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Polish-born Jerzy Kosinski wrote all of his novels, including "Being There" in this, his adopted language |
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...who was barred from a third term as Serbian president; in 1997 was made president of Yugoslavia |
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This popular tropical fruit was named for its resemblance to a pine cone |
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Characters in this Bizet opera include a toreador, a gypsy girl & cigarette factory girls |
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In 1968 this widow of a U.S. president married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis |
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"Red Vineyard at Arles" was possibly the only painting this Dutchman sold during his lifetime |
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She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel "The Mandarins" on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre |
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...who became the first popularly elected head of this island in 1996, Lee Teng-hui, is a Taipei personality |
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This tropical island has roads linking Port Antonio, Montego Bay & Kingston |
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This Austrian composer didn't complete his operas "Adrast" & "Sakuntala"; he left a symphony "unfinished", too |
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Less than a week after Princess Diana died, the world mourned the death of this beloved nun in India |
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A famous Rembrandt painting shows "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of" this ancient poet |
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It's the native country of Flora Nwapa, who wrote "This is Lagos, and Other Stories" |
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...who ended the ban on the ANC in South Africa in 1990 |
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It's the name for the parallel at 23 degrees 27 minutes south latitude |
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In Offenbach's "Orphee aux Enfers", Orpheus goes to Hades to retrieve this woman, his cheatin' wife |
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Previous jobs on her resume would include research chemist, lawyer & prime minister of Great Britain |
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He depicted a poppy field in a hollow near Giverny in the painting seen here |
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The original Italian title of this Umberto Eco novel is "Il Nome Della Rosa" |
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...who went from La Prensa to la presidencia of Nicaragua in 1990 |
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Large tropical rain forest regions include the Amazon & one centered on this 2,900-mile-long African river |
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Verdi's "Falstaff" is based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays & this Shakespeare comedy |
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Italian lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini & the niece of this famous actress |
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Appropriately, one of this painter's views of Toledo can be seen at his museum in Toledo, Spain |
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In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey |
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The largest country in the world entirely in the tropics is this Asian nation made up of over 13,700 islands |
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A comic opera by Strauss based on an incident from his marriage, or a short orchestral piece played between scenes |
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In 1988 this Karachi-born woman became the first female to head a modern Islamic country |
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He's the great 16th century German artist seen here in a self-portrait |
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