19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES |
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Some say this country's Czar Alexander I didn't die in 1825 but lived until 1864 as Fyodor Kuzmich |
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In 1922 he wrote the opera "Blue Monday", but his 1935 "Porgy and Bess" is more famous |
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Renatus Cartesius was the Latin name of this French philosopher who sometimes wrote in Latin |
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In 1855 & 1857 Salmon P. Chase was elected governor of Ohio as a member of this party he helped form |
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Located in South America, it's the largest tropical country in the world |
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The 1960 Peace Prize went to Albert Luthuli, the first person from this continent to win it |
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In 1898 William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of this ringed planet |
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He expounded on epistemology in his "Theaetetus", one of the later dialogues |
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Among things Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with in 1963 was shooting this governor |
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This country's Canning Basin is coextensive with the Great Sandy Desert |
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He became the first American to win the Literature Prize the year after his "Dodsworth" appeared |
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This Norwegian playwright's wife Suzannah was the stepdaughter of novelist Magdalene Thoresen |
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French existentialist who gave us "Nausea" -- that's the title of his first novel |
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In 1882 Missouri governor Thomas Crittenden offered a $10,000 reward for these brothers, dead or alive |
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The Dead Sea extends nearly 50 miles along the border of these 2 countries |
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This Vitamin C guru's "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" is one of the century's major scientific books |
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This impressionist whose first name was Camille was born on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1830 |
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The women he wrote operas about include Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia & La Fille du Regiment |
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Metaphysics is often divided into ontology -- the study of being -- & this study of the physical universe |
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Length of the terms of the governors of N.H., Vermont & Rhode Island; all the others are 4 years |
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The Strait of Bonifacio separates Corsica from this Italian island |
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Jules Bordet identified the bacillus responsible for this disease also called pertussis |
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In January 1893 Sanford Dole declared that she was deposed |
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In the 1780s English soprano Elizabeth Billington appeared as Polly in this 1st ballad opera |
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19th century Dane who wrote the ominous-sounding books "Fear and Trembling" & "The Concept of Dread" |
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In 1992 he gave the speech nominating Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention |
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Hong Kong's mainland areas consist of the New Territories & this peninsula |
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Antony Hewish won the 1974 prize for discovering these stars that emit bursts of radiation |
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