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1 of the first 2 women in Hollywood to own a studio (according to the official bio of no. 3, Oprah) | |
This courtier & author of a 'History of the World' was executed at the Tower of London in 1618 | |
The 1956 Best Musical award went tot his show that was mad about baseball | |
From the French for 'to set in the woods', this word refers to a type of attack | |
John & Yoko's favorite area of Central Park was officially named this in 1981, after a Beatles song that he wrote | |
The OED says this 12-letter adjective meaning definitely not amazed & impressed dates back to the 1950s | |
It differs from other slithery sea dwellers in that it usually lacks pectoral fins | |
19th c. reports on horse races used this 2-word term to mean horses that were in the field but didn't finish high | |
A 1905 treaty named for this U.S. city ended a foreign war 7,000 miles away & was actually signed at Kittery, Maine | |
The moonflower, whose blossoms open in the evening, is a fragrant variety of this a.m. flower | |
This triangular peninsula juts into the northern end of the Red Sea | |
Formed in 1909, it performed to great acclaim in Paris, London, New York & Monte Carlo, but never in Moscow | |
In 2005 South Korean scientists cured a few chickens of avian flu using this. Sometimes called Korean sauerkraut | |
Robert Bly's 'At a March Against' this war | |
Prince Charles traveled to Aberystwyth, where he learned this language to prep for a 1969 investiture | |
Patrons at Harry Hope's saloon eagerly awaiteth Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman's arrival in this O'Neill play | |
These 2 men first meet after one of them tells a friend, Stamford, of needing new lodgings in London | |
The name of this desert in the south of Israel is Hebrew for 'south' | |
In 1867 it cost the U.S. about 2 cents an acre to buy this | |
Fats consist mainly of these compounds, defined as 1 glycerol molecule & 3 molecules of fatty acids | |
Listed in 1983, this complex finished c. 1650 features inlaid semiprecious stones & Arabic calligraphy | |
1 barcelona-born Ramon Mercader killed this Soviet exile in Mexico City in 1940 | |
'Jody put out his bruised hand again, and...' this title animal 'let his nose be rubbed' | |
This household cleaner's website says it 'didn't get its name from the area code where it was developed' | |
Very different places, the first 2 African nations to gain independence from a European power were Egypt & this one | |
The 19th C. is represented by a chronometer from this ship that helped make scientific history in the 1830s | |
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Though shot in the chest, Teddy Roosevelt gave a 1912 speech saying, 'it takes more than that to kill' one of these animals | |
Eesti, with dialects including southern & northern or Tallinn | |
After Montgomery | |
In 2005 this former FBI Deputy Director revealed he was 'Deep Throat' | |
In 120-degree heat in April 2009, British combat operations ended in this country, turned over to a U.S. brigade | |
John Keats called this American 'A philosophical Quaker full of mean and thrifty maxims' | |
Honey, its twins! These 2 guys were often called the Dioscuri, meaning 'the sons of Zeus' (but one may have had another dad) | |
Of the 10 listings on the Mohs scale, one of the 2 that end in 'z' | |
The name of this fabric includes the initials of the city where it was introduced at a World's Fair site | |
The title of this scandalous novel set in 1930s Paris symbolizes 'the disease of civilization ' | |
It's either of the 2 cells formed when a cell divides --each one is a genetic duplicate of the parent cel | |
The Gettysburg Address speaks of “the last full measure of” this committed emotion. | |
In 2010, for the 25th anniversary of this movie, fans retraced Ford's footsteps in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania | |
On April 30, 1900 this engineer died with one hand on the brake lever, saving all but himself in an unavoidable crash | |
Shaker Heights Community United Church of Christ | |
This large retailer of imported furnishings & gifts began as a single store in the San Francisco Bay area | |
A city on the Danube: Vindobona | |
A y-shaped group of 4 stars depicts a water jar in this constellation | |
The 1098 discovery of the spear-like weapon that reputedly pierced Jesus' side, the Holy this, inspired the Crusaders | |
In 1696 John Blow, a great British composer of this musical era, wrote an ode on the death of another, Henry Purcell | |
The bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at age 8 in Ontario | |
In an 1873 Thomas Hardy serial, a chapter ends with a character dangling from an 'enormous sea-bord' this | |
This nation, independent since 1960 is the largest island in the world with French as one of its official languages | |
'Multi-mages of Marilyn are now... dated...where does that leave' his 'art? on the wall, is the unfortunate answer' | |
This comic strip's genesis was in a series of animal cartoons called 'Nature's Way' first published in 1979 | |
This world capital in the West Indies was established at its present site in 1519 | |
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In 1995 he published a candid memoir called 'Breaking the Surface' | |
2 light waves who phases have a fixed relationship, as in a laser, are said to be this, like a clear sentence | |
Freedom of Information Day & National Pi Day (the math kind) | |
The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy | |
The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N. [United Nations], was in this European city in 1945 & 1946 | |
Shelburne, Vermont | |
This pope's 'Journal of a Soul' from adolescence to the Vatican was published after he died in i963 | |
Supreme Court justice, 1986- (he's been there the longest) | |
Among the many books he wrote were 'The World Crisis', 'The Second World War' & 'Painting As A Pastime' | |
From 1962 until his death in 1967, he was Poet Laureate of Illinois | |
Mr. Toad's 'shiny new motor car' isn't new enough; Toad's off to Lexus' 'December to Remember' sales event | |
Until the 500s A.D., Africans near Carthage spoke this Phoenician dialect, also the name of 3 wars | |
In 1862 he told the Prussian Diet, 'The great questions of the time' will be decided by 'iron and blood' | |
Ye Gods! Sea monsters, Medusa & Hades are but a few of the villains in this 2010 remake of a 1981 film | |
His multi-novel series is based on Robert Browning's poem 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' | |
A power in Richard II's court, John of this was so-called for his birthplace of Ghent, not because he was skinny | |
The name of this, seen in the heavens, is a translation of the Latin Via Lactea | |
He abdicated shortly after Petrograd police opened fire on a group lined up for bread | |
Until the Erie Canal opened, this 981-mile tributary of the Mississippi was the main route west for goods & people | |
The commemoration of this former U.S. senator's June 3, 1808 birthday is a legal holiday in several southern states | |
Warships rammed fishing boats in the 1975-76 'Cod War' between Britain & this usually peaceful Atlantic neighbor | |
In the 1930's Alf Landon called this government program 'a cruel hoax' | |
Born 1894, became Hellman's man in 1930, case solved for good 1961 | |
Between Jan. 1, 1841 & Dec. 31, 1850 the U.S. had this many presidents, the most in a 10-year period | |
According to Billboard, the top 2 music artists of 2011 were these single-named singers, neither born in the U.S. | |
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