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After writing "Moby Dick", he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book" |
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Once the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, today it's the capital of Belgium |
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In addition to carrying nutrients, this fluid transports oxygen to your body's cells |
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Jill Barad, this company's president, has posed with Barbie in ads for Forbes magazine |
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1941 film in which Bogart tells Mary Astor, "Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be" |
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This "great" Russian empress seemed to loathe her son Paul & he lived in fear that she would kill him |
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In 1871 this author of "Les Miserables" was elected to the French National Assembly, but soon resigned |
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It's the capital of Taiwan |
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Running, cycling & swimming are examples of this type of exercise that improves the body's use of oxygen |
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Ian Schrager & Steve Rubell established this NYC club, the most famous of the disco era |
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George Reeves, later TV's Superman, appears as one of the Tarleton Twins in this 1939 classic |
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Henry II kept this woman of Aquitaine locked up for years after she & his sons rebelled against him |
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Around 1889 this Scotsman purchased an estate in Samoa, which he called Valima, or "Five Streams" |
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It's home to the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Hapsburgs |
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Henry Cavendish said it's made of dephlogisticated air (oxygen) united with phlogiston (hydrogen) |
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Ingevar Kamprad, a Swedish farmer's son, founded & put his initials in the name of this furniture store |
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Kirk Douglas & James Mason dine on preserves made from sea cucumbers in this Disney film |
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Fed up with his in-laws, this "confessor" banished them in 1051 & sent his wife to a nunnery |
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Prior to writing "King Solomon's Mines", he was master of the high court in Transvaal |
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One of this city's top attractions is the masuoleum of Kemal Ataturk |
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Name given the triatomic form of oxygen |
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This Mirage & Treasure Island mogul is credited with giving gambling resorts a family image |
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Emmett Kelly & John Ringling North played themselves in this DeMille epic, the Best Picture of 1952 |
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When this Tudor queen was a princess, her half-sister Mary imprisoned her in the Tower of London |
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In 1826 this future British prime minister published his first novel, "Vivian Grey" |
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It's the city where the Althing, the world's oldest parliament, is located |
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This British chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist |
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Stock expertise has gained this Berkshire Hathaway chairman a $15 billion fortune |
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Peter Lorre played Raskolnikov in this 1935 film based on a Dostoyevsky novel |
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King Haakon III of this Scandinavian country may have been poisoned by his Swedish stepmother |
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