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GOOD DEEDS
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48 hours after Smoky Mountain wildfires devastated Tennessee homes in 2016, she worked beyond 9 to 5 to create her My People Fund to help
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Dolly Parton
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David Rubenstein gave the National Archives a print of this document struck from an 1823 copper engraving plate; hands off, Nic Cage!
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the Declaration of Independence
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The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation hopes to cure injuries to this body part "by advancing innovative research"
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the spine
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Adoptions & a targeted spaying & neutering program are ways that Paws Chicago is able to maintain this 2-word policy
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no kill
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Your donations let this children's research hospital in Tennessee promise "No family receives a bill from" it
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St. Jude
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20th CENTURY FICTION
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This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield"
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The Catcher in the Rye
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William Peter Blatty really turned heads with this 1971 bestseller
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The Exorcist
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You might say young Charlie McGee lit up this 1980 Stephen King novel
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Firestarter
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Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God"
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The Color Purple
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This novel has been described as "the final, notoriously obscure, wondrously perplexing work of James Joyce"
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Finnegans Wake
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DISNEY+
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Miss Minutes has the task of explaining the multiverse to this Marvel antihero who meets, let's say, unexpected variants of himself
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a Loki
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Take a fly-through of "Star Wars" vehicles like this iconic ship. "You're all clear, kid!"; now let's respond correctly and go home
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the Millennium Falcon
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Pixar's "Dog Days" is set in the backyard of the pooch introduced in this 2009 film
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Up
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It's Hanks for the memory, but Josh Peck is now the first half of the title in this show, a reboot of a 1989 detective film
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Turner & Hooch
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A hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza is a legend of this people; a "National Geographic" documentary digs up the "Buried Truth"
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the Mayans
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AROUND THE HOUSE
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Beginning & ending with the same letter, this word for the floor in front of the fireplace can also refer to your home
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hearth
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This type of bathtub seen here is named for its formidable appendages
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a clawfoot bathtub
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Not installed in new homes anymore, if one of these burns out in the "box" for them, grab an Edison base type
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a fuse
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Similar to crown molding, this architectural ornamentation seen here, also starts with the letter "C"
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a cornice
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One of the original rooms in Clue, it's a greenhouse that's usually attached to the main structure
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the Conservatory
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200 YEARS AGO
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Some surmise that arsenic in the wallpaper contributed to this leader's death on the island of St. Helena in 1821
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Napoleon
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In 1821 a Spanish viceroy signed a treaty giving this New World country its independence
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Mexico
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In 1821 this future president served briefly as Florida's governor; he'd fought there in the War of 1812
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Jackson
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Noah Webster helped found this Massachusetts liberal arts college in 1821
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Amherst
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Later to be America's first homegrown saint, she wrote before her 1821 passing, "I'll be wild Betsy to the last"
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(Elizabeth Ann) Seton
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AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS
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$200
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Nucleus
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nuclei
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$400
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Tuna
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tuna
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$600
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Tableau--just the last letter, please
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X
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$800
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Runner-up
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runners-up
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$1000
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Genus
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genera
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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In 2013 a statue of this civil rights icon, appearing as she did on the bus that day in 1955, was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol
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Parks
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JFK praised this 1963 demonstration that drew about 250,000 participants & culminated at the Lincoln Memorial
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the March on Washington
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$1200
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As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court
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Marshall
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One of the original "Big Four" civil rights groups, CORE, founded in 1942, stands for the Congress of this
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Racial Equality
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Seen here is this numerical group plus their NAACP adviser who integrated Arkansas' Central High School in 1957
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the Little Rock Nine
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MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
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2018: "Shallow", co-written by Lady Gaga
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A Star is Born
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2002: "Lose Yourself"
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8 Mile
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$1200
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1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", sung by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
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Dirty Dancing
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1972: "The Morning After", from this disaster film
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The Poseidon Adventure
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"Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938"
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Broadcast
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TRAIN STATIONS
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In 2014 Waverley Station in this capital was adorned with quotes from Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novel it's named for
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Edinburgh
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Paris' largest gare, or train station, is the one that's in this part of the city & has that as its name
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the Gare du Nord
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Liège, in this country, got a futuristic new station in 2009 to accommodate high-speed trains
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Belgium
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$1600
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Now in mid-renovation, this historic Baltimore station has the same name as a NYC station that was famously demolished
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Penn Station
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The elaborate Dunedin New Zealand Station got designer George Troop the alliterative nickname, this tasty treat, "George"
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Gingerbread George
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SYNONYMS
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These office supplies are a synonym for basics, as in basic goods
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staples
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A Sibyl is a female prophet or one of these, from the Latin for to pray or to speak
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an oracle
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This synonym for "crowd" is related to the German for "pressure"
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a throng
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This animal is a synonym for evasive or sneaky as it was thought to suck out the contents of an egg while leaving the shell intact
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weasel
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Severe, harsh & cruel are synonyms for this adjective that comes from the name of a Greek lawgiver
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Draconian
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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As well as short catchy songs used in ads, they're the metal disks in the frame of a tambourine
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jingles
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Expert oboe players also become experts at crowing & scraping these
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reeds
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Stradivarius also made these; about a dozen survive, & the one seen here has been offered by Sotheby's for $45 million
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violas
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Francois Couperin composed for this instrument superseded by the piano & taught Louis XIV's children to play it
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harpsichord
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Unlike the curved ones, this type of saxophone heard here is usually straight & looks like a clarinet
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a soprano sax
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"A" IN SCIENCE
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Our immune systems produce these proteins to fight off disease
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antibodies
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The name of this class of animals means "double life"
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amphibian
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It's the rate at which velocity changes over time
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acceleration
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In physics it's the distance from the center line of a wave to the top of the crest
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amplitude
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Here's an up-close image of this pollen-bearing part of a hibiscus
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the anther
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CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS
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N/A
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"The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare
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(Tom) Stoppard
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