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In Japanese this religion means "way of the gods" |
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This lonely title character from a 2008 film is fixated on EVE, an "extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator" |
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In November daylight saving ends & this starts, so daytime ends earlier |
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After his April 1775 ride, he rescued papers from a Lexington tavern belonging to John Hancock |
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On Aug. 7, 1888 this murderer struck for the first time in London's East End |
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At Folkvang, Freyja received half of all warriors slain in battle; he received the other half |
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Tom Cruise dodges nasty looks from Dakota Fanning & towering intergalactic tripods in this 2005 flick |
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A child born in 1995 turns 15 in 2010; a child born in 5 B.C. turned 15 in this year |
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Last name of Declaration-signing Virginia brothers Richard & Francis; a later relative was a Southern general |
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This first Russian czar's cruel & bizarre behavior earned him the nickname "Grozny", Russian for "the Dread" |
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Trojan prophet Helenus told the Greeks Troy wouldn't fall unless Palladium, this wise goddess' statue, was stolen |
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The disappearance of a $5 billion space probe forces these title simians into action in a 2008 film |
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Relativity says if you're on a train approaching this speed, 186,282 miles per second, time will seem to slow down |
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In April 1777 this pamphleteer was elected Secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in Congress |
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The gun & rifle he used on November 22, 1963 were purchased & delivered through mail order |
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Anubis wasn't only the god of the dead, he was also the god of this process used in mummification |
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Genetic experiment 626, this fuzzy blue guy who crash-landed in Hawaii in a 2002 film looks cute, but he's a weapon |
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To land in NYC as the ball drops on New Year's Eve, your 6-hour flight from L.A. must have this departure time |
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On March 23, 1775 this famed orator told the Virginia Convention, "The war is inevitable and let it come!" |
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Denying his guilt to the end, Bruno Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping of this aviator's son |
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Originally painted in Goya's own dining room, this planetary god is seen here devouring one of his kids |
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In this M. Night Shyamalan film, aliens are good at scaring people; not so good with locked pantry doors or water |
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Because the earth rotates as it orbits, a sidereal day, based on the stars, is about 4 minutes shorter than this day |
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In 1777, while serving in Paris, this Pennsylvanian wrote that "our cause is the cause of all mankind" |
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In 1717 & 1718 this pirate terrorized the southeastern coast in his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge |
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