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It took this man & his army 13 days to take the Alamo; it took the Texas army 18 minutes to beat him at San Jacinto |
Santa Anna
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Darling, it's German for "Thank you very much" |
Danke schön
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After a road was built along this Scottish lake in the 1930s, monster sightings increased |
Loch Ness
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At the same meeting in 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace & this man had papers presented on natural selection |
Darwin
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Stalactites & stalagmites are 2 types of dripstones that are commonly found in these places |
caves
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Thomas Hardy partly based this heroine "of the d'Urbervilles" on his own grandmother |
Tess
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Of the 189 defenders to die, 33 came from this state, many of them with Davy Crockett |
Tennessee
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Both the Scottish & Irish forms of this language are called Erse |
Gaelic
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Lake Albano has many villas on its shores, including Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence |
the pope
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This horticulturist developed the Shasta daisy as well as a famous variety of potato |
Burbank
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It's the "canine" term for rock collectors |
(Ray: What are spelunkers?)
rock hounds
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This old plantation slave tells the stories of Brer Fox & Brer Rabbit |
Uncle Remus
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Sam Houston sent this col. known for his knife to the Alamo to destroy it but the col. ignored the order |
(Jim) Bowie
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Minangkabau, which resembles Malay, is spoken on the island of Sumatra in this country |
Indonesia
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Lake Constance is fed by this river that enters at the eastern end & exits at the western |
the Rhine
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In the late 1800s Reverend G.W. Garrett of England devised the first submarine powered by this |
steam
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Pedicurists know a "stone" composed of this abrasive igneous rock helps keep the feet neat |
pumice
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It's the first name of Sherlock Holmes' mysterious brother |
Mycroft
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With his sword, this colonel drew a line on the ground & asked those prepared to stay & die to cross it |
(Colonel William) Travis
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This language has enriched English with such expressions as "farblondjet", "schmooze" & "maven" |
Yiddish
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This artificial lake is also called High Dam Lake |
(Jim: What is Aswan Lake?)
Lake Nasser
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In the 1940s this instant camera inventor developed a 3-D movie process based on polarized light |
(Edwin) Land
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This metamorphic rock for which a shade of gray is named is abundant in Wales |
(Anthony: What is granite?)
slate
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Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr is "The Last Tycoon" in an unfinished novel by this author |
Fitzgerald
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Since 1905 the Alamo complex has been operated by this women's group |
(Jim: Uh, who are the Daughters of the Texas Revolution?)
the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
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Millions of people in this country speak Marathi, especially in the state of Maharashtra |
India
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The Great Salt Lake, Utah's largest, is a remnant of this prehistoric lake |
Lake Bonneville
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This pioneer in electrophysiology taught anatomy at the Univ. of Bologna from 1762 until the 1790s |
(Jim: Who is Volta?) ... (Alex: Who is [*], hence the galvanometer.)
Luigi Galvani
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Add an "H" to the end of this silicate mineral's name & you'll get a book of the Old Testament |
mica
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In books by James Fenimore Cooper, this hero is also known as Leatherstocking |
Natty Bumppo
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