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    | This shipwrecked surgeon helps the Lilliputians defeat Blefescu, a neighboring empire | 
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    | Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse | 
    Mario
 
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    Niagara
 
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    play
 
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    | The first chapter of this novel is titled "The Old Sea-Dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'" | 
    Treasure Island
 
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    | Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead | 
    Paul McCartney
 
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    | Seen here, she's the star of one of the hottest video games ever | 
    Lara Croft
 
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    | The Dee & Don Rivers are scenic features of Aberdeen, in this country | 
    Scotland
 
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    | This term for a between-meal snack comes from Yiddish | 
    nosh
 
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    | In other words, "Similar to a flying mammal leaving Hades" | 
    like a bat out of Hell
 
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    | She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility" | 
    Jane Austen
 
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    | My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept | 
    a kidney
 
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    Mr. Potato Head
 
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    Charles
 
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    | A province of ancient Egypt, or a city in modern Alaska | 
    Nome
 
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    | If these are "deserting the sinking ship", you might want to get off | 
    rats
 
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    | This Kipling beggar boy becomes a chela, or disciple, of a Tibetan lama | 
    Kim
 
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    | Wow!  A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date | 
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    | TV series set inside a computer that features the characters seen here | 
    ReBoot
 
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    | The Platte River joins it near Omaha; the Kansas River joins it at Kansas City | 
    (Andrew: What is the Snake River?)
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    | Perhaps from a word for "lump", it's a small lump of gold, or of wisdom | 
    nugget
 
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    | In other words, "As comfy as an insect in a carpet" | 
    as snug as a bug in a rug
 
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    | In this novel of the future, Mustapha Mond "had been the first to reveal the... dangers of family life" | 
    Brave New World
 
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    | Did you hear?  This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke | 
    Fred Grandy
 
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    | 1 of the 2 computer games that feature the clay man Klaymen seen here | 
    The Neverhood or Skullmonkeys
 
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    | In Arabic, it's Nahr Al-Urdunn | 
    Jordan
 
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    | If you feel young, you feel like this kind of non-winter barnyard fowl | 
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