SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES
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$200
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(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury & superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300 fans who attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year
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Comic-Con
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$400
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(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) On April 8, 2004, the Padres beat the Giants in the first Major League game at this ball park, a centerpiece of San Diego’s newly revitalized downtown
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Petco
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$600
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(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures
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Dr. Seuss
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$800
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(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title
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TOPGUN
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$1000
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(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabeth visited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed
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the Globe
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CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS
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$200
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"I'm strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach" is sung by this hero
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Popeye
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$400
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He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park"
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Yogi Bear
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$600
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"More than meets the eye", they're "robots in disguise"
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Transformers
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$800
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"Grab your backpack! Let's go! Jump in! Vámonos!!" says her theme
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Dora the Explorer
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$1000
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"Come join the Warner Brothers & the Warner Sister, Dot! Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot"
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the Animaniacs
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20th CENTURY AMERICA
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$200
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In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy provoked televised hearings after accusing the army of "coddling" these people
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communists
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$400
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Tragically, on January 28, 1986 this exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
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the Challenger
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$600
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Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917
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Mount St. Helens
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$800
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In 1925, this high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom
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Scopes
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$1000
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In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South
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Woolworth\'s
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HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS
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$200
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Of the zonkey seen here
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a zebra & a donkey
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$400
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Of the cattalo
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a cow & a buffalo
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$600
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Of the small & energetic dog called a Chiweenie
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a Chihuahua & a dachshund
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$800
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Of the large but gentle dog called a Daniff
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a Great Dane & a mastiff
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$1000
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Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids
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a llama & an alpaca
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"LOCK"
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$200
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Notice the placement of this type of storage unit by each bed in the barracks
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a footlocker
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$400
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To move together in unison as if connected is to "march in" this
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lockstep
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$600
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The Western species of
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a hemlock
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$800
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An Allen charge can be read to try to coax a verdict out of this type of jury
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deadlocked
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$1000
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Synonym for a wizard or a conjurer
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a warlock
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KEY
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$200
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It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare"
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Fort McHenry
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$400
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The painting seen here depicts Christ giving the keys to heaven to this saint
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Saint Peter
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$600
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In this TV series, Keegan-Michael key stumbles upon a magical town in which everyone acts like they are in a musical
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Schmigadoon!
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$800
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This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor
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Audubon
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$1000
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This community service & leadership organization has Key Club International, for high school students
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Kiwanis International
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INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS
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$400
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Noted for its wooded gorges, Snowdonia National Park is found mostly in this U.K. country's Gwynedd County
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Wales
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$800
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India's Sundarbans National Park is part of a reserve for this endangered feline
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a tiger
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$1200
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A sanctuary for moose, elk & bison, a Saskatchewan national park bears the name of this 19th century royal husband
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Prince Albert
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$1600
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Urho Kekkonen National Park in this nation is illuminated in summer by the midnight sun
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Finland
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$2000
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This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas
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South Africa
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THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR
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$400
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The 2019 horror thriller"Us"
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Jordan Peele
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$800
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2003's "Lost in Translation"
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Sofia Coppola
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$1200
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The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler
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Frank Capra
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$1600
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The 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe installment "Eternals"
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Chloé Zhao
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$2000
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1960's "La Dolce Vita"
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Fellini
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LET'S BUILD A HOUSE
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$400
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The hand railings on a stair or balcony can be called a balustrade or this, which you might slide down
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a banister
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$800
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You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso
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studs
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$1200
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If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports
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load-bearing
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$1600
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An inward angle where two sloping roof sections meet is known by this geographic name
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a valley
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$2000
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"C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end
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a cantilever
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POSSESSIVE LIT
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$400
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"Some Pig" is one of the messages that shows up in the title object of this 1952 novel
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Charlotte\'s Web
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$800
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In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil
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Gulliver\'s Travels
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$1200
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This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother
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Angela\'s Ashes
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$1600
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Aslan gives animals the ability to talk in this book in which Narnia is created
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The Magician\'s Nephew
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$2000
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This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark
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All the King\'s Men
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UNDER QUARANTINE
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$400
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To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing
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40
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$800
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With disease threatening NYC in 1738, the city set up a quarantine at Bedloe's Island, today home to this landmark
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the Statue of Liberty
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A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown
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Philadelphia
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$1600
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Numbers 5 mandated that the Israelites isolate anyone with the skin affliction the King James Bible calls this
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leprosy
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$2000
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Plague arrived by ship at this French Mediterranean port in 1720 & despite an immediate quarantine, half the city perished
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Marseille
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WORD ORIGINS
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This word for a political aspirant comes from Latin for "white", the color of their togas in ancient Rome
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candidate
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$800
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This formal jacket is named for a New York country club where it was popularized in the 1880s
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a tuxedo
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$1200
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Before it meant a record player, it referred to a symbol representing a sound
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a phonograph
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$1600
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This dog breed gets its name from the German for "nose" or "muzzle"
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Schnauzer
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$2000
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Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through
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loophole
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OPERA
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An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh"
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Pagliacci
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