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THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
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In the 1840s this British queen got a court injunction to prevent family sketches she had made from being published
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Queen Victoria
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A painting by this Russian leader sold for more than $1 million in a charity auction--no word on if he was shirtless when he painted it
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Putin
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An exhibit of his "Portraits of Courage" paintings was held at his Presidential Center in Texas
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George W. Bush
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A portrait of the 16th president was painted by this 34th president in 1953
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Eisenhower
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In 2003 Jimmy Carter painted himself holding the hands of these 2 men at the 1978 Camp David Accords
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Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat
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POP CULTURE
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As a couple, they were jointly known as "Bennifer"
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Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez
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Playing himself, William Shatner made a guest appearance in "The D & D Vortex" episode of this sitcom
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The Big Bang Theory
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In 2019 she became the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical
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Awkwafina
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On Oscar night in 2017, this film took home 6 awards, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle
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La La Land
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In 2012 the late Tupac Shakur performed via hologram at this California music festival
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Coachella
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MONTANA
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At Three Forks, Montana, the Gallatin, Jefferson & Madison Rivers come together to form this much longer river
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the Missouri
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"Eragon" author Christopher Paolini is a longtime Montana resident, while this 4-time Oscar nominee was born there
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Michelle Williams
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The vastness of the wild blue yonder gave Montana the nickname this "Country", which appears on its state quarter
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Big Sky
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Bozeman in southern Montana is one of the gateways to this national park
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Yellowstone
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With only about 109,000 people, this city is Montana's most populous
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Billings
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THE STOCK MARKET
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Like the mutual kind, an ETF is an exchange-traded this, which trades like a stock
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a fund
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Direct listing allows companies to sell their shares without these bank "under"lings
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underwriters
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In 2021 the wild ride of GameStop stock pitted small investors against the big boys who use this method & hope the price will fall
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short selling
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If you bought stock on credit, you may be subject to this kind of call where you have to come up with more money
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a margin call
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In 1941 Standard Statistics merged with this man's investment information publishing company
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Poor\'s (Henry Poor)
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THICKER THAN WATER
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As the proverb says, this is "thicker than water", normally by at least 3 to 4 times
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blood
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Some people refer to this element as quicksilver
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mercury
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Products from this brand include school glue, glow in the dark glue & pre-made slime called "Gue"
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Elmer\'s
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Nearly 80 years later, this sunken battleship is still leaking oil in Pearl Harbor
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the USS Arizona
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While this substance is the chief source of natural rubber, the kind used in certain paints is synthetic
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latex
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A CALL ON THE HOMOPHONE
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An antlered ruminant & a frothy whipped cream dessert
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moose & mousse
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To enclose a gift box & to rhyme freestyle
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to wrap & to rap
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A medieval union & to apply a valuable-looking cover layer
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guild & gild
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A wind indicator & part of the circulatory system
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vane & vein
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A stage of development & to disconcert or disturb
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phase & faze
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CREATURE FROM
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Seems warm for them, but the monk seal that bears the name of this sea is found off the coast of Algeria
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the Mediterranean
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The bird seen here is called this city's warbler, great nickname for a country singer
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Nashville
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This big black buffalo is named for a bit of land in way southern Africa
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Cape buffalo
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$1600
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Named for a southern African region, the Damaraland one of these is furrier than its naked cousin
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a mole-rat
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Not all that hideous, this lizard is named for an Arizona river basin
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a Gila monster
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THE "BLACK"
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As this disease infected much of the continent around 1350, Europeans tried cures like eating crushed emeralds
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the Black Plague
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Dalton Trumbo & Burgess Meredith were 2 who had their careers damaged by this 1950s Hollywood practice
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blacklisting
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Nickname for the son of Edward III who fought the French in the Hundred Years' War
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the Black Prince
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A byproduct of sugar refining, it's a dark, viscous variety of molasses
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blackstrap molasses
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The Siksika & the Blood are groups that make up this Native American people
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the Blackfoot
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LEGUMES
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They're small, round & green & come from Pisum sativum
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English peas
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Often found in minestrone, cannellini are these anatomically named beans
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kidney beans
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The drought-resistant moth bean is high in this, from the Greek for "first"
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protein
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In the King James Bible, the fates of Esau & Jacob turn on a pottage of these legumes
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lentils
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Cultivated for food & as ornamental plants, these flowering legumes include about 200 species
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lupines
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
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In 1880's Strauder v. West Virginia, the court struck down a state law requiring these impaneled people to be white
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jurors
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1904's Northern Securities Company v. U.S. ruling said a holding company formed to eliminate competition violated this 1890 act
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the Sherman Antitrust Act
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1919's Schenck v. U.S. upheld the Espionage Act, saying speech could be restricted if it presented this 2-adjective "danger"
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clear & present
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In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, the court said president Truman could not nationalize this industry
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the steel industry
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The 1995 Thornton decision said these are unconstitutional for Congress, as the people have the right to choose their lawmakers
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term limits
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MASHED-UP MOVIE ROLES
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Leopold Barnum
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Hugh Jackman
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Sherlock Chaplin
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Malcolm Biko
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Denzel Washington
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Sophie Silkwood
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Meryl Streep
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Pepper Plath
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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HISTORICAL FICTION
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Fabrizio in Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of Parma" fights in Napoleon's final battle named for this Belgian village
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Waterloo
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This frontiersman who lent his name to Nevada's capital plays a role in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
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(Kit) Carson
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Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king
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Alexander the Great
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"The Painted Girls" tells the story of the model for this artist's "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"
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Degas
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This Mumbai-born author opens "Midnight's Children" as India becomes independent
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Salman Rushdie
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WORLD CAPITALS
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A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia
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Ankara, Turkey
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