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After graduating from the Hunan Normal School in 1918, this future leader took a great leap forward to Beijing |
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Home to 10% of the world's known species, this rainforest covers 1.2 billion acres, 60% of it in Brazil |
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno" captures this country before the 1959 Communist revolution |
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To "toe" this is to outwardly agree with all the positions of a political organization |
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Georgia May Jagger uses her dad's pout in following her mom, Jerry Hall, into this job--the super type |
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In 1918 Margaret Mitchell left this type of school named for bringing society girls' education to completion |
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They're sometimes called grasslands or savannahs, but in "God Bless America", they're called these |
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A dried fruit & lying flat & facedown |
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Not the tower but this place of Babel in a Borges story contains every possible book with every arrangement of letters |
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Sen. Al Beveridge coined this term in 1912 for political support at the local level "grown from the soil" of people's needs |
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John Dickerson of this daily CBS A.M. program is the son of Nancy, the first reporter to speak to JFK after his inauguration |
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Witchcraft came after graduation from St. Louis' Central High for Agnes Moorehead, Endora on this sitcom |
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This field around Earth weakens before the 2 poles reverse, every 300,000 years or so |
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1949's "The Kingdom of This World", an early work in this style blending naturalism & fantasy, includes a manifesto of it |
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It can mean a wallet, a purse or a type of issue that affects the take-home pay of workers |
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Laura Dern is seen here with her mom, this fellow Oscar-nominated actress |
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1918 was a big year for this woman: she graduated from Lanier High in Alabama & met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a dance |
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2-word name for the U.S. region where a high frequency of its namesake vortexes can appear every year |
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A litter of pigs & a long, shallow trench made by a plow |
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Circa 1554 "Lazarillo de Tormes" originated this genre about a lowborn scamp & his travels & adventures |
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Senate Rule 22 is named for this, the only formal procedure for ending a filibuster |
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Mia Farrow's children include this TV & New Yorker journalist |
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This future composer was far from "The Common Man" when he graduate from Boys' H.S. in Brooklyn in 1918 |
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An annual 1-million-strong migration of these animals crosses the Mara River through a gauntlet of crocs |
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Often confused, one word means to cause a change in & the other is the result |
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Mario Vargas Llosa based "The Time of the Hero" on his harsh treatment in military school in this South American capital |
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A room used in sound recording, this phrase means a group of people who repeat & reinforce each other's beliefs |
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Carlene Carter's 10th studio album includes "Tall Lover Man" by this woman, Carlene's mom |
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