The Seven Lucky Gods of which country's folklore include Ebisu, god of fishermen, and Hotei, god of happiness?

The 1999 movie "The Haunting" was based on which author's novel "The Haunting of Hill House"? On the 19th of which month in 1865 did Union troops in Galveston announce freedom to enslaved people in Texas? Two "Slaves" that Michelangelo sculpted for Pope Julius II's unfinished tomb are displayed in which Paris museum? The main forts of Muscat, Oman, date from the 1580s, when which European nation occupied the city? In 2010, federal judge Martin Feldman blocked the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater what in the Gulf of Me… According to the U.S. Flag Code, the American flag should be flown how only as a signal of dire distress? The ancient Greeks believed that the soul left the body after death in the form of which insect? Which avant-garde author of "Three Lives" hosted a Paris salon for emerging artists such as Picasso and Braque?