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OPERA HAS BEEN VERDI, VERDI GOOD TO ME |
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The Limpopo River also has the name of this reptile that some want to make into "coil decor" |
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Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage |
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In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house |
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In "An Hour Before Daylight" this former president shares memories of growing up in rural Georgia |
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Napoleon's forces suffered about 40,000 casualties losing this June 18, 1815 battle |
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After the robin goes bob-bob-bobbing along, it lays an egg of this color |
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Though Botswana has little or no gold, these mineral products might get the "Midas nod" |
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Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar |
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In English "Il Trovatore" means this, a wandering minstrel |
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This anthropologist told about her early years in 1972's "Blackberry Winter" |
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In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June |
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A pound of this egg delicacy from Russia could set you back $1,200; from Iran, over $1,600 |
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In this area that covers much of Botswana, you might take "a rash ideal trek" |
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Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film |
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The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester |
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Title of Billie Holiday's 1965 autobiography & of the movie it later inspired |
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The Third Republic began after France lost the war to this Bismarck-led German state |
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The Sauropod, a dinosaur the size of a bus, came from eggs discovered in this country's Patagonia region |
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If you lose all your clothes in this capital, just "go on bare" |
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The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year |
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Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera |
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Read up on this longtime speaker of the House in his 1987 memoir "Man of the House" |
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The English won most of the battles in this 1337-1453 war but in the end France drove them out |
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Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while |
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When Botswana was this British protectorate, it was perhaps more of a "can and ale hub" |
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Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country |
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Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" |
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This TV news producer tells his own story in "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years & 60 Minutes in Television" |
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The 1520s weren't good for France either; it lost Milan to Charles V, leader of this "empire" that began in 962 |
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The Franklin Mint has the eggs named for this artisan ranging from $37.50 to the eggs-pensive $6,900 |
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