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    "Nevermore"
 
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    | In this 1940 winner, Steinbeck alternates narrative with discussion of the problems of migrant workers | 
    The Grapes of Wrath
 
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    | The crisis over these islands escalated into a war | 
    the Falklands
 
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    | In Botticelli's "Primavera", this blindfolded cherub is ready to shoot an arrow at the 3 graces | 
    Cupid
 
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    | This state has a rose festival in Jackson & a lilac festival on Mackinac Island | 
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    | Will Durant shared a Pulitzer for "Rousseau and Revolution" with this woman, his wife | 
    Ariel
 
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    | This heir to the throne was born June 21, 1982 | 
    (Prince) William
 
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    | The highest peaks in these mountains of France & Spain lie in the Maladeta Range | 
    Pyrenees
 
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    | His 2nd & 3rd most famous women's portraits are "Cecilia Gallerani" & "Ginevra de' Benci" | 
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    | Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city | 
    Huntsville
 
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    | This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction | 
    Barbara Tuchman
 
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    | In October this Tudor king's flagship the Mary Rose, which sank over 400 years earlier, was raised | 
    Henry VIII
 
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    | Gold of this many karats is 3/4 pure | 
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    | Only 2 Alpine peaks exceed 15,000 feet -- Monte Rosa & this one | 
    Mont Blanc
 
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    | Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris" | 
    Rubens
 
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    | "Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state | 
    West Virginia
 
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    | James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction | 
    Tales of the South Pacific
 
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    | In operation since 1977, this low-fare airline declared bankruptcy | 
    Laker
 
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    | In 1967 this unit of time was defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium-133 atom | 
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    | In Arabic this North African range is called Djezira El-Maghreb, or "Island of the West" | 
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    | Victorine Meurend, his "Chanteuse des rues", is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" | 
    Manet
 
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    | A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state | 
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    | This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation" | 
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    | This opera company known for its Gilbert & Sullivan shows went out of business in February | 
    (Karl: What's the Savoy?)
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    | Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak, lies in this range of the Australian Alps | 
    (Karl: What's the Great Dividing Range?)
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