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| Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name | |
| At the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Des Newton would delight kids by showing how to make these impossible-seeming models | |
| Referring to a geographical location in the state she governed, 'Denali' was code for her | |
| A perfect spy could tell you it's the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell | |
| Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake | |
| Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film | |
| Kazakhstan has 1,200 miles of coastline along this large inland body of water | |
| To express disapproval & something that you can see & touch | |
| Forget the love story--Pasternak's 'Dr. Zhivago' was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction | |
| This country that's famous for its cheese & butter is nicknamed 'the Dairy of Northern Europe' | |
| A Montana city nicknamed 'The Richest Hill on Earth' or a term for an isolated hill | |
| 'It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood's depths' in an 1883 tale of this hero | |
| Around 980 he sailed west & named the land he found Greenland | |
| Robert B. Parker wrote 'Perchance to Dream' as a sequel to this novel featuring Philip Marlowe | |
| 2 of l.M. Pei's early designs to be built were at an airport & a presidential library both honoring this man | |
| Around 1612 in Virginia, John Rolfe began growing this 'brown gold'; soon the colony started shipping it to England | |
| 17th: On this woman's death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as 'The Virginian Woman' | |
| The state of Louisiana says these reptiles over 4' can be considered a nuisance & will give you the name of a hunter | |
| These 2 'Great' historic afflictions hit London in 1665 & 1666 | |
| 'The Gladiator' & 'Rebellion' are the subtitles of Ben Kane's books about this man who led a slave army against Rome | |
| espite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle | |
| Big Bend National Park is named for a big bend on this river | |
| The U.S. Army's Sikorsky UH-60 is called this; 2 of them were at the center of a notorious incident in Mogadishu in 1993 | |
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| This piece by Tchaikovsky depicts Napoleon's retreat from Moscow | |
| In 1900 this Japanese company began producing upright pianos; motorcycles came along more than half a century later | |
| The Pony Express went from this Missouri city to Sacramento, California | |
| 3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC's oldest artifacts is the Central Park Obelisk known as her Needle | |
| Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, 'The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys' | |
| 1967 film in which Sidney Poitier clarifies, 'They call me Mr. Tibbs!' | |
| An 'and' is in the middle of this strategy used by the Romans to foster feuds among smaller entities they were trying to rule | |
| This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel 'Wise Blood' about a preacher in the church without Christ | |
| This word for a certain tall structure comes from the Arabic for 'lighthouse' | |
| Rainfall in this area covering 2 million square miles & 9 countries has topped 120 inches some years | |
| After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold 'N' | |
| This bee named for its habit of tunneling into wood looks like a big, less hairy bumblebee | |
| This capital of Hyogo Prefecture on Honshu is all the rage in beef | |
| 'Plain Truth' was James Chalmers' Loyalist response to this 1776 pamphlet written in support of the revolution | |
| This no-hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona | |
| This Nestle cookie named for a Massachusetts inn dates to the 1930s | |
| 'Small' piano that is the Michigan burial place for Gerald Ford | |
| Nautical idiom meaning to complain when people wish you'd keep quiet & not make waves | |
| 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of 'My Country, 'Tis Of Thee' | |
| Shelley's poem 'England in 1819' calls him 'an old, mad, blind, despised and dying king' | |
| It's the Royal Navy rank just below Rear Admiral | |
| New evidence suggests that the QWERTY keyboard design may have sprung from telegraph operators translating this | |
| Jonathan Edwards thought sin was restrained by God; otherwise the soul would be 'a furnace of' these two things | |
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| Of England, though it's home to the country's most popular & successful pro sports team | |
| Written in cuneiform in Ur, this oldest written language was an isolate | |
| The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was 'The Hornet's Nest', his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South | |
| Everyone remember where we parked--next to this NASA lander named for one who goes ahead to seek the way | |
| Ousted as this country's president in April 2019, Omar al-Bashir is charged with crimes in Darfur | |
| This defensive barrier was in use until almost the end of the Roman rule of Britain | |
| 'Take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am thine'' is how this title king proposes to Katherine | |
| On 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch', her talking black cat had this name, also a historic New England village | |
| Martin Van Buren, & you can take that to the bank | |
| Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade | |
| In the 1940s this British novelist said 'The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world' | |
| The 'Winds of War' carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 | |
| In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city's first poet laureate | |
| These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece | |
| 2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere | |
| Konrad Lorenz found that newly hatched ducklings followed him due to this 'I' process, as if he were their parent | |
| He could have said, 'I need the 2-wheeled carriage or 'cab' named for me to take me home to 27 Sumner Place' | |
| For 200 years the Knights Hospitaler ruled this island that was formerly occupied by an over 100-foot-tall colossal statue | |
| To Paris, France | |
| Grant said, 'I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than' this one, the first in which he fought | |
| According to tradition, St. Mark's remains were stolen from Alexandria, taken to this European city, lost & rediscovered | |
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