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MIX TAPE
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In June 1927 4 million lined Broadway to view the ticker-tape parade in his honor after his return from France
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Lindbergh
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President Obama's 2016 State of the Union address said some of this "needs to be cut"
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red tape
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Seen here is a 19th century bit of what's known as tape this
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lace
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It was paired with "Sex" & "Lies" in a 1989 Steven Soderbergh film title
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Videotape
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For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it
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magnetic tape
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WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH?
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Lost the 13 American colonies to independence
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George III
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Crossed the English Channel in 1066
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William the Conqueror
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Ruled at the start of the English Reformation
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Henry VIII
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Was the brother of Richard the Lionheart
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John
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Was sometimes known as "Crookback"
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Richard III
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CHEW ON THIS
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Some like them hard, but I really enjoy a Vavarian-style one of these twisty, chewy items with sweet mustard
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a soft pretzel
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The name of this hard-to-chew candy literally says it could fracture your mandible
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a jawbreaker
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The first name of this chewy-center candied lolly is something you shouldn't call mom; the second name is OK for dad
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a Tootsie Pop
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They're not always orange; some of the more interesting varieties of this taproot include purple dragon & solar yellow
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carrots
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Adding an "A" to the middle of a California coastal city gives you this chewy confection
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caramel
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BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS
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Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs
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A Hard Day\'s Night
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"The Hours & Times" fictionalizes a real trip that John Lennon took to Spain with this Beatles manager in 1963
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Epstein
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This director spent 3 years restoring footage & editing "The Beatles: Get Back", a 2021 docuseries
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Peter Jackson
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This 2019 film has Himesh Patel waking up in an alternate universe where he is one of the few who remembers The Fab 4
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Yesterday
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Seen here, this record producer interviewed Paul for the series "McCartney 3, 2, 1"
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Rick Rubin
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READING THE DETECTIVES
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This novelist got right to the point with his book titles--"Detective Cross" & "Kill Alex Cross"
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(James) Patterson
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In 2006 this "artful" LAPD homicide detective took a trip to "Echo Park"
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Bosch
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1948 Los Angeles is the setting for "Devil in a" this, the first novel featuring Easy Rawlins
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Blue Dress
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K is for the P.I. Kinsey Millhone; this creator said Kinsey was herself, "only younger, smarter, & thinner"
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Grafton
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It was dark, & my head hurt. I was this guy from 7 Raymond Chandler novels, including "The Little Sister", & I needed a drink
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Philip Marlowe
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GET THE H OUTTA HERE!
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A sharp-pointed part of a plant cuts away an H & also leaves our clothing ripped, or this synonym
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torn
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The fabric of the clergy renounces H & coagulates as this word
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clot
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A proverbially lucky nationality drops the H & becomes this part of your eye
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the iris (from Irish)
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A word meaning to make holy loses an H & gets permission to become this word meaning to permit
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allow
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Something fake loses an H & horses around as this
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a pony
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HISTORICAL FICTION
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In "The March" by E.L. Doctorow, this general & his troops move through Georgia & the Carolinas
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Sherman
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This historical romance from 1844 actually tells of 4 swashbuckling heroes during the reign of Louis XIII
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The Three Musketeers
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Michelle Moran wrote of this beautiful woman, "Queen of Egypt, Daughter of eternity"
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Nefertiti
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Published in 1859, this novel takes place in Paris & London during the French Revolution
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A Tale of Two Cities
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"A Tip for the Hangman" tells of this aspiring playwright, recruited from Cambridge to spy for Queen Elizabeth I
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Marlowe
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YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL!
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This "King of Tin Pan Alley" never learned how to read music but wrote classics like "Cheek To Cheek"
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Berlin
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In 1951 Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced this couple to death for espionage
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the Rosenbergs
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Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935
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the Marx Brothers
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New Hampshire & Vienna have played big roles in the works of this '80s bestselling novelist who attended the universities of both
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John Irving
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After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh
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Lust for Life
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TV COMEDY SKETCHES
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From this troupe, "Upper-Class Twit of the Year"
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Monty Python
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On "The Ben Stiller Show", her as the B-Minus Time Traveler
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Janeane Garofalo
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On "French and Saunders", "Modern Mother & Daughter", the origin of this Britcom
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Absolutely Fabulous
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This late genius as an inept dentist & a very old man on "The Carol Burnett Show"
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Tim Conway
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Him as blind African-American white supremacist Clayton Bigsby
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Dave Chappelle
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YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS
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Volcanic sand beaches & multi-colored cliffs await you on the Greek island of Santorini in this sea
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the Aegean
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Why this city, you may ask? It has the Rock & Roll H.O.F. & the Great Lakes Science Center, & as far as I'm concerned, it rocks!
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Cleveland
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You won't soon forget Torres del Plaine National Park in the smaller part of Patagonia that lies in this country
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Chile
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You down with VDG? I'd like to see Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower & Vasco da Gama's tomb in this world capital
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Lisbon
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Here's a glimpse of life on this 15-square-mile French Polynesian island whose double name means "first born"; yes, please
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Bora Bora
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VENUS
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Continent-sized land forms on Venus called terrae are named for Ishtar & this Greek counterpart of Venus
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Aphrodite
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Venus is shrouded in yellowish clouds mostly made of this acid, H2SO4
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sulfuric acid
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Early information about Venus was gathered when it made these, a term for when a planet crosses the Sun from Earth's view
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transits
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In 1610, this astronomer made the discovery that Venus, like the Moon, had phases
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Galileo
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Unlike Earth, Venus revolves in this 10-letter way; on a clear day, Venusians would see the Sun rise in the west
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a retrograde
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YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT
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I can't put my finger on it; she's got a certain this, literally "I don't know what" in French
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je ne sais quoi
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She's got this; also the first name of the woman seen here
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grace
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Wanting good things for all, she's often described as this, from the Latin for "well wishing"
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benevolent
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I'd describe her with this word that means enthralling or fascinating; an old definition of it is "taking prisoner"
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captivating
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Practical & grounded, she's described in this 3-word way & when my head is in the clouds, she "brings me" there
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down to earth
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20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS
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N/A
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He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers
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(Warren G.) Harding
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