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Susan Orlean's biography of this movie star dog |
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Nigeria actually called a cease-fire in its civil war in 1967 to see this soccer star play |
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Egypt's president throughout the 1970's he tried to open up the economy & and reached out in foreign affairs |
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This profession is from the Greek for "star sailor" |
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"I'm in trouble deep", Madonna tells her dad in this 1986 hit |
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Su-En, the Mesopotamian god of this celestial body, was represented by a crescent |
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This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh |
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The Academy, one of Greece's first schools that met regularly in a set place, was founded by him |
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In the 1820's Hugh Clapperton crossed the Sahara from the shores of this Libyan port to Lake Chad |
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This light brown candy may take its name from the Arabic kurat al milh, meaning "ball of sweet salt" |
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This group's 1972 no. 1 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" isn't about Mick or Keith |
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Like his Norse counterpart Thor, Perun was the Slavic god of this weather phenomenon |
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"Duty", the 2014 memoir of this former Secretary of Defense |
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This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine |
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In 2014, 5 African nations made an alliance against this Islamist group notorious for kidnapping girls in Nigeria |
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It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time |
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In 1965 we learned from him that Papa had acquired a "Brand New Bag"; in 1974, that he "Don't Take No Mess" |
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"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl" |
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One half of this duo has the last name Jilette; the other has the (silent) first name Raymond |
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In the 15th century the Mossi people established their capital at Ouagadougou on the upper reaches of this river |
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Partly from the Greek for "all", it once meant a complete set of arms & armor but now refers to a striking array |
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"I'm gonna be like you, Dad / You know I'm gonna be like you", he sang in the 1974 hit "Cat's In The Cradle" |
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Itzli was this culture's god of stone knives associated with sacrifices; he was a busy guy |
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"The Mermaid Chair", by this 3-named author |
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This Pulitizer-winning editorial cartoonist drew up indictments of some powerful people |
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This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls |
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This word for an autocratic leader is from the Greek for "lord, master" |
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The Inuit god of the bear shares his name with this "of the North" documentary title character |
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