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    | Ending in 1504, his fourth voyage to the New World took him to Panama | Columbus 
 
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    | Mary Manley, back in the 1600s, came up with "There's no time like" this | the present 
 
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    | Abercrombie & Kent offers these African journeys; founder Geoffrey Kent was born on one in Zambia | safari 
 
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    | The Feb. 18, 1929 issue of Time magazine featured the first of 6 covers devoted to this physicist | Einstein 
 
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    | No--yes, no is a classic drama of this country | Japan 
 
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    | Johann Eck debated this noted Protestant in 1519 & helped get him excommunicated in 1521 | Martin Luther 
 
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    | A commodity bought or sold with an agreement that delivery will come later | a future 
 
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    | His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes | Pope John Paul II 
 
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    | Although published by this organization for 62 years, American Girl advertised itself as "for all girls" | the Girl Scouts of America 
 
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    | Aa--basaltic lava having a rough surface, from this language that brought us the Lanai | Hawaiian 
 
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    | Crowned in 1523, Swedish King Gustav I ended the Kalmar Union of Sweden & these 2 countries | (Paul: What are Finland and Norway?) 
 Norway & Denmark
 
 
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    | Alvin Toffler wrote that when man's capacity for change is overwhelmed, he experiences this "shock" | future shock 
 
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    | The hero of the novel "Up in the Air" is a business traveler obsessed with obtaining 1 million of these | frequent flyer miles 
 
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    | She once published The Hatchet, a monthly illustrated magazine devoted to Prohibition | Carry Nation 
 
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    | Fo--Chinese name for this prince turned religious leader | Buddha 
 
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    | He was so devastated to find out his fifth wife was cheating on him, he had her beheaded | Henry VIII 
 
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    | Proust's title "A la recherche du temps perdu" ends with this word in the English translation | (Alex: Remembrance of Things [*].) 
 past
 
 
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    | Books by Redmond O'Hanlon include the tale of "A Journey Between the Orinoco and" this river | the Amazon 
 
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    | Edwin Meredith, a former Secy. of Agriculture, founded Fruit, Garden and Home, which later was changed to this | Better Homes and Gardens 
 
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    | Ti--a tropical plant in the agave family, or the symbol for this element | titanium 
 
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    | In the early 1500s, between 2 more famous pictures, he worked on his "Virgin and Child with St. Anne" | (Leonardo) da Vinci 
 
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    | It's a homophone for a word meaning "thrown" | (Alex: You three forgot the category--PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE. What is [*]?) 
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    | The woman for whom this magazine is named is called "orator, union organizer, and hellraiser" on its masthead | Mother Jones 
 
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    | Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable | a sloth 
 
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