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LANDMARK OF THE CITY
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The memorial seen here, this city
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Washington, D.C.
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The Little Mermaid, unveiled 1913
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Copenhagen
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30 St. Mary Avenue, better known as the Gherkin
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London
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 confrontation
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Selma
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The Topkapi Palace, begun by Sultan Mehmed II around 1460 & now a museum
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Istanbul
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WORD PAIRS
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This pair in a fruit & dairy dessert also describes a pale-skinned, pink-cheeked complexion
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peaches & cream
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Pair of building materials used to describe a physical store as opposed to an online retailer
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brick & mortar
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A preposition & an adjective of size, together they're a synonym for "in general"
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by & large
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A blues classic says, "Nobody knows you when you're" this destitute pair
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down & out
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A wild speech & a wild party (maybe with glow sticks) combine in this alliterative pair meaning to express anger
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rant & rave
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FICTIONAL PLANETS
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In a 1977 movie Tatooine is the home planet of this jedi-to-be
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Luke Skywalker
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Infant Kal-El's father & mother send their baby in a rocket away from this planet just as it is about to be destroyed
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Krypton
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This unusual-looking family first seen on "Saturday Night Live" pose as earthlings but are really from Remulak
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the Coneheads
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Etheria is the planet where this title cartoon "Princess of Power" fights the evil horde
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She-Ra
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A prequel series to "Battlestar Galactica" was named for this planet
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Caprica
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NONSENSE
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George Orwell said most English nonsense verse consists of these, like "See-Saw, Margery Daw", & once may have made sense
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nursery rhymes
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In Stephen Leacock's "Nonsense Novels": "A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural" & "Maddened by Mystery, or the Defective" this
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Detective
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Beloved nonsense words include this creature that Pooh & Piglet track through the snow--or is it a Wizzle?
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Woozles
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The German work "Songs" of this structure for hanging people actually contains jolly nonsense like "the sniffle"
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the gallows
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This 19th century giant of nonsense wrote of "The Owl & the Pussy-Cat" & also of nutcrackers running off with sugar tongs
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Edward Lear
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BALDERDASH
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In 1940 Congress said it's a crime to kill this bird
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a bald eagle
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A depiction of a witches' Sabbath, Mussorgsky's composition "Night On Bald Mountain" was used in this 1940 Disney film
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Fantasia
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In one Norse myth, Loki tricks the god Hoder into throwing a sprig of this parasitic plant at the beloved god Balder, killing him
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mistletoe
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Found just south of the North Carolina border, 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald is the highest point in this state
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Georgia
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This 1950 absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco consists mainly of meaningless dialogues between 2 couples
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The Bald Soprano
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WHO "E"
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This ancient Greek is synonymous with the study of plane geometry
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Euclid
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If you read the letters of this giant of 19th c. thought, you'll see the sign-off "Your affectionate brother, Waldo"
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Emerson
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Her 18 Grand Slam tennis singles titles include 7 French Opens & 6 U.S. Opens
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(Chris) Evert
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He edited the second & third of the 3 volumes of "Das Kapital"
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Engels
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The first African American to hold the post of U.S. Surgeon General, she served in 1993 & 1994
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(Joycelyn) Elders
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EXPLORERS
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In the late 900s Erik the Red founded the first European settlement on this large island
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Greenland
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African-American explorer Matthew Henson was co-discoverer of the North Pole, along with this man
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(Robert) Peary
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Bridges over New York Bay & Narragansett Bay are named for this explorer who sailed into both bodies of water in 1524
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Verrazzano
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In 1728 he discovered that Russia was separated from North America by a narrow strait
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Bering
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Lope de Aguirre was among those who sought this mythic South American land of gold
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El Dorado
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THE PRODUCERS
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Seen in the '70s, he's produced hundreds of hours of beloved TV comedy
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(Norman) Lear
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In 2020 this speedy guy also known as Barry Allen was one of Greg Berlanti's 20 shows on the air
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the Flash
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The G in MGM, he produced classic films like "Guys and Dolls"
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Goldwyn
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Ryan Murphy has told us 10 "American Horror Story"s & 3 of these FX limited series
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American Crime Story
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Last name of Mark who produced "Wicked" on Broadway & Tony-winning actor/son, Ben
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Platt
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PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs
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Mortalism believes that this dies with the body or lies unconscious until the resurrection
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the soul
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It means the belief in only one god
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monotheism
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This 19th century movement believed the dead could communicate with the living through mediums
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spiritualism
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This 5-letter philosophy popular with some of the founding fathers believes in a god, but one who stays out of human affairs
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deism
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The truth is always uncertain in this philosophy that takes its name from the Greek for "to consider"
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skepticism
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SYMPHONIES
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During World War II Allied Radio used 4 notes from this Beethoven symphony to boost morale--they represent "V" for victory
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Beethoven\'s Fifth
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Part of Arlene Sierra's "Nature Symphony" was inspired by this artist's paintings of the New Mexico landscape
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Georgia O\'Keeffe
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It's thought that the grand scale & exuberant energy of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major earned it this nickname
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the Jupiter Symphony
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Charles Ives used all kinds of existing tunes in his Symphony No. 3, including this hymn also called "Erie"; "what a" choice
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"What A Friend We Have In Jesus"
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At the end of this Haydn symphony, the musicians say goodbye; they gradually stop playing & leave the stage
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"Farewell" Symphony
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SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS
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Known for its "Valley", this can be used as a semiconductor & as an alloying element in steel
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silicon
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It's named for 2 French physicists & one isotope has a half-life of 15.6 million years
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curium
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Whosoever holds the hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of this, discovered by a Swede in 1828
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thorium
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This has the atomic number 94; the Cassini craft set off to Saturn with power provided by 73 pounds of this-238
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plutonium
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This element gave us the "tan" in coltan, a metal essential in electronics but also classified as a conflict mineral
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tantalum
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WORDS FROM RUSSIAN
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Sevruga is a type of this fish, prized for its roe
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a sturgeon
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Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment
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the forest
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By 1936 more than a million people in the Soviet Union were held in this system of forced labor camps
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a gulag
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Job title of Vladimir Komarov, who was very, very high up on Oct. 12 & 13, 1964
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cosmonaut
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This type of summer dwelling is seen here
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a dacha
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MOUNTAINS
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First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it
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Mount Ararat
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