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FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN |
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Many of the tunes of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances" are not so much Hungarian as from this itinerant people |
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If people are constantly saying "you're no" this fowl, you're old, baby |
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After this Francophile became president in 1801, relations with Britain began the slide that led to the War of 1812 |
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The Danube didn't yet flow through this capital when "The Blue Danube" waltz made its premiere there in 1867 |
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Queen Elizabeth's annual speech on this day in 2016 praised those born humble who do great things, like Jesus |
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Pandora is found to have a valuable mineral in this 2009 James Cameron film, & of course humans want to exploit the locals |
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The slow movement of a Samuel Barber string quartet became this "For Strings" |
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The French song "Les Feuilles Mortes" is known in English as these "Leaves" |
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Congress convened in late 1811, dominated by pro-war politicians known by this beastly nickname still used today |
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The Danube ends its journey by emptying into this sea |
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James Agee & Walker Evans' book dignifying tenant farmers is ironically titled "Let Us Now Praise" these |
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Brian May, guitarist of this band, wrote the song "'39" about a new world explored |
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The fourth movement of Holst's "The Planets" is named for this "Bringer of Jollity" |
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It's the 7-word first line of "Richard III" |
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British victory at this naval battle off Spain in October 1805 led to greater restrictions on U.S. maritime rights |
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Currents in the river form whirlpools called this, also the name of a German pastry |
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Henry Wallace's term as this, 1941-1945, is perhaps best remembered for his "Century of the Common Man" speech |
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The black hole called Gargantua speeds up time on one of the planets visited in this Christopher Nolan film |
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His symphonic poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is an homage to Nietzsche |
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Proverbially, one of these birds "doesn't make a summer" |
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In 1807 Congress passed this act forbidding exports to Britain |
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This royal family of Emperor Franz Joseph was nicknamed "The Danube Monarchy" |
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Thomas Gray wrote that maybe a country churchyard holds "some mute inglorious" this British epic poet |
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In one episode of this TV series, Adama & crew find their way to Kobol, the ancestral home of humanity |
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Paul Dukas lived 38 years after writing this "bewitching" piece but never again wrote anything as popular |
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Term for a short-lived period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia in 1968 |
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One provocation was Britain doing this to American men: not making them say "wow!" but forcing them into naval service |
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The Europa Canal links the Danube & the Main; as the Main is a tributary of this, that creates a 2,200-mile waterway |
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This -ism that represents the common folk against the elites was applied to both the Trump & Sanders 2016 runs |
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It was estimated that it could take 585 billion years to explore all the planets in this PlayStation video game |
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