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ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE |
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Seen here is an engraving of this god & his eponymous pipe |
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When it precedes "case of" or "incident of" in titles, this word means provokingly strange, not inquisitive |
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Alfred's will lays out his prizes, specifying that one is for holding these congresses & reducing standing armies |
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The covenant creating this league in 1919 mentions the goal "to promote international cooperation" |
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The film "What's New Pussycat?", about a guy women chase, had a title song by this guy women chased |
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This Man in Black of country music wrote "The Man in White" about St. Paul & Jesus |
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Monster of the Oedipus myth used to describe an inscrutable person |
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In 1863 Nobel patented this innovative "cap", a detonator for triggering explosives |
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The NCL, or "National" these people's "League", works for economic justice for shoppers |
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Phoebe on "Friends" was known to warble about this feline |
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"The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ" by Anne Emmerich inspired a 2004 movie from this director |
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A subterranean chamber adds "IC" at the end to be this word meaning ambiguous |
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A turning point was when this type of newspaper article was published in error & Alfred was shocked by how he'd be remembered |
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Hiawatha is traditionally credited as one of the founders of this league of 5, then 6 nations |
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The feline in this Harry Chapin song was accompanied by "Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon" |
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"The Gospel According to" this "Myra Breckinridge" author moves the crucifixion to the television age |
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The blowpipe & dart seen here are from Sarawak on the Malaysian part of this island |
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Enciphering machine built by Germany--can you break its code? |
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Early in his career, a factory Alfred had built to produce this liquid explosive blew up, killing his brother Emil |
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In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords |
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This quartet sang "Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" |
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The Greek Orthodox church tried & failed to excommunicate Nikos Kazantzakis for writing this 1955 novel |
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These are your standard PVC pipes--PVC short for this |
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O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... |
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An ailing Alfred died in this Italian city then known for "San"atoria & now for a music festival |
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"Defenders of soil, air, woods, waters & wildlife" is the compleat motto of the league named for this 17th c. Brit |
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Members of The Cure wore kitty costumes in the video for this poppy tune, the band's first U.K. Top 10 hit |
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This title item of Jesus' clothing is won by a Roman soldier in a dice game in a Lloyd Douglas novel |
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