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1860s AMERICA
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One of the first U.S. colleges for the deaf, Gallaudet University in this city was founded in 1864
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Washington, D.C.
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This company, founded in 1865, began making iconic hats like the ones seen here & still does today
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Stetson
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This amendment that granted citizenship & civil rights to emancipated African Americans was ratified in 1868
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the 14th Amendment
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This oldest & northernmost leg of horse racing's Triple Crown was first run in 1867, with Ruthless winning in 3:05
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the Belmont Stakes
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In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man
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Andrew Johnson
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"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY
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Scotland's largest city, it's on both banks of the River Clyde
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Glasgow
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2 promontories called the Pillars of Hercules flank the entrance to this strait
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Gibraltar
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Kolkata is on the Hugli River, an arm of this other river
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the Ganges
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In 1900 this Texas city was devastated by a hurricane that killed more than 5,000 people
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Galveston
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This country is surrounded by Senegal
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The Gambia
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INVESTING
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As their name indicates, these are contracts to buy or sell commodities like grain at an agreed-upon price at a later date
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futures
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Warren Buffett says most people should simply hold a fund that tracks the S&P 500, short for this index
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Standard & Poor
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To buy "on" this is to buy stocks partly with money borrowed from a broker
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margin
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Not risk-averse? Buy into a special purpose acquisition company, formed to get investors while avoiding this 3-letter process
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an IPO
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Risk-averse? Buy TIPS, government securities whose value rises with inflation, as measured by this index
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the Consumer Price Index
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ICE CREAM FLAVORS?
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Idiomatically, if you're "plain" this, you're unexciting
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vanilla
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Who's a good boy? This type of Lab seen here just chilling
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chocolate
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This alliterative expression refers to a literal path fraught with troubles
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rocky road
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It's the rock classic that begins, "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!"
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"Tutti Frutti"
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Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast
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Neapolitan
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FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL
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Desmond Howard's 99-yard kick return touchdown helped him earn Super Bowl 31 MVP honors over Brett Favre for this team
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the Packers
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Football's Ted Lasso knows this pre-snap line of scrimmage penalty well; soccer's Ted Lasso found the sport's version... complex
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offisides
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This Premier League system of sending the 3 bottom-finishers to a 2nd-tier league is like sending 3 MLB teams down to AAA
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relegation
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In 2022 quarterback Stetson Bennett led this school to the national title over SEC rival Alabama, 33-18
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the University of Georgia
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In 2020, thousands thronged the presidential palace in Buenos Aires as this national hero lay in state
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Diego Maradona
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A WORD TO THE WISE
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It's the "I" in Britain's MI6
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intelligence
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An herb, or a profound philosopher
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a sage
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The idiom "too" this smart synonym "by half" means you're wise, but in a way that causes problems
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clever
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It's the highest rating in military rifle marksmanship
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an expert
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Add -nt to the end of a word for one overly sensitive to decorum & you'll get this synonym for wisely cautious
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prudent
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RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS
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"The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state
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Florida
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"The Sinner and the Saint" tells how a real-life egotistical murderer inspired this Russian novelist
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Dostoevsky
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Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie
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H.G. Wells
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"Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage
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Voyager
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"Competing with Idiots" is a dual biography of these screenwriting giants, brothers Herman & Joe, by a grandson of Herman's
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Mankiewicz
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SCIENTIFIC INITIALS
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Naturalist C.R.D., 1809-1882 (the "R" was for Robert)
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Darwin
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M.C. (born M.S.),a 2-time Nobel winner
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Marie Curie
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N.T.,who made sparks fly
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Nikola Tesla
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C.L. (also just L.),an 18th century classifier
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Linnaeus
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N.B.,a great Dane
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(Niels) Bohr
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THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS
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The Etruscan 20-letter language went out of use owing to the spread of this language that used 23 letters
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Latin
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A messenger & an intermediary between the gods & man, the Etruscan god, Turms, was equivalent to this Greek god
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Hermes
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The Etruscans' religious use of fowls for divination led to this clavicular way for determining fate
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pulling a wishbone
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The Etruscan League was a dodecapolis, consisting of this many main cities
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12
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The Etruscans lived from the Tiber River in the south to this 150-mile river of Florence in the north
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the Arno
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NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS
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This religious word precedes Pioneer Trail in the name of a rugged route; note the western endpoint
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Mormon
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The trail named for this 19th century service runs 1,900 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco
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the Pony Express
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The site where this captive Englishman met Powhatan & Pocahontas is along the trail named for him
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John Smith
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The only winter trail in the NHT system, it includes a 1,000-mile section between Seward & Nome & shares its name with a race
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the Iditarod
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The website for this trail that traces a 19th century Cherokee route calls it "a journey of injustice"
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the Trail of Tears
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CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX
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On this sitcom Ariel Winter was Alex, the smartest member of the Dunphys
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Modern Family
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In 2020 this medical drama's character Dr. Alex Karev left after 15 years on the series
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Grey\'s Anatomy
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This title cyborg formerly known as Alex Murphy reads Miranda rights to a suspect as he tosses him through a few glass windows
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RoboCop
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The Ross & Rachel, or the Jim & Pam, of "Orange Is the New Black" were Piper, played by Taylor Schilling, & Alex, played by her
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Laura Prepon
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This James Patterson character is a profiler who is a liaison between the Washington, D.C. police & the FBI
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Alex Cross
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SILENT LETTER STARTERS
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This title for a European ruler can have a silent "T" or "C" at the front
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tsar (czar)
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is considered this kind of gospel, from the Greek for "knowledge"
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gnostic
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This lung infection is commonly caused by a strain of streptococcus
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pneumonia
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Psalms says, "Cease from anger, and forsake" this, "fret not thyself in any wise to do evil"
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wrath
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This type of "device" helps you remember something
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mnemonic
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HISTORIC NICKNAMES
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N/A
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Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle
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"The Little Corporal"
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