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Aptly, this author of "Tropic of Capricorn" was, in fact, a Capricorn |
Henry Miller
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In even-numbered years of 2010, 2012 & 2014, Madison Bumgarner & Tim Lincecum pitched in as this team won the World Series |
the San Francisco Giants
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Though he's lived for many years in the U.S., architect Frank Gehry was born in this Ontario city of 2.9 million |
(Ken: Your hometown, yes.)
Toronto
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Faces are garishly lit by gas lamp in "At the Moulin Rouge", one of his many depictions of Parisian nightlife |
(Hari: Who's Toulou-Lautrec?)
Toulouse-Lautrec
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A wyvern is a smaller, 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this |
a dragon
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You might spin one "of fortune" |
a wheel
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Capricorn is a goat who scales mountains, like this Capricorn who said in 1968, "I've been to the mountaintop" |
MLK (Martin Luther King)
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Truly Mr. October, this outfielder hit 10 home runs in 98 World Series at bats |
Reggie Jackson
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Frank Gehry's "Easy Edges" line built furniture out of this stuff in which your furniture usually arrives |
cardboard
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Edward Hopper captured the isolation of urban life in this 1942 masterpiece depicting a diner that's open late |
Nighthawks
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Monsterologists are in debate on how this ugly demon differs from the version with "hob" in front |
a goblin
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It may be short-eared or great horned |
an owl
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In emergencies, Capricorns are resourceful, like this woman who nursed the wounded in the 1st Battle of Bull Run |
Clara Barton
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This team refused admission to a local tavern owner's billy goat in 1945, & the ensuing curse lasted until the 2016 World Series |
(Hari: Who are the White Sox?)
the Cubbies
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The Gehry-designed Nationale-Nederlanden building seen here is informally known as this film dancing pair |
(Ken: Yeah, [**] is the building.)
Astaire & Rogers (Fred & Ginger)
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"Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the pointillist technique |
Seurat
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The Orkney & Shetland Islands are where selkies, creatures that appear as these "S"ea mammals, call home |
seals
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Temporary financial aid |
a loan
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Capricorns like privacy, but this ultra-rich man born Dec. 24, 1905 took that love of privacy to an unhealthy extreme |
Howard Hughes
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In the 1919 World Series, this "Black Sox" player hit .375 & did not commit an error, footwear & all |
Shoeless Joe Jackson
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The Guggenheim Museum in this city of Spain's Basque region is one of the best-known structures designed by Gehry |
(Aaron: What's Barcelona?)
Bilbao
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He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes" just before the outbreak of World War II |
(Ken: Hari?) (Hari: Who is Dalí?)
Picasso
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It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get... |
harpies
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Saintly nimbus |
(Hari: Uh... sorry.)
a halo
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John C. Fremont was glad to have this sure-footed Capricorn guiding him along the Oregon Trail in 1842 |
Kit Carson
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In 1981 there were 3 World Series MVPs: Ron Cey, Steve Yeager & Pedro Guerrero, all of this team |
the Los Angeles Dodgers
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In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as "the Nobel of Architecture" |
the Pritzker Prize
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In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure |
a lion
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In "The Once and Future King" this beast is described as "falco leonis serpentis" |
a griffin
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Rodin sculpted the "Gates of" this |
Hell
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