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PROFESSIONS
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This type of technician can follow audio, civil & aerospace
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engineer
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The Latin for "tree" gives us the name of this professional who may prune high limbs
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arborist
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Walter Bagehot, "a Victorian who wrote on central banking, had this profession & edited the magazine of the same name
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an economist
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In charge of the dining room, this job title usually ends in an apostrophe
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maître d\'
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There's a word for a quick race in the middle of this purveyor of men's furnishings
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a haberdasher
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19th CENTURY LIT
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This children's classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood
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Pinocchio
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The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883
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The New Colossus
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This writer of poems like "Dover Beach" also worked as an inspector of schools
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Matthew Arnold
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This German's 1803 drama "The Natural Daughter" was not a success, though Schiller liked it
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Goethe
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MODERN SHORTHAND
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Many have been getting business done WFH, this way
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work from home
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F.U.D. stands for fear, uncertainty & this; don't fall victim
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doubt
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A text-driven computer RPG can be conducted in a virtual domain called an M.U.D., or multi-user this
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dungeon
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You might post your C.V. on this website, L.I. for short
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LinkedIn
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Certain NBC PSAs were named this, which led to the acronym "TMYK"
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the more you know
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HISTORIC AMERICANS
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An American lawyer & political activist, James Otis died in 1783 after he was struck by this
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lightning
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Labor leader Eugene Debs ran for president 4 times as a candidate for this party, the last time in 1920, while he was in prison
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the Socialist Party
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Nicknamed "The Angel of the Battlefield", she's the woman seen here; notice the emblem on her collar
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Clara Barton
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The leading physicist on the Manhattan project, in 1963 he would receive the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award
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Oppenheimer
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This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821
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Sequoyah
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BRITISH HUMOR
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This Monty Python film debates whether African or European swallows could carry coconuts to a temperate zone
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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David Bowie sang about this man's "Extras" character: "chubby little loser... pathetic little fat man..."
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Ricky Gervais
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In 2007 he co-created "Gavin & Stacey" but played Smithy rather than Gavin; these days, he stays up late late on CBS
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Corden
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An exchange on this TV comedy: "I met someone"; "oh my god, that's amazing! What does he do?"; "He's a priest"
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Fleabag
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Richard Ayoade, typing a distress email on this show: "Dear Sir/Madam ...fire! Help me!... Looking forward to hearing from you"
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The IT Crowd
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FOSSIL WORDS
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Meaning reduced in amount or force, this past tense used to have an initial "A" & now shows up only before "breath"
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bated
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It meant a stake or a fence made of stakes; going beyond it meant leaving a protected area
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the pale
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From Old French for "good", this adjective meant good but now is mainly a companion to "companion"
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boon
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Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way"
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wind
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"By" this "of force" derives from when the word meant a blow from a weapon
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a dint
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LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
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El Salvador's volcanoes include this one that has the same name as the capital & is about 7 miles away from it
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San Salvador
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Almost all of this westernmost region of Mexico is separated from the rest of the country by the Sea of Cortez
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Baja California
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It's the second-largest country in area in South America
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Argentina
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Fed by many rivers like the Ramis & Coata & nestled between Andean ranges, this lake sits at 12,500 feet above sea level
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Lake Titicaca
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The 80-mile-wide Mona Passage separates the Dominican Republic from this island
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Puerto Rico
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CHEMISTRY
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To get this from brine, use the Dow process or insert 2 letters after the "br"
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bromine
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In 1755 Joseph Black called it "fixed air"; today we call it a planetary problem
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carbon dioxide
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"Earth" used to refer to certain oxides; hence this term for samarium & friends
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rare earth
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A 2021 Nobel Prize was awarded for developing organic versions of these substances that galvanize reactions
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catalysts
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He invented the flasks seen here to hold liquefied gases
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(Sir James) Dewar
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SIDEKICKS
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Harry Shearer voices both Mr. Burns & this devoted executive assistant
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Smithers
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Shrek says of this sidekick's ability to talk, "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!"
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Donkey
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In 1954 DC Comics debuted a series about "Superman's Pal", this copy boy-turned-cub reporter
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Jimmy Olsen
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Yvonne Orji plays Issa Rae's best friend on this HBO series
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Insecure
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Arthur Dent's pal, Ford Prefect is a reporter for this title publication of a sci-fi series
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The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy
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GEMS & JEWELS
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Hawaii's state gem is black this, which is actually the skeleton of a marine creature
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coral
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An October birthstone is this one from the Sinhalese "turamali" with wider color variations than almost any other gem
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tourmaline
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An oblong one of these blue gems is in the center of the brooch Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria the day before they wed
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sapphire
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These red stones are much less expensive than rubies
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garnets
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One of the more prized colors of topaz is named for this fortified Spanish wine
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sherry
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LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT
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The 17th & 18th century era of the Enlightenment is also known as the "Age of" this
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Reason
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Enlightenment thinkers revived the concept of the human mind at birth as a blank slate to be written on, this 2-word Latin phrase
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tabula rasa
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This concept of an actual or implicit agreement between rulers & the ruled gave a 1762 Rousseau work its title
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The Social Contract
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This "ism" of Jeremy Bentham said actions are right if they promote happiness
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utilitarianism
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This German's 1784 essay "What is Enlightenment?" told readers to "Dare to know!... have the courage to use your own understanding"
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(Immanuel) Kant
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SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR
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A trademark of President Biden is using this old-timey word for nonsense or drivel
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malarkey
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Spelled beginning "uff" or "oof", this exclamation was brought by Norwegians to the Upper Midwest
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uff da
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Insert some letters in "campus" to get this word meaning all askew
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cattywampus
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In "Jabberwocky" this word describes the borogoves
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mimsy
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This lonely alien brought "Pee-wee's Playhouse" to space so he could have playmates
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Zyzzybalubah
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KINGS & QUENS
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Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland
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Queen Anne
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