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PICTURE THE NOVEL
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Fantasy via furniture
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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A classic tale that makes points about censorship
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Fahrenheit 451
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The author's sole novel, published in 1963
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The Bell Jar
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Lowry goes low, south of the border
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Under the Volcano
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Dances with Woolf
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To the Lighthouse
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U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY
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In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Colin Powell
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This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December
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(J. Edgar) Hoover
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1930's Smoot-Hawley act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly
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tariffs
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Big from 1834 to 1854, this political party took its name from a British one opposed to royal prerogatives
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the Whigs
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On March 1, 2003 FEMA & 21 other organizations got a new boss with the creation of this department
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the Department of Homeland Security
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IT'S A "SYN"
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It's an abstract or summary of a film or novel
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synopsis
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It created the music heard here
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a synthesizer
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It can be an agency that sells the same columns to many newspapers, or an illegal cartel
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a syndicate
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What a coincidence, all these things coming together now, it's this 13-letter word
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synchronicity
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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is one way of explaining it
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synergy
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COFFEE BREAK
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There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island
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Hawaii
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Order café com leite in Brazil & you'll get coffee with this liquid, hot--or sometimes this liquid with a little coffee
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milk
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It was a fine coffee named for a Yemeni port before it was a chocolatey coffee flavor
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mocha
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A Seattle coffee co. is named for this 1765 British act that raised tea prices; coffee was soon the patriotic choice for colonists
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the Stamp Act
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Temperate at an altitude of about 5,00q feet, Medellín is a center of this nation's coffee industry
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Colombia
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BALLPARK FUN
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After "Yankees win! The-e-e-e-e Yankees win!" At home, count on hearing this Sinatra classic on the stadium speakers
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"New York, New York"
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In an unexpected crossover, the green Phanatic supporting this team since 1978 has a kids' book with a "Galapagos Gang" of animals
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the (Philadelphia) Phillies
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Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem
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the Baltimore Orioles
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When a Texas Ranger hits a homer at home, the theme from this Robert Redford film plays, & it's not "The Way We Were"
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The Natural
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In the 1980s & '90s this rhymingly named Cubs announcer led the Wrigley faithful in singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
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Harry Caray
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DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN
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Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older
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X-ray
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Stage I of labor includes creating a cozy space, known as this avian-sounding activity; be sure to use your human's most costly clothes
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nesting
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When the offspring start trying to eat mom's solid food instead of suckling, it's time for this shift to independence
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weaning
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In the third stage of labor, this will emerge; Dr. M. prefers this plain English compound word to the fancy Latin "placenta"
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afterbirth
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Dr. Mittens' patients are happy to hear that this royal noun becomes a verb when it refers to a cat giving birth
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queening
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BODIES OF WATER
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The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds
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the Thames
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When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean
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the Indian Ocean
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At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan
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Lake Huron
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The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one
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the Rio Grande
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Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake
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Lake Malawi
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POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES
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The confessions of this funkmeister is subtitled: "Memoirs of a Super Freak"
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Rick James
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Don't get me wrong, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" was her tale to tell
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Chrissie Hynde
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"Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness" is by this late, great Ronette
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Ronnie Spector
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This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me"
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Davy Jones
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"So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death"
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James Hetfield
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
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1989: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title
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Dalai Lama
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1999: this medical organization founded in France
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Doctors Without Borders
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1997: Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons
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landmines
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2015: the National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation
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Tunisia
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1961: this Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously
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Dag Hammarskjöld
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9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS
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The mathematical operation of deducting a number
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subtraction
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If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type
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a mainframe
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From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war
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belligerent
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A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer
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a paparazzi
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From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game
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kibbitzing
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WHAT A TOOL
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Often joined with "ball", it means the end of a hammer opposite the face
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peen
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It's a pronged tool used for gathering, & no one would use a hoe for that
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a rake
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Locksmith Bill Deforrest invented innovative these, like a hybrid of the diamond & hook types
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lockpicks
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The "cold" type of this chipping instrument is so called because it's tough enough to cut cold metal
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a chisel
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Used for shaping wood, it can end in "z" "ze"
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an adze
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LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE
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A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal"
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Georgia
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Part II of Goethe's "Faust" gets into his salvation & the courtship of this Greek woman of Trojan War myth
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Helen of Troy
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Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording
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a bass
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Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man
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(Christopher) Marlowe
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This composer conducted the first performance of his "Faust" overture at a Dresden concert in 1844
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Wagner
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THE EARLY 19th CENTURY
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N/A
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Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle
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the Battle of Trafalgar
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