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ART, OF WAR
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In "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta", Kara Walker adds silhouettes to illustrations of this war
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the Civil War
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One of his greatest & largest paintings was inspired by a newspaper article on the bombing of Guernica
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Picasso
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The artwork here depicts this famous venture at the Battle of Balaclava
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the Charge of the Light Brigade
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Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda
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Singapore
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2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen " are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial
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the Vietnam War Memorial
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU
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The 390-calorie Burrito Supreme
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Taco Bell
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Sir, this is a this place, & that's a vanilla Frosty
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Wendy\'s
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$600
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The original Orange Chicken, & perhaps some sides
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Panda Express
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$800
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We are amused with a Chocolate Dilly Bar
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Dairy Queen
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$1000
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Tuscani Meaty Marinara Pasta
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Pizza Hut
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS
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In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began"
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Genesis
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In some versions of 1 Timothy, it's the "desire of" this, not the "love of" it, that causes trouble
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money
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In one translation, it's a cable, not a camel, that has trouble doing this
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passing through the eye of a needle
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Most translations say Lot's wife became one of these, but some use "column" or "statue"
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a pillar of salt
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In some translations of Isaiah 40:3, a voice is crying in the desert; in the King James version, it's crying in this
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wilderness
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP
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For some reason Willow Smith in 2010 kept telling us she was going to "whip" this "back and forth"
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her hair
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Del the Funky Homosapien rapped about this "& Crossbones"
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Skull
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Echo & the Bunnymen sang that they were "like sugar"; in a Meghan Trainor song, they were movin'
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lips
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"Heaven, I'm in heaven... when we're out together dancing" this way
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cheek to cheek
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In a Kim Carnes tune the subject of the song has "Greta Garbo stand-off sighs" & this actress' eyes
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Bette Davis
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY
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It's a book of maps
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an atlas
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You can thank the Roman goddess of agriculture for this breakfast staple
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cereal
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This day of the week gets its name from the Norse god of thunder
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Thursday
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Thick & sweet & prepared from fruit puree like mango or guava, it's a drink fit for the gods
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nectar
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Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy
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bacchanalia
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WHAT EVER
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In 2021 a container ship called the Ever Given got stuck in this canal, causing a 6-day maritime traffic jam
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the Suez Canal
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This battery brand uses a cat in its logo
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Eveready
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As Joan Crawford in this movie, Faye Dunaway clarifies things for her daughter: "No wire hangers, ever!"
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Mommie Dearest
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This brand of American-made grain alcohol is 190 proof
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Everclear
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Adjective for vast northern forests of evergreen trees; Canada has the largest protected one, bigger than Belgium
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a coniferous forest
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS
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The first album she owned was by the Go-Go's and she recreated their album cover look at the Rock Hall of Fame induction
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Drew Barrymore
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Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death
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a hearse
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This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip
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Conan O\'Brien
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This rapper, pitchman & friend of Martha Stewart said that in 2020, age 49, he was finally going to go out & vote
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Snoop Dogg
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John C. Reilly took his first plane ride to Thailand for his first movie, this 1989 Brian de Palma film about soldiers in Vietnam
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Casualties of War
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE
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Langston Hughes "heard the singing" of this big river, "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset"
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the Mississippi
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A Whitman poem is titled "By Blue" this Great Lake's "Shore"; he could've been in the province of the same name
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Ontario
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Wordsworth wrote of an ascent of Helvellyn, a mountain in this "District" that he called home
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the Lake District
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This state's official poem ends, "where the dreamy Wabash River wanders on... through paradise"
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Indiana
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This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach"
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Matthew Arnold
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER
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"Notorious RBG"
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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"Bossypants"
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Tina Fey
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"My Life with the Chimpanzees"
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Jane Goodall
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"Road to Tara: The Life of" this author
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Margaret Mitchell
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"Power, Privilege and the Post"
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Katharine Graham
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ECONOMICS
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The Federal Reserve's target rate for this is 2%, but that was majorly exceeded in the late months of 2021
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inflation
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A monopsony, unlike a monopoly, is a market with only one of these; in a labor market, it can lead to lower wages
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only one purchaser (buyer)
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The expenses for a business of changing its prices are called these "costs", what Joe's Diner doesn't want to keep reprinting
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menu costs
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A common barrier to trade, it's a government payment to a domestic industry, like the U.S. government's to farmers
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a subsidy
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Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors"
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incentives
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE
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This scientist told an early biographer that "the notion of gravitation came into his mind... occasion'd by the fall of an apple"
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Newton
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Astrophysicist Joan Feynman explained the science behind these northern & southern light displays, the borealis & the australis
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the auroras
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Marie Tharp's discovery of mid-ocean ridges would support continental drift & this theory of continents moving on slabs of rock
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plate tectonics
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Daniel of this family gets the credit for the principle that says the pressure of a fluid decreases as its speed increases
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Bernouli
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America's first profession female astronomer, in 1847, she discovered a new comet, & later became Vassar's first professor of astronomy
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Maria Mitchell
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NUMBER WORDS
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This numerical term means open every hour every day
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24/7
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A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number. " 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"'
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411
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A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism
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1984
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This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s
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420
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$2000
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The last entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary is this U.K. equivalent of 911
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999
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WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY
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N/A
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The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday
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Catherine Parr
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