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This Turgenev novel is also known as "Fathers and Children" |
Fathers and Sons
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While working at the Swiss patent office in 1905, he published his special theory of relativity |
Einstein
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The Himalayan breed of this has the long hair of the Persian & the coloring of the Siamese |
a cat
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The Phoenicians were famous for carving this tusk material, a practice now opposed by animal lovers |
ivory
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He wrote plays like "Dulcamara" before teaming up with Arthur Sullivan for operettas |
Gilbert
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To avoid an issue, or a woman's garment that hangs down from the waist |
to skirt
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Clym Yeobright is "The Native" in the title of this 1878 Thomas Hardy novel |
Return of the Native
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In the 1950s this medical researcher developed an oral vaccine for polio |
Sabin
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This shaggy, long-haired mammal is able to do heavy work at very high altitudes |
a yak
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Praxiteles' nude statue of this Greek goddess of love was considered shocking in its day |
Aphrodite
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Shaw's Major Barbara is a major in this organization |
the Salvation Army
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A thick, wooden shoe, or to obstruct with thick, sticky matter |
clog
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"The Purloined Letter" opens in Paris in this detective's "little back library, or book-closet" |
C. Auguste Dupin
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The work this Hungarian-born U.S. physicist did in developing the H-bomb is still secret |
(Edward) Teller
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What we call the abominable snowman the Sherpas call this |
Yeti
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A mosaic floor depicting a lion hunt was found at Pella, the birthplace of Alexander in this kingdom |
Macedonia
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He once worked in a real estate office, the setting of his "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
David Mamet
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Soft & delicate, or legal money |
tender
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His novel "The Master of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale" |
(Amy: Who is Sir Walter Scott?)
Robert Louis Stevenson
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This discoverer of oxygen was a founder of the 1st Unitarian Church in Pennsylvania in 1796 |
Joseph Priestley
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1933 novel by James Hilton set in a Himalayan monastery |
Lost Horizon
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A monolith inscribed with his code was discovered at Susa, Iran in 1901 |
Hammurabi
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His comedy "The Skin of Our Teeth" follows the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. |
Thornton Wilder
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A length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight |
skein
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Expatriate who based "The Aspern Papers" on a story he'd heard about Lord Byron's mistress |
Henry James
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This barometer inventor succeeded Galileo as professor of mathematics in Florence |
Torricelli
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1 of the world's first 4 civilizations grew in this river valley, at the foot of the Himalayas |
the Indus Valley
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The Erechtheum is an ancient Ionic temple made of this stone |
(Alex: As was the case with most temples at that time, it was made of [*].)
marble
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In this Ben Jonson play, Voltore, Corbaccio & Corvino scheme to inherit the title miser's money |
Volpone
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To come together for a common purpose, or to hit a tennis ball back and forth |
rally
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