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FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
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Fiat lux translates to "let there be" this
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light
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German for "highway", it actually does have an advisory limit of 81 mph
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autobahn
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As in the song, despacito is Spanish for this adverb
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slowly
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Literally "good word", it's a witty remark; en français, S'il vous plait!
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bon mot
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This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name
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uhuru
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TV NEWS
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As Mary Richards, she helped put out the local news on WJM-TV
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Mary Tyler Moore
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"Deadline" (13 episodes) focused on the New York Ledger, which covered the cops on this show (450+ episodes)
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Law & Order
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Show co-starring Reese Witherspoon as a small-time reporter suddenly on national air
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The Morning Show
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Emily Mortimer produced & Jeff Daniels anchored on this HBO show
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The Newsroom
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In 2013 she began playing a reporter on "Being Mary Jane" & got engaged to Dwyane Wade
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Gabrielle Union
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FASHION
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Types of this headwear include bonnie, rebel & musically, "Raspberry"
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beret
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GQ says this "should be pleated & sit directly on top of the waistband of your trouser"
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a cummerbund
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Perfect as casual wear, this "letter-perfect" dress fits at the hips & flares out further down
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A-line
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Men's Levi's jeans & recorded music were your only options when this store, now a chain, opened in San Francisco in 1969
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the Gap
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As well as a general noun for a loose shirt, it can be a verb meaning "to poof out slightly above the waist"
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to blouse
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THE ANCIENT MARINER
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In his 70s, Sir John Ross sailed north to find his lost friend Sir John Franklin; he failed but got promoted to rear this rank
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admiral
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A 1633 book, "The Strange & Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James", may have inspired this "Ancient Mariner" poet
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Coleridge
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In 1861 elderly Capt. Armstrong was court-martialed for surrendering Pensacola Navy Yard to forces of this seceded state
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Florida
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This Pooh creator wrote a poem about "An old sailor my grandfather knew who had so many things which he wanted to do"
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Milne
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Henry Allingham died aged 113 in 2009 as the last survivor of World War I's biggest naval clash, the battle of this Danish land
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the Battle of Jutland
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WATER, WATER
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The Chukchi & Laptev are among the seas in this ocean
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the Arctic
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The Pacific's Yap Trench is this kind of trench that shares a name with a deep sea vessel
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submarine
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As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into
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Flushing
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The Hollands Diep River flows into the Haring Estuary, which ultimately discharges into this sea
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the North Sea
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The Humboldt Current is sometimes called this South American country's current
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the Peru Current (the Chilean)
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EVERYWHERE
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This fast food restaurant with a transportation name has more locations in the U.S. than any other chain
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Subway
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Barclays Bank in London installed one of the first of these machines in 1967; now there are an estimated 3 million worldwide
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an ATM
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The American Lung Association warns that the dust type of these omnipresent pests are major asthma triggers
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mites
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Seen here, this perennial grass is used to make biofuel in Brazil
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sugar cane
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Used in making everything from airplanes to appliances, it's the most abundant metal in Earth's crust
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aluminum
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BUILDINGS IN HISTORY
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Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city
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Birmingham
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At the Waitangi Treaty House, Chiefs like Tamati Pukututu & Lt. Gov. William Hobson signed this country's founding document in 1840
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New Zealand
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The Yusopov Palace on St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 2016
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Rasputin
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Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals
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a salon
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At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there
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ronin
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GLOW-POURRI
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Made with florescent inks, these posters glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays
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black light
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Sometimes called the fourth state of matter, it exhibits a glow discharge that occurs between 2 electrodes at low pressure
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plasma
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Cats' eyes glow due to a structure that reflects light after it has passed around this photosensitive structure
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the retina
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Some think that Lakshmi's blessings go to those whose homes glow brightest during this festival
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Diwali
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Because tonic water contains this drug, it will glow under certain conditions
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quinine
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AUTHORS
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Julia Quinn is the author behind this steamy series of books that include "The Viscount Who Loved Me" & "To Sir Phillip, with Love"
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Bridgerton
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Despite numerous surgeries, eye problems left this "Dubliners" author nearly blind
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Joyce
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In 2020 this author announced he was passing the Jack Reacher baton to his younger brother Andrew
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Lee Child
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Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it
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(Arthur Conan) Doyle
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Sharing his pen name with a Hemingway character, he wrote the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series
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(Robert) Jordan
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MOVIE MADNESS
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In "The Dark Knight", this character says, "Madness... is like gravity: all it takes is a little push"
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the Joker
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Vic Vega is a tortured soul--no, make that a torturing soul--& gets an earful from a cop in this 1992 Tarantino film
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Reservoir Dogs
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In "The Shining" this actor descends into insanity, to the dismay of Shelley Duvall
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Jack Nicholson
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This 1960 film character: "A madhouse?... My mother there? But she's harmless!" (welllllll... yes & no)
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(Norman) Bates
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In 2000 a murderous Christian Bale lived up to this Bret Easton Ellis title
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American Psycho
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CLASSICAL MUSIC
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This Tchaikovsky work became popular for July 4th after a 1974 Boston Pops performance featuring fireworks & cannons
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the 1812 Overture
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Wanda Landowska revived interest in this instrument, using it in the first recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
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a harpsichord
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He composed the famous "Wedding March" heard here as part of the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Mendelssohn
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Though he'd live to age 91, this "Finlandia" composer pretty much stopped composing for the last 30 years of his life
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Jean Sibelius
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Composer Aram Khachaturian's most familiar piece is this sharp "Dance" featured in his "Gayane" ballet
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the "Sabre Dance"
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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"
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A witty remark (4 letters)
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a quip
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The shaft of a feather (5 letters)
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quill
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A fixed minimum needed for a meeting (6 letters)
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a quorum
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To Incas, "the mother grain" (6 letters)
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quinoa
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Fancy synonym for silent(9 letters)
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quiescent
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METEOROLOGY
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It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible
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tornado
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