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Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with "Old Sparky" |
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Its many large bodies of water give this region of Africa the same name as part of the USA's Upper Midwest |
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"I used to rule the world", sings Chris Martin on this No. 1 hit by Coldplay |
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No wonder, with the headwear seen here, that the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole, led this party |
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This component of the universe is detected by its gravitational pull rather than by its luminosity |
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Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote |
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Botswana's Orapa Mine in this desert produces about 11 million carats of diamonds annually |
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In this song Beyonce chastised, "If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it" |
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In 2015 he apologized for "mistakes in planning" but found it hard to apologize "for removing Saddam" |
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The cedilla & the tilde are examples of these |
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While researching "Seabiscuit", Laura Hillenbrand kept finding stories about P.O.W. Louis Zamperini, so she wrote this book |
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This Tanzanian plain is home to the great annual migration of the wildebeest |
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Requests from Sam Smith: "I don't want you to leave, will you hold my hand? Oh, won't you" do this title action |
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One of his infamous decisions was signing the Munich Agreement |
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Projection is this type of unconscious process that protects the mind from unacceptable or painful ideas |
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Detention here is pretty tough--prisoners are guarded by "Dementors" who feed on your positive emotions |
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In 2015 Abdel al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president to attend this religious group's Christmas mass |
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This hit by Billy Ray Cyrus begins, "You can tell the world you never was my girl" |
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This guy, the Younger, was prime minister during the French Revolutionary era |
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It's the Saint-Saens piece heard here |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the Soviet prison camps this "Archipelago" |
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If you visit this capital to see the Mahdi's tomb, know there's no Mahdi; Gen. Kitchener tossed his bones into the Nile |
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"This one for them hood girls, them good girls" in this megahit from Mars (& Ronson) |
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He was prime minister while JFK was president; the two became friends & were sometimes known as "Mac and Jack" |
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The name of this hard covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother" |
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