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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT
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He was a member of the Missouri National Guard
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Truman
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He was a Rhodes Scholar
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Bill Clinton
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He defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista
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Zachary Taylor
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He killed lawyer Charles Dickinson in a duel
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Andrew Jackson
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He was sheriff of Erie County & mayor of Buffalo
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Grover Cleveland
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NONFICTION
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"Apple", "Cancer" & "Legacy" are chapters in a biography about him, "The Man Who Thought Different"
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(Steve) Jobs
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This bestselling memoir about a woman's quest to find balance in her life was published in Spanish as "Come, reza, ama"
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Edward Gibbon's historical work "The Decline and Fall of" this was published in 6 volumes between 1776 & 1788
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Roman Empire
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"The Immortal Life of" this woman tells how her HeLa cells aided medical research, without her knowledge or consent
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Henrietta Lacks
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He wrote "Between the World and Me", about racial injustice, in the form of a letter to his teenage son
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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OFFICE, OURS
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Looks like Barb brought a video of her dog; aw, it's this breed seen here which can hit 40 miles per hour when in the mood
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a Greyhound
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Pat submits receipts from a business trip --seems she enjoyed all the good things of Gothenburg in this European country
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Sweden
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Shohei begins a water cooler discussion about this drama on Starz about pro wrestlers featuring Stephen Amell
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Heels
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Amal leads the pool in the Mega Millions lottery; Brad runs the pool for this one that's in D.C. & all but 5 states
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Powerball
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It's quittin' time, & Sally is buying round 1 of this Russian-sounding drink with vodka & ginger beer that has quite a kick!
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a Moscow Mule
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POP CULTURE
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Seen here, she brought the funny to shows like "Shrill" & "Saturday Night Live"
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Aidy Bryant
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2021 saw the first stand-alone movie about this Marvel-ous title female, set during the time of "Captain America: Civil War"
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Black Widow
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In 2019, this young rapper moseyed onto the scene in a really big way
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Lil Nas X
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Rob Delaney narrates this Netflix dating show in which contestants are outfitted as all sorts of creatures
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Sexy Beasts
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In 2021, he rode on to movie screens as Snake Eyes
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Henry Golding
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MOUNTAINS
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China's Mount Huang translates as the mountain of this color
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yellow
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The world's fourth-highest peak, Lhotse is found in this range
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the Himalayas
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Here's the view from the peak of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest peak, part of this geographic region named for its altitude
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the Highlands
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Uhuru & Mawenzi are peaks of this African mountain
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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First summited in 1966, this 16,000-foot peak overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf
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Vinson Massif
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IN THE CURRICULUM
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An ol' pal, or chopped up fish used to attract bigger ones
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chum
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An old special object kept due to its association with a saint
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relic
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You rang? It's a sudden move in an unexpected direction
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lurch
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From a 1933 play, "When I hear" this artsy word "I reach for my pistol" is often wrongly attributed to Hermann Goering
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cuture
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This stomach trouble is caused by the H. pylori bacterium & can be made worse by too many pain relievers
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an ulcer
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I'VE GOT A THEORY
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Redefining minor things like space, time & gravity, the theory of general this changed the world in 1915
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the theory of relativity
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In 1866 this monk was pushing paper--for the Natural Science Society of Brünn--detailing his theory of heredity
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Mendel
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Brønsted-Lowry says any compound that transfers a proton to another compound is an acid; the one taking on a proton is a this
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a base
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In 1633 he got a life sentence for discussing Copernican theory, but it was a torture-free term
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Galileo
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Sometimes called the theory of everything, it says all the objects in our universe are made of vibrating filaments of energy
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string theory
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NAME THE MUSICAL
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"I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot"
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Hamilton
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"Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you"
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Annie Get Your Gun
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"I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more"
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My Fair Lady
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"This needs to be perfect, these emails have to prove that we were actually friends"
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Dear Evan Hansen
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"I'm reporting live from Gander Airport where the 19th plane has just touched down"
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Come From Away
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MYTHOLOGY
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The immortal sisters Stheno & Euryale, whose gaze could turn you to stone, were these monsters
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Gorgons
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Here's a depiction of this mythical creature
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a phoenix
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Zeus gave a silver bow made by the Cyclops to this daughter & goddess of the hunt
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Artemis
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Vulcan is the Roman counterpart of this Greek god
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Hephaestus
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This daughter of Tantalus turned to stone while weeping for her slain children
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Niobe
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THEY EARNED A PhD
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Under Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict & Margaret Mead both earned PhDs from Columbia in this subject
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anthropology
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Born into slavery, Anna Julia Cooper became a noted educator & activist, & in her 60s received a PhD from this Paris college
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the Sorbonne
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This chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006 has a PhD in economics
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Greenspan
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We will rock you when we tell you that this guitarist & founding member of queen is a doctor of astrophysics
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Brian May
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She holds a PhD in animal science & authored "The Autistic Brain" & "Humane Livestock Handling"
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Temple Grandin
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE
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Apologizing to the Russian people for the failures of his administration, he abruptly resigned as president December 31, 1999
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(Boris) Yeltsin
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Russian for "peace" or "world", this space station hosted more than 100 people from 12 countries during its time in orbit
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Mir
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Until DNA tests in the 1990s proved otherwise, many claimed to be this youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II
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Anastasia
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In the early 1900s members of the faction that opposed Lenin were called these, meaning "one of the minority"
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the Mensheviks
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As the result of his "Gulag Archipelago", this author was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 & wouldn't return for 20 years
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Solzhenitsyn
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10-LETTER WORDS
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Footbridge is a 10-letter word that you use if you're this kind of 10-letter traveler
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a pedestrian
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Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions
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a protractor
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This biology branch that shares a Nobel Prize category deals with the functions of living organisms
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physiology
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This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis
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maleficent
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From Greek for "to show through", it's used to describe a delicate, translucent fabric, perhaps a bridal veil
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diaphanous
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OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
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This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region
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Barbary
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