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| Prior to his presidency, this general moved troops to Valley Forge – because when there's a WAR ON, HE GETS GOING. | |
| “DO ASTONISH ME,” a crowd member said to the Wizard of Menlo Park, who then revealed the phonograph. | |
| ''I'LL MAKE A WISE PHRASE'' he said, whilst writing one of his many Elizabethan-era plays. | |
| ''He TRIES A LOT, at least,'' said Plato of this student of his, who would go on to propogate formal logic. | |
| His CASUAL JURIES eventually took action, “applying” their death verdict on the Ides of March. | |
| He went for A COOL ROMP along the Silk Road and may have met Kublai Khan. | |
| After winning his Nobel Prize in 1923, this Irish poet’s wife might have urged him: ''SIT; WRITE ME A LULLABY that I can sing to the children.” | |
| Told that his play 'The Importance of Being Ernest' was well-woven, he shrugged and said, ''I LACE WORDS.'' | |
| Those he conquered may have called him the EXTRA-HATED GENERAL after his invasion of Persia in 334 BC. | |
| This anti-apartheid activist was LEAN AND SOLEMN after his release from 27 years of imprisonment. | |
| This highly-intelligent physicist was no ordinary “egghead” - he dipped into his ELITE BRAIN NEST to come up with the Theory of Special Relativity. | |
| An opposition campaign slogan, 'VOTE FOR LANDON, ERE ALL SINK', would not have prevented this incumbent president’s landslide victory in the 1936 U.S. election. | |
| He wrote his famous work on evolution with a SCRAWLIER HAND than many of his peers. | |
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| ''A SEX 'N' DUEL DRAMA'' could describe his swashbuckling novel, 'The Three Musketeers'. | |
| ''WELL, WAIL A CLAIM!'' goaded Edward I to this Scottish leader prior to the Battle of Stirling Bridge. | |
| “How dare she MENTION ‘EAT’,” IRATE hungry peasants might have muttered, if this French queen had actually spoken the mis-attributed words “Let them eat cake.” | |
| Who knows if eating VINDALOO AND RICE helped this Italian artist spice up his drawing of the Vitruvian Man. | |
| Did this 5th century 'barbarian' foe of Rome tempt fate by saying ''I TAUNT HEALTH'' before his death? | |
| To ensure loyal soldiers would await him in France, perhaps this abdicating Emperor advised them in 1814, “NO! APPEAR NOT ON ELBA!” where he was to be exiled. | |
| Art critics were invited to A NUDE ART DEMO to celebrate this French artist's latest exhibition, including his work 'Olympia.' | |
| A really poor translation of his work 'Eugene Onegin' from Russian to English may account for the UNEXPLAINED SHARK, dancing with Tatyana at the ball. | |
| In spite of his heavenly classical compositions, this Austrian was not A FAMOUS GERMAN-WALTZ GOD, though he probably could play one by ear. | |
| Though he himself was not GAWKY, FUSE-lighting plans were clumsily executed, and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was foiled. | |
| Critics of this Italian composer’s leaping melodies in 'The Four Seasons' may have called him a VAIN VIOLIN TOAD. | |
| To those injured on the battlefields, this nurse seemed to be THE ANGEL OF RECLINING wounded Crimean War soldiers. | |
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