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3-WORD CITIES
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Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain
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Port-au-Prince
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It's the full name of the English town nicknamed "The Home of the Bard"
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Stratford-upon-Avon
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This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river
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Rio de Janeiro
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Once the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is today the legislative capital of this island country
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Sri Lanka
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In Arabic the name of this major port city & seat of Tanzania's government means "abode of peace"
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Dar es Salaam
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SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR
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Christie Brinkley, in 1985
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Billy Joel
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Linda Eastman, in 1969
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Paul McCartney
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Valerie Bertinelli, in 1981
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Eddie Van Halen
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TV personality formerly Sharon Arden, in 1982
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Shannon Tweed, finally, in 2011
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Gene Simmons
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BUCKETS
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In 1957 the first KFC bucket was designed by this founder's first franchisee, Pete Harman
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Colonel Sanders
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In 1785 "Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" defined this phrase as "to die"
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to kick the bucket
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"The Bucket List" starred these 2 Oscar winners, known for playing God & Satan in other films
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Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman
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Orchid bees fly into bucket orchids & deliver the materials that help in this reproductive process
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pollination
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The BWE, or bucket-wheel this, is capable of moving 12,000 cubic meters of soil per hour
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excavator
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ARCHITECTURE
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Tiny houses, usually 400 square feet or less, often have one of these open upper spaces for the bed
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a loft
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Connecting buildings or parts of a house, this covered passage, open on the sides, is so named because it allows wind to pass through
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a breezeway
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Vital to holding up an arch is this block, top & center, that's placed last
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a keystone
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This British style of architecture was ushered in beginning with the reign of Henry VII
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Tudor
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Renewed interest in the buildings of ancient Rome and Greece shows in this style of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
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Neoclassical
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THE 20th CENTURY
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Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later
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radar
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Formulated by the Allies at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this organization was established in Geneva in 1920
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League of Nations
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Celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring was among Aug. 9, 1969 victims of the murderous gang controlled by this man
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the (Charles) Manson family
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In 1909 a toy company chose the slogan "Goodbye" to this other 2-word toy, "Hello, Billy Possum"
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a teddy bear
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In 1956 it was g'day for the Olympics held here, the first held in the Southern Hemisphere
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Melbourne
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CONTRONYMS
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It can mean to take away a car or to get your car back
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repossess
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When you model, you do this to create a pose; for a stagehand, it means to take down a set
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strike
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When doing this to a regular tree, you remove branches; while doing it to a Christmas tree, you add ornaments
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trim
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You can do this to a meal by adding parsley or to a paycheck by deducting money
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garnish
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As a verb, this piece of hardware can mean to affix something to the floor or to speed away, like in a race
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bolt
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SPEAKING VOLUMES
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"The Last Lion", a biography of this British PM, appeared in 3 volumes in 1983, 1988 & 2012
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Churchill
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Here's a revelation--it's the seventh & "Last" book in the Narnia series
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The Last Battle
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The most recent edition of this lexicon in book form was published in 20 volumes in 1989
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the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED)
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After it was serialized in a magazine, his "Madame Bovary" was published in 2 volumes in 1857
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Flaubert
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In the 11 volumes of Will & Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization", "The Renaissance" is followed immediately by this "R" period
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Reformation
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CHEMISTRY
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It's the only chemical element that weighs less than helium
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hydrogen
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Equal to the protons in its nucleus, this is 26 for iron
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the atomic number
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Another word for a state of matter, it precedes "transition" to describe a change of a substance such as from liquid to gas
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phase
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TV-POURRI
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"A Million Little Pieces" is a tale of addiction & recovery; this ABC show is a drama featuring the Saville family
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A Million Little Things
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"Everybody Dies" was the 2012 series finale of this Hugh Laurie show
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House
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There are Jawas, bounty droid IG-11 & Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon in this Disney+ show that debuted in 2019
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The Mandalorian
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This Skinnygirl made headlines recently when she announced she was leaving "The Real Housewives of New York City"
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Bethenny Frankel
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From 1984 to 1989, she was the Allie of "Kate & Allie", and we bet she could give you contestants a run for your money, too
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Jane Curtin
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THAT USED TO HAPPEN?
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High car ownership, the interstate system & fear of strangers all led to the decline in this form of free highway travel
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hitchhiking
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Quick cut and rough cut used to be literally true when this movie professional physically sliced up the film
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an editor
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"Duck &" this was actual 2-part advice in case of nuclear attack to 1950s kids from the Federal Civil Defense Administration
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cover
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With smoke-filled rooms & favorite sons, these used to be dramatic affairs but the last multi-ballot one was in 1952
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nominating conventions for the parties
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Big offices used to have pools of mostly female workers to do typing & this job of taking dictation in shorthand
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stenography
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RELIGIOUS IDIOMS
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If you put up with a lot, you have "the patience of" this Old Testament man from the land of Uz
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Job
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A tornado is an example of this seemingly divinely caused event that can't be stopped by humans
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an act of God
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One who's nearing the end of life is knocking on this, as in a 1973 Bob Dylan song
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heaven\'s door
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Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor
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a blessing in disguise
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Someone who descends quickly from public approval has undergone this religious-sounding tumble
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a fall from grace
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""V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME
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Name of the family that had a 300-year run of royal rule starting in 1613 with Czar Michael
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Romanov
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Due to the TB that would eventually kill him, this "Sea Gull" playwright moved to the resort of Yalta in 1899
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Chekhov
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This scientist who worked with dogs also showed how the flow of the stomach's digestive juices is controlled by the vagus nerve
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Pavlov
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You remember his brilliant pawn sacrifice on the 14th move of the 10th game of the 1995 match against Anand
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Kasparov
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AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
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This West African country of 12 million doesn’t border the 1,200-mile-wide gulf of the same name
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Guinea
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