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Jim Morin's editorial cartoons for this Miami newspaper won a Pulitzer in 1996 |
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In 1997 the Patriots & this New York football team both had Bill Parcells as their coach |
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Concerns over the environment led to the first national observance of this day on April 22 |
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Types of beans & peas are called this for the sound they make when broken |
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He called his steamboat launched August 17, 1807 "The Steamboat", not "The Clermont" |
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This Australian capital's tallest landmark, Telecom Tower, towers 600' atop Black Mountain |
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This "Dilbert" creator is possibly the most successful cartoonist ever "downsized" by Pacific Bell |
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(Hi, I'm Greg Gumbel.) In '97 this Chicago Bulls player set an NBA record by leading the league in rebounds for the 6th straight year |
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After "dropping out" of a California prison, he "tuned into" Algeria, where he was granted asylum |
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Regarding marriage, Jesus said, "What therefore God hath joined together, let no man" do this |
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At a 1947 meeting of the Optical Society of America, he took 2 instant photos of himself |
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These Pacific islands named for an explorer became a British protectorate in the late 1880s |
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She quit her job as an advertising executive 9 months after "Cathy" premiered |
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In 1997 Scotty Bowman of this Detroit team became the only coach in the NHL with 1,000 wins |
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He donated some 800 of his works to a Barcelona museum |
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In a Tennyson poem, the Lady of Shalott's mirror did this "from side to side" when Lancelot appeared |
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In 1864 this Swede founded the Nitroglycerin Corporation |
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Henry Kissinger described this long, narrow country as a blade "pointed at the heart of Antarctica" |
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It's the title of Bill Amend's comic strip featuring the Fox family |
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In 1997 this former world heavyweight champ entered the Marine Reserves & quit 11 days later |
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This Osaka event lasted March 15-Sept. 13 & had as many as 835,000 visitors in one day |
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Alliterative term for a contest in which the last car still running wins |
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Eureka! He invented the compound pulley & proved the law of the lever |
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Great Sand Dunes National Monument in this U.S. state changes its shape because the sand shifts |
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This "Steve Canyon" creator earned the nickname "The Rembrandt of the Comic Strip" |
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This gold medal U.S. swimmer won an ESPY Award as best female athlete for 1996 |
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Walter Reuther, president of this union since 1946, died in a plane crash in May |
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This word meaning to reduce to dust is etymologically related to "pollen" |
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This air brake inventor developed a safe system for transporting natural gas into homes |
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The name of this African country comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for shrimp |
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