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High School Basics

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1843 Pulitzer Winning Author (Dragon's Teeth)   show
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1 The Lamb 2 Chimney Sweeper   show
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1 Greek Orator 2 Western World's 1st Actor   show
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A Farewell to Arms   show
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show Italy  
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Plot: Twins Separated in youth search for each other Characters: Egeon, Anitpholous of Ephesus, Antipholous of Syracuse   show
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Plot: Two couples and their tales of marriage Characters: Don Pedro, Benedick, Don John, Beatrice   show
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founder of Pointillism   show
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show Bruno Hoptmen  
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What President created the Peace Corps?   show
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Love's Labor's Lost   show
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Two main lithographers   show
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Oh Captain, My Captain   show
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Tube of the outer ear   show
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(1603-1625) Targeted by Guy Fawkes Dissolved Parliament for a while After Elizabeth I   show
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Characters: Silly and Netty   show
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show Calculus  
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Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Peace   show
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show Anton Chekov  
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show Adams-Onis Treaty  
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show Ali  
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"The School for Scandal" Character: Lady Sneerwell   show
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show Saul Bellow  
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Music: Porgy and Bess   show
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Tess of the D'Ubervilles   show
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show Napier  
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Music: Go Tell it on the Mountain   show
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Painting: The Lookout   show
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show Robert Louis Stevenson  
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show Dashiell Hammet  
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Music: Symphony no1 - Titan   show
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show Oscar Wilde  
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show Lewis Carroll  
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Prometheus Unbound   show
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Plot: Money-lender demans a pound of flesh Characters: Anotonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Portio   show
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show Gertrude Stein  
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Look Homeward Angel   show
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show Kurt Vonnegut  
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show Eugene De La Crow  
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show Burbage  
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show Mafuze  
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Jaws   show
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show Wyeth  
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Opera: Norma   show
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Anne of Green Gables   show
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show Walter Lord  
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Jurassic Park   show
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Music: Pomp and Circumstance   show
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Moll Flanders   show
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show Henrik Ibsen  
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Blue Bird   show
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Hansel and Gretel   show
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Music: Carmen   show
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show Henry James  
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show Howard Pyle  
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Ulysses   show
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show Io-toe-la Ko-man-ee  
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show Henry James  
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show Gaston Leroux  
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The Phantom of the Opera (Play)   show
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Salammbo   show
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Nature   show
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The Return of the Native   show
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Agnes Grey   show
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show WA Mozart  
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show Isaac Asimov  
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show Upton Sinclair  
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show Rembrandt  
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Tarzan of the Apes   show
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White Fang   show
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Music: The Marriage of Figaro   show
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The Great Divide   show
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show Albert Camus  
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show Masaccio  
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show Calder  
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James Joyce (3 Novels)   show
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1 The Judgment 2 The Castle   show
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show Bliss  
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Treaty between Great Britain and China (Returned Hong Kong)   show
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show Seneca  
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show Royale Tyler  
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show William Ernest Henley  
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show Alfred the Great  
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show Sergei Prokofiev  
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“I am in earnest – I will not equivocate” Talking on slavery in “The Liberator”   show
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City McKinley was shot in   show
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show Nathaniel Hawthorne  
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(Russian) Abstract Creator   show
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1 Danish religious philosopher 2 Either/ Or Philosophical Fragments   show
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Painting: Portrait of Oscar Wilde   show
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Poet of the Piano   show
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1 The Fair Maiden of the Mill 2 Swan Song 3 Winter Journey   show
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1 A History of New York 2 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 3 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow   show
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show George Eliot  
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show Herman Melville  
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(1199-1216) Forced to sign Magna Karta Weak Fighter   show
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show Tical  
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1 Led the Celtic Renaissance 2 The Wanderings of Oisin 3 The Wild Swans at Code   show
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The Tale of Genji   show
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Music: 1812 Overture   show
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A Thief in the Night   show
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show Titian  
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show Bartholdi  
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Sculpture: Bird in Space   show
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1 The Jungle Book 2 Kim   show
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show Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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show Georges Gershwin  
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Broadway Musical (Features “One” and “What I did for love”)   show
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TS Eliot dedicated “Wasteland” to __________ (wrote “Cantos”)   show
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1 Eve of St Agnes 2 Ode on a Grecian Urn 3 Ode to a Nightingale   show
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“Big enough stick I could raise the world”   show
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show Edvard Munch  
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show The Scarlet Letter  
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show Claudio Monteverdi  
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Code name for invasion of Normandy   show
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The Ethics   show
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show Hiram Revels  
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Music: The Planet’s Suite   show
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The Big Sleep   show
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show Norman Mailer  
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Madame Bovary   show
