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IN RECENT NEWS
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A little birdy told us Parag Agrawal took over as CEO of this tech company in late 2021
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Twitter
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Pres. Biden tried to move Manchins to pass this alliterative plan that would pay for child care & fight climate change
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the Build Back Better Act
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2021 saw this nation sever its 55-year-old ties to Queen Elizabeth II & then as a new republic, titled Rihanna a "national hero"
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Barbados
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In 2021 Magdalena Andersson became the 1st female P.M. of this nation, quit after a few hours, then reclaimed the job days later
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Sweden
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This longtime Kansas senator & nominee for president passed away at the age of 98 & lay in state at the Capitol
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(Bob) Dole
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THE APOLLO PROGRAM
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A combat pilot during the Korean War, about 20 years later, he became the second man on the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin
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On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 crew read aloud from this book of the Bible, as it is foundational for not just Christians
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Genesis
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This powerful rocket with a planetary name lifted the manned Apollo missions towards the Moon
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the Saturn V
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Apollo 16 landed in mountainous Moon terrain, in highlands named for this French 17th century philosopher
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Descartes
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LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS
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We'd say this title arachnid in a 1952 E.B. White tale went off to live on a farm, buuut...
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Charlotte
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"He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage" & also very dead on the floor, but man, that portrait nearby looked fantastic!
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Dorian Gray
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She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, "If you were free, would you marry me?" Yep! in a later book
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Jane (Porter)
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"The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off" & spoiler, he doesn't even get to eat it! What he does get is 19 years in prison
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Jean Valjean
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Gatsby says this woman is "leaving you"; Tom replies, "Nonsense", & Tom is correct
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Daisy Buchanan
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FURNITURE
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It's said you can be "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of" these, but you can relax in one on a summer evening
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rocking chair
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Baby may be under pressure to get a good nap in this, smaller than a crib or cradle, if you buy the $2,800 one from Aristot
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a bassinet
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In the 16th century, French gave us this word for an ornate, free-standing wardrobe, a great place to keep linens & towels
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an armoire
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Oh, my heavens, I am positively swooning, kindly direct me to this appropriately named furniture here, good person
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a fainting couch
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This other name for a sideboard comes from the Italian, & would you take out the dishes from it, please?
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a credenza
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3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES
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To seek out the bird of his dreams, a domesticated avian travels to Brazil
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Rio
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A boy wakes up to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult
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Big
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A man must choose between his girlfriend & his stuffed animal
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Ted
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A New Orleans district attorney investigates an assassination
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JFK
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A retired CIA assassin reunites with his old team to expose a conspiracy
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Red
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"CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE
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Mixing animals: a wolf whistle is one type of this unwanted outburst
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a catcall
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This is a very agile home invader
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a cat burglar
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Models have turned this word for a narrow platform into a verb
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catwalk
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If a person has made you one of these, you've become an unwitting accomplice
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a cat\'s paw
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SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE
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Here is this legal scholar presenting the report of the commission he led, to LBJ on September 24, 1964
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Warren
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After a lifetime of farming, this woman was nearly 80 when a collector bought 15 of her artworks in 1938
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Grandma Moses
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Take a look at & a llisten to Scott Joplin, the genius who created this classic song
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"The Entertainer"
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Perhaps thinking it would be fun to run a newspaper, this man took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1887
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Hearst
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This mathematician, a 1994 Nobel Prize winner in economics, became the world's most famous game theorist
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John Nash
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FROM THE STATE SONG
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"Out by the Truckee's silvery rills... right in the heart of the golden west"
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Nevada
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"Home of the Montezuma, with fiery heart aglow"
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New Mexico
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"Here they heard the words, 'This is the place!"'
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Utah
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"From yonder Mississippi's stream, to where Missouri's waters gleam... see yonder fields of tasseled corn"
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Iowa
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3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS
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It's a journey to a shrine or holy place like the Golden Temple in India
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a pilgrimage
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This word is part of the official names of Cambodia & Denmark
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Kingdom
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From Yiddish, it means to make small talk or chat someone up
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to schmooze
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It's the 14-letter term for the arrangement of sedimentary rocks in distinct layers, as seen here
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stratification
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DYNASTIES OF CHINA
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The first recorded dynasty, the Shang, emerged 1600 B.C. & produced works like the Tiger vase, seen here, during this metallic age
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the Bronze Age
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Around 1000 A.D. during the Song dynasty, neo-this ancient philosophy was introduced as official doctrine
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Confucianism
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Living during a time of conflict in the Zhou dynasty gave Sun Tzu plenty of material to write this treatise
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The Art of War
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This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism
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the Han dynasty
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NAMES IN POP CULTURE
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This character on "Dawson's Creek" was named after the heroine of "Little Women"
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Joey
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He said he chose the name The Smiths because "it's time that the ordinary folk of the world showed their faces"
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Morrissey
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Lenny Lipton, future 3D glasses inventor, wrote the poem about this "Magic Dragon" & says drugs were not in his mind
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Puff
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Named after Rembrandt's son, Titus Welliver plays this TV cop with the same name as another painter
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Bosch
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He's the adorable Mogwai from "Gremlins" who's voiced by Howie Mandel
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Gizmo
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EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS
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The circle of Willis at the base of the brain joins several of these, like the carotid
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arteries
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The crypts of Lieberkühn can be found in the duodenum, the first part of this tube out of the stomach
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small intestines
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Located in the brain's frontal lobe, Broca's area has functions linked to this very human activity
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speech
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Named for an Italian anatomist, the organ of Corti is a hearing receptor found in this spiral-shaped part of the inner ear
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the cochlea
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EPITAPHS
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Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself
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Dorothy Parker
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