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PERU
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The presidential mansion in this capital city occupies the site where Pizarro's palace once stood
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Lima
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In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom
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the Amazon
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22,200-foot Mount Huascaran, the highest in Peru, is in the Cordillera Blanca range of these mountains
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the Andes
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One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived
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Cuzco
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This lake that's 12,500 feet above sea level is on the border of Peru & Bolivia
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Lake Titicaca
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SCIENTISTS
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Ernest Rutherford wrote that this colleague for whom a "counter" is named "could count... for a whole night"
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Hans Geiger
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I look at the world & I notice it's turning--thanks to this man who studied at the University of Krakow in the 1490s
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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We think of this Russian who became a professor of general chemistry in 1867, periodically
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Mendeleev
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Avi Loeb thinks a space object seen in 2017 & artistically depicted here comes from this 16-letter type of being, the title of his book
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extraterrestrial
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This French pioneer of studies in electricity got quite a shock when his father was guillotined in 1793
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André-Marie Ampère
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NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS
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For oral hygiene, "C" the offerings from Crest & this brand that offers total SF whitening toothpaste
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Colgate
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These 2 paper towel brands start with "B" & end with "Y"
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Bounty & Brawny
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Brands of dish soap with female names include Joy & this one that touts its use to clean wildlife affected by oil spills
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Dawn
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Noxzema came out in 1914, just 3 years after the launch of this snowy white skin cream whose name also starts with "N"
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Nivea
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Sealy mattresses started in Sealy, Texas in 1881; this other mattress brand introduced its Perfect Sleeper in 1931
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Serta
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MAKING FETCH HAPPEN
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In nursery rhyme news, this pair were airlifted from a hill after one suffered a severe head injury fetching water
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Jack & Jill
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Punning on a rodent, it's a low-ranking employee who may fetch papers or dry cleaning
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a gofer
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In this movie, Regina says, "Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. it's not going to happen"
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Mean Girls
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Hercules' 11th labor was a fruit run to fetch these valuable items guarded by the Hesperides
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golden apples
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In "The Tempest", this ex-Duke of Milan says Caliban "does make our fire, fetch in our wood"
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Prospero
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TV TITLE PAIRS
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This title pair of an animated favorite were a psychotic Chihuahua & a dimwitted cat
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Ren & Stimpy
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NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman & Adler
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Will & Grace
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Cindy Williams & Penny Marshall lived together & worked together on this sitcom
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Laverne & Shirley
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The backyard of these two title Disney TV characters was always the place to be for cool inventions & fun
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Phineas & Ferb
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They sometimes played dysfunctional couple Meegan & Andre on their Comedy Central series
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Key & Peele
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ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN
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"The best laid schemes of ____ & men"
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mice
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"A ____ in a poke"
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pig
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"A sacred ____"
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cow
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"As fine as ____'s hair"
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frog
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"One ____ does not make a summer"
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swallow
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U.S. HISTORY
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A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920
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Wall Street
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This body convened for the first time on March 4, 1789, but only 8 members--4 short of a quorum--showed up
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the United States Senate
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The first mass inoculation of children against this disease began in Pittsburgh in 1954
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Polio
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The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened April 30, 1904 in this non-Louisiana city
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St. Louis
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On October 5, 1877 this Native people's Chief Joseph surrendered to pursuing U.S. soldiers
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the Nez Perce
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IMPORTED FROM ITALY
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It's no surprise that Alba in Piedmont is the name of the town that this color truffle comes from
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the white truffle
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The San Marzano type of this is prized because it grows in the rich volcanic soil of Mount Vesuvius
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tomatoes
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Any Pecorino cheese, like Pecorino Romano, comes from the milk of this animal
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sheep
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Barene are salt marshes in this lagoon where Barena honey is made
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the Venetian Lagoon
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This 7-letter red wine from Tuscany comes from a Sangiovese grape, but its quality varies quite a bit
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Chianti
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AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG
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Langston Hughes attended this New York City Ivy League school & discovered Harlem, where he would help lead a renaissance
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Columbia (University)
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As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs
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Michael Crichton
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This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager
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Joseph Conrad
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At 16, she she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name 'Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua
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Toni Morrison
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GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS
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"Hunger Games: Mockingjay" director Francis Lawrence won a Grammy for directing her "Bad Romance" video
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Lady Gaga
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"Eight Days A Week", a documentary about the Beatles, earned this "Apollo 13" director his first Grammy
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Ron Howard
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This actress was Grammy-worthy for directing "Quincy", a film about her father, a music legend
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Rashida Jones
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Spike Jonze won for directing this Oscar winner dancing in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" video
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Christopher Walken
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Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band
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Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)
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QUOTATIONS
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The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this
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the wind
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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" is from the end of this brief but powerful speech
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the Gettysburg Address
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In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus quotes this gospel's "Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy"
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Luke
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In "The Prophet", he wrote, "Work is love made visible"
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Kahlil Gibran
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This missionary whose time was 1875-1965 said, "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always"
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Albert Schweitzer
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WORDS OF WISDOM
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was nicknamed this 4-letter wise person "of Concord"
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Sage
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Take the creature seen here, add one letter, & you have this word meaning "clever"
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shrewd
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Often seen before "faire", this word creates a phrase meaning "knowing how to live" when it comes before "vivre"
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savoir
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This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man
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sapiens
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It's "A" 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business
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acumen
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AROUND THE WORLD
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In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria
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Madagascar
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