Clair de lune by Claude Debussy is a piece of classical music from the Impressionistic period with connections to art, geography, history (even a spy story).

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14. The Suite bergamasque was first composed by Debussy around 1890, and included a
selection originally titled "Promenade Sentimentale“, it is now known as “Clair de Lune”
after a poem by Paul Verlaine's.
Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masqueraders and
bergamaskers
go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fanciful disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble
statues.
(from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy)
A dance associated with clowns or
buffoonery,
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15. Because it has almost no atmosphere to retain
heat, Mercury's surface experiences the greatest
temperature variation of all the planets, ranging
from −280 °F to 800 °F .
Because Mercury's orbit lies within Earth's
orbit it can appear in Earth's sky in the
morning or the evening, but not in the middle
of the night.
Mercury, messenger to the gods.
It moves so quickly that it was named after
Mercury the fast-flying messenger to the
gods.

16. Impressionist art does not clearly draw
objects, it only suggests them.
Instead of painting realistic, lifelike paintings
with hard outlines, Impressionists used
thousands of dots, or many different shades
of color to create the "impression" of what
they wanted to depict.

17. Leon Theremin
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It can be played without being touched.
It’s associated with a very eerie sound .
It was invented as a Motion detector.
Can be built with a kit.
Invented one of
The first
electronic
Musical
Instruments.
Moved to the US
where some
believe he was
kidnapped by the
Russian Secret
Police and taken
to a secret
laboratory.
Invented a listening device disguised in a replica of
the Great Seal of the United States, in 1945 Soviet
school children presented the concealed bug to U.S.
Ambassador as a "gesture of friendship". It hung in
the ambassador’s residential office in Moscow, and
intercepted confidential conversations.
It has been used in “rock” songs.
“Good Vibrations” the Beach Boys
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“Good Vibrations”