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Botanist John Ray made Linnaeus' work possible by establishing this unit of taxonomy, from the Latin for "form" |
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In "Dead Man's Curve" the driver of a Jaguar XK-E challenged the driver of this Chevy sports car to a drag race |
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In 1916 this Nobel winner became a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen |
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In Hebrew this book of the Bible is Bereshith, the "resh" related to "rosh", meaning "beginning" |
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"Sweet Bird of Youth" & "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" |
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Members of the Somoza family ruled this Central American country for 38 of the 42 years between 1937 & 1979 |
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The father of this "father of antiseptic surgery" was one of the first to describe red blood cells |
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In "The Letter" the Box Tops didn't have "time to make the fast train", so they got a ticket on this |
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The glasses & beret were classy, but this somewhat suicidal fish mascot was never good enough for StarKist |
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It's Latin for "from", as when it precedes "cathedra" or "nihilo"; I get along pretty well with mine |
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"After the Fall" & "The Crucible" |
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In the 1840s fur trader Robert Campbell of this company became the first white person to explore the Yukon region |
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In 1990 IBM scientists created the first structure made by moving individual ones of these on a surface |
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The Hollies' first Top 10 hit, it told of the romance that developed under a shared umbrella |
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Sharing her first name with Robin Hood's sweetie, this African-Amer. contralto earned the 1963 Pres. Medal of Freedom |
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"Hedda Gabbler" & "An Enemy of the People" |
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This city of 20 million is the westernmost capital city in the Americas |
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In the 1780s Gaspard Monge was the first to do this to a substance that's normally a gas, sulfur dioxide |
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Completes the Gary Numan lyric "Nothing seems right in..." |
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Ambrose by any other name... He wrote "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" & "The Devil's Dictionary" |
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Now a 5-letter suffix, it was the Greek term for the type of community we call a city-state |
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"California Suite" & "Plaza Suite" |
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Of the Western Hemisphere countries with both an Atlantic & a Pacific coast, it's the smallest in area |
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Poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a treatise on this scientific instrument later replaced by the sextant |
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In Kathy Mattea's song these "And A Dozen Roses", a trucker is retiring "after 30 years of drivin' up & down the interstate" |
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Let's "Z" about this German-born publisher of the N.Y. Weekly Journal, acquitted of libel in 1735 |
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"Major Barbara" & "Arms and the Man" |
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This former name of Suriname reflected its status as a colony of the Netherlands |
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