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| Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel set in 79 A.D. is titled 'The Last Days of' this place | |
| In 1948 Ilona Elek retained her Olympic fencing title--pretty impressive as the previous title was in this year | |
| 'The Rising', 'Comrades' & 'Revolution parts 1 & 2' are special features of this Warren Beatty film | |
| 'The Man Who Gave His Name To America' is the subtitle of a 2007 bio of this Italian | |
| The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words | |
| Suva, the capital of this island nation, is a shipping & commercial center of the South Pacific | |
| The High Kirk of St. Giles, where John Knox was minister | |
| Artisans who produced this stringed, pear-shaped instrument included Frei & Unverdorben | |
| In 1978 Janet Parker, a worker at Birmingham Medical School, became the last person to die of this disease | |
| This Wisconsin city claims to have built the USA's only granite dome | |
| Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office | |
| Westfield Vancouver & Pacific Place Mall | |
| 2000: 'She brought a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees' | |
| When this city hosted the XIV Winter Olympics, it was located in a different nation than today | |
| Pressure at sea level is called one this, about 101 kilopascals | |
| Alexander Portnoy, President Charles Lindbergh | |
| Because it supports the head, the topmost vertebra is called this, also the name of a mythical giant | |
| These 2 world capitals are separated by only 250 miles of land & less than 1 degree of latitude, at 59º 17' & 59º 57' N. | |
| In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, 'My mother was' this film '& so was her mother' | |
| 'Eliza's escape' & 'Topsy' | |
| Alamo is the seat of the Tennessee county named for this frontiersman and Congressman | |
| In 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found in this country | |
| In ancient Rome this flat fish was called 'Jupiter's sandal' | |
| Abraham's servant found this wife for his master's son Isaac at a well near the city of Nahor | |
| Title character who's 'clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere' | |
| Soon after this cemetery opened in 1804, the remains of Molière & others were moved to it, lending a bit of prestige | |
| Design artist Iwao Takamoto said the exterior for the Skypad Apts. on 'The Jetsons' was inspired by a landmark in this city | |
| For his 'outstanding contribution to global economic stability', he was honored in 2002 | |
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| Meaning 'after the fact', this type of law retroactively makes an act criminal that was legal when committed | |
| Indonesia's largest lizard, it's protected from poachers, though we wish it could breathe fire to do the job itself | |
| This term for a type of decision is from Old French for 'to speak the truth' | |
| This Major League Baseball team's current stadium was built for a 20th century Olympics | |
| In 2011 the city of Savannah granted an exemption allowing the sale of these items outside Juliette Gordon Low's birthplace | |
| The waters of the Palk Strait separate India's Tamil Nadu state from this island nation | |
| The first to be named Time Magazine's woman of the year, she soon married ex-British king Edward VIII | |
| Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, it's the number of the only one to contain the word 'sex' | |
| This country's president, in an address to the Knesset: 'I am asking forgiveness ...for myself and my generation' | |
| Count de Chabrol really liked to count; he coined this term for Napoleon's brief return, March 20 - July 8, 1815 | |
| For a 1912 play they were dubbed Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick & Quee; 25 years later, they got new names | |
| 'A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair' | |
| Basalt is an extrusive type of this rock; granite is an intrusive type | |
| The name of this alkaline earth metal comes partly for 'lime' (as in limestone) | |
| This roadway begun in 312 B.C. would eventually extend from Rome to the heel of Italy | |
| Canada's power is 60% this source, like the water going over Churchill Falls | |
| It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water | |
| Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was 'The Luckiest People' | |
| It's the only nation in the world that officially describes itself as a confederation | |
| 'The tribe... was a mighty people, called the 'Mahicanni,' or, more commonly, the 'Mohicans'' | |
| Italian for 'leader', it was especially applied to Benito Mussolini | |
| In April 1865 he said, 'Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state' | |
| A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: 'I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can' | |
| Warm Springs, Georgia's airport is named for him | |
| This small emirate in nestled between Iraq & Saudi Arabia | |
| From 2008, it's the most recent film to win Best Picture & Best Song; the lyrics are in a foreign language | |
| A children's classic: 'I'm so glad to be at home again!' | |
| In the last chapter of 'Billions & Billions', this scientist talked about the disease that took his life | |
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| In summer 2012 this play based on a movie about 2 British athletes at the 1924 Olympics was off & running | |
| Of the more than 75 competitive categories, this one does not cite the title of any album, song or other project | |
| The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically | |
| This Shakespeare royal tells his youngest child, 'pray you now, forget and forgive; I am old and foolish' | |
| Peter Ueberroth, Barry Diller & ex-Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn are on the board of this beverage company | |
| In 'Dead Poets Society', Robin Williams rhymes 'gather ye rosebuds while ye may' with this similar motto | |
| 1485: @Bosworth Field, leading my side against those wretched Tudors & I need a ride desparately | |
| In 1779 U.S. Marine Corps Captain William Jones advertised for these, later a 1992 movie title | |
| The 2 whose names come from Native American words | |
| It represents Africa in the top 10 | |
| The completion of the DuPont Highway in 1924 was a catalyst in this capital's growth | |
| In 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', these 5 words precede, 'that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know' | |
| 1966: To Yakima Canutt 'for achievements as' one of these & 'for developing safety devices to protect' them | |
| This mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur & charcoal was perfected by the Chinese around 1000 A.D | |
| Naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry wrote, 'we have met the enemy, and they are' this pronoun | |
| 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country | |
| After Morocco allegedly aided a failed coup, Mauritania gravitated toward this third country that borders both | |
| In Germany this show had 'Die Reitungs-schwimmer von Malibu' as part of its title | |
| When this Gorgon got mad at Athena for refusing a request, Athena made her ugly & turned her hair into snakes | |
| This Ph.D. in psychology wrote the seminal 1913 article 'Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It' | |
| With a large Catholic minority, Lebanon banned this 2003 novel that suggests Jesus was a dad | |
| Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place | |
| In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports | |
| This instrument that records respiratory movements shares its name with a classic drawing kit | |
| In a 1972 documentary he said, 'Brigid's been doing my paintings for the last 3 years' | |
| Ironically, it leaps from a plateau whose name means 'devil's mountain' | |
| In 1540 Hernando De Soto camped in the area of what's now this state capital | |
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