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CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS |
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Manuel de Falla wrote a suite called "Nights in the Gardens of" this Iberian country |
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The wildflower called bloodroot oozes a poisonous sap of this color |
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This city's Circus Maximus hippodrome could hold 250,000 people, about 1/4 of its population |
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Now semi-retired, this odd cartoonist got his start at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1979 |
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Proverbially speaking, "birds of a feather" do this |
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This master of Baroque music composed his 6 "French Suites" for clavichord in the 1720s |
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As director John Waters could tell you, it's a common hue for flamingos |
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From 434 to 445 Bleda ruled the Huns jointly with this man, his brother |
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(alliterative Hanna-Barbera pooch) |
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He appeared with Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" & "Apollo 13", & with Nicolas Cage in "Snake Eyes" |
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In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this |
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This composer who took us to Seville in "Carmen" evoked Italy in the suite "Roma" |
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As far as we know, this heron of the genus Ardea isn't a "people eater" |
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Early Lydian coins were made from electrum, an alloy of silver & this |
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This South African won golf's Masters Tournament in 1961 |
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Something very rare is "as scarce as" these poultry features (that don't exist) |
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This famous 1892 Tchaikovsky suite features the "Miniature Overture" |
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It's the color of a venemous "recluse spider" also called the fiddleback |
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This highest civil office of old Venice originated in the 7th century & got its first palace in 814 |
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(Dog who sounds like his name) |
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This South Dakota native was the golden-toned voice of TV's "Laugh-In" |
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It's the kind of broad view that reminds us of frozen food guy Clarence |
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It's no tabloid rumor: this composer of the "Grand Canyon Suite" also wrote a "Tabloid Suite" |
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Colorful name of the evergreen seen here |
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Under this Latin name, the island once called Albion went on to "rule the waves" |
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A Russian chess grandmaster, this man lost to a computer in 1997 |
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