CONNECT UP WITH CONNECTICUT |
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THE 2005 GREENSBORO MAYORAL RACE |
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It's the spice in Connecticut's state nickname that you might sprinkle into your eggnog on a cold Connecticut night |
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Track 7 on his "30 No. 1 Hits" album is "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" |
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Vote did he get, this 900-year-old "Star Wars" character |
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Aristotle was a tutor of this world conqueror |
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An inexpensive establishment of dubious hygiene is known as a "greasy" this utensil |
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Connecticut's official state hero is this native son who was executed by the British in 1776 |
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In 2002 the teddy bear, or as it was originally called, Teddy's Bear, celebrated this anniversary |
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AKA Forsythe Pendleton Jones in the "Archie" comics series, he got a vote |
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It's the more familiar way that Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great is known |
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If Giuseppe is a trattore, or restaurateur, this is the type of Italian restaurant he runs |
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Bridgeport, Connecticut has a P.T. Barnum museum & a statue of this tiny "General" |
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American Greetings turned these into a card line, a stuffed animal line & an animated film series |
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This "everyman" name, also the bassist/vocalist of the punk band X, got 4 votes |
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King Darius the Great of this empire sent an army into Greece in 490 B.C., but it was defeated at Marathon |
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At a sushi bar, spice wimps should learn the word "sabinuki", or "no" this |
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A large, unruly crowd of people, perhaps headed by Lucky Luciano |
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Joe Lieberman & this man are Connecticut's U.S. Senate team |
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Subject of a 1930s novelty song; in 1993 9,750 bears & their owners attended one set up in New Zealand |
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1 vote for this Missouri-born talk show host whom Al Franken called "a Big Fat Idiot" in a 1996 book |
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A prolific fighter & builder, he ruled Egypt from about 1290 to 1223 B.C. |
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Buca dell'Orafo is in the cellar of what was once a goldsmith's shop near the Ponte Vecchio in this city |
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A beam of light, or Mr. Charles |
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New London, Connecticut is the home of this U.S. military academy |
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An old stuffed bear from this German company sold at auction in 1994 for a lot of the green stuff--$158,000 |
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3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934 |
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The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was a retaining wall this "Great" king had built to shore up the temple platform |
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When Hiltl opened in Zurich in 1898, its customers were called Grasfresser, as it's this kind of restaurant |
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Top-fermented beer relative |
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