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A CINEMATIC TRIP TO VEGAS |
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On October 24 this organization came into existence with the ratification of its charter by 29 countries |
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Nicolas Cage drives to the desert to drink himself to death & meets an angelic hooker in this 1995 drama |
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On February 11, 1999 it again became the farthest planet from the sun & will remain so for 248 years |
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In "Paint Your Wagon" it's called "Maria" |
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"The Father of Frozen Foods" |
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Pounds, pieces of eight & pesos are examples of this |
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In February 1945, the "Big 3" met in this Crimean resort to work out the fate of the postwar world |
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Felons skyjack a plane with Nicolas Cage (who else?) on board & crash-land on the Vegas Strip in this 1997 thriller |
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Alnilam, Alnitak & Mintaka are the 3 stars of this constellation's belt |
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It's the "culinary" term for the thick weather condition indicated by the following (sound of a foghorn) |
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"The Father of Basketball" |
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The 2 "M" combatants in the Battle of the Ironclads March 9, 1862 |
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A Mannheim, Germany traffic accident claimed the life of this controversial U.S. general in December 1945 |
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Nicolas Cage (of course) skydives into Vegas with a troup of Elvis impersonators in this 1992 comedy |
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Among these objects, Encke's has an orbital period of 3.3 years; Tago-Sato-Kosaka, 420,000 years |
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Peter Hoeg's Smilla Jaspersen had a "sense of" this |
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It's the Army's equivalent of the Navy's Shore Patrol |
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In 1945 John Steinbeck published this novel about life on the Monterey waterfront |
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1996 film in which L.A. hipsters Vince Vaughn & Jon Favreau take a road trip to "Vegas, Baby, Vegas!" |
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In 1937 in Wheaton, Illinois, Grote Reber built the first one of these telescopes using a parabolic dish |
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Director Michael Mann took his name off this 1995 DeNiro-Pacino film in protest of NBC's editing of it |
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"The Father of American Political Cartoonists" |
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Mississippi celebrates a version of this holiday the last Monday in April to honor Confederate dead |
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On January 31, 1945 this U.S. Army private was executed for desertion |
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Frank Sinatra leads 10 other men in an attempt to rob 5 Vegas casinos in this 1960 classic |
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This Alexandrian astronomer discusses eclipses in book VI of his 2nd century work "Almagest" |
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Richard Pryor's daughter, she's been seen on Showtime's "Rude Awakening" |
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"The Father of the Tommy Gun" |
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Called Peru's chief tourist attraction, it was discovered by an American, Hiram Bingham |
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