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FATHERS OF INVENTION
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Plant burrs sticking to a dog's fur inspired Swiss inventor George de Mestral to create this fastener brand
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Velcro
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To find the bullet in James Garfield, Alexander Graham Bell created an early one of these, but mattress springs confused it
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a metal detector
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In 1830 Edwin Budding patented the mechanical this for the "cropping or shearing" of "grass-plats and pleasure grounds"
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the lawn mower
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Christopher Cockerell invented these air-cushioned English Channel ferries
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hovercrafts
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Last name of the 19th century Belgian who never heard of jazz but invented one of its main instruments
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Sax
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8-LETTER WORDS
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The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this
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currency
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A small insect, or someone who reads a lot
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bookwsorm
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One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot"
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a cauldron
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As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed
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dispatch
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This tuna, species Thunnus alalunga, can be used in a nicoise salad
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albacore
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER
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Citizens in most German states need to pass a written test to get a license to enjoy this rod & reel pastime
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fishing
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This 11-letter type of driver's license comes after the learner's permit in some states
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provisional
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In Britain, an off-licence is a shop that sells this & requires you to consume it off the premises
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alcohol
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If you want to get a dog license in Ann Arbor, Michigan, your pooch must be vaccinated for this malady
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rabies
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Operators of CB radio have a "license by rule", while operators of this need an FCC amateur operator license
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ham radio
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"E" SPORTS
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Headquartered in Nepal, the WEPA is the World this animal Polo Association
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elephant
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Linda Cohn, Chris Berman & Scott Van Pelt are stars on its team
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ESPN
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In 2020 Major League Baseball started putting a runner on second base to start each of these, which start with the tenth
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extra innings
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In 1999 this Denver QB was Super Bowl MVP, then quit while he was way ahead
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John Elway
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At the Montreal Olympics, Princess Anne competed for Britain in this sport
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equestrian
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BARNS
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The big barn seen here in Lexington, Kentucky was built to house this breed named for their unmixed stock
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Thoroughbreds
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Barn owls are generally this 10-letter word meaning they mate for life, & could nest in the same barn year after year
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monogamous
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Seen here are some barns used to cultivate this plant of the genus Nicotiana
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tobacco
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In some barns, the ground floor is for animals & the top floor is named for this action where grain is separated from husks
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threshing
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Pennsylvania Dutch barns are sometimes adorned with these 3-letter signs intended to ward off evil
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hex signs
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NOBLE
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This 3-letter title is used for a man who is dubbed a knight
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sir
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If you watched "Downton Abbey", you know the wife of an English lord with this title is a countess
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earl
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Becoming a "life" one of these in Britain gets you a title, but it can't be passed on to your children
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life peers
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In 1867 John Sholto Douglas, the ninth marquess of this, sponsored a codification of the rules of fisticuffs
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Queensberry
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Henry V made Humphrey Plantagenet Duke of Gloucester before Humphrey went off to serve in this protracted war
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the Hundred Years\' War
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
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Dartmouth, England has a memorial to the American role in this WWII invasion for which it was a major launching point
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D-Day
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A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape
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Casablanca
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The naval monument in this British territory at the entrance to the Mediterranean is known as the American Steps
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Gibraltar
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$1600
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There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium
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Flanders
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This nation mainly of ethnic Albanians put up a statue of Pres. Clinton for helping it declare itself independent of Serbia
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Kosovo
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS
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Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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This holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night
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(Elie) Wiesel
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Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger"
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(Albert) Camus
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Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too"
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A Room with a View
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Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States
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Being There
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NEXT IN LINE
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The next D.C. avenue: Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue...
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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Omicron, pi, rho...
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sigma
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Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver...
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Sochi
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Alphabetically: xenon, ytterbium, yttrium...
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zinc
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES
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$400
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In 1997 Myron Scholes won the award for this field; in 1998 the hedge fund he co-founded lost around $4 billion
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economics
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Physics winners Penzias & Wilson had to shoo pigeons from their antenna to pick up background radiation from this "Big" event
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the Big Bang
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Author Knut Hamsun tarnished his reputation when he gave his Nobel Prize medal to this Nazi propaganda minister
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Goebbels
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In 1949 Dr. Antonio Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of this once common but now discredited brain surgery
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(frontal) lobotomy
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1948 had no Peace Prize winner; this man who was nominated that year was assassinated & Nobels are rarely given posthumously
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(Mahatma) Gandhi
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PLAYING PRESIDENT
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In addition to commander-in-chiefing in "Deep Impact" & "Angel Has Fallen", he's also played God at least a couple of times
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Morgan Freeman
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It was plane to see this man had some in-flight issues as president James Marshall in "Air Force One"
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Harrison Ford
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Before Allstate ad fame, Dennis Haysbert was president David Palmer on this tense TV show
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24
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Mary McDonnell's Laura Roslin had a strong anti-Cylon platform as president on this TV drama
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Battlestar Galactica
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Terry Crews was president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in this 2006 Mike Judge film &/or warning
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Idiocracy
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "H"
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Like mustard & wasabi, this related root is prepared & used as a condiment
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horseradish
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In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this
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hallelujah
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Grown from a bulb, it's the popular spring flower seen here
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a hyacinth
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A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women
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Hadassah
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17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN
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Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life"
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(Cardinal) Richilieu
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