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    | Georges Pompidou took over as president of France upon this man's resignation | 
    de Gaulle
 
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    | The Villa Diana in his novel "Tender Is The Night" was based on the French Riviera home of his friend Gerald Murphy | 
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    | Joan Rivers was among the guests at Charles & Camilla's wedding reception in this castle | 
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    | A March 2002 story was on this bacterial toxin, months after the "first purposeful release" in the U.S. | 
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    | I've got "A Love Supreme" for "The Last Trane"; it's one of "My Favorite Things" by this saxophonist | 
    (Doug: Who is Stan Getz?)
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    | The number 3 is talaata, & this day of the week is El Talaat | 
    Tuesday
 
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    | From 1962 to 1968 Pompidou held this job, just under president; no 5th Republic-an has held the post longer since | 
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    | Satis House is the home of Miss Havisham in this classic | 
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    | The name of this headdress for men may be related to the word "coif" | 
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    | During WWII, G.P. fought as a lt. & won this French military honor created in 1915 to reward bravery | 
    (Celeste: What is the Distinguished Flying Cross?)
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    | Bly is the "big ugly antique" house that may be haunted in this Henry James novelette | 
    (Celeste: What is Daisy Miller?)
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    | King John's Castle rises majestically above the banks of this river in the city of Limerick | 
    (Alex: Cliff?) (Cliff: What is Cork?) (Alex: No.  What is [*], Ireland.)
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    | We pray to hear his hands on the piano keys "'Round Midnight" (which he wrote) | 
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    | Change 1 letter in "wade" to get this, a gully that's dry except during periods of rain | 
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    | In '61 Georges led secret talks with this country's Front de Liberation Nationale & got a cease-fire there | 
    Algeria
 
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    | Shellmound is the Fairchild Family plantation in this Mississippi woman's 1946 novel "Delta Wedding" | 
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    | Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference | 
    Yalta
 
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    | Millions of spam messages are generated by "rogue... software programs" called these, a 4-letter word | 
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    | This gypsy guitarist lost the use of two fingers on his left hand, but still had some of the best jazz hands around | 
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    | This Pompidou protege & recent French pres. organized talks with trade unions after 1968's mass demonstrations | 
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    | Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers" | 
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    | In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned | 
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