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In 1159 the Taira clan ousted the Fujiwara family & took control of this country's imperial court |
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This country's northernmost point is Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island |
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The 2 thin tissue layers over its surface are called the pericardium |
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You don't have to be British to know this is Fergie's first name |
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After causing this flying horse to throw Bellerophon, Zeus used it as a pack beast for thunderbolts |
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This "Tropic of Capricorn" author gave his impressions of the U.S. in "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" |
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This capital of Northern Ireland dates from 1177, when a Norman castle was erected there |
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The name of this capital of Uruguay may have come from the Portuguese for "I see a hill" |
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Because the Earth does this as it orbits the sun, we have 4 seasons |
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Daphne Sheldrick runs an orphanage for baby elephants near Nairobi National Park in this country |
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He covered the island of Delos with a wave to give Zeus' pregnant mistress Leto a place to hide |
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Oliver Goldsmith's novel "The Vicar of" this place has been compared to a fairy tale |
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In 1130 Roger II became king of this Italian island state & made his court at Palermo |
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Mount Ngauruhoe is one of several active volcanoes on this country's North Island |
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After escaping Nazi-occupied Austria with her father in 1938, she set up a child therapy clinic in London |
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Nicoletta Mantovani made headlines when this Italian tenor left his wife for her in 1996 |
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Atalanta lost a race to Melanion when she stopped to pick up these which he had dropped in her path |
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A collection of his "Nick Adams Stories" was published in 1972, 11 years after his death |
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King Suryavarman II built this great Cambodian temple complex to celebrate his incarnation as the god Vishnu |
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Victoria Peak in the Maya Mountains is the highest point in this country on the Yucatan Peninsula |
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Bruce Morton & Francis Reddy wrote books on it in 1985; we'll probably see more books on it in 2061 |
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This talk show hostess once said "Everyone has three names" in Puerto Rico, where she grew up |
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Some say he fled Crete by boat & his son Icarus fell overboard & drowned |
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The beautiful Rebecca is carried off by Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in this Sir Walter Scott classic |
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In 1169 this Muslim leader was made commander-in-chief of the Syrian army & vizier of Egypt |
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In 1561 Lope de Aguirre discovered this Venezuelan river's connection with the Amazon |
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The particle called the lambda baryon is made of an up one, a down one & a strange one |
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When she married Asif Ali Zardari in Pakistan, about 100,000 of her supporters came to the reception |
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"The Making of a Saint" is "A Romance of Mediaeval Italy" by this author of "The Moon and Sixpence" |
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