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On July 16, 1956 this circus staged its last performance under canvas |
Ringling Brothers (& Barnum & Bailey) Circus
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Before writing the score for "Porgy and Bess", he lived in South Carolina to get the right feel for it |
George Gershwin
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World Report is a section of this magazine as well as part of its name |
U.S. News & World Report
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Unlike the Academy, the school Epicurus founded in this city in 306 B.C. regularly admitted women |
Athens
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This branch of medicine deals with ailments of the ankle, lower leg & foot |
podiatry
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"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and" she "is the sun" |
(Ellen: What is Romeo and Juliet?) ... (Alex: She "is the sun"; we were going for her identity only.)
Juliet
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On Oct. 2, 1871 this Mormon leader was arrested for polygamy |
(Johan: Who was Joseph Smith?)
Brigham Young
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Gustav Mahler based his song cycle "The Song of the Earth" on ancient poems of this Asian country |
(Johan: What is India?)
China
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This late, great Vogue editor's maiden name was Diana Dalziel |
Diana Vreeland
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Swedenborg wrote extensively on the spiritual meaning of these first 2 books of the Bible |
Genesis & Exodus
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In this epidemic disease, Yersinia pestis bacteria cause painful swellings called buboes |
bubonic plague
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A fairy calls him "that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow" |
Puck
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Congressman from Illinois who sponsored the 1910 White Slave Traffic Act |
James Robert Mann
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"Parsifal", which had its premiere in 1882, was his last music drama |
Wagner
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This author of "The Executioner's Song" is a "writer-at-large" for Vanity Fair |
Norman Mailer
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This existentialist examined Marxism in his "Critique de la Raison Dialectique" |
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
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"Ancient Medicine" is a treatise attributed to this 5th century B.C. Greek physician |
Hippocrates
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Valentine & Proteus are "The Two Gentlemen of" this city |
Verona
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He was serving as president of Congress when he signed the Declaration of Independence |
(Cris: Who was John Adams?) (Ellen: Who was George Washington?)
John Hancock
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In 1850, exactly 100 years after his death, a society was formed in Leipzig to promote his Baroque works |
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
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This hunting & fishing magazine's trademark logo features a trout & a Canada goose |
Field & Stream
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This Dutch humanist was ordained a priest in 1492 |
Erasmus
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In 1796 this physician gave the first vaccination for smallpox |
Edward Jenner
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This play opens with Antonio saying, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad" |
(Johan: What is As You Like It?)
The Merchant of Venice
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When his nominee, Roger B. Taney, was rejected in 1834, Levi Woodbury became Treasury Secretary |
Andrew Jackson
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The 1st Professor of Music at England's Univ. of Birmingham was this "Pomp And Circumstance" composer |
Elgar
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It's the widest-circulating U.S. magazine that has a color in its name |
Redbook
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This religious philosopher was born in Copenhagen on May 5, 1813 |
Soren Kierkegaard
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This Topeka, Kansas Psychiatric clinic was founded in 1925 by a physician & his 2 sons |
the Menninger Clinic
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This daughter of King Lear poisons Regan & then commits suicide |
Goneril
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