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    | In 1902 he began working at the Swiss Patent Office; his theory of relativity came 3 years later | 
    Albert Einstein
 
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    | ...to Hannibal, Missouri, where we saw this author's boyhood home, & an actual cave featured in his "Tom Sawyer" | 
    Mark Twain
 
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    | The Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria were under his command | 
    Christopher Columbus
 
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    | In an 1898 peace treaty, this country had to give up Cuba--that's what you get for messing with Uncle Sam | 
    Spain
 
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    | Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about this Czar who was so scary people called him "the terrible" | 
    Ivan
 
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    | For his "enlightening" inventions, he was called the "Wizard of Menlo Park" | 
    Thomas Edison
 
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    | ...to Washington, D.C., where we got to tour this agency's headquarters & see its ten most wanted list | 
    the FBI
 
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    | In cartoons, his nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie | 
    Donald Duck
 
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    | A treaty signed in San Francisco in 1951 officially ended the war with this Pearl Harbor attacker | 
    Japan
 
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    | "Under the Double Moon" takes place on Undine, a watery one of these (We think it must be like Neptune) | 
    a planet
 
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    | An antonym of strong | 
    weak
 
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    | In March 1876 he received a patent for an apparatus for "transmitting vocal or other sounds" | 
    Alexander Graham Bell
 
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    | ..."Down Under" to this country, where we got to explore the Great Barrier Reef | 
    Australia
 
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    | Unnamed in the Bible, these visitors to the baby Jesus are traditionally aka Balthasar, Melchior & Gaspar | 
    the Three Kings (or Three Wise Men)
 
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    | In 1865 his second inaugural address asked for "a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations" | 
    Abraham Lincoln
 
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    | In a famous comic opera from 1930, this facial feature gets detached from its owner & "runs" away | 
    a nose
 
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    | A short, shrill sound made by a mouse or a hinge | 
    squeak
 
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    | On Dec. 17, 1903, in North Carolina, they took 4 quick trips -- the shortest, 12 sec.; the longest, 59 sec. | 
    the Wright brothers
 
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    | ...over Christmas, to California, where on January 1 we attended this famous football game in Pasadena | 
    the Rose Bowl
 
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    | In a nursery rhyme, the butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker are the 3 men in one of these | 
    a tub
 
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    | In 1669 Clement IX, holder of this position, made peace in a religious battle within France | 
    pope
 
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    | In Wagner's "Ring" cycle, Fafner is a big scary giant who turns into one of these fire-breathing mythical beasts | 
    a dragon
 
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    | The pointed top of a mountain, or the mountain itself | 
    peak
 
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    | In 1666, using a prism, this English scientist discovered that sunlight is made up of different colors | 
    Isaac Newton
 
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    | ...to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we visited this former President's library & museum | 
    Gerald Ford
 
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    | Literature's Athos, Porthos & Aramis were this swashbuckling trio | 
    the Three Musketeers
 
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    | David Trimble & John Hume won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in the northern part of this island | 
    (Jake: What is Cyprus?)
  Ireland
 
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    | In "The Ghosts of Versailles", the ghost of this French queen moans about losing her head on the guillotine | 
    Marie Antoinette
 
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    | Dismal & depressing, like the title "house" in a Dickens novel | 
    (Aaron: What is meek?)
  bleak
 
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