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ARTISTS ON THE MOVE
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After a trip to Egypt, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme captured men being attentive inside one of these structures
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a mosque
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In 1872 Edgar Degas fittingly vacationed & painted in this southern state; you can visit the house he stayed at
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Louisiana
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Monet was fond of setting up shop by this river & making impressions of the Palace of Westminster
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the Thames
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Kandinsky, a Muscovite, headed west to Germany, painting in Munich & teaching at this "house of building" school in Weimar
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Balhaus
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Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner based the painting seen here on a visit he made to this city
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Venice
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THE KOREAN WAR
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This capital of South Korea changed hands 4 times during the course of the war
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Seoul
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With subzero weather at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, vets suffered the long-term effects of this cold injury, including gangrene
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frostbite
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In 2018 South Korea's Moon Jae-in & this North Korean leader pledged to formally end the war but it hasn't happened... yet
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Kim Jong-un
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Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman
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MacArthur
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In September 1950, United States troops made a surprise landing at this strategic port, changing the course of the war
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Inchon
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TREES
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Gifted from Japan as a token of friendship in 1912, here are these trees doing their thing in Washington, D.C. as only they can
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a cherry blossom
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One of these alliterative trees named for how they droop was dedicated to the memory of the singer Aaliyah
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a weeping willow
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This tree first brought from Australia to Hawaii in the 1880s can produce 65 pounds of nuts each year
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a macadamaia tree
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This giant tree bears the name of a Cherokee leader who created a writing system
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sequoia
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Captain Bligh had saplings of this tree aboard the Bounty during the voyage that was marked by mutiny
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breadfruit
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LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES
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This pink bird always seems to have a leg up
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flamingo
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Lighters--or maybe cell phone flashlights--out! This interjection from the French means "again"
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encore
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Like America, this northern African desert is about 3,000 miles from east to west
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the Sahara
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Arrrr! Jim Hawkins be dealin' with pirates in this 1883 novel
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Treasure Island
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In 1983 Duran Duran informed us "her name is" this "& she dances on the sand"
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Rio
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TV DOUBLE TAKES
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T.J. Kirk
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Shatner
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Barney Howser
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Neil Patrick Harris
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Rose Nivens
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Betty White
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Elaine Meyer
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Louis-Dreyfus
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Little Joe Ingalls
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Michael Landon
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ENDS WITH "OUT"!
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To stick out your lips to show displeasure
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pout
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According to an idiom, it's what the guy on the right is
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the odd man out
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Someone who's trying to get more followers on social media is said to be "chasing" this
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clout
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On October 26, 1881 a famous one of these took place at the O.K. Corral
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a shootout
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For over 40 years the American Cancer Society has hosted "The Great American" this on the third Thursday in November
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Smokeout
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS
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In 2021 France lost about 7' of country after a farmer in this North Sea nation to the north moved a stone marker
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Belgium
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Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Hstoric Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital
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Topeka
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In 2021, National Geographic recognized a fifth ocean, the one seen here, by calling it this directional name
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the Southern Ocean
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Considered Japan's mainland, this island has more than 6,000 miles of coastline
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Honshu
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Here is Stromboli, an Italian volcano off Sicily, actively volcanoing into this sea of the Mediterranean
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the Tyrrhenian Sea
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BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS
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Katniss thinks this man, leader of the Capitol, smells like blood & roses
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President Snow
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Things turn out badly for Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of this medical pro
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Nurse Ratchet
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This slimy villain of "David Copperfield" gets his comeuppance as seen in the illustration here
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Uriah Heep
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Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel
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Dangerous Liaisons
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This character tells Paul Sheldon, "You're going to use this typewriter to write a new novel! Your best novel! 'Misery's Return!"'
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Annie Wilkes
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SPACE: KIND OF HUGE
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A planetoid called Farfarout is the most distant object in our solar system at 132 A.U.s, short for this; 1 A.U. is 93 million miles
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astronomical unit
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NASA reported the wingspan of this insect-named nebula covers 3 light-years & ejects layers of gas from a dying star at the center
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butterfly
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The nearest example of a red supergiant is this bright star; it's still 724 light-years away, & don't say it 3 times
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Betelgeuse
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In 1977 this probe 2 launched 2 weeks before probe 1; it took 12 years to reach Neptune before hitting interstellar space
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Voyager
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Launched in 1989, the Galileo craft took the long wav 'round to this planet in a 6-year, 2.4-billion-mile circuitous route
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Jupiter
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THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY
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Won't lovers revolt now? is this type of phrase
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a palindrome
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The 4 interlocking silver rings in the logo of this brand symbolize the 1932 merger of 4 auto manufacturers
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Audi
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Symmetry can give a sense of peace as in a chapel inspired by a Psalm about the shadow of these animal parts
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wings
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Laying down the math laws, the commutative law is on the top & this law is on the bottom
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the associative law
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In radial symmetry called pantamerism, a creature can split along several axes; in this type of symmetry, only the left & right sides match
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bilateral symmetry
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BACK ME UP
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She sang backup for Garth Brooks before her own career took off & in 2005, she married him
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Trisha Yearwood
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John Lennon not only co-wrote this Bowie song that asks, What's your name? What's your name?, he also sang on it
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"Fame"
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She was a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr when she was discovered in the late '80s--19 No. 1 hits later...
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Mariah Carey
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While her song "You're So Vain" is not about Mick Jagger, he did provide backing vocals
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Carly Simon
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He backed up Steely Dan before fronting the Doobie Brothers, then went solo with songs like "I Keep Forgettin"'
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Michael McDonald
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SCRAMBLED HATS
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Go south by southwest: MORE ORBS
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a sombrero
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'60s sensation: LOX BLIP
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a pillbox
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Ideal for detecting: ELK ARRESTED
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a deerstalker
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Perfect on a president: I TOP VEEPS
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a stovepipe
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Chefly chapeau:QUOTE
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a toque
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HISTORIC EUROPEAN FAMILIES
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This family has been traced to the Mugello valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician
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the Medici
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