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While the Feds still consider these reptiles threatened, there are enough in Florida for an annual harvest |
Alligators
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On September 1, 1996 this former first daughter married Jim Wentzel at the Pond House near Plains |
Amy Carter
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This beloved folk artist painted "Look, It's A New Little Colt" in 1945, when she was in her '80s |
Grandma Moses
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In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy |
Stephen King
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This Virginia site has replicas of the 3 ships that brought settlers there in 1607 |
Jamestown
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A 1-horse carriage on springs, or a device that may spring a surprise on a mouse |
Trap
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When assassinated in 1988, Chico Mendes had devoted his life to protecting these places |
Rainforests
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After the 1992 election, he managed the Clinton transition team, then became Secretary of State Jan. 20, 1993 |
Warren Christopher
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The title of Botticelli's famous painting "Primavera" means this season of the year |
Spring
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Tarzana, California is named for his most famous character |
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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This cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. was laid out on land once home to Robert E. Lee |
Arlington National Cemetery
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The gullet of a bird, something for a farmer to harvest, or a riding whip |
Crop
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This 1970 act set standards for major pollutants, including ozone & carbon monoxide |
Clean Air Act
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Billboard called this contemporary jazz saxophonist the top instrumentalist of the past decade in terms of sales |
Kenny G
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Peter Blume's 1930 painting "The Eternal City" depicts this fascist as a surreal green jack-in-the-box |
Benito Mussolini
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A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life |
Sylvia Plath
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A visitor center devoted to this judge in Langtry, Texas has his law book on display |
Roy Bean
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It can be your best buddy, or the chopped bait used to attract fish |
Chum
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As opposed to wind or solar energy, fossil fuels are these types of "resources"; they run out |
Non-renewable
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In 1995 this paleoanthropologist helped form Safina, a new political party, to rid Kenya of corruption |
Richard Leakey
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This Frenchman finished his paintings of "Poplars" before he began his "Water Lily" murals |
(Alex: And we have about a minute left.)
Claude Monet
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His 1996 book "Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels |
John Updike
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This president's national historic site in West Branch, Iowa has a Quaker meetinghouse on the grounds |
Herbert Hoover
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To soak in liquid, or marked by an extreme angle |
(M: What is wet?)
Steep
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A reporter is credited with creating this term for the wind-eroded area of the Great Plains in the 1930s |
Dust Bowl
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This prosecutor of Charles Manson gives his take on the O.J. Simpson trial in his bestseller "Outrage" |
Vincent Bugliosi
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From 1912 to 1933 this "Bird In Space" sculptor created a series of abstract busts of "Mademoiselle Pogany" |
Constantin Brancusi
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Evan Hunter writes his "87th Precinct" & "Matthew Hope" novels under this pseudonym |
Ed McBain
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This industrialist stocked the woodlands around his home, Fair Lane, with about 300 deer |
(C: Who is Vanderbilt?)
Henry Ford
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It can be a short run, a punctuation mark indicating a break, or a part of a car |
Dash
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