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| WHO DIED & MADE YOU KING? |
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| THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN |
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| This outspoken title girl of a Henry James novel travels Europe and flouts social convention |
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| "Have you ever seen so many gulls? What do you suppose it is?" |
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| Part of Asia separated from Australia & Antarctica in the Middle Jurassic, causing this ocean to begin to form |
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| Smenkare of the 18th Dynasty |
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| The Times reports that with their bright color, "Oriental" these & "American antiques go together like peas & carrots" |
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| It's James Ellroy's crime novel about a real unsolved 1947 L.A. murder case |
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| "She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother" |
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| The Iapetus Ocean once separated Scandinavian & north-central Europe from most of what's now this continent |
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| Tigranes III of Armenia (Don't overthink this one) |
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| A report from Hong Kong covered a wealthy widow's $3 billion bequest to her adviser on this study of placing objects |
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| This river cannonballs from Darke County in Ohio to hit the Ohio River between Illinois and Indiana |
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| A play by Paul Zindel is titled "The Effect of Gamma Rays on" these flowers |
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| "You thought you could be Mrs. De Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers" |
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| A sea once covered most of the Midwest; aquatic dinosaur fossils abound in this Sunflower State's Smoky Hills |
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| Pepin the Short -- his brother Carloman's death sealed the deal |
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| A Times piece told readers about dogs trained to sniff out these insect infesters of the boudoir |
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| This Hawaiian word means both female & wife |
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| This medieval whodunnit centers on Brother William of Baskerville, sent to investigate a murder in a monastery |
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| "As for now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim" |
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| The ancient oceans were a scary place, populated by giant sharks & lizards like this long-necked one |
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| A story on this type of garden defined as growing food for the home had a link to an org. that can help with yours |
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| This principality united with Moldavia to form Romania |
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| Larceny among flower collectors led to the title of this Susan Orlean book |
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| "Everyone has someone they want to put out of the way" |
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| Umberto I of Italy, assassinated by Bresci |
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| One Q&A column says that hand-shredded leaf mold is the Cadillac of this stuff added to flower beds; top with compost |
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| Arabic gives us this word for a ravine that becomes a watercourse during the rainy season |
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