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A Woman of No Importance   show
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Music: Eroica (Third Symphony)   show
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Ethan Frome   show
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Our Town   show
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show Jane Austen  
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show Arthur C Clarke  
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show Thomas Grey  
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show Franz Schubert  
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show McCullough v Maryland  
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Painting: School of Athens   show
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show Da Vinci  
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show Charles Dickens  
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Music: Symphony no 9: From the New World   show
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Fahrenheit 451   show
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show Washington Irving  
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show Toulouse-Latrec  
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show Leo Tolstoy  
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show Edith Wharton  
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The Hollow Men   show
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Music: Aida   show
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show Mark Twain  
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1 Spotted Horses 2 Old Man 3 The Bear 4 Absalom, Absalom!   show
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The Deer slayer   show
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show Plato  
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Jane Eyre   show
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show Geoffrey Chaucer  
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show Cleo  
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show James II  
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Music: Brandenburg Concerti   show
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Man who Died Twice   show
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The Canon of Medicine   show
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show Charles I  
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show James B Weaver  
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(English worked w/Coleridge) 1 Poet Lauriat 2 Tintern Abbey 3 The Prelude 4 The World is too much With Us   show
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show George Eliot  
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show Mary Anne Ellen  
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Play based on Pygmalion   show
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner   show
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show Bernard Mallimud  
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Against gerrymandering   show
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show Laurence Housman  
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show Blaise Pascal  
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show Alfred Lord Tennyson  
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show Sister Carrie By: Theodore Dreiser  
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show Ernest Hemingway  
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Lamb to the Slaughter   show
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1 Around the world in Eighty Days 2 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea   show
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show Phileas Fogg  
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show TS Eliot  
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Leaves of Grass   show
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show Charles Dickens  
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The Scarlet Letter   show
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Music: The William tell Overture   show
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War and Peace   show
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The Count of Monte Cristo   show
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Crime and Punishment   show
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show John Milton  
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Music: Petrushka   show
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show George Bernard Shaw  
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show Scott Joplin  
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show Victor Hugo  
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Music: La Boheme   show
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Music: Hungarian Dances   show
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show Joseph Addison  
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show Ivan Turgenev  
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Sculpture: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa   show
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show Hor-he Louis Borhas  
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show Herman Wok  
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show Geoffrey Chaucer  
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Current English Queen   show
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show Farragut  
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show Richard Henry Dana Jr  
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The Chrysanthemums   show
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Music: Midsummer Night’s Dream   show
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Dracula   show
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show Oscar Wilde  
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show Elie Wiesel  
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show Saul Bellow  
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Dead Men Tell No Tales   show
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show Joseph Heller  
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Orlando   show
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The Bell Jar   show
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show EB White  
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show Henry James  
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Robinson Crusoe   show
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Herzog   show
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The Last of the Mohicans   show
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show Pablo Picasso  
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Two founders of Cubism   show
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show Johannes Brahms  
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Nostromo   show
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show Ken Kesey  
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show Edgar Rice Burroughs  
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Painting: Wheatfield with Crows   show
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Painting: All’s Well   show
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Play: A Streetcar Named Desire   show
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show Benjamin Britten  
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1 First major English novelist 2 Three Epistolary novels   show
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show Kapek  
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show Anne Tyler  
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show Emily Bronte  
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Prominent character of “Wuthering Heights”   show
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The New Criticism   show
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show Ex Parte Merryman  
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show Gideon v Wainwright  
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show Hesey  
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The Ring   show
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Plot: Richard will do anything to become king Characters: King Edward IV, Richard, Queen Elizabeth   show
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Painting: Starry Night   show
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Eight Cousins   show
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Music: Well-tempered Clavier   show
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Discourse on the Method   show
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1 The Mysterious Air at Styles 2 Death on the Nile   show
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The Three Musketeers   show
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Les Miserables   show
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show Steven King  
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show LV Beethoven  
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Painting: Las Meninas   show
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show Thoreau  
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(Alexandrian Author) “The Elements”   show
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show Howard Carter  
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Plot: Ship-wrecked twins think each other is dead Characters: Orsino, Viola, Sebastian   show
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1 Howard’s End 2 Room with a View 3 Passage to India   show
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Series of 4 poems by TS Elliot   show
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show David Copperfield  
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Sonnets from the Portuguese   show
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Science Law: Constant “t” and “p”, measures the velocities of gases   show
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show Macbeth  
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Music: Appalachian spring   show
