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Richard Olney is famous for an 1895 corollary to this 1823 doctrine |
the Monroe Doctrine
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You can identify different types of these trees by their leaves, bark & acorns |
oaks
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St. Frideswide is patron of this English city & its university |
Oxford
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The new Richelieu wing that opened in 1993 doubled this museum's display area |
the Louvre
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He finished "Paradise Lost" & began "Paradise Regained" in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire |
John Milton
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When this Steven Spielberg film opened in June 1993, it had the best first week ever—$81.7 million |
Jurassic Park
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In 1830 there was about 30 miles of this in the U.S.; by 1850 there was about 9,000 miles |
(David: What are roads?)
railroad tracks
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Common name for the edible seeds in the cones of pinon trees |
pine nuts
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This visionary saint of Lourdes died at the age of 35 |
Bernadette
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Opened in 1972, the Van Gogh Museum in this capital city houses about 600 of the artist's works |
Amsterdam
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This author of "Lord of the Flies" & winner of the 1983 Nobel Literature Prize died in 1993 |
William Golding
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From the Latin for "legal knowledge", it's the term for the formal science of law |
jurisprudence
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In 1837 he built his first steel-bladed plow at his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois |
(John) Deere
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Acer saccharum is the sugar maple & Acer rubrum is this |
(Joe: What is the rubber tree?)
the red maple
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Saints named Ladislas & Stephen were both kings of this country |
(Melinda: What is Poland?)
Hungary
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Several museums, including the Silver Museum, are in this Florence, Italy palace |
(David: What is the Uffizi?)
The Pitti Palace
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Arthur Koestler's novel about the Moscow trials of the 1930s was called "Darkness at" this time |
Noon
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Gibberish, or the specialized language of a profession or trade |
jargon
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The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy versus this man condoned "separate but equal" practices |
Ferguson
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A type of crab is named for this tree which it climbs |
the coconut
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He's the patron saint of dancers & even has a "dance" named for him |
St. Vitus
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This country's National Museum building was designed by Saarinen, Gesellius & Lindgren |
(David: What is South Africa?)
Finland
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Half of this "The Time Of Your Life" author's ashes were interred in California & half in Armenia |
William Saroyan
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From 1615-1642, he served as architect to King James I & then King Charles I |
Inigo Jones
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Lincoln's secretary, he went on to negotiate treaties with England's Julian Pauncefote |
John Hay
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The most massive tree is a giant sequoia named for this general; its seeds weigh about 1/5,000 oz. |
General Sherman
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This English king died a week after Westminster Abbey was consecrated |
(David: Who is Thomas à Becket?)
Edward the Confessor
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One room of Lisbon's military museum is devoted to this captain who opened a new trade route to India in 1498 |
(Vasco) da Gama
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E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes & Virginia Woolf were members of this literary group |
the Bloomsbury Group
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Founded as El Paso del Norte c. 1660, this city is Mexico's largest on the border with the U.S. |
Juarez
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