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In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master |
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What Bogart actually said in this film was "If she can stand it, I can. Play it!" |
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J.N. Reynolds' "Mocha Dick", about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man's "Moby Dick" |
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Claude Bessy, director of this European capital's Opera Ballet School, won a 1997 award |
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In 1898 this "radiant" physicist invented a method of extracting radioactive material from ore |
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"Flammable" has come into common use because this longer word could be misinterpreted |
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Until abolished in 404 A.D., gladiatorial games had been held at this Rome site for over 300 years |
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Carroll O' Connor played Julie Andrews' father in this film based on a James Michener novel |
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World leader who was the subject of David Halberstam's 1971 book "Ho" |
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1957 & 1977 award winners Jerome Robbins & Peter Martins took over this Balanchine troupe in 1983 |
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In 1942 this star of "Ecstasy" & "Algiers" received a patent for a radio-controlled torpedo |
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This feminine suffix is more widely accepted after host or heir than after poet |
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On April 10, 1974 she resigned as Israel's prime minister but served as a caretaker until June |
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Gary Busey, Karen Black & Keith Carradine wrote songs for this film; Keith's "I'm Easy" won an Oscar |
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Thomas Pynchon followed "V" with this novel about the V-2 rocket |
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1978 winner seen here in a 1985 film: |
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Type of shoe seen here, invented by Anna Kalso, it made its U.S. debut on April 22, 1970: |
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Churchill called the rule against ending a sentence with this something "Up with which I will not put" |
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In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land |
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Elvis Presley had "Fun In" this Mexican resort city with Ursula Andress -- who wouldn't? |
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If you read her new book "Sex & The Single Girl" at 21 you're 57 now (& no longer a girl) |
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This tall co-star/co-director/co-choreographer of "My One And Only" was one of only 5 winners in 1984 |
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In the 1950s Grace Hopper created this "Common Business-Oriented Language" for computers |
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It's the preferred past participle of hang when it means "put to death by hanging" |
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This 16-year-old "Black Prince" led his men to victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346 |
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Luckily, the 1947 Alan Ladd film named for this city wasn't a "black hole" in his career |
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Olive Chancellor was into woman's lib in his 1886 novel "The Bostonians" |
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Stephanie Kwolek of this Delaware chemical firm created Kevlar, a lightweight material used in bulletproof vests |
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Using this adverb to mean "it is desirable that" has been much debated by writers on language |
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