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Both the parents of this Serb dictator committed suicide |
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He's a bestselling author as well as a familiar voice ["It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..."] |
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Boris Yeltsin, Boris Becker, Boris Karloff |
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Guinevere strangles herself with her own hair in the Chausson opera named for this king |
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The fiesta at the heart of Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" takes place in this bull-running city |
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When I take off all my clothes, I'm this, just like a salad without its vinaigrette |
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Throughout 1998 Serb forces battled the KLA, an abbreviation for this |
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Tom & Ray, hosts of this auto show, delivered the 1999 commencement address at their alma mater, M.I.T. |
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Philip the Fair, Alfred the Great, Ivan the Terrible |
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In "Luisa Miller", Rodolfo kills himself & Luisa by this method -- he must have seen "Lucrezia Borgia" |
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In "Moby Dick", the Pequod sails from this "New" Massachusetts seaport |
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Gangster-land, or Hades' domain |
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On March 31, 1999 3 U.S. soldiers were captured while patrolling near this country's border with Serbia |
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On Public Radio International, you can hear the refined tones of this "World Service" |
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Marion Morrison, Jim Morrison, Toni Morrison |
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Of a lake, a moat or a sewer, it's where Iris drowns herself in Mascagni's opera "Iris" |
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Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" plays out darkly in this California city |
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Serbs hold Kosovo dear because they lost a 1389 battle there to this empire |
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Since 1979 Bob Edwards has hosted this NPR program that many wake up to |
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Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII |
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In "The Stone Guest", this Spanish seducer mocks a statue, which retaliates by dragging him down to hell |
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It's the fictional county where 14 Faulkner novels are set |
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Eve Harrington is probably the most famous one |
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This capital of Kosovo that dates back to medieval times was devastated by air raids & "ethnic cleansing" |
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Low-concept weekly program heard here ["I'm Ira Glass - each week, of course, on our program we choose a theme..."] |
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Leonardo's "Mona Lisa", "Last Supper", "The Adoration of the Magi" |
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Much of "Othello", including Desdemona's murder, takes place on this large island |
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King Ethelred's adjective |
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