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WHATCHA WATCHING?
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200
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Space Force with this actor seen here portrays science advisor Dr. Adrian Mallory
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John Malkovich
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400
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Drag queens lip-sync for their legacy on this host's "Drag Race All Stars"
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RuPaul
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600
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This 2008 film about bomb defusers which won 6 Oscars
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The Hurt Locker
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800
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Truth Seekers which reunited Nick Frost & this guy who was "Shaun of the Dead"
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Simon Pegg
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1000
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Drake's "Nice For What" video featuring Olivia Wilde & this ballerina
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Misty Copeland
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GEOGRAPHY
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200
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Of the 14 countries that border Russia this "stan" country shares the longest border with it 4 750 miles
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Kazakhstan
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400
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This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under U.S. jurisdiction
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San Juan
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600
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Basra is an oil-refining center & this country's main port
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Iraq
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800
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Aka Tahoma this 14 400-foot active volcano is about 60 miles southeast of Seattle
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Mount Rainier
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1000
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In 1871 Henry Stanley finally tracked down Dr. David Livingstone along the shores of this 2nd-largest lake in Africa
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Tanganyika
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY?
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200
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After raising $17.9 billion in a 2008 IPO this credit card company was truly everywhere it wanted to be
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Visa
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400
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This company makes Scotch Wall-Safe tape
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3M
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600
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In 1978 its eventual co-founders saw red--make that orange--after getting fired by Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers
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The Home Depot
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800
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There's no business like this shoe business that joined the Dow in 2013
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Nike
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1000
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When it comes to personal insurance boat & yacht & even umbrella insurance are all under its symbolic umbrella
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Travelers
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B.C.-ING YOU
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200
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The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C.
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Hammurabi
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400
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Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C. was the gold mask seen here
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King Tut
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600
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Shortly after he attained enlightenment he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths
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Buddha
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800
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The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war
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Peloponnesian
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1000
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X marks the spot for this king who succeeded his father Darius I as ruler of the Persian Empire
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Xerxes
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TITLES & HONORIFICS
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200
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A Massachusetts paper discussed using this honorific for women in 1901; the New York Times would embrace it in 1986
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Ms.
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400
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The wife of a lord ain't just a lady (though that is a title equivalent) she's a this
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a dame
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600
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American legal eagles are commonly called this but it also can refer to the eldest son of a baronet
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esquire
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800
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An abbot is referred to as right this; a Roman Catholic bishop most this
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reverend
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1000
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In German forms of address traditionally this word goes before "doktor" if the doktor is a dude
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herr
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL
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200
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It's a beard trimmed to a point on the chin
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a goatee
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400
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To bind all 4 of an animal's legs together
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hogtie
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600
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To crouch in fear
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to cower
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800
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Bilirubin & carotene are these coloring agents
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pigments
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1000
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It's the proud & historic region seen here
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Catalonia
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ILLUSTRATORS
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400
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In the early 1900s Rose O'Neill's popular drawings of this winged god evolved into wildly popular Kewpie dolls
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Cupid
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800
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Peggy Fortnum sketched in the London Zoo to perfect this traveling bear created by Michael Bond
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Paddington
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1200
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The modern image of Santa Claus owes a lot to the illustrations Haddon Sundblom created for this beverage's ads
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Coca-Cola
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1600
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Daniel Beard provided dashing but comical illustrations for this novel by Mark Twain
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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2000
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Around 1890 Kate Greenaway illustrated the pages of a children's story by this British poet
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Robert Browning
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SCIENCE
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400
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His first law of motion is the law of inertia
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Isaac Newton
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800
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The human this is all of the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the entire set of a person's chromosomes
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genome
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1200
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Hg is the symbol for this element
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mercury
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1600
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Working according to the same principles as a laser a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word
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microwave
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2000
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A mother's levels of this "hormone of love" may influence the intensity of the bond between her & her child
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oxytocin
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WEE FOLK
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400
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Paul Reubens named this childlike alter ego after a harmonica
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Pee-wee Herman
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800
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Billie Jean is on the 2019 album of cover songs by this Rivers Cuomo band
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Weezer
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1200
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This model is married to Gene Simmons
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Shannon Tweed
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1600
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This singer-songwriter founded the band Wilco
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Jeff Tweedy
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2000
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He was Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out" & Doug Dorsey in "The Cutting Edge"
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D.B. Sweeney
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LANGUAGES
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400
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Serbian & Ukrainian are written in versions of this alphabet
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Cyrillic
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800
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In 2013 he added Latin to the 8 still-living languages of his Twitter account
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Pope Francis
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1200
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In addition to the language of the host country these 2 are the official languages of the Olympics
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English & French
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1600
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This language is known as hanguk-mal in the south & choson-mal in the north
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Korean
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2000
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Official in the kingdom of Cambodia this language has 74 letters in its alphabet
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Khmer
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TOUGH TALK
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400
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This hyphenated numerical adjective can mean tough or holding booze in both hands
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two-fisted
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800
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There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded
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hard-nosed
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1200
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This last name of English novelist Thomas means sturdy & tough
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Hardy
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1600
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Meaning able to recover quickly from a setback it's from Latin for "to bounce back"
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resilient
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2000
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A tough guy from ancient Greece or a synonym for spare or frugal
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Spartan
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MEGALITHS
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400
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One legend says that the tall stones in Carnac France were Roman legions petrified by this Arthurian wizard
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Merlin
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800
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Many of the giant stone figures on this island were quarried from the crater walls of the Rano Raraku volcano
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Easter Island
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1200
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This 5-letter word for a circle of stones is a back-formation from the name of a famous one on Salisbury Plain
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henge
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1600
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The roof box in the 5 000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event
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the solstice
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2000
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These avian-named people of Montana have origin myths for large sacred medicine wheels like the one in the Bighorn Mountains
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the Crow
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EUROPEAN LANDMARKS
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FINAL
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Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel none were foreigners
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the Louvre
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