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Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" |
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Give your garden solar power with richly colored varieties of this, like the type called the giant single |
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In Boy Scouting, rise 5 ranks from Tenderfoot & you're one of these |
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This humorist's California ranch house has a stuffed calf given by his friends so he'd lasso it, not them |
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In college it's any optional course that a student chooses to take |
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Sir Calidore pursues the Blatant Beast in Book VI of this Spenser work |
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The showy torch lily seen here is also called the red-hot this fireplace instrument |
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In 1893 the U.S. got a new diplomatic rank: Thomas Bayard, our first official one of these, was off to Great Britain |
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This frontiersman died in 1820 at his family's limestone mansion near Defiance, Missouri |
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Medically speaking it's the obstruction of a blood vessel by a moving blood clot or air bubble |
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After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898 |
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When made from the ilima flower, these garlands were traditionally associated with royalty |
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Pepsi's Harvey Russell was the first black exec to reach this high rank (though not highest) in a Fortune 500 co. |
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Born a slave around 1818, he bought a home in Washington, D.C. in 1877 & expanded it to 21 rooms |
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This word from Greek describes a person who has discriminating taste for fine foods & wine, like myself |
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She described her 1840s poem "A Vision of Poets" as "philosophical, allegorical, anything but popular" |
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Several species of goldenrod with white flowers are, reasonably enough, called by this other precious name |
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It's the rank of the character singing here
"I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical" |
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This language was introduced in the 1887 book "Lingvo Internacia" |
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He wrote his poem "To the Cuckoo" in an orchard in Grasmere |
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Seen here, this flower known by its genus name is popular as a climbing plant |
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In Catholic ministry, priest is right below bishop & this rank is right below priest |
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If he could have gone home again, it might have been to his mother's Asheville, N.C. boarding house, now a landmark |
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Oui! It's the 10-letter French word Americans sometimes use for a writing desk |
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