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On Christmas day, 1066, this "Conqueror" was crowned king of England |
William
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The No. 1 health book of 1988 was Robert Kowalski's "8-week" cure for this |
cholesterol
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During metamorphosis, most members of this class of animals lose their external gills |
amphibians
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A landmark at this cape consists of 6 launch pads & the original Mission Control room |
Cape Canaveral
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He painted "Ballerina Posing for a Photograph" circa 1879 |
Degas
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In 1870 he started his own monopoly with the founding of Standard Oil of Ohio |
Rockefeller
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In 1474 she succeeded her half brother Henry IV, becoming queen of Castile & Leon |
Isabella
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"Move On: Adventures in the Real World" is a follow-up to her memoir "And So It Goes" |
Linda Ellerbee
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Mendel's laws of heredity deal with dominant traits & this type |
recessive
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This carmaker's Dearborn, Mich. home, Fair Lane, was occupied by the family until 1950 |
Henry Ford
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The day of the week depicted in Georges Seurat's most famous painting |
Sunday
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This man arrived in Africa in 1871 as part of a promotional stunt by the New York Herald |
Stanley
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When he visited Europe in 1971, it marked the first time a reigning emperor had left Japan |
Hirohito
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"Working" & "Hard Times" are among the best-selling oral histories by this author |
Studs Terkel
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Adipose tissue, which provides heat & energy to the body, consists mainly of this substance |
fat
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This soft drink company's 1st bottling plant in Atlanta was designated a nat'l landmark on May 4, 1983 |
Coca-Cola
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These surnames of 19th century artists Claude and Edouard differ by just 1 letter |
Monet & Manet
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The age of Aristides, who won the first Kentucky Derby May 17, 1875 |
(Alex: Yes. All Kentucky Derby winners are [*].)
3
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On his deathbed in 1715, this French king said, "I have loved war too much" |
Louis XIV
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This best-selling science book by Stephen Hawking is subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" |
(Steve: [No response])
A Brief History of Time
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Like the splitting of atomic nuclei, bacteria & amoebas reproduce by this method |
fission
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This settlement house at 800 S. Halsted Street in Chicago was founded by Jane Addams in 1889 |
Hull House
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Renoir was born in this French city famous for its porcelain, & as a youth he was a porcelain painter there |
Limoges
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Pinkerton detectives helped break up this Pennsylvania mining group's strike & broke up the group too |
the Molly Maguires
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In 37 B.C. he became ruler over all of Palestine |
Herod (the Great)
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This Henry David Thoreau essay states, "That government is best which governs least" |
Civil Disobedience
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Exhibited by lower animals, it's the growth of new body parts to replace lost or broken ones |
(Alex: And we refer to them as lower animals. I don't know why. [*]. They can do it and we can't.) [Laughter]
regeneration
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This Underground Railroad "conductor"s Home for the Aged in Auburn, N.Y. is now a nat'l landmark |
Harriet Tubman
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This American woman was noted for her paintings of mothers & children, such as "The Bath" |
(Elizabeth: Who is Mary Seurat?)
Mary Cassatt
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Don't give 3 cheers but 12 tones for this Austrian composer born September 13, 1874 |
(David: Who is Sternberg?)
Schoenberg
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