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"Ah, but the strawberries... that's where I had them!" says Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in this film |
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This port on the Tyrrhenian Sea is Sicily's capital & largest city |
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Thomas Wolsey asked the pope to annul this king's marriage, but the pope said no & Tom got the ax (fired, not killed) |
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In European tradition the 23rd of this month brings midsummer's eve frolic |
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In 1984 this Yank received the French Legion of Honor award for his work with muscular dystrophy |
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3 years after "Sunset Boulevard", he won an Oscar for "Stalag 17" |
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An anchor from Columbus' ship the Santa Maria is on display in a museum in this Haitian port |
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A little birdie told me in 1669 Charles II gave him the important architectural job of Surveyor of the King's Works |
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My answer to the musical question "What are you doing" then is "sitting home, drinking, watching the ball drop" |
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His surname sounds French, but this Yank ended up in Paris by winning the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 & 1990 |
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This Tony Curtis-Sidney Poitier film could have been called "We Are Two Fugitives from a Chain Gang" |
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Until 1991 this sprawling port on the Gulf of Guinea was Nigeria's capital city |
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This nephew of a king took on the Green Knight but in some tales was killed by Mordred |
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Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day |
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This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782 |
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What Harry Potter would consider me as a non-practitioner of magic |
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James Dean starts an oil empire in this film |
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This Ukrainian Black Sea port was the site of a 1905 naval mutiny portrayed in the film "Battleship Potemkin" |
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This Brit became Chancellor of the Exchequer at age 23 & Prime Minister at 24; was the Younger-est to hold either post |
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On this day, October 1, in 2006, Jews are encouraged to eat & drink |
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Named for latitudinal lines, these 2 novels were penned by Henry Miller while he was in Paris |
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Some linguists claim this word can mean only "to make worse" & never "to irritate" |
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People often cite this 1950 Japanese film when describing situations seen differently by different people |
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In 1980 this port SW of Havana was the site of a mass "boatlift" of humans seeking freedom from Castro |
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You should know to a "tea" that he was Prime Minister of England from 1830 to 1834 |
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On the eve of the feast day of this saint symbolized by a lamb, girls are supposed to dream of their future husbands |
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This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook |
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"Worn out" surname of a "King Solomon's Mines" author |
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