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FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES
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In 1865 Peak XV got this new name to honor a British surveyor general of India
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Mount Everest
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Prairie du Chien, this state's oldest settlement after Green Bay, was the site of the state's only battle in the War of 1812
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Wisconsin
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Kansas' Little House on the Prairie Museum was reconstructed from the descriptions of this woman
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Wilder
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Uranium City, where folks once mined just what you'd think, is in this middle one of Canada's prairie provinces
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Saskatchewan
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The polar section of this mountain range ends near the Kara Sea; the southern part, around Kazakhstan's border
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the Urals
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INVENTION
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Laundry tubs & sausage casing were part of Willem Kolff's WWII-era artificial this organ, precursor to the dialysis machine
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a kidney
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In 1893 Marie Tucek invented an early version of this metallic support system in brassieres
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underwire
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Working at Kodak in the 1970s, Steven Sasson invented this device that became the company's ruination
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the digital camera
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Yoshitada Minami put an automatic turn-off on this kitchen device & in 4 years, half of Japanese homes had one
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a rice cooker
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Reading about this group's fate in 1840s California spurred Gail Borden to invent a dried meat biscuit, & then condensed milk
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the Donner Party
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FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC
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"But the biggest kick I ever got was doin' a thing called the chopping block"
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crocodile rock
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"I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no, I'm a hired hand"
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a rocket man
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"And it seems to me you lived your life like a vandal who has sinned"
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like a candle in the wind
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"And you can tell everybody this is all wrong"
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your song
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"Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods"
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honky cat
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ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
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Temporarily hoarse? You've got this amphibian condition
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a frog in your throat
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This phrase about a hidden enemy comes from Virgil, "Latet anguis in herba"
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a snake in the grass
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Also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, this dish means something very easy to do
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duck soup
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Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase
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the bee\'s knees
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The lifespans of creatures like Bubbles, said to be 60, may have given rise to this phrase, meaning "it's been a long time"
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a donkey\'s age (donkey\'s year)
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GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS
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A county in Kentucky gives this type of corn-based spirit its name
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bourbon
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It's the booze in common to a Moscow Mule & a Bloody Mary
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vodka
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Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song
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rum
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This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name
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absinthe
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Whiskey & honey go into this Irish cream brand launched in 1979, a few years after rival Bailey's
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Carolans
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LEGAL "EE"
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A reliable person who holds or administers the possessions of another, like a minor
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a trustee
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An assurance that a contract will be executed or something given as security that it will be done
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a guarantee
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It's defined by the U.N. as one who can't return to their home country due "to a well-founded fear of being persecuted"
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a refugee
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A conditionally released prisoner
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parolee
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This 6-letter word is a court's final judgment or decision
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decree
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THE CITY HAS FALLEN
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This world capital to the British in August 1814
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Washington, D.C.
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Luckily not permanently, Ramadi in Iraq to this would-be caliphate, May 2015
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ISIS
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In 222 B.C. Milan to these southerners
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the Romans
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Caracas to this man's forces, Aug. 6, 1813
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Simón Bolívar
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This anthem-inspiring city to the Allies, August 28, 1944
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Marseille
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7-LETTER WORDS
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What used to be called the pound sign is now known as this
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hashtag
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A small hotel, or a payment to a retiree
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a pension
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Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver
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a chalice
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A traditional 15th anniversary gift is this, perhaps from Lalique
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crystal
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An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958
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a pioneer
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RUSSIANS
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On Dec. 22, 1849 this author of "Crime & Punishment" was led before a firing squad, only to get a last-minute pardon from the czar
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Dostoevsky
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Various bodyguard reports about this "Mad Monk" had him "very drunk", "dead drunk" & "overcome with drink"; I sense a theme
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Rasputin
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Come on, you've been conditioned to remember this physiologist wrote "Lectures on the Work of the Digestive Glands"
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Pavlov
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In the 1960s this Russian-born man designed stained glass windows for Jerusalem's Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center
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Marc Chagall
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Born in St. Petersburg in 1846, he inherited his dad's small jewelry business at the eggs-act age of 24
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Fabergé
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MOVIE STARS
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In "Avatar" the Alpha Centauri star system is where humans are mining on this moon
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Pandora
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The Ceti Alpha star system is the scene of the action in the "Star Trek" film subtitled "The Wrath of" him
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Khan
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In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these
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a black hole
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This off-limits "planet" in the title of a 1956 sci-fi classic is in orbit around Altair
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Forbidden Planet
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A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster
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Men in Black
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WRITING THE GOVERNESS
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This title Austen character claims credit for the marriage of Mr. Weston to Miss Taylor, her former governess
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Emma
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This author wrote about governesses in "The Turn of the Screw" & "What Maisie Knew"
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(Henry) James
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Susan is a governess in "Hogfather", one of this author's "Discworld" novels
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Pratchett
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A rich heir hires a governess for his daughter in Michel Faber's novel "The" this color "Petal & the White"
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crimson
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In "Vanity Fair" sir Pitt Crawley proposes to this governess, but it turns out she's already married to his son Rawdon
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Becky Sharp
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NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS
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On an alphabetical list of national historic landmarks in Texas, this symbol of the state's independence is first
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the Alamo
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Temple Square in this state capital was designated a landmark in 1964
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Salt Lake City
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This architect's Taliesin & Taliesin West are both national historic landmarks
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Landmarks in two states include the 155-year-old bridge connecting Covington, Kentucky to this city
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Cincinnati
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In 2021 the Massachusetts home where she laid the foundations for Christian Science was designated a national landmark
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Mary Baker Eddy
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NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
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N/A
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He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name
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(John Mercer) Langston
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