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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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