UnScramble this Word: s e v d l a e n?

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After being forced to state in public that the earth does not rotate, --------- is said to have muttered under his breath, "But it does move."?

While serving in Congress, -------------- introduced a bill that attempted to bar slavery from all future states admitted to the Union, a measure that might later have prevented the U.S. Civil War if it had not been defeated - by a single vote.?

While the ancient ----------- may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C.?

While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth century on December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury Plain blew over one of the ancient monumental stones at ---------------?

After the U.S. Civil War, Iowa was the first state to give the vote to -----------------.?