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| The sky is blue because blue light is most readily scattered from sunlight, being down at the short end of this |
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| It was unified in the 19th century & reunified in the 20th |
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| A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, "Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud" |
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| In 2011 Bruno Mars blew up the charts with a song that says, "I'd catch a" this "for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya" |
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| The substitution of an inoffensive word for an offensive word is this type of "-ism" |
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| The Jayhawk helicopter can reach 205 miles per hour as one of the Coast Guard's main assets in SAR, "search and" this |
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| The blue light in the pools of water in these power facilities is called Cerenkov radiation |
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| In 2011 citizens protesting financial austerity measures rioted in this Mediterranean country |
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| Chapters in this James Bond novel include "Gem Quality" & "Hot Ice" |
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| This group topped the charts & won an Album of the Year Grammy for 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" |
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| "I'd give my right arm for a drink" is an example of this, from the Greek for "exaggeration" |
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| The USCG has reach--a PSU went to protect Navy ships after the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in this Mideast country |
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| In electronics, a blue gun isn't a weapon but part of this in TV sets, also called the picture tube |
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| This New World country gained its independence from Spain in 1821 |
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| One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller "so much more than a tale about a circus" |
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| In 2011 she appeared with a children's choir on "Oprah" to sing her hit "Firework" |
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| Archaism in rhetoric is a use of this type of term |
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| One job of a USCG tender is inspecting & replacing buoys, fog signals, lights & other indicators, collectively called aids to this |
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| A type of bioluminescence, the blue glow of sea creatures like plankton is called this, also ending in -escence |
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| The West Indies nation we invaded in 1983 |
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| He wrote "Bech: A Book", "Bech Is Back" & "Bech At Bay" in addition to his "Rabbit" novels |
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| In his song "Russians," he wondered "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" |
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| An example of antithesis is the line "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved" this "more" |
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| In WWII a major Coast Guard task was hunting these vessels, Hitler's main weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic |
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| Blue light can worsen this type of degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 55 |
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| Between Cameroon & Congo you'll find this country, independent from France since 1960 |
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| This 1930 William Faulkner novel deals with the death & burial of Addie Bundren |
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It's the "explosive" name of the Taio Cruz hit heard here
"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes / Saying ay-o / Gotta let go / I wanna celebrate..." |
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| Rhetorically, "Hello darkness, my old friend" is termed this, just like a punctuation mark |
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| The Coast Guard looks out for the smuggling of drugs & people in this practice, from the old French for "to forbid" |
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