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"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET
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$200
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This flat hat is the Basque equivalent of the Scottish tam-o'-shanter
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a beret
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$400
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The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that break-dancers often wear these "sideways or backward"
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baseball caps
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$600
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Oddjob in "Goldfinger" wore this type of hat
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a bowler
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$800
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These guardians of the Tower of London AKA Yeoman Warders wear a Tudor-period uniform that includes a black hat
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Beefeaters
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$1000
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This men's hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning "two-horned"
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a bicorne
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THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS
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$200
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On this least massive planet, you'd be .38 of your earth weight, & very hot
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Mercury
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$400
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Your weight on this now-dwarf planet would be just .07 of your weight on Earth; that's quite a demotion
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Pluto
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$600
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On this planet we have a friend we call Oppy, who weighed 384 pounds on Earth but is 146 up there
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Mars
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$800
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If you could stand on the surface of this giant gas giant, you'd weigh 2.53 times as much as you do on Earth
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Jupiter
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$1000
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An object's weight on Venus is almost the same as it would be on the surface of this much larger planet discovered in 1781
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Uranus
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1980s POP LYRICS
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$200
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The Police: "Oh, can't you see you belong to me"
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"Every Breath You Take""
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$400
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Madonna: " 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. right"
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"Material Girl""
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$600
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Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: "I saw him dancin' there by the record machine"
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"I Love Rock \'N Roll""
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$800
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Bruce Springsteen: "I'm ten years burning down the road"
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"Born In The U.S.A.""
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$1000
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Janet Jackson: "No, my first name ain't baby, it's Janet"
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"Nasty""
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THE NEW SCHOOL
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$200
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In the 1960s Marist College in Poughkeepsie began admitting them, just as nearby Vassar stopped admitting only them
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women
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$400
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BSU for short, this Idaho school has a blue artificial turf field, much to the displeasure of football purists
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Boise State
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$600
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Florida International U. was planned in an old air control tower now called this type of "tower", a symbol of academic life
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ivory tower
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$800
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Alumni of The New School in NYC include this actor, just a few years before he memorably called for Stella
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Marlon Brando
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$1000
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Established in Fairfax to fill a need for higher ed in Northern Va., it's named for a man who helped shape the Constitution
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George Mason
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HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES
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$200
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Adjective for a job of less than a standard number of hours a week
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part-time
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$400
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It describes a man's smooth face with all its whiskers removed
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clean-shaven
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$600
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There's no "-proof" in this adjective often seen on kids' PJs & meaning designed to fend off flames
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fire-resistant
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$800
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Hyphenated adjective for "gains" made criminally or unfairly
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ill-gotten
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$1000
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Adjective for one who always seems to have a greater than average number of mishaps
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accident-prone
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FIRST NAME
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$200
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Steamboat whiz Fulton
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Robert
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$400
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19th century "Pathfinder" & politician Fremont
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John
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$600
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Novelist & sometime Iowa resident
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Jane
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$800
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Socialist candidate Debs, middle initial V.
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Eugene
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$1000
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Lorenzo de Medici's paternal grandfather
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Cosimo
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IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME
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$400
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In 2019 this shipping company ended its U.S. air & ground delivery contracts with Amazon
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FedEx
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$800
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In 2013 this country stripped birthright citizenship from thousands: the resident children of migrants from neighboring Haiti
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the Dominican Republic
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$1200
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In 2020 all 10 seasons of this show will not "be there for you" on Netflix, when WarnerMedia pulls it from the service
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Friends
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$1600
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VP Richard Johnson lived openly with a female slave--one reason this party dropped him from the 1840 ticket with Martin Van Buren
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the Democratic Party
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$2000
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Only 1.17% of this new African country's population voted to stay with the old country in 2011
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Southern (South) Sudan
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BEST DIRECTOR TWICE
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$400
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"Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi", this man seen here
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Ang Lee
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$800
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"Gravity" & "Roma"
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Alfonso Cuarón
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$1200
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"Gentleman's Agreement" & "On the Waterfront"
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Elia Kazan
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$1600
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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia"
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David Lean
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$2000
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"The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment"
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Billy Wilder
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& THEN THERE WERE NUNS
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$400
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Letters published after her 1997 death revealed her years of spiritual torment & belief that she was reliving Christ's passion
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Mother Teresa
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$1200
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A follower of St. Francis, St. Clare of this Italian town took her vows in 1212, founding a new order
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Assisi
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$1600
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This art nun, who became an unlikely BBC and PBS star with TV series like her "Story of Painting", passed away in 2018 at the age of 88
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Sister Wendy
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$2000
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Her books include "Dead Man Walking" & "River of Fire", a 2019 memoir about becoming an activist
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Sister Helen Prejean
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FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES
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$400
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A German motto states, "alles mit der zeit", "everything comes in" this
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time
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$800
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"Oro y plata" is a Spanish motto mentioning these 2 elements
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gold & silver
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$1200
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Burundi's motto is "Unité, Travail, Progrès", meaning "unity," this,"progress"
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work
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$1600
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The Greeks use the motto "Eleftheria i thanatos", "freedom or" this
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death
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$2000
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The French faithful know "Tout pour l'église", "All for" this
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the church
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SHAPELY BOOK TITLES
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$400
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Written by Elliott Roosevelt, "Murder in" this room features his mom, Eleanor, solving a homicide in the White House
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the Oval Office
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$800
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Title of Charles Berlitz' 1974 bestseller about the ships & planes that have vanished in an area, of the Atlantic
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The Bermuda Triangle
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$1200
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This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film
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(The) Circle
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$1600
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It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever
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the Child Star
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$2000
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In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location
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Times Square
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SURINAME
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$400
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It's Suriname's colonial heritage & came before "Guiana" in the country's old name
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Dutch
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$800
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After winning independence in 1975, Suriname endured these internal military takeovers in 1980 & 1990
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coups
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$1200
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Suriname is rich in shorebirds like a 1-ounce species of this one with "sand" in its name that migrates from the Arctic
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sandpiper
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$1600
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Like the U.S. in the 1970s, Suriname in the 1980s battled militants called the SLA, the Suriname this
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Liberation Army
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$2000
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Alcoa began mining this aluminum ore in Suriname in 1916 but began pulling out in 2017
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bauxite
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RANKS & TITLES
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N/A
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Canada, Belgium & the U.S. are among nations that bestow this artistic title that dates to the Greeks & a tree sacred to Apollo
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(Poet) Laureate
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