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AROUND THE WORLD
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Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation
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Mexico
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These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy
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Sicily & Sardinia
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Where's the beef? One place is this city of 1.6 million on Osaka Bay
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Kobe
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This ecologically vital region also called the Selva reaches its northern limits in Colombia & Venezuela
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the Amazon rainforest
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Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west
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Chechnya
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MLB MASCOTS
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Wally the Green Monster & his sister Tessie
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the Boston Red Sox
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A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side
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White Sox
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Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta
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Toronto Blue Jays
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Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin
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Marlins
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A lime green parrot hatched in 1979
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Pirates
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LIT BITS
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Emily Bronte paid 50 pounds to have this novel published in 1847
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Wuthering Heights
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A 12-line poem from 1913 ends with "but only God can make a" this
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a tree
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In the 1920s this novelist ran the University of Mississippi post office... until they made him quit
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Faulkner
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It's Mary Norton's 1952 children's classic about a family living under the floorboards
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The Borrowers
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This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part
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Alger
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IT'S A TRAP!
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These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but ... it's a trap!
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Hansel & Gretel
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Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second
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the Venus flytrap
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The now-heavily memed Admiral Ackbar discovers, "It's a trap!" in this 1983 film
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Return of the Jedi
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In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price
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Daedalus
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The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country
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Chile
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HOWARD'S END
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In 2015 this radio host ended his time judging "America's Got Talent"
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Stern
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As of 2021 the once-vast empire of restaurants named for this Howard is down to a single one in Lake George, N.Y.
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Howard Johnson
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Some cried fowl when this Marvel comic book hero flew away in 1979, but he would return
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Howard the Duck
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The very brief marriage of Henry VIII to this woman ended in 1542
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Catherine Howard
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In 1939 it was Hodgkin's disease, not King Tut's curse, that did in this archaeologist
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Carter
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DOWN TO "RTH"
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It precedes Pole, Sea & Star
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North
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Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking
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a hearth
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Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one?
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a berth
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It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist
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girth
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In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde
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firth
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EYE-DEOLOGY
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Dehydration of this transparent eye part can cause vision changes; swab the lower lid to stimulate tears & hydrate it
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the cornea
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Floaters & reduced peripheral vision can indicate that this membrane has become detached
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the retina
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Known by a 5-letter acronym, it's the most popular vision correction procedure performed in the United States
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LASIK
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The lens loses clearness with this eye disease noted for a gray-white film behind the pupil
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cataracts
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The eyeballs may protrude abnormally in people with Graves disease, a disorder of this gland
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thyroid
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3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES
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The wall seen here is covered in it
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ivy
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It can mean the self or conceit
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ego
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Physiologically speaking, it's plural for egg cells
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ova
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Guy Picciotto & his band Rites of Spring pioneered this subgenre of alternative music
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emo
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It's an atom with a negative or positive charge
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an ion
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ANCIENT HISTORY
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Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C.
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Alexander the Great
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The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. P
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a sundial
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Secretary to emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & wrote "The 12" these rulers
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Caesars
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This queen of Egypt, Akhenaton's wife, was a symbol of fertility, bolstered by the 6 daughters she bore
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Nefertiti
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"MM" POP
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This rap artist got his stage name due to his resemblance to a baseball home run king
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MC Hammer
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Lionel Richie played some sax but also "ranked" as a singer for this hit-making R&B group
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Commodores
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First name of 1960s singers Roe & James
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Tommy
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This "planet-devouring" band went straight for "The Middle" in a 2001 tune
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Jimmy Eat World
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Till Lindemann is the frontman of this metal band that doubles the "M" of a U.S. Air Force base in Germany
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Rammstein
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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Introduced in 1582, this calendar wasn't adopted by the Brits until 1752 & by the Russians until 1918
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Gregorian
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Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.
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the creation of the Earth
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Many of the days of the week bear the name of Germanic gods, but this one is from this name of a Roman deity
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Saturday
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Messidor was the tenth month of the calendar associated with this event at the end of the 18th century
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the French Revolution
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North Korea uses the Juche calendar, counting from the birthdate of this man in 1912
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Kim Il-sung
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SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!
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The wingspan of the royal species of this seabird of the South Pacific can reach more than 10 feet
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albatross
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555 passengers can fly comfortably aboard the A380 from this European manufacturer
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Airbus
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The term "juggernaut" comes from a massive vehicle pulled by thousands of pilgrims to honor this avatar of Vishnu
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Jagannath (Krishna)
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2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent
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Australia
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1970s MOVIE SCENES
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Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out
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Alien
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