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SEASONINGS GREETINGS
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A garnish on deviled eggs, this colorful spice is made from dried & ground sweet red peppers
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paprika
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$400
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Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle
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coriander
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$600
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It sounds like it's being pondered over, but it's just heated wine or cider with seasonings like star anise & cloves added to the mix
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mulled
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$800
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This geographic name for the seasoning seen here is on shaky ground, as it actually comes from hills in Punjab
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Himalayan (pink) salt
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$1000
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It can take thousands of crocus stigmas to make even a small amount of this golden seasoning used in paella
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saffron
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NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS
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Nearly 600 sites are designated National Natural Landmarks, like the Barringer Meteor this in Arizona, the USA's largest impact one
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a crater
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$400
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There are more than 1,000 fossil footprints of these creatures in the Connecticut state park named for them
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dinosaurs
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$600
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With 36, this state has the most NNLs, including Rancho La Brea & the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
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California
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$800
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This "gem" of Hawaii was designated in 1968
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Diamond Head
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$1000
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Missouri has plenty of these, including Mark Twain, a maze type & Marvel, with dripstones
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caves
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FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST
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$200
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If the president & veep can no longer serve, this person becomes president
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the Speaker of the House
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$400
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At 81, he was the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Convention
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Franklin
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$600
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This 3-word separation of power keeps each branch of government from gaining too much over the others
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checks and balances
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$800
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Since 1789, there have been this many amendments to the Constitution
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27
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$1000
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These "Northern" islands in the Pacific are a U.S. territory
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the Northern Mariana Islands
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THOMAS HOBBES
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Hobbes said life was "nasty, brutish, & short" in a state of this, which doesn't just mean battles but "every man against every man"
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war
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$400
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Hobbes was an Erastian, meaning that in the tension between these 2 social entities, the first is subordinate to the second
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church & state
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$600
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Hobbes was fascinated by how people gather for mutual benefit into this "body", also called civil society
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the body politic
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$800
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Hobbes used a biblical beast title in "Behemoth" & in this, his most famous work
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Leviathan
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$1000
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Hobbes corresponded about this science of light with Descartes, who said Hobbes was "childish and ridiculous"
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optics
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NASTY, BRITISH
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Known to connive on this BBC series, Robert James-Collier's Thomas the butler broke good in the 2019 film
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Downton Abbey
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$400
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Though Peter Cushing died in 1994, he digitally menaced again, playing Grand Moff Tarkin in this 2016 "Star Wars Story"
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Rogue One
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$600
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This Brit has played bad guys like Stringer Bell on "The Wire" & lent his voice to meanies like Shere Khan on film
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(Idris) Elba
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$800
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Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree
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Outlander
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$1000
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Crowbar-wielding Richard Hillman gave chills on "Corrie", aka this perennial British soap opera
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Coronation Street
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"SHORT"
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Though it can be an honest mistake at the cash register, this verb also means to cheat
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shortchange
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$400
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Coffee shops employ these professionals who quickly make things like sandwiches & eggs
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a short order cook
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$600
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Luis Aparicio & Barry Larkin are hall of famers who played this position
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shortstop
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$800
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An ad for Nair asked, "Who wears" these?
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short shorts
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$1000
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These 4 words begin a Hemingway title that concludes "of Francis Macomber"
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The Short Happy Life
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THAT'S QUITE A COUP
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$400
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He overthrew the Directory on November 9 (or 18 Brumaire), 1799
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Napoleon
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$800
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Ankara & Istanbul War College students took part in a 1960 coup that put General Cemal Gürsel in charge in this country
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Turkey
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$1200
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A 1932 coup forced Prajadhipok, king of this then 4-letter country, to grant a Constitution
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Siam
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$1600
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A February 2021 coup deposed this Nobel Peace Prize winner seen here
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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$2000
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In 1965 this one-named general put down a coup in Indonesia & then seized power for himself
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Suharto
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BUILT IN THE 1800s
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$400
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Built for this city's Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace saw some 6 million visitors on its 19 acres
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London
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$800
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While president in 1806, he began construction of his octagonal house at his retreat, Poplar Forest
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Thomas Jefferson
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$1200
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Named for a biblical threesome, this Boston church features stained glass from the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris
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Trinity
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$1600
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King Ludwig was a patron of Wagner, so this castle of his featured murals of Lohengrin & Parsifal
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Neuschwanstein
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$2000
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A meeting place for the Bundestag, it was completed in 1894 & dramatically torched in 1933
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the Reichstag
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FIRST AMONG SEQUELS
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$400
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"Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was the sequel to this outstanding movie
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Bill & Ted\'s Excellent Adventure
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$800
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This Oscar-winning actor was back on the beat as New York cop Popeye Doyle in "French Connection II"
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Gene Hackman
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$1200
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In this 1986 film Lance Henriksen as the robotic android known as Bishop shows off his knife skills
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Aliens
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$1600
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Logically, George Romero followed up "Night of the Living Dead" with this 1978 sequel
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Dawn of the Dead
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$2000
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Vin Diesel skipped this speedy 2003 sequel that tells you twice it's the second in the series
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2 Fast 2 Furious
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ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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$400
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Ferdinand, who likes to sit & smell the flowers
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a bull
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$800
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Based on a TV show here & abroad: Peppa
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a pig
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$1200
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Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother
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a bat
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$1600
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In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice"
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a trumpeter swan
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$2000
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Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan"
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a gorilla
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COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
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This Apple video chat app comes with every iPhone sold in the United States
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FaceTime
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$800
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Good manners, or the kind of airport phone you can use to reach Avis
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courtesy
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$1200
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The custom-molded ITC or "in-the-canal" is a type of this, helpful for many older adults
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a hearing aid
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$1600
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As its name indicates, this device on a satellite responds to a signal, sending it out again on another frequency
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a transponder
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$2000
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In the 1950s Sarkis Acopian invented the solar-powered one of these devices, still good to have for emergencies
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a transistor radio
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5,5
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$400
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A kid could make money with this, which allowed people to get their morning news
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a paper route
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$800
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Hilarious term for the wrinkles seen here
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laugh lines
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$1200
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Thought originally to be a tailoring idiom, a story said to be "cut out of" this is untrue
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whole cloth
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$1600
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A 1974 U.S. law mandated a national one of these, intended to improve fuel efficiency
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speed limit
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$2000
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The Dalai Lama wrote a "Little Book" of this spiritual goal of happiness & calm
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Inner Peace
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THE EARLY UNITED STATES
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The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution"
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The Federalist Papers
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