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Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.

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Woody Allen

Allen is an American actor, writer, and director. He began his career writing for television comedians and performing in nightclubs. His early film comedies, which often depict neurotic urban characters preoccupied with sex, death, and psychiatry, include Sleeper and Annie Hall. Much of Allen's later work in comedy and drama explores these themes as well as the various other preoccupations of sophisticated New Yorkers. How many Academy Award nominations has Allen received?

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Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill was prime minister of the United Kingdom during WWII and led the country through both its darkest and finest hours. He was a writer, painter, legislator, soldier, and one of the most influential leaders in modern history. After being appointed prime minister in 1940, he forged a strong alliance with the US and an uneasy one with the USSR. These alliances were two key factors in the defeat of the Axis Powers. What famous American writer introduced one of Churchill's speeches in 1900?

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Jacques Chirac

Chirac served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He has played a critical role in the development of the European Union, of which France is a leading member. He has also been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq. At home, Chirac has faced criticism for his alleged involvement in various unlawful schemes. In 2002, he survived an assassination attempt during celebrations of what French national holiday?

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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

Called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" by the US Congress, Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who became famous in 1955 for refusing to vacate her seat on a municipal bus for a white man. This act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which launched Martin Luther King, Jr. into prominence and became one of the largest and most successful movements against racial segregation. How many thousands of commuters took part in the boycott?

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Skeleton of "Lucy" Discovered

"Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old female hominid of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered by scientists in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. An unprecedented 40% intact, Lucy was the first fossil hominid to really capture public notice. Although she was 3 feet, 8 inches tall and looked somewhat like a chimpanzee, her bipedal knee structure indicates that she walked upright, like a human. What other human skeletal features did she possess?

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Japan's Meiji Constitution Goes into Effect

The Imperial, or Meiji, Constitution was the fundamental law of the Empire of Japan from 1890 until 1947. Enacted after the Meiji Restoration, it provided for a form of constitutional monarchy based on the Prussian model. The constitution allowed the active Emperor to wield considerable political power, but the control was to be shared with an elected assembly. What did Ito Hirobumi, who was charged with drafting Japan's constitution, think of the different Western constitutions that he reviewed?

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sacrilege

DEFINITION: (noun) Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred. SYNONYMS: blasphemy, desecration, profanation. USAGE: I entreat you, if you be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders.

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hobgoblin

DEFINITION: (noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment. SYNONYMS: bugbear. USAGE: But this encompassment of her own characterization...was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy--a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.

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stammer

DEFINITION: (verb) To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions. SYNONYMS: bumble, falter, stutter. USAGE: "You--you must think me crazy," stammered Anne, trying to recover her self-possession.

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Low Fat Cranberry Orange Muffins

Tender and light, these low-fat Cranberry Orange Muffins make a delightful seasonal treat. The flavor is just the right combination of sweet and tart. Serve these cranberry orange muffins as...