FEBRUARY
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One legend about this saint whose feast day is February 14 says he specialized in performing secret marriages
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St. Valentine
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$400
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According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore
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African-American History Month
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$600
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Baseball spring training begins each February, with players at these 2 positions the first to report
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pitchers & catchers
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$800
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John Clare's poem "February" is all about thawing: "eaves in quick succession drop, where grinning" these "have been"
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icicles
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$1000
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It's the big day seen here in the Crescent City one recent February
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Mardi Gras
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CAST OF THE TV SHOW
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On NBC...oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer
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This Is Us
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Time traveling on BBC America without the lead actress: Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh
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Doctor Who
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$600
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Some special FX: Patrick Wilson & Keith Carradine, both playin' Lou Solverson, dontcha know
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Fargo
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$800
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On the CW: Camila Mendes & Cole Sprouse as teens, Robin Givens & Skeet Ulrich as grownups
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Riverdale
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$1000
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HBO gets some very robotic performances out of Thandie Newton & James Marsden
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Westworld
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THE CIVIL WAR
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About 1,500 Union soldiers received this highest award for valor, instituted by Congress during the Civil War
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the Congressional Medal of Honor
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Confederate troops used a high-pitched battle cry known by this 2-word name; it may have derived from fox hunting
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the rebel yell
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The first amputee of the war, J.E. Hanger invented a prosthetic this that ones made today are still based upon
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a leg
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With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year
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1864
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George Stewart called his in-depth study of this disastrous charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 a microhistory
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Pickett
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"JUST SAY "N.O."
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Avian term for someone who stays up late
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a night owl
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This gas is used by dentists as an anesthetic
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nitrous oxide
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$600
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It's the delicacy seen here
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a navel orange
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It's a French phrase whose sentiment is that the rich should take care of the poor
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noblesse oblige
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This astronomical site in D.C. is responsible for the U.S. time service
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the Naval Observatory
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FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES
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Something ill-suited is "not my" this 3-word phrase; I prefer English breakfast
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cup of tea
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Tread carefully if doing this phrase for being careful not to anger someone (it can use the whole food item or just the shells)
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walking on eggshells
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It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole
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a pie chart
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To lament a misfortune that can't be changed or corrected
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cry over spilled milk
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This expression means "earn a living"; in an old commercial, it was followed by "fry it up in a pan"
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bring home the bacon
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THE HORN OF AFRICA
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National Geographic called the Danakil this, home to the Horn's Afar people, "the cruelest place on earth"
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Desert
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Animals of the Horn include the hamadrayas, among the smallest of these big monkeys
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a baboon
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The point of the Horn is the peninsula of this country that's earned a reputation as a haven for pirates
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Somalia
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In 1993, this country broke away from Ethiopia to become the Horn's newest independent nation
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Eritrea
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Horn of Africa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and this body of water that gets its name from a seaport on the coast of Yemen
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the Gulf of Aden
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3/4 OF AN EGOT
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This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory
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Bette Midler
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Emmy "seems to be the hardest word" for this musician, but he certainly could "feel the love tonight" at the Oscars in '95
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Elton John
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$1200
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Her life story itself was on Broadway in 2019; yet still somehow this one-named superstar is Tony-less
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Cher
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$1600
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This actress still needs a Tony, so right now, she will have to settle for having a "Titanic" "EGO"
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Kate Winslet
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$2000
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He's the Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning rapper and actor seen here
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Common
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RELIGIOUS FICTION
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Books in this series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins take place following "the rapture"
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Left Behind
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Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series of novels includes one about these 2 sisters & wives of Jacob
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Rachel & Leah
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"The Fifth Mountain" by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho tells of the "whirlwind" life of this biblical prophet
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Elijah
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TRIAL MIX
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A minor character in "The Crucible", the real Martha Corey was tried, excommunicated & hanged for this in 1692
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witchcraft
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During the trial of this teacher in 1925, vendors sold refreshments, Bibles & toy monkeys
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(John T.) Scopes
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On Aug. 2,1921, 8 members of this team were acquitted of taking money to lose the World Series; on Aug. 3 they were banned from baseball
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the White Sox
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In 1982 a federal jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of president Reagan
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John Hinckley, Jr.
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Seized in South America in 1960, this high-ranking Nazi was transported to Israel, where he was tried & executed
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Adolf Eichmann
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HEAT STREET
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Pasta chefs know it's the common way of saying heat-induced conversion of a liquid to a gas through vaporization
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boiling
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0 Kelvin is 273.15 below on this scale
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Celcius
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It's the transfer of energy from one object to another by electromagnetic waves, like heat traveling from the Sun to the Earth
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radiation
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Heat is a form of energy: the first law of this says that it can be neither created nor destroyed but can be changed
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thermodynaics
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Like the desert snake it's named for, this air-to-air missile uses heat sensing to home in on its prey
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a sidewinder
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"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS
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"Any port in a storm" is a popular one
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a proverb
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A brewski in Barcelona
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a cerveza
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Pickles or ice cream for expectant mothers, for example
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craving
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$1600
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A high-ranking college officer
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a provost
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Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard
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a clavier
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OPERA ZINGERS
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Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" has lots to say to this other British queen, such as "Figlia impura di Bolena"
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Elizabeth I
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"Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer
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Don Giovanni
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This Verdi guy's joking includes suggesting the Count of Ceprano be beheaded since his head is useless on his shoulders
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Rigoletto
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"You inconsiderate jade" is one of the nicer things said to Polly in this 1728 "opera" that inspired the 20th c. "Threepenny Opera"
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The Beggar\'s Opera
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The Wagnerian dwarf Alberich calls these "maidens" "bony fish" who should "take eels for their lovers"
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Rhinemaidens
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INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
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N/A
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There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country
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Argentina
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