Russian Literature
The title of this 1880 novel refers to siblings Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha
The Brothers Karamazov
J.S. Bach was a force in this music style that, roughly speaking, began in 1600 & ended in 1750, when Bach ended too
Baroque
1290: The Jews are expelled from this nation by King Edward I
England
The island of Socotra, 200 miles south of the coast, is part of this Arabian Peninsula nation
Yemen
On April 9, 1865 this general told his men, "The war is over--the Rebels are our countrymen again"
Grant
Hopelessness is the theme of the 1899 Chekhov drama named for this title character who realizes he's wasted his life
Uncle Vanya
Music based on the sufferings of Jesus on the cross; Bach wrote a "St. John" as well as a "St. Matthew" one
a passion
A golden age of Jewish culture began in the 10th C. under these people who ruled Spain
The Moors (Moops)
Ras Mohammed National Park at the southern end of this peninsula was Egypt's first national park
The Sinai
The leading industrialized city of the South, it became the capital of the Confederacy in May 1861
Richmond
Solzhenitsyn gave an account of his 8 years in Soviet prison camps in this work & used its proceeds to help persecuted folks
The Gulag Archipelago
Bach's solo suites for this instrument got new exposure after an 1890 find by a kid browsing sheet music in Barcelona
cello
1993: This prime minister agrees to the Oslo Peace Accords along with Yasser Arafat
Rabin
Recently damaged in the civil war, this city had been its nation's business capital & was once the end of the Silk Road
Aleppo
3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank
Reb
This author of "Doctor Zhivago" won & accepted the Nobel Prize, but then was forced to decline by the Soviets
Pasternak
Bach wrote a well-known set of concertos for Christian Ludwig, the margrave of this region
Brandenburg
1818: The first synagogue of this branch of Judaism opens in Hamburg
Reform
This country's provinces include Nabatiyeh & Beqaa
Lebanon
Punning on a general's name & a Hugo title, glum Civil War soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia called themselves these
Lee's Miserables
His short story "The Overcoat" is considered one of the foundations of Russian realism
Gogol
This work in 32 sections has been called "a musical peak that almost all major pianists have attempted to scale"
The Goldberg Variations
1897: Theodor Herzl holds the first congress of this group; in one year it would have 800 chapters in Europe
The World Zionist Congress
The Omani peninsula of Musandam juts into this strait, an important route for oil tankers
The Strait of Hormuz
What the North called the Battle of Bull Run, the South called this for a town in Virginia
Manassas