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BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA |
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"Come From Away" tells how Gander, Newfoundland hosted 7,000 airline passengers stranded due to this tragic event |
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Here's the Flying Cloud, this type of speedy 19th century ship |
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Here's some total bull--in 1054 a supernova lit up one of the horns in this constellation |
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Desert Desert (from Arabic) |
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Upon his arrest in 1933, "Machine Gun" Kelly inadvertently gave this nickname to the FBI agents who nabbed him |
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Use this idiom of mock gratitude when someone does you the opposite of a favor |
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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" features Christian Borle singing the following as this character |
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During World War II, a group of these operating in the Atlantic was known as a wolf pack |
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Some supernovae produce these rays but the odds of them turning you super-strong & green as in comic books? Low |
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East East (Asian country) |
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Saying "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was with her all day February 14, 1929, Louise Rolfe got the name "The Blonde" this |
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If I lose, I pay you $100; if you lose, you pay back the $50 you just won |
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Revived in 2017 & set during the final days of the Vietnam War, "Miss Saigon" was inspired by this Puccini opera |
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A pirogue is one type of this, a canoe made from one log |
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Before 1572, many thought no change could occur in the heavens beyond the moon's orbit; then this Dane saw a supernova |
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Lake Lake (shrinking Central African lake) |
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Kevin Poulsen & Kevin Mitnick are on Kaspersky Lab's list, "Top Ten Most Notorious" these "of All Time" |
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Play title from around 1600 meaning a big fuss for no reason |
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Ben Platt won the 2017 Tony for his performance as a high school senior coping with a classmate's death in this hit musical |
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This Cunard liner was en route from New York to Fiume when it rescued 705 people from the Titanic's lifeboats |
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A term used since the 1930s, this star--the smallest & densest type known--can be one object left behind by a supernova |
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Sheep Islands Islands (from Danish) |
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To spy on the U.S., Maksim "Schultz" Martynov used his cover as part of the USSR's 1950s delegation to this organization |
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It's the meaning of the Latin "ex nihilo" |
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"War Paint" stars Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden & this legendary performer as Helena Rubinstein |
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This British battleship had nothing to fear when it was launched in 1906 but was obsolete by World War I |
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"R" you ready?! The brightest star in Orion, this is set to go super-nova! (But relax, only within 10 mil. years or so) |
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Big River River (from Algonquian) |
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On July 7, 1865, this boardinghouse operator became the first woman executed by the U.S. government |
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Boy: "Dad, I'll be good if you give me a dollar." Father: "A dollar?! When I was your age I was" this |
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