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DID YOU KNOW?
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The OED dates the first recorded use of this letter to mean "kiss" back to a 1763 British letter
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X
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Take it slow! This rain forest tree-dwelling mammal can take weeks to digest a meal & can hold its breath longer than a dolphin
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a sloth
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1980s Russia traded subs & other ships for this red, white & blue soda brand, said to briefly make it 1 of the world's largest navies
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Pepsi
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The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed
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duffel
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Snoop Dogg tried to rent this entire Eur. nation, Vaduz & all, for a video shoot; doable? Yes, but Snoop didn't give enough notice
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Liechtenstein
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PROSE BY BROS
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Jacob & Wilhelm, who gave us "Snow White" & "The Golden Goose"
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the Brothers Grimm
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Rod, short story collections as well as "The Twilight Zone"; Richard, "The President's Plane is Missing"
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Serling
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Twins Matt & Ross, Emmy-nominated for writing "Chapter Nine: The Gate" for the television show "Stranger Things"
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the Duffer Brothers
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Henry, "Roderick Hudson" in 1876; William, "Essays in Radical Empiricism", published posthumously in 1912
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James
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Frank, the 2005 memoir "Teacher Man"; Malachy, who wrote "A Couple of Blaguards" with his brother
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McCourt
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FOXES
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Related to dogs & wolves, foxes are part of this scientific family
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canine
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Term for a cozy room in your house, or a cozy fox burrow
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a den
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Writing about foxes? It's required that you use the adjective "bushy" to describe this body part
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the tail
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This species, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land
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the red fox
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Only about 15 inches long, the fennec is the world's smallest fox & lives in this largest desert of Africa
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the Sahara
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LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND
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Things go south when they go here "in a handbasket"
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hell
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A football running play, or when a plane's tracking is given to another control center
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a handoff
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I heard it this way, directly from the original source
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firsthand
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Proverbially, "Close only counts in" this game "& hand grenades"
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horseshoes
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The ends are left hanging in this long necktie that uses a slipknot
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a four-in-hand
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ONE-WORD SONG TITLES
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This No. 1 hit by Rihanna includes the apt lyric "let it rain"
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"Umbrella"
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Lorde topped the charts with this song, her first single
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"Royals"
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Elaborate hand gestures are part of the dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream with this 1990 No. 1 hit
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"Vogue"
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A song by Sia says, "I'm gonna swing from the" this, the song's title
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"Chandelier"
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Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry
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"Roar"
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"A_D" VERBS
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Shortened a word
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abbreviated
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Spirited someone away, likely illegally
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abducted
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Turned away one's eyes, from the Latin for "to turn"
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averted
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Aided or assisted, specifically in the commission of a crime
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abetted
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Played piano at the soprano recital
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accompanied
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U.S. HISTORY
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In 1824 women walked off the job at a Rhode Island textile mill in what's considered America's first factory this
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a strike
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The Senate didn't ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so this G.O.P. president proclaimed peace between the U.S. & Germany in 1921
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Harding
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The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this country January 3, 1961
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Cuba
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This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania was prompted by a tax on liquor
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the Whiskey Rebellion
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The 1970s oil crisis made this project inevitable; much of its construction was elevated out of worry for wildlife and permafrost
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the Alaska Pipeline
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WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?
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In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid & "National" , eventually moving to Florida
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the Enquierer
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The name of the tabloid website & TV show TMZ refers to a 30-mile zone centering on this major city
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Los Angeles
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This word also used for gossip is a drinking fountain aboard ship
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a scuttlebutt
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In 1977 Rupert Murdoch launched a gossip column originally found at & named for this page of the New York Post
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Page Six
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Famous feuding gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood were Louella Parsons & this alliterative lady
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Hedda Hopper
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20th CENTURY ENGLISH
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"Giving me a glance of annoyance" was replaced by "giving me the" this smelly phrase
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a stink eye
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A twist on Defoe, "Girl" or "Gal" this for a female assistant was big pre-World War II
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Friday
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Borrowed from Italian & spelled all kinds of ways in English, it means "do you get me?"
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capisce
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The OED defines it as a tune that stays in your mind "especially to the point of irritation "
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an earworm
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The medium was in its infancy in the 1930s when this word came along to mean "looking good on TV"
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telegenic
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THEY DID IT
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Won a fourth term as German chancellor in 2017
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(Angela) Merkel
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Brought a team of nurses to the Crimean War on a mail boat
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Nightingale
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Won a coin flip with David Packard for top billing
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Hewlett
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In 1839 he showed his photos to the French Academy of Sciences
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(Louis) Daguerre
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Wrote "The Normal Heart", fought for AIDS research
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(Larry) Kramer
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GO WEST
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A stroll west over the Vltava River on the Charles bBidge takes you from this capital's Old Town to the Mala Strana
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Prague
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Go due west on land from Newfoundland & Labrador to this large province
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Quebec
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Head west from Toulouse to reach the Franco-Spanish "country" named for this people who have a unique language
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Basque
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Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well
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Lesotho
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The ferry from Wellington on New Zealand's North Island to Picton on the south one goes west across this strait
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the Cook Strait
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YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN
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In a 1985 film the "Young" this character fences against Moriarty in boarding school
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Young Sherlock Holmes
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In "Young Mr." this man, Henry Fonda plays an up-&-coming Illinois attorney
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Lincoln
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"The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days
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Indiana Jones
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This actor shakes up the Vatican as Pius XIII, "The Young Pope" in the title of an HBO series
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Jude Law
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This actor, not Peter Boyle, is the title character in "Young Frankenstein"
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Gene Wilder
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FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS
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In French, this fairy tale character is La Petite Poucette, in Spanish, Pulgarcita & in English, this
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Thumbelina
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