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Flora McDonald helped this "Bonnie Prince" escape from Scotland disguised as a woman |
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It was the first successful newsmagazine & it's still the best-selling |
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Materials from all over the world were used to build the assembly hall in this NYC complex |
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7 of this river's more than 1,000 known tributaries exceed 1,000 miles in length |
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Carl Sandburg called this city "Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat" |
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The world's first antibiotic; it was discovered in 1929 |
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Hatshepsut, who ruled this country 1503-1482 B.C., claimed to be the daughter of the god Amon |
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It's the top-selling magazine written specifically for teens |
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The curved part of a ceiling, or a locked room in a building where valuables are kept |
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Only the Himalayas are higher than this South American mountain range |
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In 1776 he criticized "The Summer Soldier And The Sunshine Patriot" in his pamphlet "The Crisis, No. 1" |
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When Lazzaro Spallanzani blinded them, they still flew; when he plugged their ears, they were disoriented |
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This Revolutionary War water-bearer was the daughter of German immigrants |
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Exhibitions by Peary & Byrd were partly financed by this D.C.-based society & its magazine |
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Part of a building on which you'd find a dormer or a cupola |
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The name of this city is Portuguese for "River of January" |
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Steinbeck novel containing the lines, "Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now, it means you're scum." |
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In this process 8 photons of light break down 2 H2O molecules to yield an O2 molecule |
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This Russian empress was shot to death in 1918 |
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Weekly magazine whose features include "Picks & Pans", "Take One" & "Chatter" |
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Word for the moveable glass slats in Jalousie windows, or the often stationary wooden ones in shutters |
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This waterway separates the islands of Tierra Del Fuego from South America's mainland |
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Cassius says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in" these "but in ourselves, that we are underlings" |
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To figure out its structure, Watson & Crick used the scientific equivalent of Tinker Toys |
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Her life inspired the historical novel "A Woman Called Moses" |
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This monthly, started in 1922, now sells over 29 million copies a month worldwide |
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A latticework pavilion or summerhouse usually built to take advantage of a view |
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This country is the only one in South America to belong to the Commonwealth of Nations |
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According to James Whitcomb Riley, "When the frost is on" this, "the fodder's in the shock" |
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Similar species are grouped into genera; similar genera into these |
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