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THE 20th CENTURY
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Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning
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Princess Diana
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At the Olympic games in Stockholm, Jim Thorpe won gold medals in both of these track & field multi-events
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the decathlon & the pentathlon
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Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in in this year at the tail end of the baby boom
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1961
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The invasion of Kuwait prompted this Allied operation to free it from Iraqi occupation
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Operation Desert Storm
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In 1948 John Costello became Irish prime minister, the first from this party whose name means "Gaelic family"
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Fine Gael
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IT'S A NATIONAL THING
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Deriving from a game called halma--Greek for "jump"--this board game is played on a 6-pointed star
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Chinese checkers
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The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group
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the Spanish Armada
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Roland-Garros has hosted this event since 1928
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the French Open
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Don't you love playing with toys? Toy dogs, that is, like this breed here whose name comes from an island
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a Maltese
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Taken from the lean, tender eye of the loin, this smoked breakfast meat comes in cylindrical chunks
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Canadian bacon
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DATING THE REALITY SHOW
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Trista Rehn, Andi Dorfman & Katie Thurston have each held this title role... & dare we say, responsibility!
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the Bachelorette
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Head to Casa Amor to see if singles in bathing suits become soulmates after a solid few days on this show "USA"
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Love Island
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Somehow, TLC built a hit show called this that's centered on a time length established by the USA's K-1 visa program
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90 Day Fiancé
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"Will You Marry Me?" was episode 2 of this Lachey-hosted show where couples got engaged before meeting face-to-face
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Love is Blind
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Punning on a vodka drink, MTV's "Ex" here has reality stars trying to find new love while dealing with past lovers
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Ex on the Beach
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IT WAS ALL PURPLE
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Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song
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"America The Beautiful"
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First instituted in 1782, it has "For Military Merit" on its reverse side
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the Purple Heart
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Apollonia Kotero & Morris Day both got to use their first names for their characters in this 1984 flick
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Purple Rain
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In the 1890s purple became an official color for this entire Illinois university, not just the sports teams
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Northwestern
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In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted a house in an historic area of San Antonio purple
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(Sandra) Cisneros
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FOR NAUGHT
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Decades after this word for "nothing" appeared, "squat" was added to the end
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diddly
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This brand name of lighters that uses a flame logo can mean "zero" in slang
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Zippo
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When someone responds to a question with "Nunya", it's a shortening of this phrase
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none of your business
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Remove these 2 letters from the Latin word for "nothing" to get "nil"
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I & H
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Yiddish for "goat droppings" morphed into this word for "B"arely anything
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bupkes
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MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES
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"Horton Hears a Ham"
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Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham
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"The Runaway Brief"
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The Runaway Jury & The Pelican Brief
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"Pride and Sensibility"
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Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility
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"Love in the Time of Solitude"
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Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude
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"God Bless You, Mr. Cradle"
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat\'s Cradle
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THE EXILE FILES
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These Louisiana natives are believed to be descended from the French exiles of Acadia
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the Cajun
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Renouncing his American citizenship years earlier, this chess master died in exile in Iceland in 2008
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Bobby Fischer
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José Martí, nationai hero of this country, probably should have stayed longer in the U.S.; he returned in 1895 & died in battle
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Cuba
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Exiled to Switzerland in 1919, Charles I, also known as Charles IV, was the last ruler of this dual monarchy
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Austria-Hungary
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During his exile in England in the 1720s, this French writer & philosopher met, among others, Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift
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Voltaire
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IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
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I'm going to get a taste of your profits--not a lot, just to do this, as in the photo here
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wet my beak
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Meaning "stick to your own area", it can apply to highway driving but was also influenced by football kickoff coverage
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stay in your lane
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Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of "telegraph"; eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor
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the grapevine
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Nowadays, people say "(whatever they're really good at) is my" this word; for Johnny Storm, it's actually pyrokinesis
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a superpower
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Veterans "benefits" include this, to be given by the V.A. if the evidence for & against the claim is about equal
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the benefit of the doubt
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LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE
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Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose"
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dead
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Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry"
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wine
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When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing
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Abraham
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Be patient like this man, who was told "at destruction & famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts"
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Job
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"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title
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the house of mirth
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ROCKS & MINERALS
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Weathering, abrasion & corrosion are all forms of this natural process by which rock is broken down
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erosion
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This mineral was called krystallos by the ancient Greeks & is primarily silicon dioxide
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quartz
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Cementation is the last stage in the formation of this type of rock made from accumulated deposits
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sedimentary
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4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone
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zircon
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Meaning "stone ball" this rocky 60-mile outer layer of the Earth consists of the crust & the upper part of the mantle
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the lithosphere
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THE MUSIC "MAN"
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Singer Gregg & guitarslinger Duane were the siblings who gave this "Ramblin' Man" band its name
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The Allman Brothers
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This Wu-Tang Clan man is also half of a duo with Redman
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Method Man
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This Grammy-winning indie pop band was formed in Alaska, not the Iberian country in its name
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Portugal. The Man
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He topped the charts 3 times in the '70s; "Copacabana" only went to No. 8
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Barry Manilow
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Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band
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Manfred Mann
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TRIBUTARIES
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The Missouri flows into it
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the Mississippi
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The Madeira & the Xingu are among its 1,100 tributaries
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the Amazon
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The Klondike River is a tributary of this one
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the Yukon
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The Tha, the Ou & the Ngum are part of its flow
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the Mekong
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The Allier & the Nièvre are joined with this river, famous for its valley
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the Loire
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FAMOUS AMERICANS
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He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him
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Dwight Eisenhower
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