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| Perhaps best known for his plays, such as "Uncle Vanya", he was also a famed short-story writer |
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| 1 of only 2 Americans to win the men's figure skating gold medal since 1960 |
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| A 13-foot-tall one of these stands on the highway near the city limits of Plains, Georgia |
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| She was the first female Secretary of State |
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| The last section of a racecourse |
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| After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Doctor Zhivago", he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union |
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| In 1998, the first Olympics in which it was held, Italy's Gian Simmen won the men's halfpipe in this sport |
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| These off the state tree of Illinois were ground, leached & cooked by Indians for food |
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| The Culex species of this insect may transmit encephalitis & certain kinds of parasitic worms |
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| George Washington picked this future president to be his first Secretary of State |
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| School study of household management |
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| His novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was based on his own struggles in a Siberian labor camp |
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| Lydia Skoblikova has a record 6 gold medals in speed skating; this American woman is second with 5 |
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| New Yorkers claim their bagels are best, because this ingredient is best in New York |
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| The teeth of this bloodsucking cave dweller are so sharp that victims may not even feel the bite |
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| Dwight Eisenhower & JFK both attended the 1962 dedication of the airport named for him |
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| Civilian activities in support of a war waged overseas |
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| One of this poet's great-grandfathers was a black Ethiopian courtier to Peter the Great |
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| In 1992 Kjetil Aamodt set the Olympic record at 1 min., 13.04 sec. in the Super G, short for super giant this |
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| Bill Rosenberg opened the first shop in this chain in 1950 in Quincy, Ma. (we don't know when the cops came) |
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| All of the species of this parasite-carrying fly in the genus Glossina live in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| This silver-tongued orator & publisher of "The Commoner" resigned as Secretary in 1915 |
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| In this 1978 film, Jane Fonda becomes involved with a paraplegic war veteran played by Jon Voight |
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| Novelist & short-story writer Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov used this pseudonym |
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| The Winter Olympics have been held in Austria twice, both times in this city |
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| Famous for its seafood, this "Old Original" restaurant in Philly is a premier reading, er, dining spot |
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| When this eel-like fish bites & attaches itself to another fish, an anticoagulating fluid keeps the wound open |
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| In 1842 this silver-tongued orator negotiated a treaty with Lord Ashburton which settled the Maine boundary dispute |
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