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Richard Nixon's Checkers speech said that his wife was named Patricia Ryan & born on this holiday; neither was true |
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He wrote the short story "The Sentinel" on which the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based |
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You'll find the island of Madagascar in this ocean |
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This ribbed cotton fabric can be wide-wale or pin-wale depending on the width of the ribs |
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Britain's National Army Museum says she used the lantern seen here, not the glass one she's usually pictured with |
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A public burial ground for poor or unidentified people |
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Mexicans under Gen. Zaragoza won a great victory on this date in 1862, celebrated with a fiesta on L.A.'s Olvera Street |
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I'm sorry, Dave, Douglas Rain provided the voice of this ultimately murderous computer |
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Bermuda's capital city, it shares its name with the last name of a man of U.S. currency |
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The Federal Trade commission classifies wool that is new, pure & unrecycled as this |
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A volunteer nurse for the union, this little woman published her wartime letters in 1863's "Hospital Sketches" |
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A wood or coal-burning stove with a rounded, bulbous body |
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On the festive day of April 5, 1722 Jakob Roggeveen visited this South Pacific island |
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He directed "2001: A Space Odyssey" between "Dr. Stangelove" & "A Clockwork Orange" |
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Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, married Queen Jadwiga & became King Wladyslaw II of this country in 1386 |
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This brocaded fabric uses gold or silver metallic threads; Elvis had a famous gold tuxedo made of it |
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Called the "Moses of Her People", she served as a cook & a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War |
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It's formed by the confluence of its North & South branches near Cumberland, Maryland |
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In 1970 this country moved carnival from before Lent to late July |
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Starring Roy Scheider, it's the sequel to "2001" filmed in 1984 |
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Communities on this "potent potable" island N. of Venezuela include Emmastad, Nieuwpoort & Julianadorp |
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Before this can be made into linen, it must be retted, or partially decomposed, to separate the fibers |
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Trained as a nurse at White Plains hospital, she's credited with coining the term "birth control" |
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The Big 3's last meeting during World War II took place in July 1945 in this city near Berlin |
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Appropriately, this 1846 California "Revolt" began on Flag Day, June 14 |
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This composer's tone poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra" has become virtually synonymous with the film |
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The Mosel is a tributary of this 820-mile-long European River |
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The name of this crinkled, striped fabric is from Persian for "milk sugar"; it's both smooth as milk & bumpy as sugar |
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This Australian nurse devised a method for treating polio |
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In the Bible, he buys Joseph as a slave |
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