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    | This patriot's foundry made the State House dome watertight in 1802 by sheathing it with a thick layer of copper | 
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    | The root of a plant of the mustard family, this veggie resembles a small beet | 
    (Alex: I think you're overcomplicating [*].) (Ron: A [*]--of course.)
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    January 27: Jury selection begins in the trial of this woman entangled with the SLA | 
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    Black, especially a pure or jet black, like the stone | 
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    | Time to attend the dancing class seen here painted by this 19th century Frenchman | 
    Degas
 
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    | In 1893 Springfield produced the USA's 1st gasoline-powered car; in 1901, the USA's 1st factory for these 2-wheelers | 
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    "Mellow Gold", "Odelay", "Guero" | 
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    | The Eureka is a type of this citris fruit | 
    (Alex: [as Borat] It's [*], like the clue.)
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    July 2: This country formally ceases to exist as it is absorbed by its northern counterpart | 
    (Ron: What is South Korea?) (Alex; No.  What is [*]?  You meant to say that, I know.) (Ron: Yes, I certainly did.)
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    | Come sail away with Charon on this river, a Greek word meaning "hateful" | 
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    | More a Neo-Impressionist, he painted Pointillist seascapes at Normandy each summer between 1885 & 1889 | 
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    | Nye Lubricants, founded in New Bedford in 1844, sold the USA's last bottle of this type of oil in 1978 | 
    (Ron: What is lamp oil?) ... (Alex: What is [*]?  [*] in 1978.)
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    "Pablo Honey", "OK Computer", "Hail to the Thief" | 
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    February 4th: The Winter Olympics heat up this Austrian city | 
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    | Patrick Ewing should know this Greek goddess personifying night | 
    (Alex; Who did Patrick Ewing play for?  The New York Knicks, and this is [*].)
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    | His impression, "Sunrise", is seen here | 
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    | This Western Mass. college, the state's oldest after Harvard, is a traditional rival of Amherst | 
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    "De Stijl", "Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" | 
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    | The name of this tropical fruit comes from the resemblance of its flowers to symbols of the crucifixon | 
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    June 27: Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France jetliner & force it to land in this Ugandan city | 
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    | This small triangular bone consists of 4 rudimentary vertebrae | 
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    | This American woman went Impressionist in the late 1870s & exhibited with the group in 1879 | 
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    | "The Spirit of '76" hangs in this town whose name comes from the misidentification of granite as another rock | 
    (Susan: What is Bedford?)
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    | In French, a banana is banane; this tropical fruit is ananas | 
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    March 24: The Argentinean Military coups with delight as it overthrows this widow of Juan Peron | 
    (Alex: Who is [*]?  The other wife.  Came later.)
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    | It's not a Seussian animal, it's this large African antelope, an endangered species | 
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    | Seen here is this artist's 1870s work "Madame Charpentier and Her Children" | 
    (Alex: Why didn't you ring in and say [*], Bill?) (William: Well, I didn't know for sure.) (Alex: Oh, but you had an inkling.)
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