Hint | Answer |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 | |
Danish philosopher and theologian, considered to be the first Existentialist (1813-55) | |
Russian (later French) Expressionist/Abstractionist painter, “Der Blaue Reiter” (1866–1944) | |
Capital of the Minoan civilization based on Crete during the Bronze Age | |
Surname of twin brothers, contemporaneous President and Prime Minister of Poland | |
English journalist and novelist famous for Disney classic “The Jungle Book” (1865–1936) | |
Castle in the town of Helsingør, Denmark, appears as Elsinore in ‘Hamlet’ | |
Scottish theologian, founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. (1513 – 1572) | |
Forest, site of mass executions of Polish army and police officers by the USSR (spring 1940) | |
1814 treaty between UK & Sweden and Denmark-Norway a consequence of the Napoleonic War | |
German organic chemist, described (and gave his name to) the structure of benzene (1829 –1896) | |
Former name of the Russian city of Kaliningrad (pre-1945) | |
Irish illuminated Gospel book in Latin (also known as Book of Columba), approx 8th c. | |
Dutch-American expressionist artist, his “Interchange” sold for $300M in 2015 (1904-1997) | |
Former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, formerly Russian, now Croatian | |
English Romantic poet, wrote 'I Stood Tip-toe Upon a Little Hill' (1795–1821) | |
European war involving Yugoslavia, local rebels, NATO air forces and the Albanian army (1998-1999) | |
Russian explorer and naval officer, C-in-C of the civil war anti-communist forces (1918-1920) | |
German physician and pioneering microbiologist, 1905 winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine (1843 – 1910) | |
WWII tank battle in Belarus and name of the submarine that sank in Barents sea in 2000 | |
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