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THE SABBATH
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For decades, states have been dropping these colorful edicts; the Sunday shopping ban ended by North Dakota was among the last
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blue laws
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Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish cholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch
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lighting a fire
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At a church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sacrament meeting, a young man may talk about 2 years away as one of these
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a missionary
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NFLer Davion Taylor held onto his football dreams though this Christian faith kept him from playing high school football
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Seventh-day Adventist
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Early Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday but Sunday was the day for this commemoration of the Last Supper
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the Lord\'s Supper (Eucharist or Communion)
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NAMES IN FASHION
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The tennis shirt is now called a polo shirt thanks to this American designer
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Ralph Lauren
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Yves Saint Laurent's first boutique was called "Rive Gauche", French for this part of the Seine
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the Left Bank
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Despite marrying into a newspaper family with a prize named for it, this designer's "Lilly" shift dress took only her first name
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Pulitzer
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The Row & Elizabeth and James are fashion brands from these twin sisters
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the Olsens
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HODGEPODGE
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Alfred Vail, this guy's assistant & partner, improved on his code for telegraphy
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Morse
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Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars"
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Hungarians
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You may get allergy symptoms when you eat bananas or zucchini if you are allergic to this "weed" that causes hay fever
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ragweed
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This flat Scottish cap usually has a pompom in the center
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a tam (tam o\'shanter)
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This city is home to the University of Oklahoma & the National Severe Storms Laboratory
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Norman
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PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY
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In this alliterative type of match, you need to touch your partner before you can be replaced in the ring
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tag team
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Maintaining kayfabe means not letting on that the match is this, the word that "kayfabe" possibly came from with the help of Pig Latin
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fake
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This beastly term can describe a powerful embrace or a move where a wrestler grabs you
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a bear hug
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Perhaps a play on "jobber", this Italian-sounding word is a wrestler hired to lose often; the Rock uses it as a synonym for loser
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jabroni
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The name of this masked Mexican wrestling is Spanish for "free fighting"
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lucha libre
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LINCOLN, BLINKEN
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Soon after becoming Secy. of State in 2021, Antony Blinken had tough words at a meeting with diplomat Yang Jiechi of this country
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China
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In his second inaugural address, Lincoln called for peace "with malice toward none, with" this "for all"
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charity
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Antony Blinken worked with Joe Biden from 2002 to 2008 as Democratic staff director for this world-watching Senate committee
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Foreign Relations
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One of Lincoln's "gifts" for his last Christmas was this Georgia city, from General Sherman
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Savannah
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"NOD"
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It's where Cain lived, a place for kids to go at bedtime or an oddly named Yorkshire village
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the Land of Nod
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A worrisome mass of tissue in humans, or a nitrogen-fixing structure in soybeans
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a nodule
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2-word phrase for a slight familiarity, enough to lower your chin in passing
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a nodding acquaintance
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A flying creature of the cretaceous, seen here
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a pteranodon
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A meeting to resolve questions for a church
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a synod
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SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS
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This nephew-killing title monarch is off to a slow start courting Lady Anne, who calls him "thou lump of foul deformity"
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Richard III
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In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue
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globe
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In "Henry IV, Part 1" Falstaff disses a hostess: "There's no more faith in thee, than in a stewed" one of these fruits
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a prune
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King Lear tells this treacherous eldest daughter, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore"
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Goneril
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A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves"
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Troilus and Cressida
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FOOD FORWARD
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Gail Becker, mom of 2 boys who couldn't have gluten, started the Caulipower line by making this out of cauliflower
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pizza crust
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This doctor & health food pioneer developed Corn Flakes for his patients
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Kellogg
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Burger King uses this brand for its meatless Whopper
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Impossible
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A thick potato & leek soup was created by chef Louis Diat, who named it for this city in central France
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Vichy
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Around 1900 the same guy created Shredded Wheat & this Nabisco cracker of a rather similar texture
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Triscuit
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'80s TV
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In 1980 fans of this series had to wait 8 long months before they would learn "Who shot J.R."
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Dallas
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In 1981, some 30 million viewers tuned in to see Luke & Laura tie the knot on this daytime soap
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General Hospital
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"You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have" this sitcom
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The Facts of Life
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Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly hit the streets as this title pair of detectives
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Cagney & Lacey
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All through the '80s kids "counted" on this PBS science series that featured the Bloodhound Gang
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3-2-1 Contact
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DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
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It's the northernmost of the 4 main islands of Japan
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Hokkaido
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Moraine Lake is in this national park established in 1885 as Canada's very first
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Banff
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Catalan is the primary language of Catalonia & this small Pyrenees nation
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Andorra
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Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa
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Johannesburg
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The capital of a small Mediterranean island, it's where the Italian naval fleet surrendered to the Allies in 1943
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Valetta
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STARS & STONES
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Invisible to the naked eye, the closest star to our sun is the dim Proxima Centauri, a "red" one of these
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a red dwarf
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Fittingly, New Hampshire is a source of this stone; the Swenson Quarry produces tons of it for street curbing
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granite
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Aldebaran is the brightest star in this "bovine" constellation associated with a transformation made by Zeus
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Taurus
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You might surmise from its name that sandstone is this one of the 3 classifications of rock
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sedimentary
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Deneb, the "tail" of the swan in this constellation, forms the "Summer Triangle" with Vega & Altair
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Cygnus
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME
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An extra trap for a rabbit relative
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a spare hare snare
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The highest limit on a pants tariff
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the max slacks tax
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A frightening sprite from the flatlands of Kansas or Nebraska
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a scary prairie fairy
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The cost to ship a really big wooden box, determined by how heavy it is
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the crate freight rate
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The removed facial hair, now hallowed
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the sheared beard revered
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SPORTS LEGENDS
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When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken"
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Yogi Berra
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