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| The title of a Gauguin painting featuring the bird of the devil, or a quote from a Poe raven |
"Nevermore"
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| Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival |
Kentucky
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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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| This measure has been defined as the combined lengths of 12 poppyseeds |
an inch
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| Annapurna was the highest mountain climbed until this peak was scaled in 1953 |
Everest
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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 |
Michigan
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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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| This system of measurement is abbreviated avdp. |
avoirdupois
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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" |
Leonardo da Vinci
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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 |
the second
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| In Arabic this North African range is called Djezira El-Maghreb, or "Island of the West" |
the Atlas Mountains
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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 |
Texas
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| This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation" |
Dean Acheson
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| This opera company known for its Gilbert & Sullivan shows went out of business in February |
(Karl: What's the Savoy?)
D’Oyly Carte
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| This unit was originally intended to be 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's circumference |
the meter
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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?)
the Snowy Mountains
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