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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE
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This West Coast state joined the union during Fillmore's presidency
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California
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In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention
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Taylor
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Too-friendly-to-slavery Millard's name is being taken off things at UB, the U. at this city in New York where he was 1st chancellor
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Buffalo
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Shortly after taking office, Fillmore named this religious leader the governor of the Utah territory
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(Brigham) Young
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One of Fillmore's nicknames was "the last of" this political party's presidents
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Whig
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HOBBIES
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Maybe you want to make this type of decorative window; Chartres Cathedral has ones for inspiration
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stained glass
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After you've made your pottery, you may want to fire it in one of these ovens
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a kiln
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Instead of paraffin, you might opt to make your candles from this, a by-product of honey making
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beeswax
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Pinching buds, pruning & wiring branches are part of this, a loanword from Japanese that means "planted in a container"
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bonsai
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Settle in with some needlework & crochet this cozy blanket that gets its name from the land of the Pashtun people
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afghan
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I LOVE YOU 3,000
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"U" know it's the designation for radio frequencies between 300 & 3,000 megahertz
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UHF (ultra high frequency)
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He's not a total outcast; he's a musical & fashion trendsetter
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Andre 3000
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This shortstop was the first of all the team's superstars to join the 3,000-hit club as a Yankee, doing so with a home run in 2011
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Jeter
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Beginning where the Lualaba & Luvua meet, this river flows almost 3,000 miles through West Central Africa to the Atlantic
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the Congo
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In 2021 a trader's "fat-finger" error led to a sale price of $3,000 instead of $300,000 for an NFT, short for this
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a non-fungible token
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EUROPE
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This northern region encompassing several countries is sometimes reckoned to include Finland & the Faroe Islands
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Scandinavia
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Rossini never visited this Spanish city where he set an 1816 opera
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Seville
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Finally realizing independence in 1993, it had been called "Upper Hungary"
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Slovakia
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This capital of Belarus was almost completely destroyed during World War II
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Minsk
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This former Yugoslav republic named for a mountain has the Tara River Canyon, one of Europe's deepest & a nice bridge over it
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Montenegro
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'70s TELEVISION
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The alien Mork came to Earth to study humans like this other title character he bonds with
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Mindy
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Bo & Luke, this title pair, were always working to stay one step ahead of Sheriff Coltrane & Boss Hogg
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the Dukes of Hazzard
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Jan, Cindy & this eldest were the 3 daughters in "The Brady Bunch"
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Marcia
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For three seasons, this actress helped protect our world as Diana Prince, an Amazon better known as Wonder Woman
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Lynda Carter
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According to our "Files", this private eye lived in a trailer in Malibu but drove his Pontiac Firebird all over Los Angeles
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Rockford
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT
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A set cost for a service provided
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a fee
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A bitter brew often with higher alcohol content
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an ale
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A signal to an actor
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a cue
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Great sorrow
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woe
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Home for an osprey
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an aerie
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte"
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Roots
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In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang
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(Jack) London
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Begun as a Saturday supplement in 1896, the first review included an update on this writer, incarcerated in Reading Gaol
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Oscar Wilde
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Offering "very good advice on bad assumptions" is what the reviewer had to say about "How to Win Friends and" do this
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Influence People
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In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s
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Amor Towles
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TUNE RIVER
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It's said that he wrote the 2003 hit "Cry Me A River" about an ex, Britney Spears
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Timberlake
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In her first solo No. 1 hit after leaving The Supremes, she sang, "Ain't no river wide enough to keep me from you"
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Ross
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Jerome Kern wrote this standard about the Mississippi River for the musical "Show Boat"
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"Ol\' Man River"
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Big Mouth Billy Bass, a fish mounted on a plaque, lip-synched "Don't Worry, Be Happy" & this apt Al Green tune
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"Take Me To The River"
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It's the river that's "chilly & cold" as well as "deep & wide" in "Michael, row the boat ashore"
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Jordan
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS
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When 2 light nuclei combine to form a single heavier nucleus, it's called this process
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fusion
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Each particle in this Greek letter type of radiation used safely in home smoke detectors is identical to a helium nucleus
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alpha radiation
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The first people to use the term "atom" were the ancient Greeks & in their language, it refers to this quality
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indivisibility
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From their position on the periodic table, elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 are labeled with this term
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transuranium
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This fertile word is the "B" in FBR, a reactor that produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes while generating power
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breeder
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS
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A prohibition on the horned god of shepherds & flocks
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a Pan ban
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A whole geologic time period centered on the queen of the Olympians
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a Hera era
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To walk behind the major god whose twin was Artemis
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to follow Apollo
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An unexpected extra father of Zeus
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bonus Cronus
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Deception practiced by the muse of dance
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Terpsichore trickery
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LIBRARIES
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Its present building was erected under Pope Sixtus V
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the Vatican Library
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You don't have to work in government to use the main reading room here, but you do need an appointment
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the Library of Congress
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Mayor La Guardia named the 2 marble lions outside the NYPL this & Fortitude, qualities needed to survive the depression
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Patience
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The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community
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Bethesda
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The archives of this "Father of Existentialism" are housed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen
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Søren Kierkegaard
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"SH"!
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From the name of a British army officer, it's fragments from an exploded bomb, mine or shell
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shrapnel
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According to its website, this international is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship & masonic principles
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the Shriners
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Once considered a rare breed, this dog was originally used for hunting & guarding in China
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Shar-Pei
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One of the earliest written mentions of this Native American people that included Sacagawea is in the journals of Lewis & Clark
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Shoshone
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It's a Middle Eastern sandwich in a pita or wrap with lamb or chicken, shaved from a rotating spit
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shawarma
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WORLD WAR I
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N/A
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Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula
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Gallipoli
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