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NAME THE OLYMPIANS' SPORT |
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"An American Son", by this senator whose parents left Cuba in the 1950s |
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Pack light for the Woodpecker Hotel near Stockholm; it's over 40 feet up, via a rope ladder, in one of these |
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Give life to; Warner Bros. cartoonists did it to Bugs Bunny |
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On Aug. 2, 1990 this nation invaded Kuwait & within 48 hours, had complete control; didn't last |
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Prior to inventing the first practical electric razor, Jacob Schick patented the Pencilaid, which did this |
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If they bought it before it was pulled, this Jonah Lehrer book on creativity whose title is also a John Lennon song |
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Enjoy a drink at Clink in Boston's Liberty Hotel, built as one of these in the 1800s |
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Sprout like a plant, or lie on a couch like a useless slug, watching TV & eating chips |
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Let me tell you something, McMahon! In 1999 he joined "the body" politic & became governor of Minnesota |
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Elisha Otis had his ups & downs but hit a high spot in 1852 when he invented a safety device for this conveyance |
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Aly Raisman & Jordyn Wieber |
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"The Price of Politics", the latest by this tireless reporter on the White House & Capitol Hill |
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Make beautiful, or add fictitious details |
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The British government returned this "Stone of Destiny" to Edinburgh in 1996 |
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This pitchman made sure we all knew about his family's inventions the Pocket Fisherman & the Veg-O-Matic |
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"Wherever I Wind Up" by R.A. Dickey, who unlike most baseball players has mastered both written English & this weird pitch |
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To lighten a ship, you might do this, cast overboard something that's not needed |
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In 1997 he became the U.N.'s first secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa; in 2012 he tried to make peace in Syria |
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Joshua Pusey patented these in book form in 1892 but didn't "strike it" rich until several years later |
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Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips |
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"Get Jiro!", a graphic novel by this host of "No Reservations"; Jiro is a sushi chef known to decapitate diners |
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From the Latin for "road", it means to depart from the norm |
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A 51-day standoff between the feds & Branch Davidians took place in 1993 near this seat of McLennan County, Texas |
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Laurens Hammond invented a device to Shuffle bridge cards &, in 1934, the first practical electric one of these instruments |
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Dick Button (1948 & 1952) |
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