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| Ramses I founded this country's 19th Dynasty |
Egypt
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| This river on the border of Texas & Oklahoma is named for the color of its sediment |
the Red River
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| As the patron saint of children, he's the origin of "Father Christmas" |
St. Nicholas
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| Offenbach's original first name was Jakob; he changed it to this, which sounds more French |
Jacques
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| In 1993 this country withdrew the remnants of a brigade sent to Cuba during the 1962 Missile Crisis |
(Arlene: What is the United States?)
Russia
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| In French this 1831 work is known as "Notre-Dame de Paris" |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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| The Aviz Dynasty ruled this Iberian country from 1385 to 1580, when the Hapsburgs took over |
(Steve: What is Spain?)
Portugal
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| Historic sites located on this river include Harpers Ferry & Mount Vernon |
the Potomac
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| This saint of Assisi sent St. Berard to preach the gospel to the Western Muslims |
St. Francis
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| In 1908 he wrote "Sugar Cane: A Ragtime Classic Twostep" |
Scott Joplin
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| The first great railroad tunnel through the Alps, the St. Gotthard, opened in this country in 1882 |
Switzerland
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| This animal hero of a 1923 Felix Salten novel grows from a fawn to a stag & marries Faline |
Bambi
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| Humayun, the 2nd Mogul ruler of India, was born in this city, now the capital of Afghanistan |
Kabul
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| This river rises in the Rocky Mountains & empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas |
the Rio Grande
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| At the age of 19 she married William Seton, a merchant |
Elizabeth Seton
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| This composer's brother Fred played the learned judge in the original cast of his operetta "Trial by Jury" |
Arthur Sullivan
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| The treaty he negotiated in 1854 opened Japan to commercial trade with the United States |
Commodore Perry
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| In a Dostoyevsky novel, they are Dmitri, Ivan & Alyosha |
The Brothers Karamazov
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| The century in which England first had a king named George-- George I, of course |
the 18th century
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| The Great Miami, Wabash & Tennessee Rivers flow into this important commercial river |
(Steve: What is the Mississippi?)
the Ohio River
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| This "Venerable" saint's most valuable work was the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" |
the Venerable Bede
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| This lieder composer wrote incidental music for the 1823 play "Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus" |
Schubert
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| Leading his Redshirts, he proclaimed himself dictator of Sicily in 1860 |
Garibaldi
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| The title of this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel could be translated as "Where are you going?" |
Quo Vadis
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| It's believed that Olaf II was baptized a Christian in Normandy before he became king of this country |
Norway
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| Boats can travel on this 1,000-mile-long river as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho |
the Snake River
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| During the Papal reign of St. Miltiades, this emperor decreed toleration of Christianity |
Constantine
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| In 1924 this "Pomp And Circumstance" composer was appointed Master of the King's Musick |
(Sir Edward) Elgar
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| In her 1926 swim of the English Channel, she broke the men's record by almost 2 hours |
Gertrude Ederle
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| In this Alexandre Dumas novel, a sailor is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If near Marseilles |
The Count of Monte Cristo
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