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FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES
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$200
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Despite lackluster sales of the Chevy Bolt, this company had a 2020 value of more than $35 billion
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General Motors
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$400
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Sales of these, 55% of Apple's total sales, fell 14% in 2019; never fear, the company's still worth $2 trillion
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iPhones
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$600
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O say can you see the $121 billion in revenue of this for-profit health federation that operates Blue Cross & Blue Shield
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Anthem
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$800
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This home improvement retailer with a possessive name is valued in excess of $110 billion
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Lowe\'s
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$1000
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This petroleum company abbreviated VLO is VLO'd at more than $22 billion
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Valero
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MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS
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$200
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Instead of income tax, you have to pay a Central Perk Tab in the Monopoly edition based on this TV show
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Friends
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$400
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You might land on Bike Share or Week-Long Meditation Retreat in "Monopoly for" these folks born between 1981 & 1996
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Mililennials
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$600
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In the "Simpsons" edition, properties up for sale include Disco Stu's & this convenience store
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the Kwik-E-Mart
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$800
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Players need to protect "Baby Yoda" from imperial enemies in Monopoly "Star Wars" this edition
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The Mandalorian
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$1000
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Triforce, hookshot & Hylian shield are tokens in the edition based on this video game franchise
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The Legend of Zelda
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PART OF DARKNESS
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$200
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It can be a fairly crucial piece of office furniture
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desk
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$400
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Became submerged & hit the bottom
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sank
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$600
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Elated or eager, or more California colloquially... really cool, dude!
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rad
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$800
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Prince Buster was a star in this Jamaican music style
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ska
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$1000
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To tear clothing in anger
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rend
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ANNUS HORRIBILIS
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$200
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In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa
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the Black Death
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$400
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In 1666 the fire that would devastate this city began at the home of the king's baker on Pudding Lane
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London
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$600
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"Black Thursday" saw panic selling on Oct. 24 of this year, leading to "Black Monday" & "Black Tuesday" & dark days in the USA
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1929
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$800
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In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history
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the South Pole
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$1000
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Called "The Civil War's Bloodiest Day", Sept. 17 of this year saw the Battle of Antietam, with 23,000 casualties
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1862
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5 BURROS
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$200
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"The Little Donkey" is one of the many tales collected by these brothers in the early 1800s
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the Brothers Grimm
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$400
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This melancholy donkey whose tail is attached by a nail debuted in a 1926 story
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Eeyore
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$600
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In a book by Marguerite Henry, Brighty is a burro who roams the high cliffs of this Arizona landmark
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the Grand Canyon
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$800
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In the book of Numbers, both an angel & the animal itself ask this man why he's beating up on his donkey
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Balaam
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$1000
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In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the mischievous Puck gives this poor weaver the head of an ass
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(Nick) Bottom
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NEW YORK CITY
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$200
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Gary Muhrcke, winner of the 1st race up 1,576 stairs of the Empire State Bldg. in 1978, was also the 1st to win this NYC event in 1970
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the New York City Marathon
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$400
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Take a selfie with the Statue of Liberty aboard this 25-minute ride to the St. George Terminal across New York Harbor
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the Staten Island Ferry
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$600
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thrillist.com named this Brooklyn "burg" the world's No. 1 hipster neighborhood
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Williamsburg
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$800
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Keens Steakhouse displays thousands of clay pipes used by patrons like Buffalo Bill, Babe Ruth & this Rough Rider & N.Y. native
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Teddy Roosevelt
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$1000
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You can hitch a ride or just take a bus to this Queens beach, New York City's only legal surfing spot
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Rockaway
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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$400
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The Libyan Desert is a portion of this much larger desert
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the Sahara
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$800
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Greek & Turkish are the principal languages of this Mediterranean island nation
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Cyprus
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$1200
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A 2010 agreement between Russia & this country splits control of the Barents Sea nearly in half
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Norway
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$1600
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Around 1979 this Mexican state on the Pacific dropped "Norte" from its name
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Baja
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$2000
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The alliterative lion of this Swiss city commemorates Swiss Guards who died in the French Revolution
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Lucerne
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POLITICAL NICKNAMES
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$400
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Jowly Winston Churchill was nicknamed the "British" this, a breed of dog he owned
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Bulldog
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$800
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In 2019 Lori Lightfoot took over as mayor of Chicago from this man, "Rahmbo"
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Rahm Emanuel
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$1200
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"Snarlin' Arlen" was the nickname of Arlen Specter, a long-time senator from this state
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Pennsylvania
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$1600
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This senator remembered in history for a series of debates was nicknamed "The Little Giant"
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(Stephen A.) Douglas
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$2000
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Harkening back to the Ottoman Empire, "Sultan" is the nickname critics have given this current head of state
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President Erdoğan or Turkey
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HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM
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$400
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2019: Cynthia Erivo as this "conductor"
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Harriet Tubman
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$800
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2006: this actor as Idi Amin
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Forest Whitaker
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$1200
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2018: this actress as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots
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Saoirse Ronan
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$1600
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2020: Charles Dance as this tycoon in "Mank"
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Hearst
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$2000
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1979: Malcolm McDowell as this depraved Roman ruler
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Caligula
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20th CENTURY ENGLISH
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$400
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The 1960s gave us acid rock; the acid was this
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LSD
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$800
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It first meant a movie, then a script for one, then starting in the 1930s was used in Academy Award categories
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a screenplay
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$1200
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Hyphenated word for someone with an outdated view on the shape of our planet
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a flat-Earther
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$1600
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Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free
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Cruelty
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$2000
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Coined around 1960, it's the dull, conformist town where the opposites of beatniks & hippies live
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Squaresville
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DID I MISS ANYTHING?
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$400
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He returned to Venice from the East in 1295, having missed the rule of 2 doges
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Marco Polo
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$800
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For union activism, George Loveless was sent from his English village to this distant place in 1834, but in 1837 was able to return
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Australia
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$1200
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Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda fought WWII in this country until the 1970s, when he left the jungle & surrendered to President Marcos
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the Philippines
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$1600
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Maybe worried he'd been forgotten, on his return to England after a long time crusading, he had himself re-crowned in 1194
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Richard I (Lionheart)
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$2000
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Bronislaw Malinowski did anthropological fieldwork for 2 years near this 2nd largest island, but WWI was still on when he was done
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New Guinea
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"F" IN SCIENCE
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$400
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It's part of a flower's stamen, or a thin wire inside a light bulb
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filament
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$800
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CH2O is the chemical formula for this strong-smelling gas used in preservatives
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formaldehyde
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$1200
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The lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid may briefly ignite is called this
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the flash point
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$1600
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About 60% of the Earth's crust is made up of this group of glassy minerals
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feldspar
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$2000
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In the 1940s he developed an improved theory of quantum electrodynamics
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Richard Feynman
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CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
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N/A
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He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine
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Thomas Harris
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