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THE STATE I REP IN THE SENATE
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$200
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Cory Booker
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New Jersey
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$400
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Marco Rubio
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Florida
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$600
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Mitt Romney, but it's not the state he governed
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Utah
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$800
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Ben Sasse, of the western Midwest
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Nebraska
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$1000
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Tim Kaine, who ran for vice president; remember that?
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Virginia
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FROM TV TO FILM
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$200
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The 2000 movie version of this TV show added "Viva Rock Vegas" to the title
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The Flintstones
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$400
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"Nemesis" & "First Contact" are films based on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", with Patrick Stewart reprising this role
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Picard
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$600
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This actor took on the role of Dr. Richard Kimble, innocent & on the run in the film version of "The Fugitive"
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Harrison Ford
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$800
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In 2 film versions of a TV sitcom, Shelley Long played this character
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Carol Brady
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$1000
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Futuristic assassin Aeon Flux, who started on an animated series on MTV, came to the movies played by this actress
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Charlize Theron
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KNOTTY BY NATURE
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$200
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The knot called this hitch or bend is used to ensure your boat's rope stays attached to a certain heavy object
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anchor
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$400
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ties.com says a half this "is medium in size, nearly symmetrical &... produces a deep & substantial dimple"
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a Windsor
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$600
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It's similar to a noose knot & is used as the first loop in knitting; it's also a Corey Taylor metal band
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slip knot
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$800
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A type of double overhand knot used in fishing is named for this kind of doctor
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surgeon
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$1000
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Improperly tied, this type of knot is called a granny knot
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a square knot
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HODGEPODGE
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$200
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Irony alert: owners of a Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky sued insurers for not covering damage done by this 4-letter word
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rain
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$400
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In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old!
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stolen base
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$600
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parents.com's "Key to Soothing Fussy Infants" is to mimic this place; "swaddling... may trigger a calming reflex"
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the womb
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$800
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Here's the Appennine Colossus, Giambologna's 16th century statue in this region of Italy that includes Pisa & Florence
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Tuscany
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$1000
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Looking like they're sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together
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sea angel
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SCIENCE
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$200
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Argentiferous means containing or producing this metal
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silver
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$400
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Crabs reabsorb calcium carbonate from their old shells and secrete enzymes to shed them in this process of getting new duds
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molting
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$600
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Tonic water contains a small amount of this alkaloid used in the treatment of malaria
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quinine
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$800
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This disease was first identified due to a 1976 convention in Philadelphia
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Legionnaires
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$1000
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Also known as a thunderhead, this 12-letter type of cloud extends through all 3 levels of altitude classification
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cumulonimbus
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HILL & MOUNTAIN IDIOMS
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$200
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Someone at the top is this monarch, the title of an animated sitcom
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king of the hill
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$400
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A course of action with the potential for greater difficulties is this alliterative downhill course
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a slippery slope
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$600
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To do this means to exaggerate a problem into something much larger
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make a mountain out of a molehill
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$800
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Reaching one's highest level of efficiency; you don't want to be doing it "too soon"
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peaking
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$1000
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Be flexible: "If the mountain won't come to" this prophet, he "must go to the mountain"
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Muhammad
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AMERICAN RIVERS
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$400
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The largest river to empty into the Pacific in North America, it makes a huge gorge in the Cascades
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the Columbia
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$800
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This river forms part of the border between Kansas & the state it shares a name with
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the Missouri
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$1200
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This word comes before "Bow" in a Wyoming river & before "Lodge" in a Kansas river
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Medicine
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$1600
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Before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, the Pearl River flows through this capital
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Jackson, Mississippi
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$2000
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The "rap" on this river: it's entirely in Virginia & its name is from Algonquian for "stream with quick rising waters"
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Rappahannock
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INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG
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$400
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He plays piano on "Clocks" (2002)
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Chris Martin
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$800
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Electric guitarist on "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956)
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Chuck Berry
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$1200
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Saxophonist on "Jungleland" (1975) & "Dancing In The Dark" (1984)
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(Clarence) Clemons
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$1600
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Drummer on "Come As You Are" (1991)
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Grohl
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$2000
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Keyboardist on "You Make Loving Fun" (1977)
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Christine McVie
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PLAYS
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$400
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Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play "Machinal" explores how a woman can be driven to murder & end her days in this seat
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the electric chair
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$800
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In the Czech play "R.U.R.". which gave the world this word, one of them says, "Mankind is no more. Mankind gave us too little life"
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robot
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$1200
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A critic called Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" a "comedy of menace", punning on this phrase for plays about high society
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a comedy of manners
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$1600
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In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox"
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Volpone
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$2000
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This person's "Play" by Charles Fuller about Sgt. Waters & Captain Davenport arrived on B'way in 2020, 38 years after winning a Pulitzer
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A Soldier\'s Play
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"Y" IN THE MIDDLE
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$400
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Pumpernickel is a cousin to this bread
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rye
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$800
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You can have fun for one in this type of boat
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a kayak
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$1200
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Bartholomew in Arkansas & Louisiana is the longest this type of sluggish body of water, at over 350 miles
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bayou
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$1600
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A triangle is the simplest form of this type of closed plane figure bounded by straight lines
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polygon
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$2000
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It's sometimes referred to as a long-horned grasshopper
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katydid
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THRONE OUT
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$400
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Liliuokalani was the first & last reigning queen of these islands
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the Hawaii Islands
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$800
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This world leader renounced his throne on March 15, 1917; 16 months later, he was dead
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Nicholas II
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$1200
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King Louis-Philippe was ousted in 1848--France never liked him walking around like a British businessman, in a suit & carrying this
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an umbrella
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$1600
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Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the 2 kings of this name ended the English Civil Wars
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Charles
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$2000
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In 1944 King Michael ousted premier Ion Antonescu in this country; Communists tossed Michael in 1947
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Romania
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AT HOME
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$400
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When it's late at home, I'll use my Kindle Oasis or Nook Glowlight, which are these, to catch up on my Flaubert
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e-reader
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$800
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Some prefer sheets with this measure of more than 1,000; ours are comfy enough
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thread count
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$1200
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I like to make popcorn with this Indian clarified butter; I swear it makes it crispier
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ghee
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$1600
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At home, we like varietals at different temperatures, so we've invested in a dual zone one of these
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a wine refrigerator
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$2000
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I'll relax to some patriotic jazz with the 2021 album "The Democracy! Suite" from this man's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra septet
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Wynton Marsalis
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HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN
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N/A
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Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784
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(John Jacob) Astor
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