| 49901. |
Famous Last Words: These are the good kind of ---------.
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| 49902. |
Famous Last Words: I'll hold it and you light the ----.
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| 49903. |
Famous Last Words: What's that ------ doing here?
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| 49904. |
Famous Last Words: You look just like Charles --------.
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| 49905. |
Famous Last Words: Rat ------- only kills rats.
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| 49906. |
Famous Last Words: I'll get your ------ out.
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| 49907. |
Famous Last Words: It's ------- enough for both of us.
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| 49908. |
Famous Last Words: This doesn't ------ right.
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| 49909. |
Famous Last Words: Nice ------.
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| 49910. |
Famous Last Words: That's ---.
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| 49911. |
Famous Last Words: OK this is the ---- time.
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| 49912. |
Famous Last Words: Now ------ this.
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| 49913. |
When a man died in ancient -------, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes.
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| 49914. |
When ---------- president Juan Perón died on July 1, 1974, he was succeeded by his wife and vice president, Isabel, who became the first woman president in the Western Hemisphere.
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| 49915. |
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, ------------- became the first U.S. president to take office in the midst of a war.
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| 49916. |
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to announce a royal birth in ------------.
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| 49917. |
A devastating ------------- epidemic in 1822 left New York City with 16,000 corpses and no readily available space for burial.
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| 49918. |
A female pharaoh was unknown in -------- before Hatshepsut, who had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard and without breasts.
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| 49919. |
A little over one hundred years ago, -------- arrived in the United States for the first time. It was transmitted by an infection carried aboard the Hamburg-American Line's Moravia on August 30, 1892.
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| 49920. |
A pin-up photo of ----------- adorned the first test bomb dropped on Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands in July 1946.
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| 49921. |
After being forced to state in public that the earth does not rotate, --------- is said to have muttered under his breath, "But it does move."
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| 49922. |
While serving in Congress, -------------- introduced a bill that attempted to bar slavery from all future states admitted to the Union, a measure that might later have prevented the U.S. Civil War if it had not been defeated - by a single vote.
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| 49923. |
While the ancient ----------- may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C.
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| 49924. |
While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth century on December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury Plain blew over one of the ancient monumental stones at ---------------
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| 49925. |
After the U.S. Civil War, Iowa was the first state to give the vote to -----------------.
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| 49926. |
------------------ became the first woman to receive a diamond engagement ring. It was given to her by Maximilian I of Germany in 1477.
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| 49927. |
At funerals in ancient ------, when the lid of the coffin was closed, mourners took a few steps backward lest their shadows get caught in the box.
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| 49928. |
At the height of its power, in 400 B.C., the Greek city of ------ had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
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| 49929. |
At the height of the teddy bear's huge popularity in the early 1900s, there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy would lead to the destruction of the instincts of ------------ and eventual racial suicide.
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| 49930. |
At the outbreak of World War I, the American ----------- consisted of only fifty men.
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| 49931. |
Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were --------------------
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| 49932. |
Birth-control campaigns in ----------- in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans.
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| 49933. |
------------------- lost 41 of his 98-men crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795, the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships.
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| 49934. |
-----------, Illinois was originally named Fort Dearborn, Indian Territory.
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| 49935. |
------------------ set sail for the New World on a Friday in 1492.
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| 49936. |
Cologne water, a mildly perfumed toilet water also known as eau de Cologne, has been made in -----------, West Germany since 1709.
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| 49937. |
Columbus had three ships on his first American exploration. On his second expedition, --------- ships were under his command.
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| 49938. |
In ancient ------, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
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| 49939. |
In ancient ------, the crimes for abduction, armed robbery, treason, and adultery were punished by castration.
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| 49940. |
In ancient ------, towns were often arranged in patterns so that if seen from the air, the whole community would resemble an animal or a symbolic design. Some were arranged to resemble snakes, stars, sunbursts, and dragons.
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| 49941. |
In ancient ----, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
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| 49942. |
In ancient ----, it was considered a sin to eat the flesh of a woodpecker.
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| 49943. |
In ancient times, the traditional color of bridal gowns was -----. The wife of Napoleon III broke the tradition and wore a white gown. Then, brides began wearing white gowns (that were worn only once) as a symbol of their wealth.
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| 49944. |
In December 1997, the state of Nevada (USA) became the first state to pass legislation categorizing --- data disasters as "acts of God" - protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.
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| 49945. |
------- was the last Ivy League college to go coed, in 1972.
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| 49946. |
During Australia's --------- in 1850, only a few miners ever became rich. Instead, merchants and shopkeepers were the ones who really got rich.
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| 49947. |
During the 1940s, ------- contributed directly to the war effort in the 1940s, by manufacturing first-aid kits and dye markers for the U.S. Navy. When the war ended, the cosmetic firm began to produce manicure and pedicure instruments, which were tremendously successful.
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| 49948. |
In English folklore, ------------- was a fairy queen who governed people's dreams.
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| 49949. |
In medieval -----, it was not unusual for a mother to breast-feed a child until the child was seven years old.
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| 49950. |
In olden days, barbers also performed as ---------. Blood-letting, a remedy of the time believed to cure diseases, was one of their main tasks. The red-and-white striped barber pole originally symbolized a bleeding arm swathed in bandages.