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Arrowsmith   show
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Plot: Revenge for father’s death Characters: Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia   show
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show Rembrandt  
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From the Earth to the Moon   show
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Plot: American Civil War veterans and Baltimore Gun Club Author: Jules Verne   show
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“Death be not Proud”   show
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Don Dellilo’s most famous novel   show
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show Joseph Priestley  
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Author of the play, “Hernini”   show
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(1660-1685) 1 Took over from Cromwell 2 Treaty of Dover made with Louis XIV   show
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Sculpture: David   show
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Painting: The Birth of Venus   show
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Dice: 1:0/36 2:1/36 3:2/36 or 1/18 4: 3/36 or 1/12 5: 4/36 or 1/9 6: 5/36   show
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show Leonardo Da Vinci  
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Painting: Chapel of the Rosary in Venice   show
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show Anthony Burgess  
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show Nuremburg Trials  
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(1509-1547) 1 Patronized Thomas Moore 2 Executed Thomas Cromwell 3 Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour   show
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(1558-1603) 1 Fought Mary, Queen of Scots 2 Never married 3 Daughter of Anne Boleyn   show
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The Changeling   show
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show Eric Segal  
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The Second Coming   show
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show Paganini  
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show Kennethe Graham  
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(1483-1485) 1 Final York king 2 Died to Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field 3 Lost War of Roses   show
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Bohemian folk dance of Central Europe   show
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show Kate Douglas Wiggin  
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Matilda   show
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show Herman Melville  
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show Joseph Conrad  
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show Mark Twain  
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The Gambler   show
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Music: Wedding March   show
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show Lyman Frank Baum  
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show Rossini  
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show Georges Gershwin  
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Pinocchio   show
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Charlotte’s Web   show
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“Man is by nature a political animal”   show
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show Marcel Duchamp  
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show Shirley Jackson  
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Devil’s Dictionary   show
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Westside Story   show
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show Willie Lowman  
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1 Death of a Salesman 2 The Crucible   show
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On the Origin of the Species   show
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show William Randolph Hearst  
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Painting: Christina’s World   show
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“To a Skylark” was part of what work by Percy Bysshe Shelley?   show
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show Sir Edward William Elgar  
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show Ibanez  
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show Jack London  
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show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
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Study in Scarlet   show
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Painting: Bathers   show
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Lady Windermere’s Fan   show
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show Willa Cather  
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show Botticelli  
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show Cervantes  
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Music: Fantasie-Impromptu   show
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show The Taming of the Shrew  
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show All’s Well that Ends Well  
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show Manet  
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show Mallory  
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Music: God Bless America   show
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show Othello  
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show Paul Gauguin  
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show Richard Wright  
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show Thomas Mann  
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show Tale of Two Cities  
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show Tale of Two Cities  
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show Aaron Copeland  
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show Bloomsbury Group  
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show Gustav Mahler  
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show 2062  
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show Manet  
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(Irish Novelist) 1 Original and influential writer of the Twentieth Century 2 “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”   show
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show Hamlet  
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Minute Waltz   show
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Painting: The Third of May 1808   show
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show Jan Van Eyck  
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A Simple Soul   show
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show William James  
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Painting: The Persistence of Memory   show
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show James Whistler  
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“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker”   show
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show Igor Stravinsky  
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Authors of the Federalist Papers (3)   show
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show Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
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show Rupert Brooks  
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show 1 Carmen 2 George Bizet  
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Painted a lot of Oceans   show
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show Boccaccio  
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Music: Ballet: Romeo and Juliet   show
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1 Mapped the Oregon Trail 2 First Republican Candidate   show
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show Nietchze  
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show Wyss  
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show Alexander Pushkin  
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Einstein on the Beach   show
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Mandarins   show
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Writer of “Chicago”   show
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Music: Ballet: Sleeping Beauty   show
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1 Eighteenth Century Artist 2 Portrait: “The Family of the Duke of Marlborough”   show
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(1154-1189) 1 Killed Thomas Beckett 2 Married Eleanor of Aquitaine   show
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Pilgrim’s Progress   show
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show Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
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In Flanders Fields   show
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The Secret Garden   show
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show Vincent Van Gogh  
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A Treatise on Government   show
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show Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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Treasure Island   show
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Painting: The Violinist   show
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show Grant Wood  
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show Jacques-Louis David  
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Author of Dr Zhivago   show
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Crazy Roman Leader (Made a horse his general)   show
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show Mary Cassatt  
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show Claude Monet  
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Glass Menagerie   show
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show Wingfield  
