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On the 5th day of the 5th month of 1921, she introduced her No 5 perfume |
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In the U.S. most of these devices have 525 lines per image; soon they may have over 1,000 |
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His 1782 painting "The Skater" made him famous in London years before he painted George Washington |
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She said, "Miss Marple insinuated herself so quietly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival" |
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Since 1971 this British currency has been divided into 100 new pence |
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Samuel, a baritone, begins this opera singing, "Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry" |
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The forerunner of this British dictionary was published in 10 volumes in 1928 |
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The laser beam on a compact disc player is equivalent to this on a phonograph |
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George Romney painted many portraits of this beauty before she became Lord Nelson's mistress |
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From 1921 to 1931 she was a university teacher in Nanking |
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The islands of St. Pierre & Miquelon just south of Newfoundland use this basic unit of currency |
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W.S. Gilbert wrote, "Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades as" this |
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He came to power after leading his black-shirted Fascists in a "March on Rome" |
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AM is short for amplitude modulation & amp is short for this unit of electricity |
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Many people hated the sculptor Pietro Torrigiano for breaking this fellow Florentine artist's nose |
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Mary Ann Evans chose this pen name partly in honor of her lover George Henry Lewes |
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Gibraltar's 25-pence coin of 1971 featured one of these animals on the back |
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As unique as fingerprints, strands of this genetic material are used to establish paternity |
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This artist lived in Paris in the late 1880s, when Toulouse-Lautrec painted the portrait of him seen here: |
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This Round Table wit collaborated with Elmer Rice on the 1924 play "Close Harmony" |
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In 1936 Hungary issued a 2-pengo coin on the 50th anniversary of this composer's death |
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Hamilton Clarke, not Sullivan, constructed the overture for this opera set in Japan |
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Condemned earlier to internal exile, he was banished from the USSR in 1929 |
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It's the term for the place in virtual reality where the virtual objects appear |
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Frida Kahlo, this Mexican artist's wife, created some 200 paintings, many of them self-portraits |
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In 1969 this "Rebecca" author was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
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The first Dutch coins to depict this queen were used in 1892, when she was 12 years old |
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The inspiration for "Princess Ida" came from this lord's poem "The Princess - a Medley" |
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