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| 49951. |
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ------, one took revenge against one's enemies by placing finely chopped tiger whiskers in their food. The whisker barbs would get caught in the victim's digestive tract and cause sores and infections.
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| 49952. |
In the Declaration of Independence as first written by Thomas Jefferson, there was a clause abolishing -------. Because of popular pressure, however, Jefferson deleted the clause.
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| 49953. |
During the Spanish American War in 1898, there were 45 stars on the -------------.
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| 49954. |
During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was --------.
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| 49955. |
During World War II, the original copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were taken from the Library of Congress and kept at -------------, Kentucky.
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| 49956. |
In the early fifteenth century, scholars in China compiled an --------------- consisting of 11,095 volumes.
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| 49957. |
The color ----- was first used in the Afghan War in 1880 - the color was considered good camouflage.
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| 49958. |
In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Incas, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their ---------- and handed them to each other.
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| 49959. |
In the tenth century, the Grand Vizier of ------- took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000-volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
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| 49960. |
In the winter of 1724, while on an outing at sea, --------------- of Russia caught sight of a foundering ship, jumped in the water, and helped in the rescue. He caught cold, suffered from a high fever, and died several weeks later.
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| 49961. |
Every queen named ----- has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.
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| 49962. |
Every year, ------- and their guests drink 1.2 million gallons of beer during Oktoberfest. The first Oktoberfest was in 1810 and celebrated the marriage of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
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| 49963. |
Fighting alongside Americans and British during the ------ invasion of 1944 were 15,000 Canadians. And it was the Canadian troops who were the first to reach their planned objective.
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| 49964. |
Five members of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's family were killed at the Battle of -------------: Tom and Boston, two half-brothers; Harry Armstrong Reed, a nephew; and a brother-in-law, James Calhoun.
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| 49965. |
The famous Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 near the town of Rosetta in north , on the Nile.
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| 49966. |
The first baby born on the --------- during its voyage to the New World was named - Oceanus Hopkins. The second child born after the ship set anchor was named Peregrine White.
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| 49967. |
The first known encyclopedias date back to ancient -------.
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| 49968. |
It was King Edward II of England (1324) who decreed the ----- to be equal to three barleycorns end to end.
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| 49969. |
It was reported in 1990 that former President ------------------'s autobiography, A Life, was a financial catastrophe. Publisher Simon and Schuster had paid the former actor-U.S. leader $7 million in advance for his autobiography and a collection of his speeches. Of the 500,000 copies produced, nearly 300,000 were returned to the publisher, forcing them to revise their advance-payment policy.
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| 49970. |
Jahangir, a 17th-century Indian Mughal ruler, had 5,000 women in his harem and 1,000 ------------. He also owned 12,000 elephants.
|
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100 |
| 49971. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 2 Silver, 0 Bronze, 2 in Total
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1 |
100 |
| 49972. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze, 2 in Total
|
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1 |
100 |
| 49973. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 0 Silver, 2 Bronze, 2 in Total
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1 |
100 |
| 49974. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 1 Gold, 0 Silver, 0 Bronze, 1 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49975. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 1 Silver, 0 Bronze, 1 in Total
|
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1 |
100 |
| 49976. |
Barcelona 1992 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 0 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 in Total
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| 49977. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 55 Gold, 31 Silver, 46 Bronze, 132 in Total
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49978. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 37 Gold, 35 Silver, 30 Bronze, 102 in Total
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100 |
| 49979. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 36 Gold, 31 Silver, 27 Bronze, 94 in Total
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| 49980. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 11 Gold, 14 Silver, 15 Bronze, 45 in Total
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100 |
| 49981. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 10 Gold, 12 Silver, 13 Bronze, 35 in Total
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100 |
| 49982. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 12 Gold, 10 Silver, 11 Bronze, 33 in Total
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49983. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 5 Gold, 11 Silver, 12 Bronze, 29 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49984. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 7 Gold, 11 Silver, 6 Bronze, 24 in Total
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100 |
| 49985. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 5 Gold, 10 Silver, 9 Bronze, 24 in Total
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1 |
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100 |
| 49986. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 11 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze, 23 in Total
|
1 |
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100 |
| 49987. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 6 Gold, 4 Silver, 6 Bronze, 16 in Total
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1 |
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100 |
| 49988. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 2 Gold, 5 Silver, 9 Bronze, 16 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49989. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 6 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze, 14 in Total
|
1 |
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100 |
| 49990. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 3 Gold, 6 Silver, 5 Bronze, 14 in Total
|
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1 |
100 |
| 49991. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 7 Bronze, 14 in Total
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100 |
| 49992. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 3 Gold, 2 Silver, 8 Bronze, 13 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49993. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 3 Gold, 4 Silver, 5 Bronze, 12 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49994. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 0 Gold, 4 Silver, 7 Bronze, 11 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49995. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 3 Gold, 2 Silver, 5 Bronze, 10 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49996. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 5 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze, 9 in Total
|
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100 |
| 49997. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 5 Bronze, 9 in Total
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49998. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 3 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze, 8 in Total
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49999. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, 6 in Total
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 50000. |
Seoul 1988 Olympics: This countries medal tally was: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 0 Bronze, 5 in Total
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100 |