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An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have 'banished death from my heart, with your sweet song' | |
In La Mauricie National Park you can observe this beloved rodent, also the mascot of Parks Canada | |
Impossible architecture is found in this 'valley', a mobile game that shares a name with a place in Utah & Arizona | |
In 2013 one of his black-&-white paintings of a Coca-Cola bottle sold at auction for over $57 million | |
The term 'bay salt', evaporated seawater, is from the Bay of Bourgneuf in this west-central France river valley | |
Chapter 106 of 'Moby Dick' is titled 'Ahab's' this | |
This 3-word motto is on D.C. license plates to protest its lack of voting rights; a 2016 proposal is start the motto 'end' | |
In the early hours of April 19, 1775, he returned to Lexington to retrieve papers from John Hancock's trunk | |
1370: The first stone of this is laid in Paris, where it stood for 419 years | |
The Industrial Workers of the World: this state, not far from the Haymarket Memorial | |
'From the Earth to the Moon' | |
Nonfiction: 'June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone' | |
Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, it got a big demotion in 2006 | |
On rare occasions this Arctic cetacean can grow 2 spiral tusks | |
A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, then the hottest new communication technology | |
The 3 main classes of plant pigments are carotenoids, phycobilins & these greenish ones | |
The principal chains of the northern part of this mountain range are the Ligurian, Tuscan & Umbrian | |
German for 'play of bells', it has 2 rows of metal bars with the upper row corresponding to the black keys on a piano | |
Mary Mallon, the first known carrier of this disease in the U.S., was confined to a hospital for her final 20 years | |
The unfortunate Captain Max Pruss was in command of this vehicle over New Jersey on May 6, 1937 | |
There's a 17-year & a 13-year type of this noisy insect that has multiple different calls to annoy you | |
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She was captured in 1430 while protecting her rear guard as they crossed the Oise River | |
Of the ratites, flightless land birds, this down under denizen is the smallest | |
Undershaw, home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, included this writing room, perhaps decorated in scarlet? | |
This action signals a definitive end; it followed 'Obama out' at the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner | |
In Britain a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings | |
Chandler wrote, 'Down' these paths a detective 'must go'; the phrase became a 1973 Scorsese film title | |
In the NYPD it's the rank just below captain | |
The PGA says that this sports term dates to a 19th c. song about a monster who cackled, 'Catch me if you can' | |
These 'angry' goddesses of vengeance in Greek myth were particularly cruel if one killed a family member | |
Of those on the list, he's the most recent from a state that borders the Mississippi | |
Johannah Spyri spent summers in the Swiss Alps & used her memories in this book about an orphan girl sent to live there | |
The Red Stick International Digital Festival is an annual event at this university | |
At Starbucks a venti hot drink is this many ounces | |
In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican | |
Don't overcook the pasta--I like it 'to the tooth' | |
Office of the Chief of Protocol | |
Though in Chile, the exoplanet-searching telescope dubbed Trappist is a project of this country | |
A guild of these tooth-pulling professionals whose name is from the Latin for 'beard' began in France in 1210 | |
William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of' this numerical abomination | |
Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other 'B' city in 1849 | |
Used to move equipment & supplies, the 55-foot-long Canadarm2 is a giant robotic arm on this facility | |
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The subtitle of this numerical book by Eliot Asinof is 'The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series' | |
William Shockley shared a Nobel Prize for creating this device that supplanted vacuum tubes in electronics | |
The long search for a real California serial killer inspired this David Fincher film | |
In a Harry Potter book, Fleur faces a dragon after being selected for a contest by this title vessel | |
The element with atomic number 54 gets this chemical symbol | |
Confess that you know the name of this prolific writer and bishop of Hippo | |
This Alabama city's National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King & Jesse Jackson | |
In the 17th century its location at England's southwest tip made it the target of pirate raids | |
Venus' mortal lovers include this proverbially handsome human man | |
In 2011 & 2012 it was named the sixth-largest homebuilder in the United States | |
The Central Park statue of this man astride his horse was a gift from the government of Venezuela | |
A Turkish river gave us this word for a U-shaped bend in a stream's course; now it also means to take a winding course | |
A practicing physician, he became professor of botany as well as medicine at the University of Uppsala in 1741 | |
Many attempts to get this man the award for creating the Boy Scouts were unsuccessful | |
Edward the Confessor died with a direct heir to the throne in this crucial year of English history | |
Turned out Jim Carrey was on the ultimate reality TV series in this pic | |
On Sept. 17, 1862 in Maryland, over 3,000 men were killed & 17,000 wounded in this blood battle | |
The song entitled 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness', for example | |
Chapters in this classic include '5 June 1832' & 'Marius Enters the Darkness' | |
Jumbuck is an Aussie term for this animal, of which there are a lot Down Under | |
Its first venture transported an 1860 message from President Buchanan to California gov. John Downey | |
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