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Joseph Smith moved this church's headquarters to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831 |
the Mormon Church
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Like the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa straddles the border between Italy & this country |
Switzerland
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In the 1600s drinking tankards were often made of this tusk material |
(Alex: We have about a minute to go.)
ivory
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In 1798 George Washington got this former Treasury Sec'y the job of Army Inspector General |
Alexander Hamilton
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Vachel Lindsay wrote of this famous American, "sorrow for Anne Rutledge burned in his face" |
Lincoln
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The origins of this word for a severe food shortage go back to fames, a Latin word for hunger |
famine
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This form of Buddhism originated in China, where it's known as Ch'an |
Zen
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In 1964 the Canadian government renamed Mount East Hubbard in memory of this American |
John F. Kennedy
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The cloth of St. Gereon is thought to be the oldest occidental one of these wall hangings |
a tapestry
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From the color of his habit, this French cardinal & statesman was known as l'Eminence Rouge |
(Cardinal) Richelieu
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A woman in a spangled mourning dress inspired this lord's lines "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
Byron
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The name of this ever-popular beverage may be traced back to the Amoy dialect of Chinese |
tea
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This Jewish New Year celebration marks the beginning of the ten days of penitence |
Rosh Hashanah
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Ernest Hemingway described it as "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun" |
Kilimanjaro
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In the 1750s Battersea Enamelware was made at York House in the Battersea district of this city |
London
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This medicine man & leader of the Sioux was also known by the Native name Tatanka Yotanka |
Sitting Bull
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John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, "Blessings on thee, little man, barefoot boy, with cheek of" this |
of tan
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This gemstone's name comes from a Sinhalese word for carnelian, toramalli |
tourmaline
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The Dome of the Rock covers the rock from which he is believed to have ascended into heaven |
Muhammad
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It's the official name of Mount Godwin Austen |
(James: What is, uh, Everest?)
K2
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Highly prized for carving, the "mutton fat" type of this gemstone is uniformly white, not green |
jade
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He announced his first two laws of planetary motion in 1609 & his third in 1619 |
(Anna: Who is Newton?)
(Johannes) Kepler
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He composed his "Ode to a Nightingale" under a plum tree on a morning in May |
Keats
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This name for an open pavilion found in parks is derived from a Persian word for palace, kushk |
a kiosk
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Guru Nanak & his nine successors are revered as the ten gurus of this religion |
(James: What's Hinduism?)
Sikhism
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When it erupted in 1991, this volcano in the Philippines had been dormant for about 600 years |
Pinatubo
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Dutch traders returning to Europe from Java introduced this dyeing process that uses wax |
batik
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Hadrian's predecessor, a column in Rome commemorates his victories |
Trajan
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Tennyson had a thousand copies of this poem printed for "the brave soldiers at Sebastopol" |
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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The name of this catlike mammal comes from zabad, an Arabic word for perfume made from its musky secretions |
civet (the civet cat)
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