THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION |
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BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD |
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The Emergency Operations Center, the CDC's control room for threats including quakes & anthrax, dates to Sept. of this year |
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In 1824 this 15-year-old blind student developed his raised dot reading system |
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In this sci-fi novel Guy Montag is a "fireman" with a burning desire to read |
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Supporting rods in a bicycle wheel + any human = one who makes a statement for another |
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It wasn't "15 years on" the construction of this U.S. waterway--it was 8, ending in 1825 |
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Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author |
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In 1977 CDC detectives tracked the source of this new fatal pneumonia that infected victims at a Phila. convention |
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He became dictator of Peru in 1824 |
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Alt-rocker Ryan Adams doesn't like being mixed up with Bryan Adams, but has performed this hit of Bryan's in concert |
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"Four Blind Mice" by this man is an Alex Cross thriller about a series of murders with strange links to the Vietnam War |
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After this actor's 1955 death driving his silver Porsche Spyder, parts of the car brought disaster to the owners |
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Time teller + sagacious = a direction |
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CDC researchers hit mosquitos with insecticide to test for this trait that makes antibiotics less effective on certain germs |
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In 1824 he got 30.9% of the popular vote for president, defeating Andrew Jackson, who got 41.3%--wait, what?! |
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"This here's a story about Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue"; really, this here's a clue about this song by the Steve Miller Band |
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1408 is a haunted room at NYC's Dolphin Hotel in a tale by this man |
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This president broke Tecumseh's Curse, in which presidents elected every 20th year, beginning in 1840, died in office |
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Short & abrupt + lawsuit = carrier for papers |
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In a response to a 2012 outbreak, the CDC in 2 days developed a new test for this fungal disease of the spine |
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In 1822 freed American slaves first settled in what's now this world capital at Cape Mesurado |
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In 1993 Soul Asylum "bought a ticket for" this title transport, "like a madman laughin' at the rain" |
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In a 1915 novel "it must be some place where there were several staircases, and one marked out from the others by having" this title |
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He is said to have cursed the Romanovs before he died; within 19 months, they were dead |
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Ordinary + abundance of money = what Massachusetts officially is |
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