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| Harry Truman's 1945 diary: This man "said he was grossly misunderstood in U.S. and I was misunderstood in Russia" |
Stalin
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| Via French & Greek from Hut-ka-Ptah, "temple of the soul of Ptah" |
(Sarah: What is, uh, Kathmandu?)
Egypt
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| Civil War P.O.W.s crash land in a hot air balloon onto this French author's "Mysterious Island" |
Jules Verne
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| Antediluvian refers to a time in Genesis before this event occurred |
[Evan selected the first clue.]
the flood
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| Also known as this type of twins, dizygotic twins may be of different sexes |
fraternal twins
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| 1988 hit in which George Michael offered to be your "preacher, teacher, anything you have in mind" |
"Father Figure"
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| "The natural history of" the Galapagos "is eminently curious, and well deserves attention", he wrote in 1835 |
Darwin
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| From the Chinese pronunciation of characters meaning "sun" & "origin" |
Japan
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| Things were bleak in this 1954 novel even before the airplane full of kids crashes on an island--they were fleeing a nuclear war |
Lord of the Flies
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| A gourmet is a connoisseur; this related foodie starts with the same 5 letters & prizes quantity over quality |
a gourmand
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| Between 1980 & 2014 U.S. twin births increased by 79%, due in part to the use of the then-new treatment called IVF, short for this |
in vitro fertilization
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| In a song from The Temptations, "Papa" was one of these, "wherever he laid his hat was his home" |
a rolling stone
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| Jim Carroll recounted his youth as a drug-addicted high school sports star in the "Diaries" named for this sport |
basketball
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| In Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water |
(Evan: What is Panama?)
Nicaragua
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| The term Robinsonade refers to a castaway story that emulates the 18th century works of this man |
Defoe
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| This word containing a synonym for "big" means "generosity" & was shouted in France when lords were giving gifts to the people |
largesse
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| In 2017 this singer was "Happy" to welcome triplets & said they harmonize when they cry |
Pharrell
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| Luther Vandross emotionally told us he'd "Love, love, love" to do this with his father again |
dance
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| "With one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops", he wrote on September 2, 1666 |
(Katie: Who is Defoe?)
Samuel Pepys
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| In South America, from the name of a man born in 1783 |
(Savannah: Yes, for Simón Bolívar.)
Bolivia
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| One of Captain Flint's crew, Ben Gunn is marooned on this title island for 3 years |
Treasure Island
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| It was a music education system developed by a Swiss composer before it was a pop duo |
eurythmics
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| A pregnancy with twins or triplets can be complicated by the A1 gestational type of this condition |
diabetes
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| Madonna sang in this hit, "I know you're going to be upset, 'cause I was always your little girl" |
(Savannah: It brings back the memories of the '80s, doesn't it?)
"Papa Don't Preach"
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| She's seen here in the 1960s when her decades of diaries, including her affair with Henry Miller, became a literary sensation |
Anais Nin
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| In central Europe, from Latin for "eastern borderland" |
(Evan: What is Estonia?)
Austria
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| In this Walter Farley novel, Alec bonds with the title horse when they are shipwrecked together |
The Black Stallion
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| It means measuring the amount of space & describes the flask seen here |
volumetric
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| In 1874 these conjoined twins from Siam died, one preceding the other by 3 hours |
Chang & Eng
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| In this "feline" hit, Harry Chapin sings, "When you coming home, son?" |
"Cat's In The Cradle"
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