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KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES
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(Hi, I'm John Holt.) It was an exciting but sobering event in 2006 when Kansas City opened the USA's official museum of this event, with features for visitors to ponder like a field of 9,000 silk poppies
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World War I
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(Hi, I'm Pat McGonigle.) Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinese as this man; locations included Lee's Summit & of course, Independence
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Truman
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(Hi, I'm Nick Vasos.) In 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth, her hometown of Atchison, Kansas unveiled a 42,000-square foot earth work portrait of this globe-trotting heroine
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Amelia Earhart
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(Hi, I'm Karli Ritter.) A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company
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Hallmark
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(Hi, I'm Christel Bell.) In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige & Jackie Robinson
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the Monarchs
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MISMATCHED PAIRS
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Place for your petrol & a reality show where Cuban & co. get pitched
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Shark Tank gas tank
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Goose liver & Fat Tuesday
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Mardi Gras & foie gras
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Arkansas capital & Jim Henson series featuring Red, Gobo & Boober
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Little Rock & Fraggle Rock
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A nickname for the circus & a Tennessee state song
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big top & "Rocky Top"
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Scientist known for his study of light & actress who plays Maeve on "Westworld"
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Isaac & Thandie Newton
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TRIPLE ALLITERATION
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This pencil-&-paper game is also known as Xs & Os
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tic-tac-toe
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Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet
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the World Wide Web
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The movie "A Christmas Story" used this canine phrase to up the ante in a big challenge
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double dog dare
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Relationship of Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria
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great-great-granddaughter
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One of this organization's missions is "calling out & addressing substandard marketplace behavior"
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Better Business Bureau
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THE MAN'S PEN NAME
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"I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue"
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Ben Franklin
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Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name
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Lewis Carroll
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Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man
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L. Frank Baum
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N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan
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C.S. Lewis
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A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker
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Washington Irving
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ANATOMY CLASS
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Each of these organs has its own pleural cavity, not connected to the other
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the lungs
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The orbital cavities contain these organs
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the eyes
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Cardiac & smooth are 2 main types of this tissue
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muscle
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This long, slender fiber that projects from a nerve cell carries impulses away from the cell body
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an axon
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The name of this bone that helps form the elbow is a Latin word for "elbow"
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the ulna
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TV CATCHPHRASES
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"The truth is out there"
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The X-Files
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"Suit up!"
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How I Met Your Mother
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"Wubba lubba dub dub"
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Rick and Morty
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"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"
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Mission: Impossible
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"Homey don't play that"
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In Living Color
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ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER
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He assumed the presidency November 22, 1963
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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After 10 years of construction, this waterway officially opened November 17, 1869
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the Suez Canal
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On Nov. 29, 1929 he commanded the first flight over the South Pole, for which he'd receive a promotion to rear admiral
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(Richard) Byrd
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On November 2, 1930 Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of this country
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Ethiopia
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On November 1, 1957 this 5-mile-long bridge opened to traffic, linking Michigan's Upper & Lower Peninsulas
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the Mackinac Bridge
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LET'S TAKE A TRIP
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Shoot a selfie at this state's Rainbow Bridge, a natural stone arch with a 275-foot span & a height of 290 feet
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Utah
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If the "active" life is for you, climb one of these, like Mount Bromo in Indonesia or Mount Sakurajima in Japan
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volcanoes
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3 1/2-mile-long Nanjing Road is the main shopping street in this most populous Chinese city
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Shanghai
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Enjoy a performance by North America's longest-running ballet company, the Royal Ballet in this Manitoba city
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Winnipeg
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Visit the megaliths of Carnac, then name your daughter after this region of Northwest France where you found them
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Brittany
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FANTASTICAL CREATURES
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The Minotaur was the offspring of Cretan Queen Pasiphae & a white bull sent by this sea god
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Poseidon
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Francois Rabelais wrote about the exploits of this voracious giant & his son Pantagruel
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Gargantua
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George Langelaan wrote the Playboy magazine short story that inspired this film in which Seth Brundle transforms
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"The Fly"
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This sea monster Odysseus & his men must sail past has 6 heads
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Scylla
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The Talmud recounts how Adam was first created by God as one of these magical humanoids
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a golem
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FAMILY IS EVERYTHING
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Patented in 1835, it gave brass instruments a new largest family member
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a tuba
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The shell shape accounts for the name of the gastropod family Helicidae, including the common edible this
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snail
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Prominent Boston families like the Cabots & Winthrops have been dubbed with this collective name from a caste of India
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the Brahmins
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The black & yellow panels in the state flag seen here are a heraldic symbol of this family that founded Maryland
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the Calverts
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In 1478 the rival Pazzi family tried to overthrow this ruling family of an Italian city, including attacking them in a church
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the Medici
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MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
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1997: Dirk Diggler, Rollergirl, Amber Waves
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Boogie Nights
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1970: Hot Lips, Trapper John, Painless Waldowski
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M*A*S*H
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1964: General "Buck" Turgidson, Colonel "Bat" Guano, Major "King" Kong
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Doctor Strangelove
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1992: Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. Orange, Mr. Brown
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Reservoir Dogs
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1976: Coach Buttermaker, Ogilvie,Lupus
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The Bad News Bears
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2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH
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In a hopeful sense, a cloud is said to have one of these metallic features
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a silver lining
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Brits use this "familial" name for the guy who brings presents every December
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Father Christmas
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Meaning you're good at talking with others, this alliterative phrase begins with a plural word & ends with its singular form
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a people person
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High levels of hGC & estrogen might be the cause of this malady that can actually strike pregnant women at any time of day
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morning sickness
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Home to wits like Dorothy Parker, the Algonquin Round Table had this other shapely name
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the Vicious Circle
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1960s HISTORY
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After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again
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Eagle
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