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THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN
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As a student, Chadwick got into a theater program at Oxford but couldn't afford it; this man played "Equalizer" & footed the bill
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(Denzel) Washington
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As this film hero: "We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe"
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T\'Challa (Black Panther)
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The L.A. Dodgers tweeted, "From playing legendary figures to becoming one, we'll never forget your iconic performance as" him
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(Jackie) Robinson
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Chadwick worked up to 8 hours a day with a choreographer to get what he called "the groove" of this "Godfather of Soul"
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James Brown
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In 2018 at this HBCU, his D.C. alma mater, Chadwick told grads, "Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill"
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Howard University
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EVENTS OF THE 1850s
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Immortalized by Tennyson, this cavalry advance happened during the Crimean War in 1854
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the Charge of the Light Brigade
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70 years after the highest peak in these mountains was 1st climbed, a group conquered 15,200' Dufourspitze, the second-highest
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(the) Alps
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After this pal led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass hightailed it out of the country to avoid questioning
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John Brown
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Later the model for a musical character, Buddhist scholar Mongkut was crowned King Rama IV of the nation then called this
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Siam
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The president of the French republic declared himself this emperor III
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Napoleon
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NO EGRETS
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The peregrine this can really hit the gas going for prey, hitting 200-plus mph
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a falcon
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This bird can beat its wings 70 times per second, but when it slows down, its body temperature can drop 50 degrees below its normal 104
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a hummingbird
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This alliterative bird numbered between 3 & 5 billion in eastern North America in 1500 but was extinct by 1914
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passenger pigeon
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The brown type of this is Louisiana's state bird
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pelican
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The "P" is silent in the white-tailed this bird, but in courtship, a male's call is not; also, the red combs swell over its eyes
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ptarmigan
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THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY
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...of WhatsApp & Beluga, a service that evolved into the Messenger app
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Facebook
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...of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Technical Services Company
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Boeing
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...of Band-Aid & Listerine, which cover up different things
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Johnson & Johnson
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...of Schweppes & Dasani
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Coca-Cola
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...of Skype
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Microsoft
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THINK BIG!
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With almost 2 miles of paths, Longleat is the largest of these in Britain; allow about 2 hours
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a maze
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As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character
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Captain Underpants
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With eight lanes for cars & two for trains, this Down Under city's iconic bridge seen here is one of the world's widest
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Sydney
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Stretching almost a mile, one of the longest railway platforms is at Gorakhpur Junction in this Indian state, the U.P.
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Uttar Pradesh
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The tallest of these structures towers 870 feet over the Great Mosque of Algiers
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minaret
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IDIOMS
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A-ha! Literally, I've caught you with your...
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hand in the cookie jar
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The TV series "Entourage" got people changing plain old "hug" into this 3-word phrase
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hug it out
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One theory says to flip this, meaning to change things around, came from rap battles; it's used in "8 Mile"
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the script
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A jug does it; a sieve & an improbable story don't
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hold water
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In the 17th century it was a feather & a horse; today we use this idiom for one more burden you just can't take
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the straw that broke the camel\'s back
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CANALS
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Running from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, this country's Kiel Canal is 250 miles shorter than going around Jutland Peninsula
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Germany
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Noted for its orchid gardens, the Pacific port of Balboa sits at the southern end of this canal
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(the) Panama Canal
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Buildings on the Prinsengracht Canal in this city include one with a secret annex
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Amsterdam
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One of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Suez Canal connects these 2 bodies of water
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the Mediterranean & the Red Sea
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When the Erie Canal project began in 1817, it was derisively called this man's ditch; he was the governor who had promoted it
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(DeWitt) Clinton
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NOVEL VOCABULARY
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The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title
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a hat
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole"
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(Stephen) King
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This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating
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Pollyanna
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Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel
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David Copperfield
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The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation
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Catch-22
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HELEN, NOT OF TROY
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She won an Emmy in 2006 for playing Queen Elizabeth I & an Oscar in 2007 for playing Elizabeth II
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(Helen) Mirren
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In her unofficial anthem for the women's movement, she sang, "I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman"
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Reddy
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sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book
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Dead Man Walking
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This magazine editor lived a very cosmopolitan life
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(Helen Gurley) Brown
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Her staining technique set her apart from other abstract expressionists & influenced younger artists
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Helen Frankenthaler
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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"
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An argumentative dispute (7 letters)
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quarrel
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To haggle over a small detail (7 letters)
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quibble
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Scandinavian traitor (8 letters)
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Quisling
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Not "Jeopardy! "-like, but puzzled (9 letters)
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quizzical
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Term for a 40-to-49 year old (14 letters)
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quadragenarian
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LOST
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Idiomatically, if you've "lost" these small spherical toys, you may be losing your mind
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marbles
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Something overlooked has been "lost in" this, a term that originated in dealing cards
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the shuffle
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Art Fleming & Don Pardo were in the video for this Weird Al parody song
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"I Lost On Jeopardy!"
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In "A Moveable Feast", Gertrude Stein is quoted as calling Hemingway & his ilk this, a term later used more broadly
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Lost Generation
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The biblical Asher & Zebulun were 2 of these that, despite the name, reached the Promised Land
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the lost tribes of Israel
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FOUNDRY
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This hefty noisemaker from Whitechapel Foundry began tolling for Londoners in 1859
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Big Ben
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Around 4,000 years ago, the first foundries in Mesopotamia began producing this alloy
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bronze
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Several different foundries worked for 4 months to build this ironclad that faced off against the Merrimack
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Monitor
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Once one of the largest of its kind, the Gary Works in Indiana is still a functioning foundry of this corporation
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U.S. Steel
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Seen here is a foundry creating steel via the process named for this Englishman
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(Henry) Bessemer
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19th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN
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2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020
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(2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton
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