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| He took the presidential oath at 2:39 P.M., Nov. 22, 1963 |
Lyndon Johnson
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| The Great Fire of 1666 was nothing new to this city; it also burned in 61, 798 & 982 |
London
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| This other name for home-fried potatoes also has a residence in its name |
cottage fries
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| This author of "The Scarlet Letter" died before he could finish writing "The Dolliver Romance" |
Hawthorne
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| In 1783 J.A.C. Charles, known for Charles' law, made an ascent in one of these |
(David: What is a hot air balloon?)
a balloon
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| Someone said of his "The Last Judgment", "Such things might be painted in a voluptuous bathroom" |
Michelangelo
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| In 1953, in his last State of the Union address, he warned of the dangers of atomic war |
Truman
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| A famous opera house, Teatro Colon, is located in this Argentine capital |
(Lisa: What is...)
Buenos Aires
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| Though it has "wheat" in its name, this pancake flour ingredient is an herb, not a cereal grain |
buckwheat
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| Her 1869 novel "Oldtown Folks" is about runaway children, not runaway slaves |
(David: Who is Tubman?)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| Johannes Bronsted & T. Lowry are famous for describing the transfer of protons between acids & these |
bases
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| Miro called this Mobile sculptor "the tough guy with the soul of a nightingale" |
Calder
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| He was the first president to graduate from West Point |
Grant
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| Plaza de Armas in this capital city was designed by Pizarro |
Lima
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| Indonesian satays are usually served with a spicy sauce made from these legumes |
(David: What is soy?)
peanuts
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| He wrote his last horror story, "Hop-Frog", in 1849, the year he died |
Poe
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| When Mendeleyev made his periodic table in 1869, this was the only element in the first period |
hydrogen
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| John Singer Sargent supposedly said,"every time I paint" this type of work "I lose a friend" |
a portrait
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| He was named for an older brother who died in infancy, & for his father, Abram |
(Charlie: Who was Lincoln?)
James A. Garfield
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| Before it became Haiti's capital, it was the capital of Saint-Domingue |
Port-au-Prince
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| Cortes called it "the divine drink that builds up resistance and fights fatigue" |
Chocolate
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| "The Rich Boy", one of his best stories, appears in his 1926 collection "All The Sad Young Men" |
(F. Scott) Fitzgerald
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| Scheele & Priestley told of discovering this gas at about the same time, so they're both credited |
oxygen
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| Stevie Smith wrote of this artist, "See how Theotocopoulos throws on his canvas colors of hell" |
El Greco
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| His granddaughter Letitia was the first girl born in the White House |
John Tyler
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| The name of this Pakistani capital reflects the country's religious nature |
Islamabad
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| Malmsey, the sweetest type of this Portuguese wine, is often sipped after dinner, m'dear |
(Charlie: What is port?) (David: What is claret?)
Madeira
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| Dostoyevsky's title character Prince Myshkin is known by this rude term, the novel's title |
The Idiot
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| 19th century Italian chemist famous for his "number" of entities in 1 mole |
(Amadeo) Avogadro
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| Degas said of this American impressionist, "I will not admit that a woman can draw so well" |
(Mary) Cassatt
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