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As captain of H.M.S. Director, he was set ashore in a 1797 mutiny, 8 years after the Bounty affair |
(Captain) Bligh
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This Poe heroine "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" |
Annabel Lee
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In adjusted dollars, the 1906 earthquake in this city was America's costliest |
San Francisco
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Harriet Tubman's nicknames compared her to this biblical hero who led his people out of slavery |
Moses</em>
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This island 2 miles from the Italian mainland is the most populous in the Mediterranean |
Sicily
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This Beatle won a 1971 Grammy for arranging "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" |
Paul McCartney
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In 218 B.C. he left eastern Spain for northern Italy with 102,000 men & about 40 elephants |
Hannibal
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On July 8, 1822 he drowned while sailing off Livorno, Italy; his body was cremated on the beach |
(Chris: Who is Lord Byron?)
Shelley
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This volcano which buried Pompeii destroyed the city of Torre del Greco several times |
Vesuvius
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Nicknamed "The Smiling Pope", he didn't have much to smile about: he was only pope for 33 days |
John Paul I
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The last full-blooded Aborigine on this island state of Australia died in 1876 |
Tasmania
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The TV soundtrack album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" was this rock star's last No. 1 LP |
Elvis Presley
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This Israeli general lost his left eye while fighting with the Allies in Lebanon in World War II |
Moshe Dayan
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The prologue to this 14th c. work describes the over 2 dozen people who meet at the Tabard Inn |
The Canterbury Tales
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In 1918, in the worst epidemic in U.S. history, over 500,000 Americans died from the Spanish form of this |
influenza
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World War II GIs called this "Sarong Girl" "The Sweetheart of the Foxholes" |
Dorothy Lamour
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Longwood House, a Napoleonic museum, is maintained on this South Atlantic British territory |
St. Helena
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Eddie Kendricks left this Motown group in 1971, right after "Just My Imagination" |
The Temptations
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AEF commander whose "My Experiences in the World War" won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for History |
"Black Jack" Pershing
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Oliver Wendell Holmes called this sea creature "a ship of pearl" that "sails the unshadowed main" |
the chambered nautilus
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In 1945 a U.S. Army bomber crashed into this skyscraper, leaving 13 dead |
the Empire State Building
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"Thespian" nickname of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was known for his disguises</td>
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"the Actor"
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Once known as the Spice Islands, the Moluccas are now part of this country |
(Peter: What is... Tanzania?)
Indonesia
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This lead singer & his group The Mindbenders topped the charts in 1965 with "Game of Love" |
Wayne Fontana
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This Japanese officer who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor attended Harvard in 1919 |
(Chris: Who is Genda?)
Yamamoto
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The 1798 collection "Lyrical Ballads" contained poems by both Coleridge & this "Tintern Abbey" poet |
Wordsworth
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1988 saw one of the worst air disasters when a Pan Am jet exploded over this Scottish village |
Lockerbie
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Comparing him to a Visigoth king & a poet, Voltaire dubbed this "Great" Prussian ruler Alaric-Cotin |
Frederick the Great
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The Azores & this island group 400 miles off Morocco are districts of Portugal |
Madeira
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In 1984 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck & Nile Rodgers formed this group to record "Sea Of Love" |
The Honeydrippers
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