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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME |
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WHO WANTS TO BE A MOLIERE? |
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Figuratively, it's a modest dessert eaten apologetically |
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Read all about it! The Nome Nugget, founded in 1900, is Nome's & Alaska's oldest one of these |
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Moliere didn't play favorites; he wrote satirical plays called "The School for Husbands" & "The School for" these |
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Richard & Pat Nixon, on June 21, 1940 |
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This legend made his Opry debut on June 11, 1949 singing "Lovesick Blues" |
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Stephen Vincent Benet rhymed, "Sherman's buzzin' along to the sea, like Moses ridin' on" this insect |
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"The Golden Beaches of Nome" is a chapter title in the novel "Alaska" by this author |
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This French king's support for Moliere & his troupe allowed them to get their own theater in Paris around 1660 |
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Gerald & Betty Ford, on Oct. 15, 1948 |
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In 1954 he made his only appearance on the Opry, singing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" |
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A foldaway for passengers on the back of some early automobiles |
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Nome is situated on the south shore of a wide peninsula bearing the name of this cabinet member |
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I hate people who don't know that Moliere himself played the title role when this 1666 play of his premiered |
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Lyndon & Lady Bird Johnson, on Nov. 17, 1934 |
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On the Opry stage in 1993, the USPS unveiled 4 new country music stamps, one honoring this famed family |
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The subject of a 1995 animated movie, this sled dog led the team that brought medicine to save Nome in 1925 |
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Andrew & Eliza Johnson, on May 17, 1827 |
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The Opry house stage has a circle of wood from this older Opry home, "the mother church of country music" |
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Old game of knife throwing with the object being to stick the blade in the ground |
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As part of a voyage through the Northwest Passage, this Norwegian reached Nome in September 1906 |
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Warren & Florence Harding, on July 8, 1891 |
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