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ARTHROPODCAST
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The medicinal name of these little arthropods comes their habit of rolling themselves into a ball when threatened
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a pill bug
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These, the members of the class Diplopoda, aren't 10 times the size of centipedes
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millipedes
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The false this lacks the tail of the real thing and I'm fine with that
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a scorpion
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The name of this arthropod subgroup is from Latin for "hard shell"
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crustacean
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These so-called crabs are actually related to the extinct trilobites
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horseshoe crabs
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
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15 judges sit on the International Court of Justice as the principal judicial organ of this global body
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the United Nations
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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist from Nigeria, is the first woman to head this, WTO for short
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the World Trade Organization
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Goals of the IMF include improving access to global investment & stabilizing these currency trading scales
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exchange rates
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This group that now has 27 member nations is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium
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the European Union (EU)
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This agency, the IAEA, has been much in the news in recent years with its inspectors' attempts to monitor nuclear technology
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the International Atomic Energy Agency
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER
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An angry mob's near murder of an entire village via beezle-nut juice dunking traumatizes this horrified & helpless elephant
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Horton
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"You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack
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Yertle (the Turtle)
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Freud said rivalry with the father is basic--for the young'uns in this book, that includes jumping onto his belly
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Hop on Pop
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Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he "was shortish. And oldish... and mossy", & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley
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the Lorax
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This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king
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Bartholomew Cubbins
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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French: qui
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who
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Italian: quando
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when
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Norwegian: hva
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what
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Spanish: donde
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where
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Swedish: varfor
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why
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EASY PEASY
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Check out the statue standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona; it was inspired by this Eagles hit
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"Take It Easy"
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The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child
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Five Easy Pieces
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This HBO miniseries recounted the daunting history of Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne
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Band of Brothers
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After "The Fly", Jeff Goldblum reunited with Geena Davis in this comedy about 3 aliens who want to party in L.A.
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Earth Girls Are Easy
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Given first name Ezekiel, this fictional detective worked the Watts area of L.A. starting in the 1940s
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Easy Rawlins
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LEMON SQUEEZY
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For a classic French 75, along with the gin, lemon juice & simple syrup, you have to break out a bottle of this sparkling wine
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champagne
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Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler & slowly add clarified butter & lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine's "mother sauces"
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hollandaise
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A classic pie is filled with tart lemon & topped with this, stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar
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meringue
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This outermost layer of a lemon peel--just the skin & not the white pith--has aromatic oils that add flavor to food
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zest
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Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an earthenware pot of the same name
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a tagine
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE
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Baseball star Muddy Ruel called the mask, shin guards, etc. used in this job the "tools of ignorance"
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catcher
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Floss & polishers are among the tools of those of this job; the women who did it were first allowed to wear pants in 1971
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dental hygienists
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An electronic pick & a plug spinner are tools of this trade; in California, a state license is good too
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a locksmith
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This job requires mastering a special 22-button keyboard & spending time around lawyers & defendants
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a court reporter
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The Gemological Institute of America website sells a 10x one of these
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a loupe
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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This "stately" river actually begins next door in Pittsburgh
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Ohio
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Utah would be more of a rectangle if this state hadn't taken a bite out of its northeastern corner
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Wyoming
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The cities of Providence & Newport lie at opposite ends of this bay
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Narragansett Bay
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At over 9,300 feet, Shishaldin volcano is the highest mountain in this Alaskan island chain
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the Aleutian Islands
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Mount Marcy & Algonquin Peak can be found in these mountains in northeastern New York
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the Adirondacks
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES
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In Genesis, God tells Noah, "the door of" this "shalt thou set in the side thereof"
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the ark
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The book of Ezekiel says the gates of this city shall be named after the tribes of Israel
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Jerusalem
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In Exodus, this man tells the elders of Israel that when the Lord sees blood upon the lintel & side posts, he "will pass over the door"
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Moses
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In 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan the Hebrew finds a passage between 2 rocks that lets him reach these enemies & slaughter them
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the Philistines
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If an Ephraimite pronounced this word with "si", not "shi", the Gileadites "slew him at the passages of Jordan"
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shibboleth
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC
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In 2021 Taste of Country named as country music's Most Powerful Woman of All Time this beloved Tennessee titan
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Dolly Parton
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Among those joining this icon for her 50th anniversary at the Grand Ole Opry were Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack & sister Crystal Gayle
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Loretta Lynn
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As runner-up on the Season 10 finale of "American Idol", country star Lauren Alaina got to sing with her idol, this season 4 winner
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Carrie Underwood
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She said of "Stand By Your Man" that she spent 20 minutes writing it & over 20 years defending it
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Tammy Wynette
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Breaking barriers in country music, she was Grammy-nominated for her song "Black Like Me" & in 2021, co-hosted the ACM Awards
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Mickey Guyton
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY
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In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later
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Portugal
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In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia
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Bogotá
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In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba
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"Che" Guevara
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In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead
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Paraguay
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In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses
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Pinochet
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MIDDLE E
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A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's
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den
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To challenge the credibility of a witness in court or formally accuse misconduct by a public official
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impeach
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An evil, bewitching spell
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a hex
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It's Spanish for "all right" or "good"
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bueno
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From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion
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quell
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NEWSPAPER TALK
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N/A
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Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting
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the lede
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