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WINTER HOLIDAYS
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A February holiday commemorates the Buddha reaching the final state of this goal of the Buddhist path
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nirvana
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$400
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Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day
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the Epiphany
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Celebrated Dec. 23, Festivus includes "the airing of" these; "I got a lot of problems with you people! Now, you're gonna hear about it"
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the airing of grievances
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The Jewish festival of trees, Tu Bishvat includes eating fruit, like this one that according to tradition has 613 red seeds
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a pomegranate
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On December 13 Scandinavians celebrate this female saint; young girls wear white & wear lighted wreaths on their heads
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Lucia
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TEXTING SHORTHAND
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Too funny! LMSO, I'm "laughing" these garments "off"
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socks
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$400
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DHYB, "don't" do this, meaning something is not likely to happen anytime soon
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hold your breath
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$600
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.02,this amount of opinion I'm sharing
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two cents
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$800
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Put down your phone & go outside! All this texting is CWOT, a "complete" this
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waste of time
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$1000
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That was WTMI, meaning this, a lot more facts than I needed
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way too much information
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HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?
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"Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious"
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Mark Antony
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"Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love"
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Juliet
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"I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island"
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Caliban
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"'Tis not to male me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds me well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well"
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Othello
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"I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him"
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King Richard III
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YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN
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This Philly duo--2 guys, 1 mustache--hit No. 1 in 1982 with "I Can't Go For That"
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Hall & Oates
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This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with "All Night Long"
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(Lionel) Richie
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M is for moonlight, as in "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck, as well as this xylophone with an unexpected--& amazing!--solo
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a marimba
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You can always right your ship with "Hey Nineteen" & "Deacon Blues" by this jazzy soft-rock band
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Steely Dan
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Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I"
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"Just The Two Of Us"
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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The Pecos River is a major tributary of this river that it empties into in Texas
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the Rio Grande
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It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees
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Death Valley
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The Three Sisters in Oregon is a trio of volcanic peaks in this mountain range
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the Cascades
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$800
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In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company
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Mackinac
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This region of foothills between the Appalachians & the Atlantic coastal plain is named for a similar area in Italy
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the Piedmont
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GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW
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East to west by birthplace: Holliday, Rivers, Severinsen
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Docs
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By era of popularity: rolltop, tanker, standing
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desks
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Biggest to smallest: Uno, tarot, pinochle
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decks
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In royal succession: Cambridge, Sussex, York
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Dukes
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In construction order: Afsluit, NIeuwebildt, Omring
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dikes
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GOING MEDIEVAL
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Weapons made of this steel named for a Syrian city were highly prized by medieval knights
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Damascus steel
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In the 6th century Dionysius Exiguus began using this system with a 2-word Latin name to date things since Christ's birth
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Anno Domini
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$1200
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Before he became a monk & she became a nun, these medieval lovers had a son named Astrolabe
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Heloise & Abelard
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$1600
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In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death
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Petrarch
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In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy
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the Benedictines
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FAMOUS PROFESSORS
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Teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati, was one further step for this man
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Armstrong
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In 1979 Stephen Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at this university
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Cambridge
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This man, who rose to fame in the 1950s, taught poetry at Brooklyn College from 1986 to 1997
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(Allen) Ginsberg
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$1600
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Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film
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A Beautiful Mind
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$2000
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"Nine Nasty Words" is a 2021 book by this man, who teaches linguistics at Columbia & hosts the podcast "Lexicon Valley"
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John McWhorter
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BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS
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M.I.T.'s domed Maclaurin Building is where this actor works as a janitor in a 1997 film
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(Matt) Damon
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$800
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This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School
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The Paper Chase
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Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin cities campus
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the University of Minnesota
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$1600
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Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers"
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Hidden Figures
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2 films shot at Notre Dame were "Knute Rockne: All American" & this one starring Sean Astin as an unlikely football player
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Rudy
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ORGAN RECITAL
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The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells
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the liver
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Each of these has a hilum, the point where the bronchi enter
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the lungs
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Producing & secreting hormones, the hypothalamus is part of this organ
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the brain
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The outer cortex of these paired organs contains follicles & oocytes
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ovaries
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The jejunum, part of this organ, gets its name from the Latin for "fasting" because it was often found empty after death
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the small intestine
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WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL
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Head to Kyoto, where you can visit this type of forest
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bamboo
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$800
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Go to Nicaragua & help build a house through this global nonprofit founded in 1976
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Habitat for Humanity
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$1200
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Follow in Darwin's footsteps & study the wildlife on these islands also called the Archipiélago de Colón
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the Galápagos
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$1600
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Try this city, where the iconic Hallgrímskirkja Church can be seen for miles
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Reykjavik
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To Canada to visit some of the national parks including Banff in Alberta & this larger, adjoining park to the north
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Jasper
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"EX"AM TIME
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5-letter verb meaning to put forth effort
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exert
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Archaeologists learn to do this, from Latin for "hollow out"
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excavate
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It's an unofficial name for Britain's treasury
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the Exchequer
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A Latin word, this old-timey stage direction means it's time for 2 or more characters to exit a scene
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exuent
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In physics this principle means no 2 particles in an atom can share the same set of quantum numbers
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the (Pauli) exclusion principle
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19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS
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N/A
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She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels
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(Mary) Shelley
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