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WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE
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Nicknamed "Mutti", she said auf wiedersehen in 2021 after 16 years as chancellor
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(Angela) Merkel
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He was interred in a giant mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid in 1975 but was moved to a family crypt in 2019
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Franco
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In June 2021 Naftali Bennett made news by replacing this man who had a 12-year run as prime minister
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Netanyahu
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On Dec. 17, 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu had forces fire on demonstrators in this country; 8 days later it was Nicolae being fired on
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Romania
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In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October
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Gaddafi
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ESSAYS
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He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays"
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Hawking
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A book of essays by Joan Didion has this same title as a plain-covered Beatles LP
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The White Album
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A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
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Ebert
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The title of his "Me Talk Pretty One Day" comes from him trying to master French in Paris
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Sedaris
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Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death
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Zora Neale Hurston
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES
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Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born
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Edison
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Pacific Gas & Electric, we hear you're going to do this with 10,000 miles of power lines to keep them from sparking wildfires
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bury them
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Florida Power & Light, given your state's nickname it makes sense that you have 42 major plants for this type of energy
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solar
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$800
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Vistra, sorry to pick on you, but you had problems as this state where you're based froze in the dark in February 2021
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Texas
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Knoxville Utilities Board, you get your power from this agency set up under the New Deal in 1933
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the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
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ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM
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Melodramatic daytime TV "opera"
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soap
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To drop down fast into water
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sink
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$600
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Biological cell mass like cartilage or muscle
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tissue
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$800
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Horny lizard covering
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scale
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In a George Eliot novel title, a mill is on this river
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the Floss
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THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
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He won an AMA in 2020 & performed "Holy", perhaps in tribute to wife Hailey
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Justin Bieber (Biebs)
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In 2019 he & Camila Cabello gave a sizzling performance of their award-winning "Señorita"
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Shawn Mendes
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$600
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A triple winner in 2018, she performed "I Like It" with J Balvin & Bad Bunny
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Cardi B
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$800
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She lit up the stage with a medley of hits including "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!"
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Shania Twain
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Last name Smyers + Mooney, this country duo won 3 AMAs in 2020
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Dan + Shay
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INTO THE J*E*T STREAM
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To use a syringe to put a drug into a person's body
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inject
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A member of the Society of Jesus
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the Jesuits
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$600
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Adjective meaning too willing to criticize others & say they are wrong or deficient
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judgmental
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$800
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The suspension of a court proceeding
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adjournment
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$1000
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From the Latin meaning "again" & "young", it means to make someone youthful & vital again
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rejuvenate
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19th CENTURY STUFF
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Seen here is a key for this technological innovation that changed life in the 19th century
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a telegraph
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$800
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In the 1850s a gold rush slogan was this Colorado mountain "or Bust"
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Pikes Peak
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$1200
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The mortsafe bars were not meant to stop zombies, but to prevent these criminals from getting in
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grave robbers
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$1600
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Tchaikovsky guest conducted during the May 1891 opening week of this New York City concert hall
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Carnegie Hall
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$2000
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In 1899 the queen laid the cornerstone for this London arts & design museum
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the Victoria and Albert Museum
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STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY
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Named for Ponce de Leon, Leon County
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Tallahassee
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$800
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Maricopa County
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Phoenix
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$1200
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Kent County (one of only 3 in the state)
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Dover, (Delaware)
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$1600
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Merrimack County
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Concord, New Hampshire
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$2000
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Travis County
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Austin, (Texas)
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
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$400
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Desert & New England are species of this rabbit named for a fluffy appendage
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a cottontail
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$800
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Rabbits are born fur-less & blind; these close relatives are born fully developed, with fur & open eyes
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hares
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Like deer, rabbit genders are divided into does & these
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bucks
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$1600
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In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions
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Australia
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$2000
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An area where rabbits breed goes by this male first name
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Warren
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BARRIERS IN LIFE
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Do you know how fast you were going? 670,616,629 mph, or the speed of this; in theory, you can't go faster, but you still get a ticket
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light
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Let's shatter this metaphoric barrier to high-level advancement for women in the workplace
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the glass ceiling
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$1200
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Electric barriers were built in the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal to stop the spread of the invasive this 4-letter fish
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carp
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$1600
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The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge
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the Rubicon
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A type of road barrier is named for this state where they were used on US Highway 22 in the 1950s
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New Jersey
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YOU MAKE ME FEEL
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The Yiddish word naches means "joy", usually from the achievements of these relatives
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children
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This coarse adjective can be a verb--if you ruin my good mood, you do it to "my mellow"
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to harsh
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Add 2 letters to a body organ to get this verb meaning to encourage or lift spirits
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hearten
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To increase the seriousness of a crime, or to annoy me with petty actions
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aggravate
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Latin vocare, "to call", is one origin of this word meaning to irritate someone into action
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provoke
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LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN
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Last name of Dutch-born "Real Housewife" Yolanda, mom of Gigi & Bella, who got her U.S. citizenship in 2013
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Hadid
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Canadian-born singer, seen here in 2005, the year she became a U.S. citizen
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Alanis Morissette
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$1200
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Sofia Vergara moved to the U.S. from this, her native country
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Colombia
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$1600
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British-born, in 2020 she became a U.S. citizen--naturally, in the city of New York
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Kim Cattrall
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This South African-born woman got a one-way ticket to California from her mom, so her 2007 naturalization was kind of inevitable
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Charlize Theron
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20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS
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N/A
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The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends
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(Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote
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