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Answer: Got married

In 1877, Alfred Marshall married Mary Paley who was his student. Marshall was forced to leave his position as a Fellow of St John College, Cambridge, to observe the celibacy rules at the university. Celibacy was mandatory for fellows of Oxford and Cambridge until 1882 when their statutes were revised. Marshall returned to Cambridge in 1885 and remained there until his retirement in 1908.

Answer: Dressed in it

The dirndl is a traditional clothing from the Alpine region. The dirndl consists of a wide skirt, a bodice, a blouse and an apron. The different details found on the clothing can indicate its place of origin and the social status of the person wearing it.

The word is derived from the Bavarian dialect referring to young woman or a girl. This garment appeared in the 19th century and was based on the traditional clothing of farmers and servants.

Answer: The slave trade

House of Slaves and its famous Door of no Return, on Gorée Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade. In this place thousands of Africans were on display to be bought and taken by as slaves. Gorée Island used to be one of the points of departure for people who were forced to leave the African continent for ever; they were taken to Europe or America.

Answer: Mata Hari

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle, 1876 - 1917) was known by the stage name Mata Hari. She was a Dutch dancer and courtesan who was condemned as being a spy for Germany during the World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France.

Answer: A group of factory workers

The name "Radium Girls" was given to a group of young girls hired by the US Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, to paint the dial of clocks and other instruments using self luminous paint that contained Radium. In the late 1910s and 1920s they ended up suffering and dying from radiation poisoning. Grace Fryer and four other workmates, already ill started a process against the company.

The case named "Radium Girls" was widely published and helped to improve occupational disease laws.

Answer: Pequod

"Moby-Dick" or "The Whale" is the name of the novel written by the American author Herman Melville, 1851. In the center of the novel are Pequod, the fictional whaling ship, the Captain Ahab, the crew, including the narrator Ishmael.

Ghost is a fictional seal-hunting ship that appears in the novel "The Sea-Wolf", 1904, by Jack London. Erebus is the name of the boat in the novel "Alaska", 1988, by author James A. Michener.

Answer: Suzanne Lenglen

The French tennis player Suzanne R. Flore Lenglen was one international tennis super star in the 1920s. She was the first woman whose first language was not English to win the Wimbledon women's singles. She won six Wimbledon women's singles titles, including five in a row from 1919 to 1923. She was also the first female tennis player to become a professional player.

The tennis players Maria Bueno (Maria Esther Bueno, Brazil), Cilly Aussem (Germany) and Steffi Graf (Stefanie Maria Graf, Germany), also won the Wimbledon women's singles and didn't have English as their first language either.

Answer: Belgrade

The river Sava, which is 990 km long, is a Central European river that flows through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It meets the Danube in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia which once was the capital of Yugoslavia. From the Belgrade Fortress, it's possible to have a wonderful view of the city and the rivers.

Answer: Bluenose

The Bluenose was a schooner built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1921, for both fishing and racing duties. It was considered the fastest racing ship in Canadian history. It is recognized as part of Canadian heritage which is why it appears on postage stamps, on license plate of Nova Scotia and in the Canadian ten cents or a dime coin.

The Canadian dime has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and on the reverse contains a representation of the Bluenose. Emanuel Hahn made the Bluenose design for the coin in 1937.

Answer: Win the four most important annual tennis events and win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games.

The Golden Slam is a title rarely achieved in tennis. Winning the Golden Slam means winning the Grand Slam tournaments, the four major tennis events - Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, the US Open - and a Gold Medal singles at the Olympics.

In 1988 the German tennis player Steffi Graf achieved an unprecedented fact that until 2020 was not achieved by any other tennis player. In the same year she won the four major tennis tournaments and also the Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Her title is sometimes referred as the Calendar Golden Slam. Other athletes, such as André Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams, have already won all these titles but not in the same year.