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| On October 14, 1066, Harold II was killed at the Battle of Hastings by this conqueror's men |
William
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| Mary Jane Watson is wed to this webslinger |
Spiderman
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| The Vatican has an entire museum devoted to these darn people of ancient Etruria |
the Etruscans
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| Found in 1995, Giganotosaurus Carolinii may top this as the largest meat-eating dinosaur |
Tyrannosaurus rex
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| "The Bard of Avon" |
William Shakespeare
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| In "Solitude" Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote, "Laugh, and" this happens; "weep, and you weep alone" |
"the world laughs with you"
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| Louis Botha who led the Transvaal forces during this war later became the Union of South Africa's 1st prime minister |
the Boer War
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| These 2 Archie gals each have their own comics & pair up for another title |
Betty & Veronica
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| Located in the Marais district, Le Musee Carnavalet is devoted to the history of this capital city |
Paris
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| Environment that was home to the ichthyosaur |
the water (the sea)
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| "The Rail Splitter" |
Abraham Lincoln
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| "All the people like us are we, and every one else is they", wrote this "Jungle Book" author |
Rudyard Kipling
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| In 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became the first president of this Caribbean nation |
Haiti
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| In 1995 artist & writer John Byrne took over the comic book starring this Amazon princess |
Wonder Woman
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| The Bytown Museum is housed in the oldest masonry building in this Canadian capital, once called Bytown |
Ottawa
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| The procoptodon was a giant one of these in Pleistocene Australia; don't all jump in at once |
a kangaroo
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| "The Believe-It-Or-Not Man" |
Ripley
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| Marx & Engels began this work with "a spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism" |
(Michael: What is Das Kapital?)
The Communist Manifesto
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| In February 1985 Spain reopened its border with this British dependency |
Gibraltar
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| This Baywatch blonde is bringing comic character Barb Wire to the big screen |
Pamela Anderson
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| There's a museum of costume in this British city known for its ancient hot springs |
Bath
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| Fossils of the Palaeophonus, one of these zodiac creatures, date back to the late Silurian period |
(Michael: What is a fish?)
the scorpion
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| "The Pen of the Revolution" |
(Tim: Who was Thomas Paine?)
Thomas Jefferson
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| Andorran mountains that complete Hilaire Belloc's line "The fleas that tease in the high..." |
the Pyrenees
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| In 1628 these French Protestants lost the city of La Rochelle to Cardinal Richelieu's troops |
the Huguenots
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| Lady Rawhide was born in the comic about this masked protector of Spanish-era Los Angeles |
Zorro
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| The Currier gallery of art in Manchester is one of this state's finest art museums |
New Hampshire
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| This genus of the modern horse evolved about 2 million years ago |
Equus
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| "Old Man" who was "The Father of Israel" |
(Tim: Who was Abraham?)
David Ben-Gurion
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| Francois-Marie Arouet, known by this name, wrote, "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him" |
Voltaire
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