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It begins with God saying, 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel' | |
Since 1999 many Warner Bros. movies open with the studio's logo & a snippet of this song made famous in a 1942 film | |
From 1959 to 1968, she made only 4 films but received Oscar nominations for Best Actress for all 4 | |
When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam | |
In 2015 it returned to the list of the 50 most populous U.S. cities, 10 years after dropping off | |
This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing | |
In 1947 a journalist from the Washington Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for national reporting by this means | |
This nation joined the Warsaw Pact in 1955 & NATO in 2009, & was alphabetically first in each | |
The animal on this NBA team's primary logo peaked about 75 million years ago | |
He's won 4 Emmys, 3 Grammys, an Oscar & 3 Tonys, & 3 of his films rank on AFI's list of funniest movies of all time | |
The 1st scene in this book: 'With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene' | |
Keats' line 'The sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing' inspired the title of this groundbreaking book | |
This woman was created & given to Epimetheus as punishment for his brother's actions | |
On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of 'the mode, the manner, and means of' this, which he would not live to see | |
Now representing an organization, it was formally adopted in Article 7 of the 1864 Geneva Convention | |
When it was first marketed in the late 1970s, this toy was given the Hungarian name 'Buvos Kocka' | |
This European company uses about 1% of the world's lumber each year; it aims to make that 100% sustainable by 2020 | |
'The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life' | |
A 4th century traveler gave one of the first descriptions of this day: 'All the children... are carried... bearing branches' | |
This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy | |
Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life | |
It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. from 1875 to 1884 | |
His official website says, 'It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger' | |
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Often used to describe artists ahead of their time, it was also the name of a youth militia in WWII Vichy France | |
This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister | |
Ruled at times by Persians, Mongols & Russians, Baku is the only capital that borders this body of water | |
The USA's largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90% | |
In July 1938 about 2,000 people with an average age of 94 gathered at this site for a 75th & final reunion | |
A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire | |
In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931 | |
There are rest stops named for Edison, Lombardi & Woodrow Wilson on this road mentioned in the 1968 song 'America' | |
About himself he says, 'Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it' | |
At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a bachelor of laws correspondence degree in absentia | |
Shortly before its demise, it had split into 'Conscience' & 'Cotton' factions | |
After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club | |
In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles | |
'Systemically important financial institution' is an official status known more informally by these 4 words | |
In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California 'in search of something they don't really find' | |
In 1812 the U.S. endured a literal one of these 2-word terms & beginning in 1964 enjoyed a musical one | |
This city's international airport is named for Antonio Carlos Jobim, who co-wrote a 1964 hit song | |
Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France | |
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content | |
W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again | |
When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta | |
Their name comes from the Greek word for 'Egyptian' | |
Banished from Athens, this inventor found trouble on Crete too, but escaped | |
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This European's 1751 'Philosophia Botanica' gave rules of nomenclature & said don't change generic names | |
This 4-letter word was introduced in London in 1905 by Dr. H.A. des Voeux of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society | |
The heroine of this opera sings, “If you come to give me, so cruel, your last goodbye, the dark vortex of the Nile will be my grave” | |
The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to | |
On her passing in 1913, Booker T. Washington called her heroic, 'not unlike some of the heroic figures... in the Bible' | |
She won a Comedy Grammy in the 1980s, a Supporting Actress Oscar in the 1990s & a Daytime Emmy in the 2000s | |
Oxford Dictionaries lists his name as a verb meaning to 'make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way' | |
The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium | |
'Modern bourgeois society... is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers... called up by his spells' | |
The city that some 19th century Englishmen called 'Caranjee' is now the biggest city in this country | |
In the same year as Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law Gen. Edward Pakenham died in this battle in North America | |
In a Spanish translation of this novel, Chapter 1 begins, 'Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos' | |
Also known as the 'House of His Majesty', Fairfield House in England was the home of this African leader from 1936 to 1941 | |
Old circuses like 'Gentry's Equine & Canine Paradox' gave rise to this idiom referring to any elaborate presentation | |
Jimmy Stewart starred in 3 of the 6 films for which this Italian immigrant was nominated for Best Director | |
This university on John C. Calhoun's former plantation is named for Calhoun's son-in-law, who gave the land | |
His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine | |
Famous Catholics who've publicly answered this question include Susan Boyle (sweets) & Paul Ryan (beer) | |
In a British novel this young character's last words are, 'Which is better--to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?' | |
The Centre for European Reform is one of the sources credited with coining this new 6-letter portmanteau word | |
Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event | |
'The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots', written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016 | |
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