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    (Alex: Because you switch from daylight saving to standard, they stopped for [*].)
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    Gaelic
 
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    Easter
 
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    | Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands skipped Aug. 21, 1993 when it moved from one side of this line to the other | 
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    Truman
 
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    | This Frost poem ends, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" | 
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    | Found in Tibet, the dzo is a cross between a cow & this beast of burden | 
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    | After visiting this ruined medieval church July 13, 1798, Wordsworth put his thoughts into a poem | 
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    | Gujarati was the native language of this 20th century leader, the prophet of nonviolence | 
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    | The Proust title that literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time" is known as this in English | 
    (Alice: What is Remembrance of Things,Times, Past? Things?). ... (Alex: Alice mixed up a word; should have gone with her first instinct.)
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