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NATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES
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$200
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Agra Fort & Nanda Devi National Park
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India
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$400
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump & L'anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
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Canada
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$600
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The Cave of Altamira & the Old City of Salamanca
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Spain
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$800
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The old city of Dubrovnik & Stari Grad Plain
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Croatia
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$1000
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The stone town of Zanzibar & Selous Game Reserve
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Tanzania
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ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE
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For many years Arturo Toscanini was the principal conductor & music director at this famed Milan opera house
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La Scala
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$400
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In the 1980s, the designers seen here launched this fashion brand--D&G for short
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Dolce&Gabbana
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$600
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1950's "Luci del varieta", or "Variety Lights", was his first feature film as director
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Fellini
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$800
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It's the Italian name for the lively folk dance also known as "the dance of the spider"
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the tarantella
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$1000
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"Bridge of Sighs"s is by this artist, whose detailed paintings of Venice & London influenced generations of landscape painters
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Canaletto
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BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES
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"Hey"! This name got a little push in popularity thanks to the Beatles song
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Jude
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$400
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Country singers Combs & Bryan both go by this first name
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Luke
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$600
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One meaning of this name is "seductive", which is perfect for the woman who seduced & deceived Samson
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Delilah
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$800
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Spelled a variety of ways, this girls' name is shared by TV personality & entrepreneur Frankel & surfer Hamilton
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Bethenny (Bethany)
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$1000
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Zeke is often short for this name of an Old Testament prophet whose book follows Lamentations
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Ezekiel
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IT'S A NEW MACHINE
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$200
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Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson was sick of being charged for this & put machines dispensing it free in his hotels
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ice
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$400
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The first public ATM dealing in this currency opened in Vancouver in 2013
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Bitcoin
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$600
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Even full-size cars became compact & easily removed as the Al-Jon Co. started making these alliterative machines in the '60s
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car crushers
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$800
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Before his partner Eli Whitney even got a patent, Phineas Miller was de-seeding with this machine in Mulberry Grove, Georgia
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the cotton gin
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$1000
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In 1969, Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first message over the internet with the first this, which now connects devices like modems
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router
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1985 IN ENTERTAINMENT
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$200
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Richard Dean Anderson starred as the resourceful title agent on this TV series that debuted in 1985
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MacGyver
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$400
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1985 was a good year for this duo as "Everything She Wants" & "Careless Whisper" topped the charts
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Wham!
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$600
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It took place July 13, 1985 at Wembley Stadium & Philadelphia's JFK Stadium
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Live Aid
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$800
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An alternative to MTV for the more mature viewer, it launched on New Year's Day with Marvin Gaye singing the national anthem
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VH1
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$1000
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John Parr climbed the highest mountain & crossed the wildest sea to hit No. 1 with this movie tune "(Man In Motion)"
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"St. Elmo\'s Fire"
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BEVERAGE RHYMES
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$200
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A bath in a tub of the "Real Thing" cola
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a Coke soak
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$400
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Oolong joy
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tea glee
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$600
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The kind of people who like the whole or skim beverage
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milk ilk
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$800
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Cessation of hostilities between fruit liquids
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a juice truce
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$1000
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A clause in a rock band's contract that assures they have their favorite fermented apple drink
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cider rider
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THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS
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$400
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5000 Forbes Avenue: this university named for 2 Andrews
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Carnegie Mellon
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$800
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100 Art Rooney Avenue: this sports venue
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Heinz Field
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$1200
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600 Grant Street:this tower--it's name is also what it's made of
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the U.S. Steel Tower
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$1600
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1197 West Carson Street: the Duquesne Incline, one of these cable-drawn railways, from Latin for "rope"
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funicular
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$2000
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1803 Cliff Street: the park named for this Pulitzer-winning Pittsburgh playwright & "Fences" author
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(August) Wilson
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IT'S HISTORY
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$400
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It began to tilt in 1178, while still under construction; luckily (for us), war interrupted & gave time for the soil to settle
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the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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$800
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This dread tribunal passed its judgments in a ceremony called the auto-da-fé, or act of faith
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the Inquisition
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$1200
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In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name
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the Holy Roman Empire
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$1600
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In the 8th century the Abbasid one of these dynasties named for its Muslim ruler overthrew the Umayyad one
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caliphate
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$2000
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The 1805 battle of this Austrian empire town has been called "Napoleon's masterpiece"
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Austerlitz
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READERS, DIGEST
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$400
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This character "had been trying to get the honey-jar off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck"
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Winnie-the-Pooh
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$800
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This Henry Fielding hero & Mrs. Waters have a sexy ox-eating scene; in the movie, it's seafood & chicken
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Tom Jones
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$1200
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Key lime pie is dumped on a philandering hubby's head in "Heartburn"; in real life, she poured wine on Carl Bernstein
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Nora Ephron
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$1600
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Elizabeth Bishop is "waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb" in her poem "A Miracle for" this meal
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breakfast
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$2000
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Split cod is on an earlier menu for this Dinesen title character but after winning the French lottery, her feast is in order
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Babette
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SCIENCE
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$400
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Taxo-comic expert Dr. Neal Evenhuis chose Carmenelectra & shechisme as these 2 identifiers for an extinct bug
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genus & species
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$800
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Rare on Earth except in signs, this gas with atomic number 10 is a top 10 element in abundance in the universe
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neon
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$1200
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A law covering compression of this device with great elasticity is F=-kx; k is the constant named for the device
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the spring
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$1600
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It's the process of atoms acquiring a positive or negative charge, as when sodium & chlorine combine to make salt
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ionization
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$2000
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Max Planck solved the "ultraviolet catastrophe" by measuring light not in continuous waves but as packets of energy called these
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quanta
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GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
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$400
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The soundtrack to this film won for 1993; Record of the Year was "I Will Always Love You"
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The Bodyguard
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$800
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"The Miseducation of" her got the nod for 1998
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(Lauryn) Hill
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$1200
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The first country artist to win the award was him, for 1968 & "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
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Glen Campbell
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$1600
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Duets with Norah Jones & Diana Krall among others made his "Genius Loves Company" the winner for 2004
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(Ray) Charles
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$2000
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He won back-to-back for 1973 & 1974 with "Innervisions" & "Fulfillingness' First Finale"
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Stevie Wonder
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SAME FIRST & LAST NAME
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$400
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It's the very least you can do
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the minimum
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$800
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A small vending stand, perhaps for newspapers
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a kiosk
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$1200
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This adjective for some stockings also refers to anything conducted in a smooth & continuous manner
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seamless
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$1600
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A volley of rain, or a type of movie file sent over the Internet
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torrent
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$2000
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An El Greco painting is titled this, a duke or other person of high rank with his hand on his chest
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a Nobleman
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FINAL RESTING PLACES
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N/A
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A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries
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Manhattan
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