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This city's Seagram Building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Philip Johnson in the 1950s |
New York
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On December 24, 1871 this opera premiered in Cairo, Egypt |
Aida
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This nation observes Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on October 2 |
India
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The 1st planting of this flower in Holland reportedly occurred at the University of Leiden in 1593 |
tulips
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After 17 years as Chief Justice, he stepped down in 1986 |
Burger
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In a William Blake poem, this animal was "burning bright in the forests of the night" |
the tiger
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In 1887 he designed his 1st building while working for Joseph Lyman Silsbee in Chicago |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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To save her husband, Florestan, Leonore disguises herself as this young man in a Beethoven opera |
Fidelio
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Philippine-American Friendship Day is observed on this day the U.S. celebrates its independence |
Fourth of July
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This flower was discovered in the mountains of Mexico in the 16th C. & named for botanist Andreas Dahl |
Dahlia
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In January 1801 this Secretary of State was appointed Chief Justice by president John Adams |
(Tom: Who is Jay?)
(John) Marshall
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His poem "Starting from Paumanok" first appeared in "Leaves of Grass" under the title "Proto-Leaf" |
Walt Whitman
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It's the more common name for tall casement windows, from the country where they were developed |
(Adele: What are Italian windows?)
French windows
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In Hong Kong, as in Great Britain, the day after Christmas is called this |
Boxing Day
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The Damask variety of this flower yields attar, an essential oil used in perfumes |
roses
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As Chief Justice, this ex-president was responsible for Congress' approval of a new Supreme Court building |
Taft
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Rudyard Kipling wrote of being "On the road to" this city, "Where the flyin' fishes play" |
Mandalay
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The Baroque style of architecture began in this European capital city in the early 1600s |
(Robin: What is Vienna?)
Rome
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Celebrated in early fall, Choo Suk is the Thanksgiving of the southern part of this country |
Korea
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Also called the yellow daisy, it's Maryland's state flower |
black-eyed Susan
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Before being named to the court in 1971, he served as an assistant Attorney General |
(William) Rehnquist
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This poet lived most of his life with an unrequited love for Irish patriot Maude Gonne |
(William Butler) Yeats
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It's a support built against a Gothic structure's outer wall |
a flying buttress (or a buttress)
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This founder of modern Turkey is memorialized on November 10 |
Ataturk
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It's the floral emblem of Japan's imperial family |
the chrysanthemum
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He wrote the opinion in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
Earl Warren
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Robert Frost ended this poem with "Good fences make good neighbors" |
(Robin: What is "Stopping by a Road on a Snowy Evening"?)
“Mending Wall”
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