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| Jill Jacobs | |
| An account of her historic trial noted, 'It was conceded that the defendant was, on the 5th November 1872, a woman' | |
| 'Gladiator' is close, but this film has the earliest historical setting of any Best Picture Oscar winne | |
| A biography of this nobleman goes beyond the boxing rules he devised & his accusations against Oscar Wilde | |
| A part of this island that's on the Susquehanna hit 4,000 degrees in a hurry in 1979 | |
| This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's 'Gone with the Wind' | |
| Flourishing between 3000 & 1100 B.C., Cycladic & Minoan were 2 of the cultures named for this sea | |
| Blanco is the last name of the main character in 'Metástasis', a Colombia-set version of this show | |
| 1/360th of the earth's circumference | |
| Wikipedia & Craigslist are the most popular sites with this domain suffix | |
| For 2007 the honor went to this word for one who eats food grown or produced nearby | |
| Alfred Dreyfus was among the thousands who marched through the streets of Paris in his 1902 funeral procession | |
| The debate team at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire is named for this man who entered the academy in 1796 | |
| All U.S. lighthouses come under the jurisdiction of this branch of the Armed Services | |
| The metropolis of Mildendo in this land in 'Gulliver's Travels' was a square, each side 'being five hundred feet long' | |
| The youngest medalist ever was 10-year-old gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, in his homeland in this year | |
| SEID, systemic exertion intolerance disease, is the new name for CFS, this | |
| The stone that unlocked the language of the pharaohs was discovered in 1799 just outside this village | |
| A membership fee bump helped this co. move up the food chain in 2013, hitting $100 billion in sales for the first time | |
| On Sept. 21, 1981 this British colony became the last nation on the American mainland to gain independence | |
| Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his 1872-73 work 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2' | |
| In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning 'bright' or 'shining' | |
| Due to developments in 2012, this annual summer contest now lists no winner from the years 1999-2005 | |
| Of this agreement, Thomas Jefferson said he 'stretched the Constitution until it cracked' | |
| In Sophocles' play about her, revenge is on the mind of this daughter of Agamemnon | |
| As a word used in Scrabble, this longest-named one of the 6 noble gases would give you the highest score | |
| This H.G. Wells doctor remarks, 'I took a gorilla... and mastering difficulty after difficulty, I made my first man' | |
| Since 1980 co-founder John Mackey has been CEO of this, 'America's healthiest grocery store' | |
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| Pink complained, 'Tired of being compared to damn' this blonde singer; 'She's so pretty, that just ain't me' | |
| This part of the large intestine extends from the cecum | |
| This small land's airline advertises a 'stopover': 7 nights at no extra travel charge to break up a Boston-Brussels trip | |
| Mayor Dave Bing had the unhappy task of announcing that this city had declared bankruptcy | |
| In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities | |
| At about 100 miles it's not one of Canada's 100 longest rivers, but in the 1890s it became perhaps the most famous | |
| Led by Altan Khan, around 1550 these people invaded China & laid siege to Beijing | |
| In a set of standard Staunton-style pieces, not bishops but these pieces are topped with crosses | |
| The mission of this Western university founded in 1875 is 'to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life' | |
| Wagner's line 'Oed' und leer das Meer', meaning 'Waste and empty the sea', is quoted in a poem by this American-born man | |
| There once was a king named Richard I, who granted a charter to this Irish port city in 1197 | |
| Aristotle: 'Man is by nature a ____ animal' | |
| This church gets its name from the Greek for 'fiftieth' | |
| Lafayette was buried in Paris with soil taken from the grounds of this 1775 battle, the bloodiest of the Revolution | |
| In September 2014 president Poroshenko of this country asked for more U.S. help against Russian incursions | |
| No pasaran, 'They shall not pass', was a loyalist slogan during this 20th century war | |
| 'He is brought as' this phrase, 'and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth' | |
| This major league team's official colors are Sedona red, Sonoran sand & black | |
| In effect the last battle of the Wars of the Roses was on this field on August 22, 1485 | |
| A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale | |
| Calling him a 'character' is a bit of a stretch, but Tom Hanks made him/it a close pal in a 2000 movie | |
| First name of the man for whom Zimbabwe was formerly named | |
| This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784 | |
| To make angry & an aromatic smoke | |
| Interconnected transistors, resistors & capacitors built on a single wafer | |
| You take the high road & I'll take the low road to Milarrochy Bay on this Scottish loch | |
| The 4th Amendment: None of these 'shall issue, but upon probable cause' | |
| No. 7: This Low Country should be 'evacuated and restored' to full sovereignty | |
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| This U.S. retailer's 133 Canadian stores closed in 2015; its CEO said, 'We missed the mark... by taking on too much too fast' | |
| In a 3-day period in November 2014, this second-most-populous city in New York got 7 feet of the white stuff | |
| Chapter 8 in this book is 'Two More Golden Tickets Found' | |
| On July 30, 1975 he dined at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan then got into a car & disappeared | |
| Act I of this play opens in a small bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Mass., in the spring of 1692 | |
| 'I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel' is spoken to this title character by his creation | |
| The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her is titled 'The Sea and Sindbad's Ship' | |
| Edmond Dantes, Sinbad the Sailor & Lord Wilmore, who are all the same guy | |
| In this 1934 novel the solution to the murder is revealed in a dining car | |
| Like 'Beau Geste', also by P.C. Wren, 'Beau Sabreur' is about a man in this fighting unit | |
| On the completion of this in 1937, its chief engineer wrote, 'At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun' | |
| These, now meaning 'Credit for deeds done', may have come from a measure of young Girl Scouts' achievements | |
| From 2009 to 2014 4 alums of this Montreal school won Nobel Prizes | |
| Prominent on its seal is a silver miner & his team moving a carload of ore from a mountain | |
| In 1890 a critic said this artist 'directs his brush with enormous dabs of impasto of very pure color in sinuous trails' | |
| During her 72-day trip around the world, 1889-90, she stopped in Amiens to visit with Verne, who had inspired her trip | |
| The sec regulates this type of 5-letter material that allows shareholders to vote without being present | |
| 'Crabtown' | |
| I'm this second sign of the zodiac, named for the kind oe creature that terrorized Crete in Hercules' time | |
| In a song, Weird Al says, 'I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows' him | |
| Michigan's motto mentions this type of land area | |
| The southeastern Mexican state of Quintaa Roo is on this peninsula | |
| Milan's La Scala is this type of place | |
| A turning point of the Civil War was the Union victory in this 1862-1863 campaign in Mississippi | |
| His Basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he 'hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet' | |
| In both 1274 & 1281 thousands of Mongol ships & men were destroyed by typhoons while invading this island country | |
| Yeah, maybe our campaign staff shouldn't have advised this man to do a 1988 photo op atop an M1 tank | |
| You know the drill--WC is this carbide | |
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