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| In the 1570s this British circumnavigator attacked many Spanish ships as a pirate in the Caribbean |
Sir Francis Drake
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| The term "con man" is short for this |
Confidence man
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| Scent these by adding pieces of mint or a few drops of essential oil to the melted wax before molding |
Candles
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| Burnt at the stake in 1431, she was probably a pin-up girl for 11-year-old Torquemada |
Joan of Arc
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| A 1993 film about chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin is titled "Searching for" this man |
Bobby Fischer
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| She shared "Muskrat Love" with the Captain |
Toni Tennille
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| This naval commander discovered a mountain range in Antarctica while aboard the plane seen here: |
[Stars and Stripes]
Richard Byrd
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| It's not Au, it's FeS |
fool's gold (iron pyrite)
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| A mixture of fragrant flowers & leaves in a bowl, its name is French for "rotten pot" |
Potpourri
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| While James Watt was getting steamed up in Scotland, she was heating up the throne in Russia |
Catherine the Great
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| Paul Benedict is credited as "not Guffman" in this mockumentary about small-town theater |
Waiting for Guffman
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| An athlete with this inflammation that affects a certain arm joint may make quite a "racket" |
Tennis elbow/tendonitis
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| This man who sought the source of the Nile was knighted in 1886 |
Sir Richard Burton
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| Posing as Arabs with lots of cash, the FBI caught 7 members of Congress in this 1970s sting operation |
Abscam
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| SC Johnson Wax, who makes Raid, also makes this rhyming air freshener |
(and we have a minute to go...)
Glade
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| While Copernicus was staring up at the stars, this emperor was staring down Cortez |
Montezuma
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| Unseen for most of the film, he's the title character of a 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie |
Harvey
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| Title shared by a Jazz Age novel & the Jackson Browne song heard here: |
(Nina: What is "The Pretender"?)
"Tender Is The Night"
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| This priest first met Louis Joliet when Joliet arrived at his mission at St. Ignace in December 1672 |
Marquette
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| He served time for fraud after writing a fake Howard Hughes biography |
Clifford Irving
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| From French for "little bag", rose petals may fill this in your lingerie drawer |
(N: What is a cachet?)
Sachet
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| While Leif Ericsson had his first look at the New World, this man was sitting as first king of Hungary |
St. Stephen
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| This movie star never comes back to the 5 & dime |
Jimmy Dean
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| Notable Nepalese Norgay |
Tenzing Norgay
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| In 1497 this Venetian sailing for England became the first European since the Vikings to reach N. America |
John Cabot
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| Dummkopfs! This German newsmagazine paid millions for forged diaries of Adolf Hitler in 1983 |
(D: What is Der Speigel?)
Stern
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| To make one of these, begin by pressing cloves into the skin of an orange |
Pomander
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| In 1850, Hawthorne wrote of Hester Prynne's crime, & this Scot opened his Chicago detective agency |
Allan Pinkerton
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| In a 1940 film, this deceased title character haunts Joan Fontaine |
(M: Who is Mrs. de Winter?)
Rebecca
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| If you want to peek at Spain's highest peak, look for El Teide on this Canary Island |
Tenerife
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