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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
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$200
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Of the days of the week
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Friday
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$400
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Of chess pieces
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bishop
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$600
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Of the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Donatello
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$800
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Of the New England states
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Connecticut
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$1000
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Of U.S. first ladies' first names
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Abigail
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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$200
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This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"
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Bambi
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First published in 1931, "The Story of" this elephant includes his escape to the city where he becomes cultured & educated
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Babar
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$600
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In this Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Mary Lennox is determined to find the title place, locked off for years
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The Secret Garden
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$800
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In 2004 Kate DiCamillo' won a Newbery Medal for "The Tale of" this inquisitive mouse
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Despereaux
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$1000
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In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum
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Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION
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Fans of "The Office" could buy Dunder Mifflin 20-pound branded this that had slogans like "Our motto is, 'quabity first' "
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paper
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$400
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Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama
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Mad Men
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$600
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On "The Simpsons" varieties of this beer brand include Raspberry this, Lady this & Tartar-Control this
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Duff
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$800
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Now boarding Oceanic Air Flight 815 for this drama; objects may shift through time & don't expect a happy landing
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Lost
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Los Pollos Hermanos is run by this "Better Call Saul" man played by Giancarlo Esposito, but he has another job, too
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Gus Fring
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SPORTY LINGO
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The best pitcher on a baseball team is known as this playing card
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the ace
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$400
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A practice opponent who makes you better, like Harvey Cody Jones for Muhammad Ali
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a sparring partner
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$600
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There's a cozy word in this term for a player or a person who sits around waiting to go in
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a benchwarmer
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$800
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In 2021 the U.S. Secretary of State used this tennis expression to say it's North Korea's turn to make a move on nuclear talks
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the ball is in their court
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$1000
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Sporty term for the action here that's deliberately, perhaps sarcastically, restrained
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a golf clap
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ISLE "B"
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When the British settled these islands between Florida & Haiti, they were deserted
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the Bahamas
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$400
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Captain William Bligh discovered a group of South Pacific islands in 1788 & named them for this ship
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the Bounty
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$600
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Recent surveys have found that the soil on this atoll has plutonium concentrations vastly higher than Chernobyl's
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the Bikini Atoll
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$800
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About 4.6 million people every year take the 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle to this island in Puget Sound
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Bainbridge Island
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$1000
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Drop an "A" from a colorful plant to get this Frenchman who also gave his name to an island in the Solomon Sea
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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
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THE JUDGE OF THAT
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Judges belonging to courts of these hear those cases, reviewing procedures & decisions of trial courts
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appeals
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$400
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District court judges conduct trials & manage the selection & instruction of these
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juries
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$600
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An experienced attorney may act as a temporary judge in this type of court that hears cases involving limited dollar amounts
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small claims court
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$800
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Federal magistrate judges consider pretrial these, such as for summary judgment
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motions
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$1000
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Makes sense that Texas leads the nation with more than 100 judges assigned to its 11 courts of this; California is second
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immigration courts
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VICE PRESIDENTS
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$400
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In 1832 he missed Senate confirmation to be minister to the U.K. by one vote but he'd soon get Jackson's MVB vote as veep
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Martin Van Buren
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$800
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Before Biden he was the last veep to later ascend to the presidency
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George H.W. Bush
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$1200
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33 days after taking the oath to be the veep, he took another one to not be the veep
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Tyler
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$1600
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Failing to report nearly $30,000 on his income tax return led to the resignation of this vice president
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Spiro Agnew
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$2000
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This alliterative Lincoln vice president was a heavy smoker, but his grandson said he took it up on doctor's orders
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Hannibal Hamlin
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MISMATCHED PAIRS
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Evangelist with a Tulsa university & current Supreme supreme
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Oral Roberts & John Roberts
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$800
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"Beantown" rotisserie restaurant chain & unregulated economic system in which business is lightly taxed
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Boston Market & free market
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$1200
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360 guy on CNN & "Leatherstocking Tales" teller
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Anderson Cooper & James Fenimore Cooper
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$1600
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Sophocles play about a Theban king & a real king of the dinosaurs
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Oedipus Rex & Tyrannosaurus rex
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$2000
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Tall Emirati building & "See You Again" rapper
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the Burj Khalifa & Wiz Khalifa
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3-LETTER ANIMALS
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$400
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58 million years ago, a thankfully extinct relative of this constrictor could reach 2,500 pounds & 40 feet in length
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boa
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$800
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This species of deer crossed into North America about 12,000 years ago using the Bering land bridge
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elk
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$1200
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Related to sharks, this cartilaginous fish has more than 500 species, including the blue-spotted ribbontail
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a ray
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$1600
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As a source of food & as a pack animal, this bovine has long been essential to the people of the Tibetan Plateau
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a yak
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$2000
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Native to the southern U.S., the "alligator" this can grow 10' long, making it one of the largest freshwater fish
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a gar
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES
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$400
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"Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country
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Afghanistan
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$800
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A monarch working to overcome his stammer is central to the plot of this Oscar winner
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The King\'s Speech
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$1200
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The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton
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Judas and the Black Messiah
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$1600
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Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast
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Lawrence of Arabia
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$2000
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Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa
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Hacksaw Ridge
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS
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Ray Bradbury's favorite place in his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois was this building at 1 Sheridan Road
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the library
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$800
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This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too
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(C.S.) Lewis
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$1200
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The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours
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(Robert) Burns
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$1600
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Seen as a dangerous atheist, Voltaire bought a chateau near the border of these two counties so he could hop over the border as needed
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France & Switzerland
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$2000
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Pay your respects to the bronze Gerald & Lawrence Durrell on this Greek island where they spent much of their youth
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Corfu
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD
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$400
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This period of time is a homophone for a word meaning lacking strength
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week
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$800
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Pronounced one way, it's a unit of time; another, a very small amount
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minute
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$1200
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In parliamentary procedure, to endorse a nomination another person has just made
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to second
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$1600
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It's not a special pet accessory, it's naval duty from 4 to 6 or 6 to 8
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dogwatch
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$2000
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"Back in a" this 5-letter word! here's a flash--it's how long light takes to go 1 femtometer, a millionth of a millionth of a mm
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a jiffy
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AMERICAN CITIES
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N/A
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Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks"
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San Diego
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