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When Jason Kidd was drafted by this Texas NBA team he said, "We're gonna turn this team around 360 degrees" |
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(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) In bel canto technique you contract the upper abs to control this, the main muscle in respiration |
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Born in Arlington, Oregon, 1927; "Tonight Show" bandleader 1967-1992 |
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This poem famously begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" |
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American Staffordshire Terrier terror |
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This device uses an adjustable pendulum to indicate a given musical tempo either visually or aurally |
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He's the former vice president who wisely said, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure" |
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Enunciation is key in singing the words this man wrote, like "I am the very model of a modern major-general" |
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Born in Portland, 1954; created "The Simpsons" |
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This man starred in several films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Tomb of Ligeia" |
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A small oval gland at the base of the brain |
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Pendulums in these instruments remain still as the Earth moves, allowing those movements to be charted |
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French president from 1958 to 1969, he observed, "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" |
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(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Swing low, sweet chariot; Also meaning non-material, this type of song was used for a secret communication among slaves |
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Born in Madras, Oregon, 1970; starred in "Stand by Me" & "Running on Empty" |
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These Poe "Murders" are often cited as the world's first detective story |
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An inscription on a tombstone commemorating the person buried there |
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More famous today for his pendulum, this Frenchman invented the gyroscope in 1852 |
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This 30th president noted, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results" |
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Normal range is about 1 of these plus another third; Minnie Riperton could handle about 5 |
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Born in Lebanon, Oregon, 1940; starred in "WKRP in Cincinnati" & "Head of the Class" |
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The narrator of Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a victim of this infamous Iberian institution |
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Born in 1564, this Italian often used a pendulum in his studies of motion |
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"They only name things after you when you're dead or really old", quipped this first lady when the CIA HQ was renamed |
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(Cheryl) The lowest range a girl can try, its meaning is against the high |
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Born in Portland, 1947; "Flopped" at the 1968 Olympics & won a gold medal |
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In this "colorful" Poe story, Prince Prospero tries to avoid a deadly plague |
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Mutineers first inhabited this south Pacific island in 1790 |
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The weighted mass suspended at the bottom of a pendulum is called this, also a man's name |
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