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Peter I, czar of this country from 1682, became emperor of it in 1721 |
Russia
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Poor hygiene or tight-fitting shoes can cause this to become ingrown |
toenails
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Each October Circleville has a 4-day festival honoring this gourd |
(John: What is the drinking gourd?)
the pumpkin
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In 1993 after nearly 100 years this retailing giant discontinued its famous catalogue |
Sears
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This "Lullaby" composer based "A German Requiem" on Biblical texts rather than the requiem mass |
Brahms
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Ezra Pound referred to him as "Rudyard the Dud Yard" |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Kipling
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He was the adoptive son & heir of his great-uncle Julius Caesar |
Caesar Octavian (or Augustus)
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This term for decompression sickness may refer to its causing a diver to double over in pain |
the bends
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A sheaf of this grain on the state seal represents Ohio's abundant resources |
wheat
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This company nicknamed "Big Blue" was in the big red for 1992 with a loss of $4.97 billion |
IBM
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He composed his ballet "Swan Lake" while teaching at the Moscow Conservatory of Music |
Tchaikovsky
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Oscar Wilde said this "Pygmalion" author "hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him" |
Shaw
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In 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became Emperor Jacques I of this West Indies country |
Haiti
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Alcohol & hydrogen peroxide are among this class of substances used to destroy germs |
antiseptics
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Under an Ordinance of 1787, Ohio was governed as a part of this territory |
the Northwest Territory
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This Japanese electronics co. is named for a mechanical pencil, if you get my "point" |
Sharp
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He dedicated his third symphony, the "Eroica", to his patron Prince Lobkowitz |
Beethoven
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He said to James Boswell, "You have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both" |
Samuel Johnson
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In 1928 he took the title of Negus or King of Ethiopia; in 1930 he became emperor |
Haile Selassie
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The most common symptom of this disease is trismus, or difficulty in opening the mouth |
(John: What is hydrophobia?)
lockjaw (tetanus)
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In the 1880s Edward Libbey & Michael Owens introduced glassmaking to this port on western Lake Erie |
(John: What is Corning?) (Rich: What is Cleveland?)
Toledo
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During prohibition, this Colorado-based brewery survived by making near beer & malted milk |
Coors
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This "Creation" composer's wife used his manuscripts to line pastry pans |
Haydn
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Alexander Woollcott called this Round Table wit a combination "of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth" |
(Rich: What is the Algonquin?) (Alex: Called "this Round Table wit", he was referring to [*].)
Dorothy Parker
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Alexius I Comnenus ruled this empire, based in what's now Istanbul, from 1081 to 1118 |
(Jake: What is the Ottoman Empire?) (John: What is the Eastern Roman Empire?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before clue 23]
the Byzantine Empire
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Artificial kidney is another name for the machine that performs this procedure |
dialysis
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The world's largest military aviation museum is located at this Dayton Air Force base |
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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In 1887 William Bristol joined forces with this college friend to build one of America's largest drug companies |
(Rich: Who was Walgreen?)
(John) Myers
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His opera "Prince Igor" was completed after his death by Rimsky-Korsakov & Alexsander Glazunov |
Borodin
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William Dean Howells called this Missouri-born humorist "The Lincoln of Literature" |
Mark Twain
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