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As you'd guess, "Light Horse" Harry Lee was a masterful commander of this kind of force, but "Lee's Legion" had infantry too |
cavalry
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18th c. actor David Garrick was adept at these two opposites & is shown between the muses of both |
comedy & tragedy
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This man was a real wily buster--telling the Cyclops he's "nobody" & the one-eye guy reports, "Nobody poked me"? Brilliant! |
Odysseus
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In 1966 the creator of an early one of these "bot"s was startled when his secretary asked him to leave so she could talk with it |
(Ken: Very early [*], ELIZA, yes.)
a chatbot
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On HBO, this actress played paranoid as well as germaphobic in leading "The Regime" as Chancellor Elena Vernham |
(Kate) Winslet
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Alexander Kerensky lived 50+ years in exile including teaching at Stanford after losing power to this Russian faction in 1917 |
the Bolsheviks
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Sarah Bernhardt was unafraid to take on male roles, like this Shakespeare prince |
Hamlet
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In folklore this tricky kitty eats an ogre, while in "Shrek" the same-named character befriends one |
Puss in Boots
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Launched by Kodak in 1965, this eight-millimeter format was used in the early, early films of Sam Raimi & Guillermo del Toro |
Super 8
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Louis Huang, on this ABC sitcom: "Okay, we apologize if some of you felt sexually harassed by our last sexual harassment training" |
Fresh Off the Boat
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From the Old English for "twist" or "bend", it means to wriggle in embarrassment or pain |
writhe
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Giuseppe Mazzini's 1830s movement, Giovine Italia, called this in English, inspired La Jeune Suisse & Mloda Polska |
(Brian: What's... Italian summer?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, "giovine" is "young", [*].)
Young Italy
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Sessue Hayakawa became the first Asian American movie matinee idol, aided by a 1914 movie titled this type of Pacific storm |
typhoon
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An 1888 book by D.R. McAnally called this type of mythical creature "a mischief maker, the Puck of the Emerald Isle" |
a leprechaun
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2017 brought the launch of Nadi X (from Sanskrit for "flow"), bluetooth-enabled pants for this activity to fix problem poses |
yoga
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In 2024 Kathy Bates had legal issues on this CBS drama, but being related to the same-named Andy Griffith guy was not one of them |
Matlock
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In a 1930s interview Lead Belly urged folks to "stay" this, "keep their eyes open"; now it's common slang |
woke
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He was once a revolutionary but his 2nd stint as pres. of Nicaragua, since 2007, has looked more like a dictatorship |
Ortega
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A sex symbol of the silent film era, Theda Bara played roles like Carmen, Cleopatra & this dancer of the Seven Veils |
Salomé
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In folklore Bruin is a bear lured into a log with the promise of honey by this foxy trickster |
Reynard
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In the '90s, Taher Elgamal at this navigator browser co. developed the encryption protocol SSL, letting e-commerce explode |
(Brian: What's Mozilla?)
Netscape
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To his horror, this "Weekend Update" man was forced to call out a man you never, ever want to call out--Kendrick Lamar |
(Brian: What's... Jost?) ... (Ken: Yes, Colin Jost made [*] do it.)
(Michael) Che
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The Gov. of Guerrero hid in a crate from Margarita Neri of this eponymous group of early 1900s Mexican rebels reborn in the 1990s |
the Zapatistas
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Maud Gonne was an Irish activist, suffragist & muse of W.B. Yeats, playing his Cathleen ni Houlihan at this Dublin theatre |
the Abbey Theatre
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In a West African tale, this trickster spider god kills the king's jester & as a consequence, has to wear the jester's corpse on his head |
Anansi
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This 4-letter tech that tells cops on U.K. crime shows who was almost anywhere anytime debuted outdoors in Bournemouth in 1985 |
CCTV
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Personas of the alien on this animated show include Ricky Spanish, Abigail Lemonparty & Yeager Chillax |
American Dad
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Hyphenated term for the phosphorescent light over swampy areas |
will-o'-the-wisp
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