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    ten
 
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    the Lapps
 
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    wombats
 
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    Peter Jackson
 
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    a rattle
 
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    kosher
 
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    | In May 2010 this former Dean of Harvard Law was nominated to succeed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens | 
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    | The Sami live in Norway, Sweden & Finland & on this country's Kola Peninsula | 
    Russia
 
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    (Tom: What's a squirrel?)
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    Peter Sellers
 
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    ratification
 
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    | Austrians challenge Frankfurt's claim to have invented the meaty treat, saying it came from this city | 
    Vienna
 
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    | New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Lemann is also dean of the USA's best-known school of this, at Columbia | 
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    | Many of the Sami make their living herding these animals of the family Cervidae | 
    reindeer
 
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    | A joey of this marsupial with the same name as a non-powered aircraft takes flight at about 3 1/2 months | 
    a glider
 
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    | The Peter of the Rat Pack was this British actor who married Patricia Kennedy | 
    Peter Lawford
 
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    | Jonathan Swift was dean of this cathedral with a saintly Irish name-- in Dublin, not New York | 
    St. Patrick's
 
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    | In marsupials only, these glands develop independently to provide tailored nutrition to individual joeys | 
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    Peter Weir
 
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    | Climbing palm of Asia used to make furniture | 
    rattan
 
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    cellulose
 
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    | This association that accredits U.S. law schools stipulates that "a law school shall have a full-time dean" | 
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    | The Sami were gravely affected by this 1986 disaster as fish & livestock meat became tainted | 
    Chernobyl
 
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