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MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE |
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Semtex, a very dangerous type of this, was created in the Czech town of Semtin |
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As Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Charlton Heston initially resists the pope's orders to paint this room |
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Although hundreds of things can lead to one, rhinoviruses are the most frequent culprit |
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In song it's "wild blue"; down home, it means over there or at a distance |
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Deposed as ruler of Granada in this country, Ibn Buluggin wrote an autobiography--no word on the size of his advance |
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Seen here is a Czech monument to the discovery of a new way to package this pantry staple in the 1840s |
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Salma Hayek earned a 2002 Oscar nomination in this Julie Taymor film |
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This Anglican liturgical text was first authorized in 1549 |
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Clare Island (an island country itself) |
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The word vermin got altered to this word for a troublesome wild animal |
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Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C |
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In the early 20th century, Jan Jansky discovered there were 4, not 3, of these types in humans |
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This 1952 study of Toulouse-Lautrec bears the name of the burlesque hall where he spent a lot of time |
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Just over 100 years old, Parkman Bandstand is one of the newer editions to this great American open space |
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Jupiter, Marco & Sanibel Islands |
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A Trace Adkins hit is called this type of country music bar "Badonkadonk" |
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Many Chinese could; the Tang dynasty has left us about 50,000 of these, in forms such as lushi & jueju |
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In 1963 Czech chemist Otto Wichterle used new HEMA plastics to make the first soft type of these |
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In "Big Eyes", this actress played Margaret Keane, a painter whose husband took credit for her work for years |
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The author claimed that 3 months after publication in 1776, this pamphlet had sold 120,000 copies |
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This 4-word phrase for "bad plan" could literally mean "your collie will not sniff out a quail" |
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Despite its title, this saint's "Summa Contra Gentiles" was partly meant as an argument against Jews |
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Josef Ressel really made this simple machine work for him--he applied it to a ship's propeller & a wine-press roller |
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Lili Taylor played a militant feminist who commits the title crime against a popular pop artist in this film |
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On January 8 the Mariana Islands celebrate this day; Kentucky & Pennsylvania could do the same |
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Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good |
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Around 880 Edred, archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to the pope to tell on this "Great" English king who was harassing him |
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