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| On May 11, 1862, this Confederate ironclad was blown up by Confederate States of America troops when the North approached Richmond |
(R: What is the Monitor?)
Merrimack
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| An ancient Egyptian who had a sweet tooth would reach for honey or this palm fruit |
Date
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| William Wordsworth wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold" one of these colorful arches "in the sky" |
a rainbow
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| The flat-top is a variation of this militaristic cut: it's squarer on top |
Crew Cut
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| Vineyard Sound separates Martha's Vineyard from the southernmost part of this cape |
Cape Cod
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| Sir Thomas More is beheaded in the last scene of this Robert Bolt play |
"A Man for All Seasons"
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| On September 7, 1864, this Union commanding general entered Atlanta |
William Sherman
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| Egyptians began riding around in these horse-drawn vehicles during the reign of the Hyksos |
Chariots
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| "New Hampshire", a poem with notes & grace notes, earned this poet the first of his four Pulitzers |
Robert Frost
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| A wedge-cut of the late '70s was named for this female skater, who popularized it at the Olympics |
Dorothy Hamill
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| Rivers flowing into this bay include the Susquehanna, James, & Rappahannock |
Chesapeake Bay
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| "American Buffalo", the title of a David Mamet play, refers to the buffalo on one of these coins |
Nickel
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| At the end of the war, Lincoln assigned this battlefield nurse the task of identifying missing soldiers |
Clara Barton
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| Egypt's capital during the Old Kingdom; its original name meant "The White Wall" |
(R: What is Luxor?) (L: What is Thebes?)
Memphis
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| In 1971, a copy of his original manuscript for "The Waste Land" was published, with an introduction by his widow |
T.S. Eliot
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| During World War II, many women wore this shoulder-length style with the ends curled under from ear-to-ear |
Page Boy
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| It's the state in which you'd find Suwannee Sound |
(S: What is Georgia?)
Florida
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| Sula & Helena are robotesses in this Karel Capek play |
"R.U.R."
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| Nicknamed "Fighting Joe", he replaced Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac in 1863 |
Hooker
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| Biban Al Mullak is the Arabic name for this famous burial site in western Thebes |
Valley of the Kings
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| After writing about "The Wreck of the Hesperus", he wrote "The Building of the Ship" |
(Leslie: Who was Tennyson?)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| From Middle French for "chain", it's a knot or coil of hair worn at the back of the head or neck |
a chignon
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| George Vancouver named this Washington state mountain for a friend in the British navy |
Mt. Rainier
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| It's the town in "Our Town" |
Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
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| This battle named for a Tennessee church was the first in the Western Hemisphere to engage 100,000 men |
Shiloh
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| In early Egypt, the king's chief minister held this title that the Ottomans made grand |
wazir
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| In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not" do this |
Last the Night
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| In China it was once popular for men to shave their front hair & comb the back hair into this long braid |
Queue
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| It's the only Great Lake not bordering the state of Michigan |
(R: What is Erie?) (L: What is Superior?)
Lake Ontario
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| The ghost of this great ruler, Xerxes's father, appears in Aeschylus's play "The Persians" |
(L: Who was Cyrus The Great?)
Darius The Great
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