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| Illustrated by his daughter Amy, "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" is this former president's 1st children's book |
Jimmy Carter
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| In his "General Historie", Capt. John Smith said he would have been killed if not for her |
Pocahontas
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| This company's blimps, like "The Spirit of Akron", are some of the best-known corporate symbols |
Goodyear
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| To make gunpowder, early conquistadors used this yellow mineral from the crater of Popocatepetl |
sulfur
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| This current prime minister of Britain is also First Lord of the Treasury |
John Major
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| Cartographers rely on data gathered by people in this profession, like George Washington |
surveying
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| While it took him 2 years to write "The Firm", he wrote "The Pelican Brief" in under 4 months |
John Grisham
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| She married Napoleon after her first husband was guillotined during France's Reign of Terror |
Josephine
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| In 1992 this Pittsburgh pickle maker established a factory in Cairo, Egypt |
(Bryan: What is Vlasic?)
Heinz
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| Anatomical term for the mineral-filled fissures or cracks in rocks |
veins
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| Heading the Czech Republic's government are Vaclav Klaus, the premier, & this Vaclav, the president |
Vaclav Havel
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| Type of map on which you'd find lines called isobars |
weather map
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| "My Antonia" is often considered her greatest novel |
Willa Cather
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| This heroine of the Crimean War was the founder of modern nursing |
Florence Nightingale
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| In 1961 Coca-Cola introduced this, now the world's leading lemon-lime soft drink |
Sprite
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| It's the chemical formula of halite |
(Alex: The formula of salt.)
NaCl
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| This South African president shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with future president Nelson Mandela |
F.W. de Klerk
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| This ancient Alexandrian's "Geography" was used by Renaissance mapmakers |
Ptolemy
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| When this Scotsman died in Samoa in 1894, he left behind the unfinished book "Weir of Hermiston" |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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| During the 1980s she headed 2 cabinet departments, Transportation & Labor |
Elizabeth Dole
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| Vaughn L. Beals & other executives bought this motorcycle company from AMF in 1981 |
Harley-Davidson
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| Often bright red in color , it's the chief ore of mercury |
cinnabar
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| In 1995 he succeeded Francois Mitterrand as president of France |
Jacques Chirac
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| Maps may be marked with parallels of latitude & these of longitude |
meridians
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| This Plato dialogue in 10 books begins with a discussion on the nature of justice |
(Bryan: What are the.... philippics?)
The Republic
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| Of the 4 people hanged in connection with the Lincoln assassination, she was the only woman |
Mary Surratt
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| This computer maker whose stock symbol is CPQ reached $1 billion in annual sales in its first 5 years |
Compaq
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| Pleasant-sounding coarse-grained rock first named by German miners |
gneiss
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| Ion Iliescu became president of Romania following the 1989 trial & execution of this leader |
Nicolae Ceausescu
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| "Projected" sales were good for the new map devised by this Flemish cartographer c. 1568 |
Gerardus Mercator
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