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The Bayeaux Tapestry depicts this man's landing at Pevensey just before he defeated Harrrold Godwinson.

In this novel, the protagonist tutors Adele at Thornfield Hall where she meets Rochester.

In this book, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson in the Valley of the Ashes

On this scale for hardness, talc is one and diamond is 1

This element was the first shown to exhibit superfluidity. It has the lowest boiling point of any element.

The Wild Coast is in this nation and the Orange River forms one of this nation's borders

This abolitionist was executed after the failure of his 1859 raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry

This man's "Secret Speech" denounced the rule of his pedecessor, Joseph Stalin.

This is one East Africa's first Christian kingdoms. Mussolini conquered it in 1936.

In Runnymede, the rebellious barons made King John sign this document.

This president warned of "entangling alliances" in his farewell address.

Benedict Arnold was wounded in the leg at this battle in which Horatio Gates defeated John Burgoyne.

A 9th-century drought hastened the end of these people's Classical Period when Tikal and Chichen Itza were cities.

This secretary of state created the European Recovery Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II.

This author wrote Beloved and Song of Solomon

This Norse God gave birth to Sleipnir, Fenrir and the Midgard Serpent.

Many Americans lived in "Hoovervilles" during this period which the TVA was created to counteract.

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Picasso's Guernica are about this war

This country's Yamuna River flows past Agra and its state of Sikkism seperates Nepal from Bhutan.

This President signed Medicare into law as a part of his "Great Society" initiative.