CITY OF THE DAY: BIRMINGHAM |
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The hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is a leading center for these renal transplants |
kidneys
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The 510th Evac Hospital in Vietnam was the setting for this medical drama |
China Beach
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At the time of his murder in April 1882, he was living in St. Joseph, Missouri, using the name Thomas Howard |
Jesse James
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In the comics: Hi & ___ |
Lois
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Pelean, Hawaiian, Strombolian & Plinian are different types of this event |
(Lisa: What are volcanoes? ...Volcanoes?)
eruptions
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The name of this dairy food also means "thing" in Urdu, giving us phrases like "the big" one, meaning the boss |
cheese
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In its Oct. 2001 issue, this mag ranked B'ham's Highlands Bar & Grill among the top 5 restaurants in the U.S. |
(Alex: That was [*] magazine. Pay attention.)
Gourmet
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Gain some knowledge with "Untold Stories of the ER" on this sister channel of Discovery |
TLC (The Learning Channel)
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When he arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1877, he told the townspeople his name was William H. Bonney |
Billy the Kid
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NBC News colleagues: ___ & Brinkley |
Huntley
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Jazzmen used this slang word in the '40s; Tommy Dorsey insisted it had nothing to do with lines on a record's surface |
groovy
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Michael Jordan could tell you this name for Birmingham's current minor league baseball team |
(Alex: Because he played on [*].)
the Barons
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The surgeon seen here is as primitive as can be on this ABC show |
Lost
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On Oct. 5, 1892 5 members of this gang entered Coffeyville, Kansas to rob 2 banks; only Emmett survived |
(Alex: Sometimes a good guess is...) (Craig: Better to be lucky than good.) (Alex: All right.)
the Dalton Gang
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Partners in crime: ___ & Loeb |
Leopold
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This "table" is the saturated area of bedrock; it tends to follow the contours of the land |
the water table
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One of the very few English words with 6 consonants in a row, it's a cord that lets you open a door from outside |
a latchstring
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A court ruled that this series with "M.D." in the title wasn't a spinoff from a TV show but rather from a 1970 movie |
(Lisa: What is Marcus Welby, M.D.?) ... (Alex: A spinoff of M*A*S*H.)
Trapper John, M.D.
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After robbing stagecoaches, this "dark", dapper outlaw left poems he'd written signed "The PO8" |
Black Bart
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On stage: ___ & Fontanne |
(Lisa: Who is...)
Lunt
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If your burn a diamond in the presence of oxygen, it will form this gas |
carbon dioxide
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Mencken coined "ecdysiast" for a striptease artist; "ecdysis", from the same root, is this periodic process in snakes |
shedding of the skin (or molting)
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Found in Birmingham, the world's largest cast-iron statue is a figure of this Roman god of metalworking |
Vulcan
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It was Rob Petrie & Chachi as crime-solving sawbones on this long-running CBS hit |
Diagnosis Murder
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The only criminal conviction of this "Bandit Queen" was for horse theft--she spent 9 months in prison |
(Lisa: Who is Calamity Jane?)
Belle Starr
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Restaurateurs: ___ & Schmick |
McCormick
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The name of the mineral with formula Fe3O4 should tell you that it acts as a natural one of these |
(Alex: It's called magnetite, so it acts as a natural [*].)
a magnet
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A good film needs a sequel, & the word "sequel" has the same root as this 5-letter word for the transition I just made |
a segue
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