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    | At 40% intact, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton with this nickname is remarkably complete | 
    Lucy
 
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    | Poor Jack Dawson leaves Southampton in 1912 to go to America for a new start; has trouble along the way | 
    Titanic
 
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    | In July 1932 this U.S. president ordered the forcible eviction of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. | 
    Hoover
 
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    | The Iridium 9555 connects via this way up high & says it "works everywhere, without exception" | 
    satellite
 
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    | In 1981 the sun set on this empire's colonial rule in newly independent Belize | 
    the British Empire (the United Kingdom accepted)
 
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    | Fake duck for a hunter | 
    a decoy
 
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    | In 2009 scientists suggested that Ida, a 47-million-year-old fossil, was one of these, a hypothetical bridge species | 
    a missing link
 
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    | Multi-talented man scores for the Crimson Tide & bests Chinese at ping pong, among other feats | 
    Forrest Gump
 
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    | This iconic French monument was officially inaugurated in July 1836 | 
    the Arc de Triomphe
 
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    | Back in 1997 Philippe Kahn jerry-rigged a camera & cell phone & used it to send pictures of this proud event | 
    the birth of his daughter
 
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    | On Oct. 31, 1961 Belize City was severely damaged by one of these; the capital was moved inland a few years later | 
    a hurricane
 
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    | This fabric may take its name from the Old French for "cloth of the king" | 
    [ERRATUM: The interpretation of the word as deriving from corde du roi is a false etymology.  Duroy was a coarse woollen cloth made in England in the 18th century.]
  corduroy
 
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    | This couple, stars of paleoanthropology, are seen here helping a 600,000-year-old skull smile for the camera | 
    (Dave: What is...I don't know?) ... (Alex: Famous anthropologists in Kenya.)
  the Leakeys
 
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    | In WWII Italy burned Hungarian count tells of his North African tragic love | 
    The English Patient
 
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    | Your parents may "read" you this; England passed the original one back in July 1715 to deal with noisy protests | 
    (Steven: What is the Bill of Rights?)
  the Riot Act
 
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    | An old time phone might be a wall set or this type of set named for a 4-letter horizontal surface | 
    a desk set
 
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    | Belize has been involved for decades in border disputes with this western neighbor | 
    Guatemala
 
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    | Developed in 1923, it's the yummy hybrid edible seen here | 
    a boysenberry
 
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    | In 1856 quarrymen in Germany unearthed part of a skeleton from this archaic man, the archetypal "caveman" | 
    Neanderthal
 
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    | Union officer goes native, seeks/kills buffalo | 
    Dances with Wolves
 
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    | In July 1492 some 200,000 Jews were expelled from this European monarchy | 
    Spain
 
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    | The iPhone's intelligent this suggests which word you might want to type next | 
    keyboard
 
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    | Belize's highest peak is known as this author's "Delight", for its resemblance to the setting of "The Lost World" | 
    (Dave: Who is Michael Crichton?)
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
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    | A diplomat with less authority than an ambassador | 
    (Dave: What is a viceroy?)
  an envoy
 
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    | Dubois found the first fossils IDed as this species of our genus; later, finding a femur convinced him that it walked upright | 
    (Steven: What is Homo sapiens?)
  Homo erectus
 
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    | Gal seeks/kills Buffalo Bill | 
    The Silence of the Lambs
 
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    | July 622 marks the beginning of this calendar | 
    the Islamic calendar
 
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    | This easy-to-use cell phone is named for a dance of days gone by | 
    the Jitterbug
 
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    | About one quarter of Belize's population is of this ethnicity of mixed African & European descent | 
    (Dave: What is mulatto?)
  Creole
 
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    | Among Hindu deities, Vishnu is the preserver & Shiva is this | 
    the destroyer
 
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