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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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    | 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?)
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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... | 
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