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This was the year the House of Tudor's rule came to an end in England.
What is 1603?
Christopher Tolkein recounted his father had to delay finishing this Lord of the Rings novel because of the invention of Faramir's character.
What is The Two Towers?
The Palace of Caserta in this popular lakefront Italian city was the site for several scenes set on the planet of Naboo.
What is Como?
This is the largest lake located entirely inside the state of Minnesota.
What is Red Lake?
Before leaving Kansas in 1871, the Ingalls family was informed it might be evicted because it settled on the land of this Indian nation.
Who are the Osage?
This faction convened the famous "Parliament of Devils" in 1459 following the Battle of Ludford Bridge.
Who are the Lancastrians?
This actor originally auditioned for the role of Faramir but was cast instead in a headline Elvish role.
Who is Orlando Bloom?
In Revenge of the Sith, the lava explosions on Mustafar are real eruptions filmed at this volcano in Italy.
What is Mt. Etna?
These two Canadian provinces share a border with Minnesota.
What are Manitoba and Ontario?
Laura's family stayed with this relative as they transitioned from living in Wisconsin to Minnesota.
Who is Uncle Peter Ingalls?
This pope issued a papal bull siding with Henry VII in the matter of nullified sanctuary for the Stafford brothers, who were forcibly removed from Abingdon Abbey and tried for treason in 1486.
Who is Pope Innocent VIII?
In the novel The Return of the King, Éowyn is standing here with Faramir when she declares "the Shadow has departed! I will be a shieldmaiden no longer.."
What is Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun?
The desert planet of Tatooine was shot mainly in this North African country.
What is Tunisia?
This pageant, named after this iconic Americana author, is held every July along the banks of Plum Creek.
What is the Wilder Pageant?
The family patriarch, Charles Ingalls, was elected to this position in Walnut Grove - the first ever in the town's history.
What is Justice of the Peace?
This Yorkist-sympathizing priest attempted to pass off Lambert Simnel as an imposter Prince Richard.
Who is Richard Symonds?
Faramir has repeatedly been likened to this green-cloaked, wilderness-dwelling Medieval folk hero by Tolkein scholars.
In A New Hope, the pyramids housing the rebel base on Yavin IV were practically filmed at this Mayan ruins site in Central America.
What is Tikal, Guatemala?
This ginger Scandinavian has a statue standing in the Duluth Rose Garden.
Who is Leif Erikson?
Laura has long been considered one of America's first these, now a major political party that has yet to win a presidential election.
What are Libertarians?
At this decisive battle, Edward IV's "sun in splendour" badge looked very similar to the Earl of Oxford's "Vere Star," causing fatal confusion in the fighting.
What is the Battle of Barnet?
Faramir is the son of this daughter of Prince Adrahil of Dol Amroth, who died when he was just five years old.
Who is Finduilas?
In The Empire Strikes Back, the Battle of Hoth was filmed on this natural formation named Hardangerjøkulen located in Norway.
What is a glacier?
This area of Minnesota does not touch the rest of the state.
What is the Northwest Angle or Angle Inlet?
This lawyer and writer became the source of controversy when he inherited Laura's literary estate from her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, instead of the Mansfield Library, which sued for the rights upon his death in 1995.
Who is Roger MacBride?