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St. Paul's, the oldest church in Manhattan, is where this pres. attended services after his 1789 inauguration |
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Thales in the 6th c. BC said everything came from water; Empedocles later added air & these 2 things |
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His 1950 film "Rashomon" made him the 1st Japanese filmmaker to have an impact in Europe & the U.S. |
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This Athenian hill was the site of the Erechteum, a shrine to a legendary king of the city |
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Chiang Ch'ing, this leader's wife, staged the Chinese ballet "The Red Detachment of Women" |
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In June he announced he would not seek a second term as president of Austria |
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A shrine in Allentown, Penn. is built above the spot where this patriotic symbol was hidden in 1777 |
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This 19th century Danish philosopher was known to his followers as "S.K." |
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This company's co-founder Akio Morita was once in an American Express "Do you know me?" ad |
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Jesus Christ was crucified on this skull-shaped hill outside Jerusalem |
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In 1968 the Bolshoi premiered its ballet about this Roman slave revolt leader |
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Germany's upper house, the Bundesrat, voted to remain in this city & not to move to Berlin |
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Cabrillo Nat'l Monument, on the coast of this California city, marks the site where Cabrillo landed in 1542 |
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Alfred North Whitehead said European philosophy is "a series of footnotes to" this Greek |
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In 1968 Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese author to win this |
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The Homestake mine, the largest gold mine in the U.S., is in these South Dakota hills |
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Mia Slavenska danced the role of Blanche DuBois at the premiere of this ballet in 1952 |
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In October President Bush named William Barr to replace Dick Thornburgh in this job |
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This national battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md. commemorates the bloodiest single day of the Civil War |
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John Locke believed no one is born with innate ideas, that at birth the mind is one of these |
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Kintaro Hattori may not ring a bell, but the name of this watch co. he founded should |
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This San Francisco area may take its name from "Nabob", a Hindi word meaning "a rich man" |
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Martha Graham danced the lead in the first U.S. production of "The Rite of Spring" by this composer |
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This sport's WLAF crowned its first champions, the London Monarchs |
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Built in 1791, Portland Head Light in Maine was one of the first of these authorized by the U.S. |
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St. Anselm is famous for his proof of this |
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He's the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
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Ancient Rome's streets extended from this hill; today, it's the site of a complex of art galleries |
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Sir Frederick Ashton was principal choreographer of this British company 1935-70 |
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The Navy apologized for blaming this battleship's gun turret explosion on one of its victims |
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