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After the war this French marquis was offered the governorship of Louisiana but turned it down |
Lafayette
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The Shatt al-Arab is formed in southeastern Iraq by the confluence of these 2 rivers |
the Tigris & the Euphrates
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In 1929 this Pennsylvanian received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University |
Margaret Mead
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Founded in 1460, the University of Basel is this country's oldest university |
Switzerland
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He dedicated "For Whom the Bell Tolls" to wife Martha Gellhorn, a fellow Spanish Civil War correspondent |
Ernest Hemingway
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World Book says that in an atom 4 miles in diameter, this center part would be the size of a tennis ball |
the nucleus
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Israel Putnam is often credited with giving the order "Don't one of you fire until you see" this |
the whites of their eyes
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This river flows about 4,145 miles from its sources south of the equator to the Mediterranean Sea |
the Nile River
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She wrote some of her "My Day" newspaper columns at Hyde Park & some on Campobello Island |
Eleanor Roosevelt
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This university has a campus in Jackson & its main campus in Oxford |
the University of Mississippi
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Called "Russia's Greatest Living Dissident", this Nobel Prize winner returned to his homeland in 1994 |
Solzhenitsyn
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Of indivisible, unseen or unnatural, the meaning of atomos, the word that "atom" came from |
indivisible
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This general who was defeated at Yorktown also fought in the Seven Years' War |
Cornwallis
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Called "China's Sorrow" from its frequent floods, the Huang Ho is known by this name in English |
the Yellow River
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In 1860 this Englishwoman published one of her most popular books, "Notes on Nursing" |
Florence Nightingale
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The university of this country is located in Quezon City |
the Philippines
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He studied at Glasgow Veterinary College & began practice in Yorkshire in 1940 |
(James) Herriot
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When 2 atoms join in compounds, they form units called these |
molecules
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Within 6 months of his arrival, this Prussian became acting inspector general of the Continental Army |
Baron von Steuben
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The Bonneville Dam was completed in 1937 on this U.S.-Canadian river & made it easier to navigate |
the Columbia
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"Jephtha", which premiered in 1752, was this German-born English composer's last oratorio |
Handel
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In 1910 the South Carolina Military Academy changed its name to this |
(Alex: You can do you math, I see. A tie for first place if you are correct on this clue...)
the Citadel
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He named Spenser, his famous detective, after English poet Edmund Spenser |
Robert Parker
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The chemical behavior of an atom is mainly determined by the number of these in its outer shell |
electrons
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Shortly after Bunker Hill, Thomas Gage was replaced by this general as British commander in chief |
(William) Howe
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Pakistan's fertile Punjab Plain is irrigated by this river & its tributaries |
(David: [Whispers to self] I know it, but... [shakes head]) (Alex: Take a guess.) [David sighs and tries re-reading the clue.] (Alex: Obviously it's not coming to you.)
the Indus River
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In 1828 this great Zulu chief was murdered by his half-brothers Dingane & Mhlangana |
Shaka (Zulu)
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The Lake Itasca Forestry & Biological Station is a facility of this university |
(the University of) Minnesota
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This author of "A Clockwork Orange" wrote the lyrics to the 1973 musical "Cyrano" |
Anthony Burgess
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Of the 3 basic subatomic particles, it has the greatest mass & has no charge |
the neutron
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