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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS
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Her self-portrait titled "Diego & I" sold for $34.9 million at a 2021 auction, a record for her
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Frida Kahlo
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Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man
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Barack Obama
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Dancers were a favorite subject of this artist as in his 1879 work shown here
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Degas
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In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull
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a Minotaur
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This New Englander showed the struggle between humans & nature in seascapes like "Fog Warning" & "The Herring Net"
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Homer
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES
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To be near the end is to be "on your" these anatomical items
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last legs
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Influence from one's equals
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peer pressure
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Fascinated by the famous
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starstruck
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Per the Farmers' Almanac, the hot period from July 3 to August 11
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the dog days
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Thrown around by a storm; it's in the poem on the Statue of Liberty
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tempest-tost
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CLASSIC LIT
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"The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family
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a mongoose
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Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" to this New Englander who had mentored him
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Hawthorne
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In "Oliver Twist", precocious pickpocket Jack Dawkins is better known by this nickname
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the Artful Dodger
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His 1789 book "Songs of Innocence" fittingly includes "The Lamb"
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Blake
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The title of this semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin comes from a traditional hymn
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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HORROR MOVIES
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"The Babysitter Murders" became this 1978 film introducing Michael Myers
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Halloween
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A masked killer known as Ghostface torments teens in this 1996 horror film & its 2022 outing
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Scream
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Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest
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the Candyman
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In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home
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Daniel Kaluuya
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The spawn of Satan is given this first name & is raised by an ambassador in "The Omen"
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Damien
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GET OUT
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Get out & elect this group that helps set what kids are taught; the National Assoc. of them says voter turnout often runs under 10%
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a school board
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Get out to the West Coast for Bottlerock, a festival of big music acts & wine tasting in this California valley
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Napa Valley
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Get out and play the combo game foot volley, invented in this country that's a powerhouse in soccer & beach volleyball
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Brazil
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Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s
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speed dating
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Get out in your garden and plant this, every part of which can be used in cooking
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fennel
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THE "O" MEN
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Done with manufacturing wagons, he set up an elevator shop in Yonkers in 1853 & business just went up from there
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Otis
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Later a shipping magnate, this businessman whose middle name was Socrates made his first million by age 25 dealing tobacco
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Onassis
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Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse"
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Nick Offerman
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More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him
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Ohm
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Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées"
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Jacques Offenbach
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN
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On May 5, 1960 Khrushchev informed the Supreme Soviet this alphanumeric U.S. plane had been shot down over the USSR 4 days earlier
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the U2
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Despite a generous retirement plan of 2 million francs a year & this island as his own, Napoleon returned to France on March 1, 1815
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Elba
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Harlon Block, Michael Strank, Ira Hayes & 3 other servicemen were famously pictured on this island on Feb. 23, 1945
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Iwo Jima
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France's National Assembly got "The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen" from this military hero on July 11, 1789
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Lafayette
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He was inaugurated as president on Nov. 3, 1970 in Chile but 3 years later, fell in a military coup
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Allende
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PLACES IN THE USA
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The world's largest stand of ponderosa pines is near Flagstaff in Coconino National Forest in this state
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Arizona
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An Idaho city gave its name to a geyser there called these "Springs"; it was Beer Springs but went non-alcoholic
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Soda Springs
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A favorite restaurant of Joe Biden's is Piccolina Toscana in this Delaware city, his longtime home
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Wilmington
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Sheffield, Alabama is home to these "Shoals", the studio where "Wild Horses" & "Old Time Rock & Roll" were recorded
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Muscle Shoals
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This Oregon State University city is about 40 miles down the Willamette from Eugene
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Corvallis
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY
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In 1916 astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used relativistic equations to predict the existence of these inescapable bodies
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a black hole
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On Dec. 24, 2021 this physicist tweeted, "Maybe Santa's reindeer are stationary, & it is we who fly past them"
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought
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E=MC2
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Nobel winner Kip Thorne made sure the science was right in "Interstellar", about a trip through one of these relativistic tunnels
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a wormhole
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This hyphenated term linking 3 dimensions with a fourth is a key concept in relativistic theory
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the space-time continuum
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CLASSIC CARS
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This 8-letter avian word describes the doors on the 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupe
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gullwing
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Company founder & namesake Enzo had to give approval in order for someone to purchase one of its 250 GTOs
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Ferrari
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In 2018 this doozy of an American car sold for $22 million; previous owners include Gary Cooper
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a Dussenberg
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In "The Spy Who Loved Me", James Bond had esprit with this carmaker's Esprit--it converted into a submarine
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a Lotus
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Here's a real beauty from the 1960s, this hyphenated British make's 3000
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an Austin-Healy
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES
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In this Disney flick one of the title characters has an enchanted rose that he keeps under glass
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Beauty and the Beast
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She starred in the movie "The Rose" & had a No. 3 hit with the title song in 1980
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Bette Midler
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This woman shot a metaphoric arrow of love into now-husband Kit Harington & as Ygritte, a real one into Kit's Jon Snow
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Rose Leslie
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Seen here, this daughter of a movie swashbuckler is an actor in her own right
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Lily-Rose Depp
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The song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" is from this musical about Rose Lee
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Gypsy
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FROM "B" TO "I"
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A 1960 hit song described it as "itsy bitsy" & "teenie weenie"
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a bikini
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Babies in Bologna
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bambini
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This Greek musical instrument resembles a mandolin
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a bouzouki
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Native to Africa, this hound dog is also known to be barkless
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a Basenji
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It's a decorative mark or jewel in the middle of the forehead traditionally worn by married Hindu women
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a bindi
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DEBUT NOVELS
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Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist"
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Outlander
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