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Joseph_, US senator notorious for his 1950s anti-communist "witch-hunts" (8) The island awarded the George Cross commemorating the heroism of its people in the Second World War (5) Third-century queen of Palmyra, conqueror of several Roman eastern provinces (7) The name, in its local language, of a remote Pacific island renowned for its giant monolithic statues (4,3) Henry Longfellow's baiiad immortalised this folk hero of the American Revolution (4,6) Member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia that sought asylum in Hungary after the Mongols invaded in 1237 (5) Swedish countess_Ekeblad, agronomist and scientist, first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences John, 1st Baron_, First Sea Lord who modernised the British Royal Navy in the decade prior to the First World War (6) Assyrian capital sacked by the Scythians, Babylonians and Medes in 612 BC (7) Members of a European light cavalry unit based on the 15th-century Hungarian light-horse corps (7) Topmost element of a heraldic display (5) Signal used from the beginning of the 20th century by ships in trouble, now in more general use (3) See 11 across Mediterranean island whose nominal ruler in 1814/15 was Napoleon Bonaparte (4) Georgia_, 20th-century painter known as the "Mother of American Modernism" (7) Suffolk birthplace of Thomas Wolsey, lord chancellor to Henry VIII (7) The first queen to rule England in her own right (4,1) Name of 11 Egyptian kings, the first of whom reigned for less than two years (c1292—1290 BC) (8)
