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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 said the Supreme Court would have 1 Chief Justice & 5 of these, which seems problematic in close decisions
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associate justices
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A 1909 act of Congress describes this symbol as "the letter C inclosed within a circle"
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a copyright
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Britain's Constitution Act of 1982 gave complete independence to this big country
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Canada
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This European country's history of being permissive on soft drugs dates back to its 1919 Opium Act
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the Netherlands
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The Anti-Union Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 known as Taft-this congressman overcame the veto of Harry Truman
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Fred Hartley
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BRITISH POETRY
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Her 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions Robert Browning, who soon began his own courtship
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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This poem from 1667 contains the line "His pride had cast him out from heav'n, with all his host of rebel angels"
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Paradise Lost
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Robert Burns described this creature as a "cow'rin tim'rous beastie"
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a mouse
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In this 1798 poem a sailor laments, "with my cross-bow I shot the albatross"
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" at age 80 & made this request to all future publishers
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put it last in his books
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL
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Predatory sobriquet for a poolroom hustler
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shark
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We all return to this per Genesis 3:19
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the dust
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It's one direction of a crossword answer
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down
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The very pale Pierrot is a type of this performer
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a clown
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A manufacturing facility, or a person in the audience who's there to help a performer
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a plant
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CATCH
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1950s race horse Silky Sullivan once caught the leaders & won after trailing by 41 these, the distance from his nose to his tail
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length
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Though India would win by 257 runs, Dwayne Leverock made a memorable catch for Bermuda in this sport at a West Indies World Cup
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cricket
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Alfred Glassell set a record catching a "black" one of these in 1953; footage of the catch was later used in "The Old Man and the Sea"
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a marlin
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Nicknamed "OBJ", he's on the cutting edge in NFL ball catching
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Odell Beckham Jr.
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Teenaged truck driver Sal Durante caught this man's homer No. 61 in '61; he sold the ball for $5,000
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Roger Maris
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LIGHTNING
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The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth
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fire
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Florida is a good place to find a fulgurite, most commonly formed when lightning hits this substance
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sand
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When Michael Corleone first sees his future bride, he's "hit by" this, lightning with accompanying sound effects
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a thunderbolt
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The saying that lightning doesn't do this is not strictly accurate; the Empire State Building gets at least 25 hits a year
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strike twice
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In a country song George Jones "asked my old pappy why he called his brew" this 2-word stuff
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white lightning
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IN A BOTTLE
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There are no parabens in this company's baby shampoo; the bottle promises "No More Tears"
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Johnson & Johnson
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6 liters of wine fits in a bottle called this, the name of an extremely old guy in the Bible
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Methuselah
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Sourced in the Alps, this brand of Italian mineral water refers to the shape of the bottles it has used since 1899 as "Vichy"
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Pellegrino
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Created in 1969, this drink is basically Manhattan-style chowder in a bottle
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Clamato
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To prevent breakage during sea voyages, this duo began wrapping their bottles of Worcestershire sauce in paper
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Lea & Perrins
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ART & ARTISTS
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A Barcelona museum added glass to block toxic fumes from an Alexander Calder fountain that pumps not water but this liquid metal
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mercury
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"Ferret in a Brothel" & "Elvis Descending a Staircase" are 2 of the terrible paintings in MOBA, the Museum of this
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Bad Art
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Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown"
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James Abbott McNeil Whistler
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The Reichstag was draped in fabric by the husband & wife team of this man & Jeanne-Claude, who were born on the same day
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Christo
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An annual floating parade in the Netherlands is named for this artist & seeks to emulate his "Earthly Delights"
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Hieronymus Bosch
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RHYME TIME
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Someone who lives in an underground room where wine is stored
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a cellar dweller
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With twice as much effervescence
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doubly bubbly
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A senior person who joins metal parts together using heat
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an elder welder
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A fondness for the Father, Son & Holy Spirit
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a trinity affinity
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A stage play about the Hindu creator god
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a Brahma drama
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THE ARISTOCRATS!
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This alliterative "sanguine" term dates back to when it described the early 19th century aristocratic families of Spain
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blue bloods
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A 1919 law banned this aristocratic syllable, belonging to folks like the Red Baron, from Austrian names
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von
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Not count but this slightly lower British title was as noble as Horatio Nelson got
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viscount
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The daughter of an aristocrat who hit hard times, she became empress of France, till hubby nullified their marriage in 1809
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Josephine Bonaparte
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This earl, admiral & Governor-General of India was Prince Philip's uncle
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Mountbatten
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COUNTRY FACTS
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It's officially known as the Hellenic Republic
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Greece
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"La Brabanconne", also known as "The Song Of Brabant", is the national anthem of this country
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Belgium
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Until 1970 Muscat was part of this country's name
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Oman
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In Central Africa, it's been led since 1986 by Yoweri Museveni, elected to a sixth term in 2021
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Uganda
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Of the 7 countries that make up the mainland of Central America, this one is farthest south
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Panama
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HISTORIC NUMBERS
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Congress heard this list in a January 8, 1918 presidential address
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the 14 Points
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NASA called this April 1970 mission "a successful failure"
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Apollo 13
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Congress ratified this long-overdue amendment December 6, 1865
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the 13th Amendment
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In 1815 the Comte de Chabrol coined this numerical term for a period that had actually lasted for nearly 16 weeks
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the 100 Days
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It rode to disaster on June 25, 1876
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the 7th Cavalry
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TV-POURRI
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"AGT" is short for this show & also for agent, which you'll need if you make the finals
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America\'s Got Talent
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He was still catching deviant scum on "Law & Order: SVU" when he appeared on "Celebrity Jeopardy!"
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Christopher Meloni
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Shane Vendrell dies & Vic Mackey is, even worse, forced into a desk job on the finale of this FX drama
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The Shield
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Jamie Foxx as Wanda & David Alan Grier as Calhoun Tubbs were memorable portrayals on this early '90s TV show
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In Living Color
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Since 2017 this Netflix cartoon for adults has chronicled early adolescence--basically, Nick Kroll's
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Big Mouth
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FAMOUS WOMEN
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In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin
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Valentina Tereshkova
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