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It's the alliterative & often damaging practice of removing all the trees from an area, as seen here |
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Wherefore art thou Romeo? In "Shakespeare in Love", Romeo art this actress |
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There are solar & lunar types of this astronomical phenomenon |
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His London home & museum boasts the original "Golden Arm" sign mentioned in chapter 6 of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
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From Old French for "game divided", its historical meanings include problem, trick, stratagem &, of course, danger |
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This Illinois man's 2 presidential runs in the 1950s garnered a total of 162 electoral votes |
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...who looked like a lady, when she played Victoria Grant & Count Victor Grezhinski in 1982 |
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The city of Paris owns Hauteville House, this "Les Miserables" author's home on the Island of Guernsey |
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This Roman god was unusual in that he had 2 faces & no Greek counterpart |
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In 1858 Abe Lincoln lost a U.S. Senate race to this man but would bounce back against him 2 years later |
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She won her first Oscar playing Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" |
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A person who makes barrels |
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Tourist cometh to Tao House, the California home where he wrote "The Iceman Cometh" |
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After the death of Ian Curtis, the members of this band formed New Order |
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In 1976 he fell 117 delegate votes short of defeating President Ford for the Republican nomination |
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Tilda Swinton went on a gender-bender in 1992's "Orlando", based on this writer's 1928 novel |
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Uranium or titanium, for example |
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You can follow in the footsteps of this novelist on Dublin walking tours led by his nephew, Ken Monaghan |
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William S. Burroughs' first novel |
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This former Minnesota gov. ran unsuccessfully 9 times for the GOP presidential nomination |
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In the 2005 film "Transamerica", she's the he-almost-turned-she seen here |
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In Arthurian legend, this island represented an earthly paradise |
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Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country |
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"EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BOMBSHELL", read the headlines in 1952 when she returned from Europe |
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1 electoral vote shy of being president, he left $2.4 million of his estate to help found the N.Y. Public Library |
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