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| Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings | |
| The first edition of his 'Diet Revolution' was a bestseller back in 1972 | |
| On Dec. 16, 1773, members of this 8-year-old group left a meeting to board British ships & dump tea | |
| Oh yah, in 1988, pre-'Fargo', she was Stellllla! in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', dontcha know | |
| She beat out newcomers like Bieber & Gaga to top Forbes' list of the highest-paid people in music for 2013 | |
| In June 2013 this Islamic group governed Egypt; in September it was banned | |
| In 1576 King Frederick II granted him title to the island of Ven to build an observatory | |
| At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula | |
| He died in Germany in 1900: From 1998 to 2007 his name was joined with Chrysler | |
| He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president | |
| Sultan Mehmed V (over a now-departed entity) | |
| Because of where in the body it is produced, this hormone's name comes from the Latin for 'island' | |
| He was nominated for Oscars in 5 consecutive decades; the last nod was for his 1978 role as a Nazi hunter | |
| The H. pylori bacterium causes this type of ulcer, from the Greek for 'digestive' | |
| In I Kings 20 this king has a whale of a time defeating the Damascenes | |
| It begins with a vow to an ancient god & ends with 'if I transgress it & swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot' | |
| 19 feet, 7 inches by Renaud Lavillenie | |
| In 1869 a club based in this, now a National League city, became the first all-professional baseball team | |
| 'Accord reached to end the war in Bosnia' in a 1995 story datelined this midwest U.S. city | |
| On July 17, this ruler & some of his family members were re-buried in St. Petersburg | |
| A protege of Oscar Hammerstein, he's won Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize & the most Tony awards by a composer | |
| Nicholas Pileggi's 'Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family' got this title on the big screen in 1990 | |
| In an 1890 letter, he called himself 'a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar' | |
| This Roman emperor visited Britain in 122 A.D. & had some ideas for military construction | |
| Twice as long as Hadrian's Wall, Offa's Dyke was the traditional border between these 2 lands | |
| The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff | |
| In 2003 the word 'explosives' was adde to the name of this agency | |
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| 'I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon...the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence' | |
| By Joe McGinniss, 'The Rogue: Searching For the Real' this politician | |
| This character is Charles Dickens' most autobiographical; his initials are the reverse of the author's | |
| 2 college students wrote its state song, which ends, 'hailing thee their Northern Star' | |
| Type of rights with which men are 'endowed by their creator'; in the drafting, it changed from 'in' to 'un' | |
| He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer prizes for fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series | |
| Nickname shared by George Armstrong Custer, Native American chief Crazy Horse & a member of a 1930s comedy act | |
| In 1958 this beloved author helped found Beginner Books | |
| The Big Room-- this New Mexico national park | |
| I made the last bid, so I'm the declarer: my partner says nothing while I play his cards, so he's called this | |
| Able to change naturally over time, an ambulatory boundary on a map is formed bv one of these | |
| New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called 'macaronis' | |
| His 1911 work 'I and the Village' evokes the look of his Hasidic hometown | |
| In 1993 Yanni returned to his homeland for a series of concerts & a live album recorded atop this ancient hill | |
| Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart, Richard Harris | |
| A type of warship, or a soaring bird with a nearly 8-foot wingspan that might follow it | |
| French author Albert Camus set several works in this country of his birth | |
| Prior to 'Silver Linings Playbook', the last film to get Oscar noms. in all 4 acting categories was this film partly set in Russia | |
| This element is named for a mythological king for whom food was always just out of reach | |
| An aria in this Shakespeare-based opera says, 'Di scozia a te promettono le profetesse il trono...Che tardi?' | |
| This character's name came from blowing flies off his nose when his arms were stiff after a honey hunt | |
| An Italian bid for empire was ended by defeat at the 1896 Battle of Adwa in this African countrv | |
| Scottish term for a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast | |
| Street scene, an American desert & the jail | |
| Prunus dulcis, this snack high in calcium & vitamin E, is native to the Mideast, but 80% of the world crop comes from Calif. | |
| Antisthenes began this -ism with the view that self-interest is the primary motive of human behavior | |
| This creature killed by Hercules during his second labor was the offspring of the 100-headed Typhon | |
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| This 1904 Russian play ends with the sound of an axe striking a tree | |
| In 2011 the 250th edition of a real oldie hit parade marched up New York's 5th Avenue on this date | |
| The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar | |
| While this Balkan country's national name means 'land of eagles', the name we know it by is from the Latin for 'white' | |
| 1929 William Faulkner title pair | |
| On learning what his series would be called, the star of this reality show said, 'that sounds like a Chinese food place!' | |
| Elephantine Island & Kitchener's Island | |
| More than 1/5 of all the world's people live in countries bordering this, the world's biggest bay | |
| Plasma is blood without cells; this is blood without cells & clotting factors | |
| An estimated 55,000 Africans die each year from being bitten by this fly whose name means 'fly' in the Tswanna language | |
| He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales | |
| This Robert Frost poem says, 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep' | |
| A nursery rhyme says, 'I had a little pony, his name was' this; 'I lent him to a lady to ride a mile away' | |
| In Genesis 4 this name is chosen because God 'hath appointed me another seed' | |
| New York City's main correctional facility, it sits in the East River & consists of 10 separate jails | |
| Their storybook royal romance produced 2 daughters but ended in 1996 | |
| A 2012 expose goes 'Inside' this church to tell 'The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion' | |
| Happy 400th anniversary to this interracial couple who tied the knot in Jamestown | |
| When Babe the pig can't find Farmer Hogget's 'mechanical rooster', one of these, Ferdinand the duck helps | |
| In 1908 this animal appropriately became the mascot of the Prohibition Party | |
| Robert Montgomery & Ronald Reagan each served 2 stints as president of this | |
| The arrival of SiriusXM means the good old dial in your Ford Falcon now plays this earth-bound type of radio | |
| The capital of Switzerland has had this animal on its seal since the 1200s | |
| Last name of brothers Andre & Edouard, who noted that with arms, a pile of tires 'would make a man' | |
| Legend has it Captain Vanderdecken still tries to round the Cape of Good Hope on this ship...& tries...& tries... | |
| In 1800 Humphry Davy reported 'a sense of exhilaration' as one of the effects of inhaling this | |
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