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    | Less than a quarter of the population now consists of this nomadic group | the Bedouin 
 
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    | Greek for serpent, legend says they were fought by Siegfried & St. George | dragons 
 
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    | In 1875, she published "Science & Health", the basis of her religion | Mary Baker Eddy 
 
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    | Thomas Nuttall named this purple-flowered vine for American physician Caspar Wistar | wisteria 
 
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    | Prince Aya of this country married grad student Kiko Kawashima at a Shinto shrine in 1990 | Japan 
 
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    | When in Rome... | do as the Romans do 
 
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    | Saudi Arabia's flag features a sword & an inscription on a field of this color | (Suzanne: What is red?) ...
 (Alex: [*], the color of Islam.)
 
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    | A word from the name of this Rabelais giant has come to describe anything huge | Gargantua 
 
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    | He became the richest person of the era after establishing Standard Oil in 1870 | Rockefeller 
 
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    | Herb with a yellow flower whose name comes from French for "lion's tooth" | dandelion 
 
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    | In 1566 this Scottish Queen's second husband, Lord Darnley, was involved in the murder of her male secretary | Mary, Queen of Scots 
 
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    | While there's life... | there's hope 
 
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    | The name of this Saudi Arabian capital means "the gardens" | Riyadh 
 
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    | Beowulf not only killed this monster, he also killed its mother | Grendel 
 
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    | In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first to swim it, in 21 hours, 45 minutes | the English Channel 
 
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    | The Bible associates Babylon with weeping, & the scientific name of this plant is Salix babylonica | the weeping willow 
 
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    | She succeeded her half-brother, King Henry the Impotent, as ruler of Castile in 1474 | Queen Isabella 
 
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    | You can't make a silk purse... | (Bill: What is a sow's ear? [*]?) 
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    | The Prophet's Mosque containing the tomb of Muhammad is in this city north of Mecca | Medina 
 
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    | Whenever Heracles cut off one of this water serpent's heads, it grew another | (Suzanne: What is Aegis?) 
 Hydra
 
 
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    | Since he discovered the bacillus for leprosy in 1874, it's also been known by his name | Hansen 
 
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    | A soothing lotion is made from this shrub whose forked twigs have been used for divining rods | witch hazel 
 
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    | King Olaf V of this country turned 87 in 1990 | Norway 
 
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    | Jeddah, the chief seaport of Saudi Arabia, lies on the eastern shore of this body of water | the Red Sea 
 
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    | Hell hath no fury like this Plymouth Fury, the classic killer car created by Stephen King | Christine 
 
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    | "Middlemarch", which many believe to be her finest book, was published in 1871-72 | George Eliot 
 
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    | Azaleas make up some of the approx. 800 species of this genus that's from the Greek for "rose tree" | rhododendron 
 
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    | This Balkan country chose Prince William of Denmark as its new king in 1863; he became King George I | Greece 
 
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    | A soft answer turneth away... | wrath 
 
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