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In this work Virgil wrote that "a woman is always a fickle, unstable thing" |
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In 1960 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won this Olympic event hands down--& barefoot |
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These stringy parts of a vine, French for "sprout", are searching for a place to attach themselves |
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Technically, MOAB stands for "massive ordinance air burst", but it's been nicknamed "the mother of all" these |
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1954: Golding's bad boys battling for basic brute benefits |
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Pliny the Elder wrote that the temple built for this huntress was filled with many sculptures by Praxiteles |
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Just more rush-hour traffic inside this landmark |
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An overwhelming offensive described as this "and awe" is designed to elicit a quick surrender from an enemy |
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1930: Bird is the word for Dashiell Hammett in this mystery |
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A proverb tells us that these "hands are the devil's tools" |
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This Babylonian connected his palace with a temple by building a tunnel under the Euphrates River |
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This Olympic sport uses a rope, ball, hoop, clubs & ribbon |
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New Age therapies abound for healing with this substance forming here; it's also Loretta's sister |
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The Iraq War popularized this adjective for a reporter traveling with battlefield troops |
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1988: Thomas Harris chiller about mute muttons |
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In a Dostoyevsky novel, the innocent & naive prince Myshkin is this title character |
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On Sept. 2, 31 B.C. the forces of Octavian defeated Mark Antony's troops at the battle of this Greek promontory |
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At the 1984 Olympics, Zola Budd collided with this American woman in the 3,000-meter race |
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You're watching a cell go through this process, Greek for "thread" |
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From the Latin for "parallel", this kind of "damage" is a military euphemism for civilian deaths |
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1961: A reptillion evening served up by Tennessee Williams |
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A song popular at the turn of the last century said that she was "sweet as apple cider" |
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In 44 B.C. Caesar was assassinated & fell dead at this foot of the statue of this rival, his son-in-law |
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Here's a nut growing on this type of tree |
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From the Greek for "fellow countryman", it's a type of surface-to-air antimissile missile |
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1841: Cooper's last of the "Leatherstocking Tales" in which Natty Bumppo goes stag |
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This 12-letter word is a habit or characteristic that's peculiar to an individual |
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