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In 2015 a street connecting with Frank Sinatra Drive & Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas was renamed in his honor | |
This word referring to someone who is not an expert is from the Latin for 'love' | |
Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter 'A', the one that is farthest north | |
In 1927 the publishers of the Modern Library widened its scope and took this name, meant as a joke about how it would select titles | |
Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called 'Cracking Codes' | |
In the 1950s physicist Louis Essen built the 1st practical one of these, noting that it wouldn't give you the time of day | |
It's the only letter of the Greek alphabet whose English spelling could also be identified as a number in Roman numerals | |
Letters mailed to 'God, Jerusalem' are placed in this alliterative landmark | |
This word follows January (China, 1967); March (Germany, 1848); July (France, 1830) & famously, October | |
While working for a plastics company, Don Featherstone created this iconic lawn decor, basing it on photos in National Geographic | |
An 1860 ad for this business that only lasted 19 months sought 'ten or a dozen men, familiar with the management of horses' | |
There were about 900 casualties in the 1862 Battle of Secessionville, fought in this state | |
In some countries the subtitle 'A Contemporary Satire' was used for this 1945 parable | |
Widely parodied today, this 5-word phrase originally appeared on motivational posters in England during WWII | |
Although it's a statue of a giant's foe, an observer who saw its 1504 unveiling called it 'the marble giant | |
Released in 2011, it's the only film that has won both the Oscar & France's Cesar for Best Film of the Year | |
It was originally published in 1915 under the German title 'Die Verwandlung', meaning 'The Transformation' | |
Its name means 'fear', & this moon orbits closest to a planet's surface of any moon in the solar system | |
In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member | |
This WWII icon was created in a 1943 song that says, 'That little frail can do more than a male can do' | |
A critic said that this bestselling author 'makes me wish there were more than 26 letters' | |
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In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation | |
Its restitchings over the centuries helped perpetuate the story of King Harold II being struck in the eye with an arrow | |
In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of 'the workingmen of Europe' | |
The director said it took 70 camera setups & 7 days to shoot the classic murder scene in this film that celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2015 | |
A critic said, 'I doubt if there is a single joke in' this 1885 work 'that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes... fit the English' | |
A line from this 1995 novel is 'The infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald' | |
In 1820 Jefferson called this bill 'the knell of the Union,' saying 'a geographical line... will never be obliterated' | |
In 1963 he wrote to MLK seeking a united front of 'all Negro factions' against 'a common problem posed by a common enemy' | |
Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country | |
When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account | |
This poem includes the line “But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all” | |
In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation | |
As she arrived at the house of her new employer, 'the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her' at the door | |
'The Gold Bug', Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel | |
At 24 he began a verse retelling the Cupid & Psyche myth, including a character named Caspian | |
In 1939 this new product was touted as being strong as steel, fine as a spider's web & more elastic than natural fibers | |
2 U.S. state capitals & 2 major Panamanian ports are named after this European | |
Often applied to athletes, this 2-word term popularized by Robert K. Merton refers to an example we aspire to | |
The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a 'Post-9/11' version that also pays for 36 months of university education | |
In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment | |
This comedy whose title aims to please says, 'I charge you, o men... that between you and the women the play may please' | |
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