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The 2006 film "Superman Returns" contains a dedication to this actor who died in 2004 |
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Events in 1849 certainly helped California earn this official state nickname |
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Ballistics, the science of projectiles, comes from the Greek "ballein", to do this to something |
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In 1986 the world came to this Canadian city for an expo; in 2010 the world was back |
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A small one is a cascade; a large one, a cataract |
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Crocuses grow from corms, sometimes called "solid" these objects from which tulips grow |
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The title superhero of this 2008 film shares his name with a signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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This great fracture of California's crust is the principal fault of a 600-mile network of faults across the state |
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A projectile's trajectory is subject to gravity, lift & this force that's heavily dependent on nose shape |
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It's the structure representing a country; at the 1937 Paris Expo, you could see "Guernica" at the Spanish one |
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A booth where items are displayed for sale |
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A king by the name of Crocus was a leader of the Alamanni Tribe when it attacked forces of this empire in 260 A.D. |
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This hero-studded film is set during Nixon's fifth term, as the world is on the brink of nuclear war |
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This 25,000-square-mile California desert includes Joshua Tree National Park |
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This 2-word term that includes part of the gun refers to a bullet's speed as it leaves; 2,000 F.P.S. is not uncommon |
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Nearly 20,000 homes were demolished in preparation for this Chinese city's 2010 expo |
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Crocus is a shade of this color, as are primrose & jonquil |
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Cutlery was the chosen weapon of the Blue Raja, played by Hank Azaria in this 1999 superfilm spoof |
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At 14,495 feet, this peak is California's highest point |
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An early forensic ballistics debate was central to the 1921 murder trial of these 2 Italian-American anarchists |
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A 1906 Milan fair celebrated the opening of the Simplon Tunnel under these |
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Type of commercial site the Westfield Group specializes in running |
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Botanically, the crocus is a member of this 4-letter plant family named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow |
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A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director |
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Named after a companion of St. Paul, this "San" county is the largest in area in the lower 48 |
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Internal ballistics studies the conversion of a propellant's chemical energy into a projectile's energy of this type |
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A 21-hour production of this Goethe tale was a highlight of the 2000 expo in Hanover, Germany |
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On a Volga River cruise, Uglich & Yaroslavl might be these 3-word stops |
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Early cultivation of crocus is depicted in frescoes found in this Mediterranean island's Knossos Archaeology Site |
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