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1. A teletype (teleprinter) link, sending text messages

It was later upgraded to fax and then to a secure email link. A telephone line was never its main purpose.

2. Fanya (Fanny) Kaplan

3. Melbourne (after Lord Melbourne)

4. The Hubble Space Telescope

5. Travel into space

6. USS Missouri

7. Indonesia

8. Russia

9. New Zealand

10. The Alps (at the Great St Bernard Pass) (Jacques-Louis David)

Napoleon actually crossed the pass on a mule, in fine weather. David painted the heroic version Napoleon wanted.

11. Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett)

12. The Mask (Cameron Diaz)

13. Jean-Claude Killy

14. The Mamas and the Papas (John Phillips)

15. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)

16. Egyptian

17. Roger Federer (Andy Roddick)

18. Birkenhead

19. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Mary Shelley)

20. Louisiana (Huey Long)