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Turns out New Year's Day in 1752 was a precursor of Flag Day due to her birth in Pennsylvania |
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In "Working Class Hero" from his "Plastic Ono Band" album, he sang, "They hurt you at home and they hit you at school" |
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Fan shell is another name for this mollusk |
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Ferritin is a protein found in the liver & spleen that binds to this element for storage |
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These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe |
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A traditional marriage on this island wouldn't be complete without a Claddagh ring |
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AuH2O began to flow on Jan. 1, 1909 when this politician was born in Arizona |
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Gwen Stefani sang, "Meet me at the bleachers, no principals, no student teachers... I ain't no" this |
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It's the delicious & nourishing stuff being enjoyed here |
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This metal was discovered by 2 Spanish chemists in 1783 in samples of the mineral wolframite |
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"Number the Stars" & "The Tale of Despereaux" are among the books to proudly display this medal on their covers |
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Horatio Nelson met, courted & wed his wife on this partner of St. Kitts |
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This Detroit Tiger, baseball's first Jewish superstar, first came to the plate Jan. 1, 1911 |
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In this Top 10 hit from 1972, Alice Cooper exults over "No more pencils, no more books" |
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Darren "Professor Splash" Taylor has made this type of dive into a kiddie pool from 36 feet up |
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The secret behind what's called instant snow is sodium polyacrylate, a material also used in diapers; add water, & it expands to 100 times in volume because it's an "SAP", the "SA" standing for this amazing type of polymer; notice the water is all gone |
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In 2001 this author of "Goodbye, Columbus" said hello to $10,000 & the first Franz Kafka Prize |
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On this island go to 525 Avenida Franklin Delano Roosevelt in San Juan for a marriage license |
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Nothing phony about it--this author was a 1919 New Year's New York baby |
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Brownsville Station's only Top 10 hit was a 1973 smash about doing this forbidden thing "in the boys room" |
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To leave your film in the tank in the darkroom only half as long as you need to |
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In 2015 scientists filmed the nervous system at work for the first time using the larva of this 2-winged food pest |
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An award at Yale for the most outstanding nonfiction book on slavery &/or abolition is named for this man |
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Those wanting to get married in Bali must conform to this country's Law No. 1 of 1974 |
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Time for "K.P." duty: this Brit who spied within MI6 for the Soviets was born on Jan. 1, 1912, or so we were led to believe |
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This seminal NYC punk band performed the title track for the 1979 cult film "Rock 'N' Roll High School" |
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To surround, enclose & conceal |
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The Baffin & West Greenland currents meet to form this current off Newfoundland that carries icebergs south |
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First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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In Iceland marriages are traditionally held on Friday in honor of this deity |
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