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BOATS & SHIPS
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Electric boats are taking off like electric cars & 30 of these speed units is a common performance benchmark
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knots
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$400
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In 1943 the USS Kidd became the first U.S. Navy ship permitted to fly this feared flag
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the Jolly Roger
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$600
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1 in 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years
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a clipper
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$800
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The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did
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the Caine
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The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river
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the Ohio
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THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW
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"Magnum, P.I."
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Hawaii
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$400
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"Breaking Bad"
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New Mexico
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$600
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"King of the Hill", I tell you what
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Texas
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$800
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"The Golden Girls"
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Florida
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$1000
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"black-ish"
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California
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TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT
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Beastly term for youthful, immature love, not just for your baby Keeshond
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puppy love
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$400
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Bearing the name of the spiritual part of a person, this is your ideally suited one true love
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your soulmate
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$600
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From the Middle English for "faint", it means to faint from feelings of love
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swoon
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$800
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Literally meaning not paid back, this adjective is used for love for someone who doesn't love you in return
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unrequited
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$1000
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2 people who seem perfect for each other are likened to this type of Empyrean pairing
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a match made in heaven
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"E"-MALE
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A towering figure in 19th century engineering, this Frenchman was known as the "Magician of Iron"
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Eiffel
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$400
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Though also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse stealing & uh, brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in 1879
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(Wyatt) Earp
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$600
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A crater on Mars is named for this 11th century Norse explorer of North America
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Erikson
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$800
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A World War II vet, this slain NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was buried with full military honors at Arlington
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Medgar Evers
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$1000
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Seen here are two "E"-males who helped create the motion picture--Edison & this man who made the film he used
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George Eastman
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IN BOX
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The 2 tablets of law that God gave to Moses were placed in this wooden, gold-plated chest but don't look at it, Marion!
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the Ark of the Covenant
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$400
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You can get a Skogsta dining table or Lommarp bookcase to build out of the box from this brand
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IKEA
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$600
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18th century craftsmen got elaborate & whimsical with these boxes, named for the scented powdered tobacco they held
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snuff boxes
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$800
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"America's Original Butcher", this co. that can send you beef in a box was founded by Latvian immigrants in Nebraska
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Omaha Steaks
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$1000
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In 2000 Al Gore said he wanted to put this government program in a "lockbox", as it then had a surplus of $150 billion
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Social Security
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DRAFTS
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In one draft Tolkien had this character stab & kill Smaug, then nearly drown in the dragon's blood
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Bilbo Baggins
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$400
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Here's "A Remembrance of Things Past" as first written--literally--by this man
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Proust
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$600
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In his 1917 poem "Dulce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen tried several verbs about being stricken by this: gargling, gurgling, goggling
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mustard gas
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$800
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Elvira Entwhistle was renamed Veruca Salt by this writer who, thankfully, also went with Mike Teavee over Herpes Trout
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(Roald) Dahl
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$1000
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Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft
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Lord of the Flies
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BRIDAL WAVES
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$400
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She's seen here following her May 2018 wedding
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Meghan Markle
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$800
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The happy wavers seen here are enjoying the New Year's Day Junkanoo Parade in this capital of the Bahamas
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Nassau
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$1200
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Princess Caroline of this country was all smiles following her 1978 wedding to Philippe Junot
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Monaco
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$1600
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Some 2,500 couples took vows at a 2014 mass wedding staged by the Unification Church in this country
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South Korea
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$2000
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A smiling Marilyn Monroe waved with her gloves after her 1956 wedding to this playwright
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Arthur Miller
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THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
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$400
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3,212-foot-high Angel Falls, in the southeast of this country, was unknown to the outside world until the 1930s
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Venezuela
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$800
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Residents of this volcanic British island territory in the Caribbean call themselves Monstratians
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Montserrat
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$1200
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For 647 miles, this westernmost of Canada's 3 territories shares a straight-line border with Alaska
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the Yukon
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$1600
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Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country
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Guyana
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$2000
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Receiving water from about 200 rivers, it's the largest lake in the Western Hemisphere
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Lake Superior
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I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!
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$400
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There are 3 species of this flyer, the only mammal whose diet is solely based on blood
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a vampire bat
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$800
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These bloodsucking worms have been used in medicine to treat everything from gout to whooping cough
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leeches
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$1200
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Feasting on rats & humans, these bloodsuckers helped cause the deaths of 1/4 of Europe during the Middle Ages
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fleas
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$1600
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Female mosquitos drink human blood & in so doing, can transmit diseases like this, also called breakbone fever
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dengue fever
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$2000
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Terminix offers a 30-day guarantee when removing these bloodsuckers--90 days if you buy a mattress encasement
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bedbugs
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MYTHOLOGY
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$400
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Hera honored her servant Argus by setting his eyes in the feathers of this, her sacred bird
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a peacock
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$800
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As both were beautiful & unfaithful, Helen of Troy is often compared to this wife of King Arthur
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Guinevere
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This realm of the Norse gods included Valhalla, the hall of the dead heroes
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Asgard
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$1600
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With 2 faces, this Roman god had an eye on both the past & the future
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Janus
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$2000
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In Egyptian mythology, this 5-letter moon god with the head of an ibis also ruled over learning & writing
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Thoth
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STAIRING AT MOVIES
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$400
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Young again, Rose ascends a ship's staircase to reunite with Jack in this 1997 film
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Titanic
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$800
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"I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" is a classic number in this musical with Gene Kelly in France
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An American in Paris
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$1200
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This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not
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Stallone
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$1600
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"Home Alone" & atop the stairs, this child actor tells 2 burglars, "I'm up here, you morons! Come & get me"
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Macaulay Culkin
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$2000
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A baby in a carriage rolls down stairs during a gunfight at a Chicago train station in this film but Andy Garcia has things under control
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The Untouchables
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2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL
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$400
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I broke a "powder" this & only have one now; it's gonna be hard to get down the slope
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a ski
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$800
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Noodle soup with beef that's the national dish of Vietnam
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pho
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$1200
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Neophyte is an antonym of one
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pro
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$1600
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This word meaning "brother" was once a form of address for certain Italian clergy
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fra
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$2000
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For wines of superior vintage, it follows "grand"
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cru
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19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
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N/A
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The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff
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(Dred) Scott
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