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ONE WOMAN
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$200
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Among the items our woman famously saved was a blue & gold Lowestoft set of porcelain ware, more commonly called this
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china
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$400
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Our subject raised funds to equip this duo's expedition with needed supplies; she was sure they were never coming back
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Lewis and Clark
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$600
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Our one woman's one surviving child, Payne Todd, was a gambler who in 1830 went to this type of prison that Congress abolished in 1833
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a debtors\' prison
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$800
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At age 80, our lady was there when the 25,000-pound white marble cornerstone of this was laid July 4, 1848
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the Washington Monument
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$1000
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In 1844 the woman had the honor to send the first personal message on this device--love to her friend Mary in Baltimore
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the telegraph
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"TOO" WORDS
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$200
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A small porch, or to bend down
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stoop
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$400
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In French, it's un mal de dent
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a toothache
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$600
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You can get one removed via dermabrasion
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a tattoo
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$800
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Seaplanes float on them
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pontoons
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$1000
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Seen here are these flower chains curving as intended
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festoons
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3 STARS OF THE FILM
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$200
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2004: the super voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter & Jason Lee
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The Incredibles
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$400
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2018: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen & Linda Cardellini drive the film
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the Green Book
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$600
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1989: Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field & Julia Roberts & a 4th star--the weeping audience
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Steel Magnolias
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$800
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2021: Simu Liu, Tony Leung & Awkwafina
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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$1000
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1988: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon & Robert Wuhl, who makes a memorable visit to the mound
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Bull Durham
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
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$200
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This city is Pennsylvania's only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway
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Erie
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$400
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A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany
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Bonn
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$600
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The capital of this landlocked African nation is N'Djamena
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Chad
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$800
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This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892
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Oslo
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$1000
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Emily Blunt & John Krasinski tied the knot at George Clooney's villa on this lake
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Como
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5 RANDOM THINGS
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$200
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A 2014 headline: "Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min.
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911
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$400
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Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty
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a gingko
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$600
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Astronauts Scott, Worden & Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land
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Apollo 15
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$800
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This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go
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Leviticus
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$1000
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Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is name for this secretary-general from Myanmar
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U Thant
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6 FLAGS
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$200
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Introduced in 1920, it consists of 5 interlocked rings of blue, black, red, green & yellow
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the Olympic flag
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$400
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Also called salsa bandera, or "flag", this 3-word condiment is red, white & green, like Mexico's flag
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pico de gallo
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$600
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You can use two flags to communicate in the method seen here
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semaphore
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$800
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Sportswriter Rob Neyer posed the query, "What makes" the race for one of these baseball flags "great?"
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a pennant
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$1000
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"Flag above White with Collage" is one of this contemporary artist's paintings
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Jasper Johns
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD
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$400
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Krill differ from true shrimp in that these respiratory organs are externally visible
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gills
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$800
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The buzz is true--the smallest hummingbird is this one named for an insect
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the bee hummingbird
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$1200
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Also called a light quantum, this bit of radiation travels at the speed of light
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a photon
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$1600
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Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home
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a fungus
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$2000
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Latin for "whips", these appendages in some protozoa help them get around
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flagella
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CONDUCTORS
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$400
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His mentor Serge Koussevitzky suggested he change his name to Leonard S. Burns; he said no
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(Leonard) Bernstein
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$800
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Once a manuscript copyist for Wagner, Hans Richter conducted the first performance of this full cycle of operas
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The Ring Cycle
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$1200
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On an 1887 cruise New York Symphony Society conductor Walter Damrosch met this tycoon & talked him into building a hall
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(Andrew) Carnegie
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$1600
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Sir Thomas Beecham conducted many U.K. premieres at the Royal Opera House in this London "Garden" spot
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Covent Garden
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$2000
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2 female music directors: Marin Alsop at the BSO (Baltimore Symphony) & Joann Falletta at the BPO (this N.Y. city's philharmonic)
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Buffalo
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READ IT OR EAT IT?
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$400
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Okies head west
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The Grapes of Wrath
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$800
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A grandfather tells a story about a town called Chewandswallow where food falls from the sky
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
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$1200
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Violent gangs of Droogs run wild in the streets of an English city
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A Clockwork Orange
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$1600
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Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood
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A Raisin in the Sun
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$2000
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Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS
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$400
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In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips
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Amsterdam
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$800
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Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature
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start-ups
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$1200
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This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media
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South by Southwest
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$1600
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In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network
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5G
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$2000
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Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos & gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978
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the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING
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$400
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A group of newborn animals, or to scatter trash about
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litter
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$800
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A hot dog condiment, or to enjoy
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relish
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$1200
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A multitude, or the bread that's consecrated in the Eucharist
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host
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$1600
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A wind-blown pile of snow, or the meaning of what you're saying
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drift
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$2000
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Your equal, or to look at closely
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peer
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KILLER TV SHOWS
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$400
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Murders abound on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, which doesn't seem much like Eden in "Death in" this
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Paradise
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$800
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Poisoned by snake venom on his uniform in 2003, Commander Ray Trapp was the first of many, many naval personnel killed on this show
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NCIS
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$1200
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Good cops CCH Pounder & Forest Whitaker hounded killer cop Michael Chiklis & the strike team on this FX series
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The Shield
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$1600
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The "Murders" in this British detective show take place in the fictional title county, not the dog days of August
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the Midsomer Murders
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$2000
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"Better pay attention or this world we love so much might just kill you", Randy Newman sang in this show's opening theme
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Monk
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HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY
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N/A
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This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution
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Avignon
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