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SUBURBS
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Newcastle upon Tyne is a British city; a posh suburb of Paris is called Neuilly-sur-this river
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the Seine
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Our efforts at a SUBURB"IA" category fizzled out after Livonia, Michigan & Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of this city
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Sydney
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Stewart Hartshorn made a fortune in window shade rollers & gave his S.H. initials to this wealth New Jersey suburb
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Short Hill, New Jersey
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Leon Trotsky's ashes are buried at his home, now a museum, in Coyoacán, a suburb of this capital
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Mexico City
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Shostakovich titled an opera "Moscow, Cheryomushki", a suburb where in 1958 this leader began an experiment in prefab apartments
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Khrushchev
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THE HUGO AWARDS
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"You've just crossed over into" this TV anthology created by Rod Serling, Best Dramatic Presentation in 1960
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The Twilight Zone
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Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man
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George R.R. Martin
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The Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation in 2020 was "Good Omens", written by this Brit who also gave us "Coraline"
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(Neil) Gaiman
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A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers"
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Heinlein
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This author, Hugo-nominated in his 20s for "Babel-17", has the middle initial "R" for Ray; he won a few years later
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Samuel R. Delany
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NEXT IN LINE...
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Getting smaller in area: Alaska, Texas...
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California
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U.S. Army ranks: first lieutenant, captain...
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major
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Gotta know your presidents if you hit our stage: Harrison, Tyler...
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In Ivy schools, alphabetically: Columbia,Cornell...
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Dartmouth
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In an alphabet: kappa, lambda...
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mu
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NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?
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Not the Sicilian Defense but this legal one that may include the irresistible impulse test
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an insanity defense
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Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user
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denial-of-service
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Not the Ruy Lopez, but the him, A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell"
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Mario Lopez
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Not a discovered check but this moment where you see whether you've got the stuff inside to meet a challenge
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a gut check
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Not a knight fork, but this fork, named for the food it's used on
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spaghetti fork
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CELEBRITY HOBBIES
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Reasonably enough for Queen Bey, Beyoncé makes hundreds of jars of this a year, partly because of her daughters' allergies
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honey
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The state legislature made him an honorary Texan after he donated his $15 million Alamo artifacts collection to the museum there
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Phil Collins
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Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art
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karate
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She knitted the shawl she wore as Sister Aloysius in the movie "Doubt"
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(Meryl) Streep
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Taylor Swift makes these transparent items; the video of her song "Lover" happens inside one
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snow globes
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WORDS FROM ARABIC
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It's from the Arabic for "embalmed body", like one in ancient Thebes
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a mummy
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A convoy of vehicles or merchants traveling together for safety, perhaps across the Sahara
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a caravan
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Originally a part of Middle Eastern folklore, it's a demon, seen in its favorite haunt
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a ghoul
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From Arabic for "notification", it's a tax paid on imported goods
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tariff
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This 4-letter stringed instrument was brought into Europe via Spain by the Moors
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the lute
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BANK SHOTS
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There's a pretty obvious reason that the United Overseas Bank building in Bangkok is known as this 5-letter building
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a Robot Building
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Saxo Bank is an online bank, but its headquarters designed by the Danish firm, 3XN, near this world capital are very 3-D
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Copenhagen
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The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong has long diagonal braces to protect it from these tropical cyclones of the region
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typhoons
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The headquarters of the Emirates NBD in this city is shaped like the dhows that sail nearby
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Dubai
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Madrid's La Vela is super sustainable with this kind of heating system that captures energy from the subsoil
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geothermal
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PARTS OF A POEM
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An iamb is one of these basic units of verse with an anatomical name
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a foot
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This word for a group of rhyming lines in a poem comes from Italian
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stanza
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This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four"
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a quatrain
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Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example
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an apostrophe
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Hail! This word for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry
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caesura
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WHALES
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Like bats, some whales use this natural sonar to hunt, communicate & navigate
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echolocation
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Whales are classified as either toothed or these, named for the bony filters in their mouths
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baleen
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This extremely vocal white whale of the Arctic Ocean is nicknamed the "canary of the sea"
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the beluga
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As well as a type of flatworm, it's something much larger, either of the flat lobes of a whale's tail
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the flukes
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The blue whale is the largest, but this species, known for its enormous head, has the largest brain
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the sperm whale
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SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE
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The Monkees took the "Last" one "To Clarksville"; Gladys Knight caught the "Midnight" one "To Georgia"
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Train
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Here's a traffic update from this icon: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive"
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Bruce Springsteen
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This 3-word refrain is the title of the Carter family tune remade as that "Cups" song--"& I'm leaving tomorrow, what do you say"
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"When I\'m Gone"
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Marc Cohn began this hit with "Put on my blue suede shoes & I boarded the plane / Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues"
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"Walking In Memphis"
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Though he sang, "Climb on the back & we'll go for a ride in the sky" in his 1974 hit "Jet", the song was named for his dog, Jet
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Paul McCartney
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BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR
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The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924
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Lenin
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In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions
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the Social Security Act
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This 4-time Olympic gold medalist got a parade in NYC but had to ride the freight elevator to his reception at the Waldorf
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Jesse Owens
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The Dawes Plan outlined how Germany would make these payments compensating the Allies for the cost of the war
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reparations
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This guerrilla leader murdered by Nicaraguan national guardsmen in 1934, gave his name to a revolutionary movement
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Sandino
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3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS
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It follows "pip-" regarding one of small stature
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squeak
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This Italian version of aloha is somehow derived from Latin for "slave"
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ciao
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This garlic mayo goes great with fish
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aioli
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It's a river-livin' nymph of ancient Greek myth
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A Naiad
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The existence of this land mass that ends with 3 vowels was first suggested in 1912
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Pangaea
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19th CENTURY NOTABLES
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N/A
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On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"
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Vincent van Gogh
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