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Isabella II, queen of this Iberian country, survived an assassination attempt in 1847 when she was 16 |
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Lake Xochimilco, a swamplike lake in this capital city, is noted for its "floating gardens" |
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The underworld was named after this brother of Zeus who ruled there |
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One type of this uses a ruby crystal whose atoms are excited into giving off pulses of light |
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He was the first President to authorize the use of an atomic bomb in war |
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Kathryn D. Sullivan, Margaret Rhea Seddon & Sally K. Ride |
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He didn't meet his father until he was 15 or 16, but when he was 17 they left for China |
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The Shatt al Arab is a channel formed by the confluence of these 2 rivers in southern Iraq |
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Hera urged Eurystheus to take this stepchild of hers to task, 12 of them as a matter of fact |
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Inert gases discovered in 1898 were krypton, meaning "hidden", xenon, "strange" & this, meaning "new" |
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Though not elected to the job, he was sworn in as U.S. President April 15, 1865 |
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Malcolm Wilson, Hugh Carey & Mario Cuomo |
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He was already an immensely wealthy nobleman when he joined Washington's army at age 19 |
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The brine shrimp, artemia, is abundant in this Utah lake |
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Total number of arms & legs on a centaur |
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Foam rubber is only 10-15% rubber; the rest is this |
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Remember the Maine? It was blown up during his administration |
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John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White & Harry A. Blackmun |
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From age 13-16 he studied with Aristotle; at 20 he was King of Macedon |
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German-speaking Swiss call crescent-shaped lake the "Genfersee" |
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Aphrodite lost this handsome love when he was killed by a boar |
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Foucault's pendulum offered the first direct evidence of this |
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When elected in 1920, he became the 6th Ohio resident to become President |
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Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa & Desmond Tutu |
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15-year-old "Lady" whose incredibly short reign in England lasted only 9 days |
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South America's largest lake is the one in Venezuela, known for it underwater oil deposits |
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It's what made the ram that Mercury gave Nephele unique |
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The cyclotron Ernest Lawrence invented in 1932 was designed to accelerate these particles |
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His father died before he was born, so he was raised by his uncle Sardis Birchard |
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Daniel J. Boorstin & Barbara Tuchman |
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