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PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...
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Bird: Chosen in 1782, it can live up to 30 years in the wild
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bald eagle
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$400
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Motto: This 4-word phrase, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956; "E pluribus unum" had been used unofficially
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In God We Trust
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$600
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Symbol of the USA itself: In 1950 the nation said, "I want you" to this finger-pointer
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Uncle Sam
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$800
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Floral emblem: In proclaiming it, Reagan pointed out the White House has a garden of them
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roses
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$1000
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March: This "eternal" Sousa piece got the gig in 1987
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"The Stars And Stripes Forever"
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DOUBLE TALK
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$200
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A ballerina's stage costume typically includes this skirt
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tutu
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$400
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An abnormal sound of the heart, or to say something in a very quiet voice
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murmur
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$600
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Big in the 1950s, this double- or even triple-speak ballroom dance has roots in the mambo
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the cha-cha
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$800
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Roy's, a Hawaiian fine-dining destination, serves macadamia crusted this fish
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mahi-mahi
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$1000
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Something fancy & frilly, or the name of a character in "The Aristocats"
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froufrou
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WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS
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$200
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Sanrio Puroland & the Ginza shopping district
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Tokyo
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$400
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The Spanish Steps & the Pyramid of Cestius
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Rome
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$600
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Centro Cultural Kirchner; Monumento a Eva Peron
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Buenos Aires
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$800
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The Muzey Kino & the Laika Monument
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Moscow
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$1000
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Emancipation Park & Trench Town Culture Yard
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Kingston
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QUIZ BOWL
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$200
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Part of a tea set, or a college football game first played in 1935
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a sugar bowl
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$400
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For decades this venue has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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the Hollywood Bowl
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$600
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It's Team Ruff vs. Team Fluff & a whole lot of cuteness when Animal Planet presents this competition
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the Puppy Bowl
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$800
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Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" has been called "the greatest novel about" this subject
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the Dust Bowl
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$1000
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This holiday drink whose name derives from an Old Norse toast to health is traditionally served in a large bowl of the same name
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a wassail
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IT'S A BUG
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$200
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Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources
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ants
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$400
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Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn"
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ladybug
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$600
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Deer ones cause Lyme disease in the U.S.; the chillingly named Australian paralysis ones, anaphylactic shock
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ticks
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$800
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Pillbugs are also called tiggy-hogs & more familiarly, by this rhyming name
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roly-polies
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$1000
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Papaya & European cherry precede this alliterative term, a nuisance in the fields & in the kitchen
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fruit flies
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NOT A FEATURE
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$200
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Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck"
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Daffy Duck
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$400
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One of Pixar's first animated shorts was "Luxo Jr."; Luxo is this, still seen in the opening of Pixar films
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a desk lamp
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$600
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I was 22 for 23 on my Oscar ballot in 2022 but missed Documentary Short Subject: "The Queen of" this team sport, about Lusia Harris
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basketball
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$800
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John Lennon & this woman made a 1970 short film in which a fly walks over a nude body
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Yoko Ono
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$1000
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In a legal morass for decades, 1987's "Superstar" uses Barbie dolls to tell of this singer & her tragic battle with anorexia
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Karen Carpenter
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FAMOUS AMERICANS
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$400
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2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing
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Marilyn Monroe
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$800
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A star attraction of Wild West shows, she was once billed as "The Peerless Lady Wing-shot"
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Annie Oakley
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$1200
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San Francisco hosts a parade honoring this late labor union activist & champion of farm workers near his march 31st birthday
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Chavez
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$1600
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In 1916 this illustrator created his first of more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post
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Norman Rockwell
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$2000
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In 1939, after she was denied a stage at Constitution Hall, she sang to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
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Marian Anderson
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EATING & DRINKING PLACES
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$400
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The action of going to a drinking establishment located in a basement gave rise to this term for an unsavory tavern
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a dive bar
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$800
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"Beef & reef" is another term for this type of restaurant that also has a rhyming name
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surf & turf
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$1200
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Military types can have food & fun at one of these, also a term for something carried to drink water
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a canteen
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$1600
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The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well
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a cybercafe
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$2000
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A word for "treat" gives us the name for this type of Italian restaurant
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a trattoria
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HISTORY
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$400
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In 1474 at the age of 23, this queen began her rule of the Spanish kingdom of Castile
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Isabella
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$800
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China pledged to leave this region's system in place for 50 years after 1997
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Hong Kong
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$1200
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In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty
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Constantinople
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$1600
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During this 1870-71 war, Napoleon III was captured & eventually deposed & Paris fell to a neighboring nation's army
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the Franco-Prussian War
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$2000
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This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built
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Pericles
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THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME
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$400
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"And I'm just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh you need to just stop like can you just not step on my gown?"
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"You Need To Calm Down"
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$800
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"I know that I can't take no more it ain't no lie I wanna see you out that door baby..."
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"Bye Bye Bye"
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$1200
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"Have your friends collect your records and then change your number, I guess that I don't need that though, now you're just..."
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"Somebody That I Used To Know"
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$1600
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"Just gonna stand there and hear me cry? Well that's all right because I..."
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"Love The Way You Lie"
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$2000
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"If no one is around you say 'baby, I love you', if you ain't runnin' game..."
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"Say My Name"
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ESSAYS
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$400
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Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal"
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hope
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$800
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Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot
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Westminster Abbey
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$1200
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"Higher Laws" & "The Pond in Winter" are 2 of the 18 essays in this collection by Thoreau
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Walden
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$1600
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This 1929 essay says a woman must have a dedicated personal space in order to become a fiction writer
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A Room of One\'s Own
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$2000
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The word "essay" came into English in a 1597 work by this Sir Francis, last name not Drake
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Bacon
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HEY, NICE "AB"s!
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$400
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To give up completely, or to flee a ship
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abandon
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$800
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A kidnapper, or a muscle that pulls away from the middle
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abductor
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$1200
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In a monastery, he's the boss
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the abbot
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$1600
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Irritating & grating, or a substance used to grate away by friction
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an abrasive
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$2000
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To wait patiently, like a movie "Dude"
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to abide
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HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS
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N/A
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Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow
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Broadway
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