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These half-horse creatures were thrown out of Thessally after acting like horses' derrieres at a wedding |
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In 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified that this State Department official was a Communist |
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On Aug. 31, 1997 the Oilers played their first home game in this city's Liberty Bowl, defeating the Raiders, 24-21 |
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Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him" |
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Stephen Decatur helped an inexperienced friend win a duel by shortening the distance to 4 of these, about 12' |
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The 4-stringed banjolele is a "Hawaii"brid of the banjo & this musical instrument |
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If he hadn't stolen fire from heaven, he wouldn't have been chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus |
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This performing complex' Alice Tully Hall is home to its chamber music society |
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This Chicago Bear finished his career in 1987 with an NFL record 16,726 rushing yards |
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When she died, Edward Fitzgerald sniped, "No more Aurora Leighs, Thank God!", not counting the ways to love her |
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London duelists would "seek" each other in this park, the home of Speakers' Corner |
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Ixion must have been an airhead: he made love to a magic cloud, believing it was this wife of Zeus |
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The rhyme about this bird includes the line "Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber" |
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(Hi, I'm Al Michaels.) Super Bowl MVPs from the 49ers include J. Rice, S. Young & this quarterback who won a record 3 MVP awards |
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Amy Lowell wrote that this "Prufrock" poet "lives like a snail in his shell, pen protruding" |
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A duelist hoped these assistants weren't sloppy in aiding & preparing him |
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Banjoist Uncle Dave Macon was the 1st big star on this radio show that debuted in 1925 |
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Oops! He looked back at Eurydice as he led her out of the underworld & lost her forever |
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In this device used to track particles, liquid hydrogen is superheated to just above its boiling point |
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On Jan. 3, 1983 Tony Dorsett set the record for longest run from scrimmage, running this many yards |
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D.H. Lawrence said this writer of "The Bells" "sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom" |
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One "de grace" is a final blow; one "de jarnac" is a stab in the back, after a sneaky duelist |
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In its original form the banjo was a hollowed-out fruit of this type that includes the bottle variety |
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This god of music loved Hyacinthus but accidentally killed him with a discus |
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(Take a look at the monitor): Creature whose shell is seen here: |
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On July 29, 1986 this league won $3 in an antitrust suit against the NFL & folded 6 days later |
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Ironically, it was Gertrude Stein who observed of this Irishman, "People like him because he is incomprehensible" |
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General Lachlan McIntosh mortally wounded this Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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Fancy name from ancient Greek for the device used to pick a banjo's strings |
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