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In 1960 Italian Somaliland joined British Somaliland, forming this country |
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While Galileo was working out the laws of falling bodies, he was writing about tilting at windmills |
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Luisa Tetrazzini appeared at this NYC opera house for only 1 season, 1911-12 |
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The sash is the framework that holds the glass part of one of these |
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The Parson's Tale concludes this 14th century work |
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Go to this state if you want to see the "Land of Lincoln" |
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Winston Churchill was blamed for the failure of the Gallipoli campaign during this war |
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While Bligh was involved in a mutiny on the Bounty, she was living a bountiful life as Queen of France |
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Born in New York in 1923, she returned to Greece with her mother when she was 13 |
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The mastaba, not the pyramid, was the common tomb of nobility during this country's "Old Kingdom" |
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A few of the characters featured in this Dickens novel are Mr. Jaggers, Herbert Pocket & Pip |
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The United States according to "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
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This first man in space died in 1968 while training for a Soyuz mission |
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In 1876, the year Bell invented the phone, this Wagner work was first performed in its entirety |
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It's the middle name of U.S. soprano Mary Price |
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A mihrab is a prayer niche in the wall of a mosque that faces this holy city |
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He worked on the screenplays of his stories "The Pearl" & "The Red Pony" |
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Norway & Alaska are each known as the "Land of" this |
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This author of "The Feminine Mystique" led the "Women's Strike for Equality" in 1970 |
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These thermometer scale setters were contemporaries 1701-1736 |
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Joan Sutherland made her debut in "Dido and Aeneas" in this Australian city |
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A capital is the uppermost part of one of these |
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This American novelist received her early education in Shanghai & later taught in Nanking |
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Its glaciers & hot springs have earned this country the nickname "Land of Frost and Fire" |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II died in this low country in 1941; he had fled there in 1918 |
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While Magellan was sailing the Pacific, he was on the throne of the magnificent Ottoman Empire |
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In Brooklyn she won a contest as the most beautiful baby of 1932 |
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Flying buttresses are most associated with this style of architecture |
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"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" is the subtitle of his "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" |
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A nickname for Minnesota, or the source of Hamm's beer |
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