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    William the Conqueror
 
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    | This guy who warned of Big Brother watching you gave a list of suspected Communists to the British government | 
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    | Federal sentencing guidelines increase for violent crimes if one of these is involved (minimum 5 years) or worse, brandished (7 years) | 
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    | "England's Dreaming", the title from a Sex Pistols lyric, chronicles this 1970s musical movement | 
    punk rock
 
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    | Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" | 
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    Pepin
 
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    Latvia
 
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    | Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition | 
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    common law
 
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    | Joan Didion wrote of a 1968 recording session, "There were 3 of the 4 Doors", a producer, girls, a dog, cheeseburgers, everything but him | 
    Jim Morrison
 
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    | Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway | 
    Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
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  Felipe
 
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    | This longest river entirely within France flows through a valley of the same name | 
    the Loire
 
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    | Pope Alexander VI, a member of this family, seemed to eschew the bible with his mistresses, children & murders of rivals | 
    (Alicia: What is Medici?)
  the Borgias
 
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    | In law it's possession of an estate for the duration of one's life; in New Jersey, it's the town Bruce Springsteen is from | 
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    | The book "Go Ahead in the Rain" is an homage to this musical "Tribe" & its late member Phife Dawg | 
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    | This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century | 
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    | It was no longer Short King Spring in May 1946 when King Victor Emmanuel III, aka "Little Saber", abdicated the throne of this country | 
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    (Tenysa: Who is Descartes?) (Bryan: Who is Locke?)
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    | The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym | 
    (Tenysa: What is shrug, shrug, shrug and shrug?)
  RICO
 
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    | Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides | 
    Marvin Gaye
 
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    | Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 | 
    Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes
 
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    | The about 2-day reign of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash of this Tanzanian island included a short war against the British Empire | 
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    | It's Angola's capital & chief seaport | 
    Luanda
 
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    | Weary of the tyranny of Charles I, this lord protector reportedly said the king's execution was "cruel necessity" | 
    Oliver Cromwell
 
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    | Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Almost Famous", this critic wrote a book about Blondie & "Let It Blurt" is a book about him | 
    Lester Bangs
 
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    | Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film | 
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