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| Pythias, an ancient Greek geographer, was perhaps the 1st to associate tidal motion with this body |
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| Most of his profits from "The Birth of a Nation" were lost when he made "Intolerance" |
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| This arched brick or stone ceiling can be of the barrel, grain, or rib style |
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| "Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's 1st novel, and "Carrie" was this author's |
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| When Columbus reached this future U.S. commonwealth in 1493, he named it San Juan Bautista |
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| Most of England's Hanoverian monarchs had this first name |
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| This proposer of the absolute temperature scale was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866 |
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| He directed his last film, "A Countess from Hong Kong" in 1967, over 50 years after his 1st film |
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| From the Latin for porch, it's a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns |
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| She sometimes joked that she was writing a sequel to her famous novel to be titled "Back With the Breeze" |
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| Argentina's claim to this British south Atlantic colony dates back to 1820 |
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| This prominent Monegasque family is descended from wealthy Genovese merchants & politicians |
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| Hugo DeVries, who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity, also proposed this theory of altered genes |
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| Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this 1st Best Picture winner |
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| Bernini's bronze canopy over the main altar at St. Peter's is a masterpiece of this style of architecture |
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| He wrote about Jews in "Exodus"; Muslims in "The Hajj"; & Protestants & Catholics in "Trinity" |
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| Quebec's Anticosti Island, at the mouth of this river, is the site of a provincial park |
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| The 3rd Swedish king to bear this name was shot at a masquerade & died a few days later |
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| This German astronomer born in 1571 was the 1st to explain how the planets move around the sun |
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| As an actor, this Vienna-born director was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate" |
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| Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains |
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| Sebastian Melma was the name used by this Irish playwright while in exile |
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| This island off the coast of southern California was named in honor of St. Catherine of Alexandria |
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| This 4-time British prime minister tried to abolish income taxes, but failed |
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| It was American physicist Arthur Compton who came up with this name for a quantum of light |
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| He remade his 1st Hollywood film, "The Squaw Man", twice |
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| This architect born in 1573 founded the English Society of Classical Architecture |
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| "Scientific American" was one of the magazines that reviewed his novel, "Gravity's Rainbow" |
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| This Caribbean island in the Leeward group has both French & Dutch sections |
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| The name of this political faction in Medieval Italy was derived from the Welps, a German family |
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