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MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE |
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She won a 1962 Emmy for "A Tour of the White House" |
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Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick |
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There are about 700 species of these, most looking like a cross between a frog & a lizard |
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This semi-arboreal ape of quatorial Africa is our closest living genetic relative |
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Oxalis triangularis is the purple clover, or purple this, a word associated with Ireland |
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The Greek hero Pelops gave his name to the Peloponnese, this type of land mass that also starts with a "P" |
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Makes sense that she was the first first lady to appear on a stamp |
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Spoiler alert: at the end of this film, after surviving a break-up, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn |
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Manumit is a synonym of this liberating word |
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Practiced by gibbons & siamangs, brachiation is locomoting through trees this way |
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A triangle is the traditional shape of these, which make up half of the Texas state snack |
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Seen here is one of these protective barriers that keep much of the Netherlands from becoming inundated with water |
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As played by Sally Field, she laments that all people will remember is "I was crazy and I ruined your happiness" |
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Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee |
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English, Dutch & Danish are this type of language |
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These monkeys normally live in the tropics of the Americas, but in 1959, one rode into space and returned safely |
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The craft of architectural sketching, or the type of triangle used in the craft |
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The city of Plzen in the Czech Republic has lent its name to a style of this potent potable |
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Our longest-living first lady, she died at age 97 in 1982 & is buried with her husband at his Missouri library |
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She was a regular good luck charm as Jinx Johnson in "Die Another Day" |
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It's the sometimes harmful focus on the tiniest details of how your subordinates do their job |
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As its appearance may help you guess, in the tarsier, this cortex is extremely large, especially in the V1 section |
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The architectural style known as Jugendstil is prevalent in this capital of Latvia |
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When she became first lady, both her grandmothers, on the Folsom & Harmon sides, got to hear the happy news! |
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A quote from this 1951 sci-fi classic: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto" |
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To reverse a previous military order |
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About 30,000 years old, an early Homo sapiens skull called this "1" was discovered in 1868 at the French site of the same name |
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This region comprising the northern half of Belgium has neat medieval castles |
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