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In 1963 this former British P.M. became an honorary citizen of the U.S. by an act of Congress |
Winston Churchill
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Castor, Pollux & Theseus accompanied Jason on his journey aboard this ship |
the Argo
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The world's most powerful solar telescope is near Tucson in this state |
Arizona
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Although most of these featured a skull & crossbones, some had flaming swords or hourglasses |
pirate flags (or the jolly roger)
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An astroblame is a scar on the Earth's surface caused by one of these |
a meteor
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Shortly before his death, this "Nutcracker" composer received an hon. doctorate from Cambridge Univ. |
Tchaikovsky
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He was the first president of Gran Colombia; after all , he helped liberate it |
Simón Bolívar
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He was condemned to support the heavens after supporting Cronus' war against the Olympians |
Atlas
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An 1867 flood in this state allowed a steamboat to travel down Chattanooga's Main Street |
Tennessee
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Several pirates of the Indian Ocean, including William Kidd, used this large island off the African coast as a haven |
Madagascar
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These warm, dry winds can raise the temperature at the base of the Rockies as much as 40º F. in 1 hour |
(Sue: What are the Santa Ana winds?)
the Chinooks
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In addition to marches, he composed an orchestral piece inspired by the novel "Ben-Hur" |
Sousa
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This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21 |
Louis XVI
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Some poets described this dog as having 50 heads, but he's usually shown with 3 |
Cerberus
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In 1992 most of this state's permanent residents got $915.84 from its oil revenues |
Alaska
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One of the many weapons used by pirates was this short, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge |
the cutlass
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From the Latin for "body", it's a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte |
(Bronwyn: My mind's blank.) (Alex: Say something.) (Bronwyn: What is a vessel?) (Alex: Nope, if you think of the Latin for body, corpus, [*].)
a corpuscle
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His "Bolero" had its American debut at a 1929 concert of the N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony |
Ravel
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On June 16, 1963 she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched 2 days earlier |
(Valentina) Tereshkova
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In her sanctuary in the Forum, she was not represented by a statue but by a flame tended by virgin priestesses |
(Ira: Who is Vestia?)
Vesta
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This state has a Lake Sidney Lanier about 25 miles north of Stone Mountain |
Georgia
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It's the term pirates used for the land along the Caribbean coast of South America |
the Spanish Main
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In the 2nd U.S. suborbital flight, his Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank in the Atlantic upon splashdown |
(Ira: Who is Carpenter?)
Gus Grissom
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A 1791 Handel music festival inspired him to compose the oratorio "The Creation" |
Haydn
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Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany as a result of this 1870-71 war |
the Franco-Prussian War
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Troy could not fall while it contained the Palladium, an image of this goddess |
Athena
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In 1777 New Connecticut changed its name to this, the name the state's still known by |
Vermont
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These Mediterranean pirates were based in Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli |
the Barbary pirates
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2 isotopes of the same element differ in the number of these subatomic particles |
neutrons
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Early in his career, Igor Stravinsky was tutored by this "Flight of the Bumblebee" composer |
Rimsky-Korsakov
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