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire   show
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Main character: Sam Spade   show
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Movie made by Arthur Miller for his wife Marilyn Monroe to act in   show
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show Jabberwocky  
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Compromise to avoid the Civil War   show
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Chamber Nautilus   show
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Founder of the hull house improvement   show
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Wars in SE Asia during the Cold War Referred to as _________   show
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Founder of Chicago   show
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show Ken Kesey  
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show Franz Kafka  
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(Greek Tragedy) By: Eugene O’Neill   show
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show Edward Albee  
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show Neil Simon  
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show Bosch  
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show Michelangelo  
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Famous writer (Major Utilitarian)   show
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show Treaty of Sevres  
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show Norman Mailer  
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Built the Vietnam War Memorial   show
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show searching without a warrant  
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Country that gained freedom July 5, 1811   show
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Stranger in a Strange Land   show
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Kublai Khan   show
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show Moullier  
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show 1 NYC 2 London 3 Paris  
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show Paul Klee  
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Lonesome Dove   show
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show Sisyphus  
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall   show
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Ars Poetica   show
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The Oresteia   show
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9,5 trillion kilometers   show
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Sculpture: The Thinker   show
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At the Earth’s Core   show
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show Claude Debussy  
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show 1 Kierkegaard 2 Nietzsche  
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show Cellini  
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“Little giant” Senator of Illinois   show
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show Joseph Conrad  
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Music: Ballet: Swan Lake   show
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Supreme Court: Created the idea of “separate but equal”   show
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show Desdemona  
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Mrs Dalloway   show
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show Theodore Dreiser  
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Charge of the Light Brigade   show
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1 Mexican Poet 2 1990 Nobel Literature 3 Last name means peace   show
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show Jonathan Swift  
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show Faulkner  
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Supreme Court: Went pro-child labor as man sued against Keating-Own Act   show
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The Portrait of a Lady   show
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show Babbitt  
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Great King of Persia (During Greco-Persian wars)   show
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show King Lear  
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show Paul Zindel  
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Sculptures: 1 The Gates of Hell 2 The Kiss   show
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Book banned in Russia   show
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Autobiography of Alice B Toklas   show
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1893- Maggie: A girl of the Streets   show
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Main Street   show
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show 1 Music 2 Geometry 3 Arithmetic 4 Astronomy  
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show Pele  
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(1977 Pulitzer Prize) Roots   show
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Mycology is the study of   show
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Play based on “La Boheme”   show
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Ivanhoe   show
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(1837-1901) 1 Longest reform 2 Reform Act of 1867   show
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show Verdi  
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show Ralph Waldo Emerson  
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show George III  
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show Pablo Picasso  
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Painting: Liberty Leading the People   show
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show Nellie Taylor Ross  
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show Midsummer Night’s Dream  
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show Monteverdi  
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show Slaughterhouse Five  
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show Kurt Vonnegut  
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A Man for all Seasons   show
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Painting: Nighthawks   show
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The Rival   show
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Man and Superman   show
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show James Thurber  
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show Truman Capote  
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show James K Polk  
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Dead Souls   show
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show Norman Mailer  
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show Arthur Conan Doyle  
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show Willa Cather  
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1 To a Mouse 2 To a Louse   show
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show Theodore Roosevelt  
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Music: Opera: Ride of the Valkyries   show
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show Taming of the Shrew  
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show Edward Hale  
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Poem and poet for Statue of Liberty   show
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show Sir Walter Scott  
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Creator of Walter Mitty   show
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show The Tempest  
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show Vandals  
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show Thomas Wolfe  
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show As you Like It  
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show Venus and Adonis  
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show Tchaikovsky  
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show Christopher Marlowe  
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show Christopher Marlowe  
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show Richard I  
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Tonight at 8:30   show
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Martian Chronicles   show
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show Heine  
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show Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas  
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show Roe v Wade  
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Actress: 1 Butterfield 8 2 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 3 Cat on a hot tin Roof 4 National Velvet   show
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Tender is the Night   show
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show Fletcher v Peck  
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show 1 TS Eliot 2 Thomas Beckett  
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(German Romantic Pianist) 1 Scenes from Childhood 2 Carnival   show
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Old Possum’s book of Practical Cats   show
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show Aaron Copeland  
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1800’s basic architectural style   show
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1 Waiting for Lefty 2 Til the Day I Die 3 Golden Boy 4 The Country Girl   show
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Knows: 1 Matisse 2 Picasso 3 Fitzgerald 4 Hemingway Authored: 1 Tender Buttons 2 Three Lives   show
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Poem by John Keats: “My heart aches, and a drowsy Numbness pains my sense”   show
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1 Scopes Monkey Trial 2 Lawyer who defended Leopold and Loeb   show
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show Marbury v Madison  
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show Song of Myself By: Walt Whitman  
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