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In Fort Myers, Florida you can visit "The Mangoes", the winter home that suited this car manufacturer to a "T" |
Henry Ford
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This country mints its coins in Pretoria |
South Africa
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Carel Fabritius was one of the finest painters trained in this Dutch artist's workshop |
Rembrandt
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This college degree is abbreviated B.F.A. |
a Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Still's disease is another name for the juvenile rheumatoid type of this disease |
Arthritis
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This Scottish queen was the subject of Antonia Fraser's first biography |
Mary (Queen of Scots)
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In 1981 Francois Mitterrand attended the 200th anniversary observance of Cornwallis' surrender here |
Yorktown
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Some of the first coins issued by this Caribbean nation in 1807 pictured its president, Henri Christophe |
Haiti
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The 1867 execution of this emperor of Mexico inspired one of Manet's few historical paintings |
Maximilian
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In his "Republic", this philosopher advocated a curriculum based on the education of an elite class |
Plato
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Prolonged exposure to asbestos often leads to asbestosis, a disease of these organs |
the lungs
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"To Reach Eternity" is a collection of letters by this "From Here to Eternity" author |
James Jones
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The village of Pleasant Hill, Ky., founded by this celibate sect in 1805, is now a living history museum |
the Shakers
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This nation's coins of the 1820s were minted on Aegina with presses bought from the Knights of St. John |
(John: What is Malta?)
Greece
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In Renoir's 1872 painting of this oldest Parisian bridge, his brother Edmond appears in 2 places |
the Pont Neuf
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This Supreme Court case held that separate facilities for black & white students were unconstitutional |
Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)
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Eqvalan is a leading product for the treatment of parasite infections in these quadrupeds |
horses
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In 1974 he published "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen: A Jeeves and Bertie Story" |
Wodehouse
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This First Lady's birthplace is a tourist attraction in Weymouth, Massachusetts |
Abigail Adams
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Gold sovereigns issued by this small European nation in 1982 depicted the Bishop of Seo de Urgel |
Andorra
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This French Rococo painter was known as "Frago" for short |
Fragonard
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This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO was founded in 1916 |
(Laura: What is the UFT?) (Dave: What is the NEA?)
the American Federation of Teachers
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An endemic goiter, the most common type, is caused by a diet deficient in this |
iodine
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He wrote about his people, the Kikuyu, in "facing Mount Kenya" before he became president of Kenya |
Jomo Kenyatta
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Now an inn, the Governor Calvert House that faces this city's state capitol was built for Chas. Calvert in the 1700s |
Annapolis
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When this country revised its coinage system in 1967, all of its new coins were inscribed in Tagalog |
the Philippines
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Time magazine nicknamed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper" |
Jackson Pollock
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The first public version of these schools invented by Friedrich Froebel opened in St. Louis in 1873 |
a kindergarten
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The swelling of these salivary glands is the main symptom of the mumps |
the parotid glands
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She wrote about Central America in the novel "A Book of Common Prayer" & the nonfiction book "Salvador" |
(Joan) Didion
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