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AUSTRALIANA
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The national holiday of Anzac Day originally honored the Australian & New Zealand soldiers who fought in this war
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World War I
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Arvo means afternoon & servo is this place, as in "better stop here, it's 600 kilometers til the next servo"
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a gas station
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Starring Paul Hogan, this 1986 movie has the highest domestic gross of any Australian film
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Crocodile Dundee
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Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister in 2010 as leader of this political party
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the Labor Party
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Seen here, this beach is only six miles from the center of Sydney
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Bondi Beach
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IN MY WORDS
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In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life
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a Witch
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In "Unbound", activist Tarana Burke tells of the birth of this movement & the power of saying those 2 small words
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Me Too
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Ray Nagin, former mayor of this city, released a memoir titled "Katrina's Secrets"
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New Orleans
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Her "Going There" has stories of her rise in journalism & colleagues like Matt Lauer & Ann Curry
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Katie Couric
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"Fun Home" & "Are You My Mother?" are graphic memoirs written & illustrated by this woman
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Alison Bechdel
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MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED
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A nod to Catholic missionaries once prevalent in the area
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the Padres
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In 1890 they stole a player from Philadelphia's team & got this nickname
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the Pirates
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For a viper with a rattle at the end of its tail
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the Diamondbacks
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Named after a law enforcement agency that dates back to the 1820s
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the Rangers
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For those who had to get out of the way of NYC trolleys back in the day
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the Dodgers
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CAR"Z"
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Chevy cut a new trail when it pioneered SUVs with the 1969 debut of this model
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the K5 Blazer
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This man whose name is part of a brand of luxury carz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1844
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(Carl) Benz
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Its MX-5 Miata was named 2016 World Car of the Year
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Mazda
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This Japanese company made the once-popular Rodeo & Trooper
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Isuzu
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Have a spare million or so lying around? You, too, can drive one of these Ferraris named for the company's founder
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an Enzo
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WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY
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The Groundhog Day Festival in this Pennsylvania borough celebrated rodent meteorology for the first time in 1887
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Punxsutawney
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Seen here on February 2, 1901 is the funeral procession of this long-ruling royal
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Queen Victoria
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After 4 years & 4 months, Alexander Selkirk was rescued from a deserted island on Feb. 2, 1709, inspiring this novel years later
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Robinson Crusoe
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On Feb. 2, 1959 a school in Arlington was the 1st in this state to integrate, with no incidents except a firecracker in a bathroom
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Virginia
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Under this 2-word treaty with Mexico signed Feb. 2, 1848, the U.S. acquired land making up today's Southwest for $15 million
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Guadalupe Hidalgo
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AGAIN
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5-letter term for a close copy, or what you could say instead of "I agree as well"
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ditto
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The first use of "instant" this was during the 1963 Army-Navy football game
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replay
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It's a repetition of a song in a musical, usually in shorter form
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a reprise
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This Shakespearean adverb means again & also soon or forthwith, as in "They will be here..."
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anon
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This verb means to say repeatedly, so adding "re-" is redundant; Ecclesiasticus pairs it with speaking again
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iterate
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SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST
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A No. 1 hit by Wild Cherry says, "Somebody turned around & shouted" do this title action, "white boy"
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Play that funky music
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"This Used To Be My Playground", the theme to "A League of Their Own", is by this singer who had a part in that film
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Madonna
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The Drifters sang, "I can play this here guitar & I won't quit till I'm a star" here, the song's title
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"On Broadway"
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This pop-punk band had a breakout hit in 1994 with "Come Out & Play"
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The Offspring
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The lead track from his 1970 album "Tea for the Tillerman" asked, "Where Do The Children Play?"
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Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
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THE LEADER IN BETWEEN
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He was U.S. president between Grover Cleveland & Grover Cleveland
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(Benjamin) Harrison
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This king of England was sandwiched between George V & George VI
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Edward VIII
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He spoke for the House between John Boehner & Nancy Pelosi
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Paul Ryan
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She led a nation between Levi Eshkol & Yitzhak Rabin
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(Golda) Meir
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He headed the Catholic church between John XXIII & John Paul I
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Paul VI
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POETRY
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"Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets", says "The Love Song of" him
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J. Alfred Prufrock
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This poetry character is seen here as depicted by Gustave Doré
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the Ancient Mariner
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This pair of adjectives describes how the narrator of "The Raven" pondered "over many a quaint & curious volume of forgotten lore"
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weak and weary
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"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet", says her poem No. 1741
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Emily Dickinson
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Most of the poems in Ted Hughes' 1998 collection "Birthday Letters" are addressed to her, beginning with "Fulbright Scholars"
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Plath
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YOU'RE THE DOG
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That's Morris Frank & Buddy, the first dog in the U.S. who was trained as this
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a guide dog
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Since the 1960s this cartoon pet beagle has been a safety mascot for NASA
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Snoopy
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In 1925, this Alaskan sled dog led the final team in a brutal blizzard to delivery lifesaving serum to Nome
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Balto
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Sadly, Laika, the first living creature launched into orbit, aboard this Soviet satellite 2, did not survive the trip
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Sputnik
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Here are the Bushes with this beloved dog who recounted her adventures as "first canine" in a bestselling book
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Millie
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ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY
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Sail through this strait to get from Oakland to the Pacific
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the Golden Gate
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It's a capital city on the Horn of Africa
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Addis Ababa
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In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here
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County Cork
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This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America
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San Salvador
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A chapel on its banks contains a fresco depicting the 1291 oath there that formed the Swiss Confederation
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Lake Lucerne
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"AD" IT UP
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A written work remade in a new medium
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an adaptation
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It's what the "A" stands for in an A.R.M. for home buyers
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adjustable
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In Britain, it's the government board in charge of the navy
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the Admiralty
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"Keep it simple" is this, a friendly 10-letter reproof
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admonition
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The New Testament says, "Be sober, be vigilant" because of your this, "the devil"
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adversary
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RECENT TV
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The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant"
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(Garry) Kasparov
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