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| Russia's first permanent settlement in this territory was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island |
Alaska
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| The name of these sexy openwork stockings implies that you can catch tuna in them |
fishnet
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| This "Desert Fox" who once taught at the Dresden Infantry School published a textbook on tactics in 1937 |
Erwin Rommel
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| In England a Cinderella dance is a dance party set to end at this time |
midnight
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| In the early 20th c., this inventor & businessman was owner of the Dearborn Independent |
(Henry) Ford
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| During his lifetime, he was more famous as a player of one of these instruments than as a composer |
the organ
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| In 1698, wishing to modernize Russia, this czar instituted a beard tax |
Peter the Great
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| The "Unisex" look introduced in this decade was popular with both men & women |
(Ed: What are the 1970s?)
the '60s
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| As Menachem Begin's foreign minister, this eyepatched ex- general helped arrange the Camp David Accords |
(Moshe) Dayan
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| An eternal optimist is a Micawber, a reference to Mr. Wilkins Micawber in this Dickens novel |
(Ed: What is Mr. Micawber?)
David Copperfield
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| The Boston Gazette, founded in 1719, was printed by this statesman's brother James |
Ben Franklin
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| Bach wrote a set of concertos for Christian Ludwig, the margrave of this historic German region |
Brandenburg
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| In 1954 this peninsula in the Black Sea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine |
the Crimea
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| A bloused effect at the waistline is called this, a diminutive of the French word "blouse" |
blouson
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| His tomb at Annapolis reads: "He gave our navy its earliest traditions of heroism and victory" |
John Paul Jones
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| The name of this merciless master in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a byword for a brutal boss |
Simon Legree
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| Reporter Carl Bernstein joined this paper in 1966 & remained on staff for 10 years |
The Washington Post
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| Historians note that Bach never met this famous contemporary who composed "Messiah" |
Handel
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| Ivan the Terrible venerated this saint for whom a red square cathedral is named |
Basil
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| Wide at the hips, these riding breeches are named for a city in India |
jodhpur
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| He was only 28 when he victoriously "met the enemy" in the Battle of Lake Erie |
Oliver Perry
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| Dr. Pangloss in this Voltaire novel inspired the adj. Panglossian, which means extremely optimistic |
Candide
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| This Canadian province's first newspaper, the Victoria Gazette, was published in 1858 |
British Columbia
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| Bach's second surviving son, nearly as famous as his father, he wrote about 150 keyboard sonatas |
C.P.E. Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
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| Fyodor II, czar April-June 1605, was the son of this man, hero of a Mussorgsky opera |
Boris Godunov
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| It's a decorative hairnet worn at the nape of the neck |
a snood
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| In 1945 this U.S. private became the 1st American executed for desertion since the Civil War |
(Eddie) Slovik
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| The names of these 2 wicked daughters of King Lear became synonymous with ungrateful children |
(Tony: No idea.)
Regan & Goneril
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| La Gaceta, El Heraldo & La Tribuna are dailies in this country's capital, Tegucigalpa |
Honduras
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| 1722 work of preludes & fugues in all keys for "musical young people eager to learn" |
"The Well-Tempered Clavier"
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