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BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR |
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LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS |
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The memorial over this sunken battleship is officially part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument |
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Partially melted snow or ice, or a fund used for corrupt purposes such as graft or bribery |
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The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863 |
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This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town |
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The Indian Ocean's largest island in area, it lies about 250 miles from the African mainland |
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For this 1967 Aretha Franklin No. 1 hit, you can say or spell the title |
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Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
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A light brown color, or a type of port wine |
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This manager of the Philadelphia A's from 1901 through 1950 came into the world as Cornelius McGillicuddy in 1862 |
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In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town |
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The area north of 10 degrees south latitude is this "zone", for the wet wind system that reverses direction with the seasons |
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Adele took home a 2011 Grammy for doing this |
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This monument in St. Louis gets its name from the city's role as one "to the West" |
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It's the edge of a steep slope, or the point at which something is to begin |
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"The Age of Innocence" had yet to begin when she was born into New York's high society in 1862 |
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In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next |
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Northern extensions of the Indian Ocean include the Arabian Sea off India's west coast & this bay to the east |
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It was The Clash's title suggestion for livening up the medina |
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From the Middle English, it's a small, miserable dwelling |
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A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers |
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The Indian Ocean's deepest point, 25,000' down, is in a trench off the coast of this Indonesian island of the same name |
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Why you gotta be so this title of a 2014 No. 1 hit by Magic!? |
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A monument of Balto honors the sled dogs that brought a serum for this "d"isease during a 1925 epidemic in Nome |
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This mechanical device for lifting or hauling has a drum around which a cable is wound |
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The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this |
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The Indian Ocean is home to the 2 known species of this "fossil fish" first discovered in 1938 |
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The Carpenters found the weather & the calendar a drag in this 1971 hit |
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