivan died in 1911 while trying to save a drowning woman |
(William) Gilbert
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Except for 5 years, this family held the title of Holy Roman Emperor from 1438 until 1806 |
Hapsburg
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Among the more than 100 colleges & universities in this state are Slippery Rock, Bryn Mawr & Villanova |
Pennsylvania
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Before her death in 1887, this Swedish soprano was on staff at the Royal College of Music in London |
Jenny Lind
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Principal dialects of this language are from Connacht, Munster & County Donegal |
(Mike: What's Celtic?) (George: What's Ireland?)
Gaelic (or Irish)
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She said of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "God wrote the book...I took his dictation" |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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In 1968 this general returned to the U.S. from Vietnam to serve as Army Chief of Staff |
Westmoreland
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In December 1991 this A.P. correspondent became the last U.S. hostage released from Lebanon |
Terry Anderson
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The university of this Texas city is not in the city itself but in the suburb of Irving |
Dallas
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Like Beethoven, Claude Debussy only completed this many operas |
1
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Brazilians enriched this language by adding words from African slaves & the Tupi Indians |
Portuguese
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New York & Hollywood are the main settings for her sizzling novel "American Star" |
Jackie Collins
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In 1878 he renamed his Christian mission the Salvation Army |
General William Booth
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When Edward the Confessor died in 1066, the English nobles chose this Earl of Wessex as king |
Harold
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This city's DePaul University was founded in 1898 as St. Vincent's College |
Chicago
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Verdi's last opera, it was based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
Falstaff
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While Yiddish has Germanic origins, Ladino is a Jewish language derived from this |
Spanish
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She joked that she was born November 14, 1963, the date "Every Night, Josephine!" was published |
Jacqueline Susann
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His op-ed column runs twice weekly in the New York Times & his "On Language" appears in the Sunday magazine |
William Safire
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In 1853 this discoverer of Lake Tanganyika visited the shrines of Mecca disguised as an Afghani |
Sir Richard Burton
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This "Berg" is home to the oldest university in Germany |
Heidelberg
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Name of the castle that's home to Donizetti's "Lucia" |
Lammermoor
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Romansh is the main language of this Swiss ski resort, the site of the 1928 & 1948 Winter Olympics |
(George: What's Zermatt?) (Mike: What's Lake Geneva?)
St. Moritz
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In 1993 this bestselling author published her 10th novel, a suspense tale called "I'll Be Seeing You" |
Mary Higgins Clark
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His 36 years on the Supreme Court was the longest term of any justice |
William O. Douglas
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