THE HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY |
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YOU GOT SOME SPLEENING TO DO |
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This 1973 Pink Floyd album includes "Time" & "Money" |
Dark Side of the Moon
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Benedict XV becomes Pope; Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; Ralph Ellison becomes visible man |
1914
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Grace Kelly's prince of a hubby |
Rainier
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On April 22, 1878 U.S. First Lady Lucy Hayes instituted this annual event on the White House lawn |
(Leah: What is an Easter egg hunt?)
Easter Egg Roll
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When you're born, your spleen stops producing these blood cells, but keeps filtering out used ones |
red blood cells
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(Jimmy stands behind sacks of food.) During World War I, Hoover provided sacks of food via the Commission for Relief of this country caught between German bayonets & a British blockade |
[Freddy rings in too late.] (Alex: The country was [*]. Sorry, Freddy.)
Belgium
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In 1994 these rappers had "Ill Communication", a No. 1 album |
Beastie Boys
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British government makes Pitt stop; castrato Caffarelli's life ends on high note; Revol. War ends |
(Freddy: What is 1782?) ... (Alex: It was a long time ago and you were just one year off. [*], Freddy. Sorry about that.)
1783
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First biblical mate plus what the sleepy need |
(Freddy: Who is Nod?) ... (Alex: The first biblical mate was Eve. What the sleepy need is rest. You put them together and you come up with [*]. I know, it's a little tricky.)
Everest
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December 13 is the feast day of Saint Lucy, a 4th century Christian martyr from this Italian island |
Sicily
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An enlarged spleen is a symptom of this infectious disease, often called simply "mono" |
mononucleosis
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"Thank You" to this one-named London singer who released her album "Life For Rent" in 2003 |
Dido
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Teddy Roosevelt hits San Juan Hill; Otto von Bismarck sinks; Sir George Frampton comes alive sculpting Keats |
1898
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He was president on Dec. 31, 1899 |
McKinley
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Lucy Craft Laney founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta in this state |
Georgia
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The spleen is a repository of these little guys produced by B cells to defend against infection |
antibodies
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Dialogue in the movie "The Producers" inspired the title of this 1991 U2 album |
Achtung Baby
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The Great Fire of London isn't so great; Queen Anne of Austria makes a royal exit; Moliere pens "The Misanthrope" |
1666
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This crossbreed of Red Delicious & Ralls Janet apples was bred at a Japanese research station |
(Alex: Jen?) (Jen: I can't think of it.) (Alex: If you think Japanese, what mountain would you automatically think of?) (Jen: [*].) (Alex: [*] apples, yes.)
Fuji
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Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote "Rilla of Ingleside" & "Rainbow Valley" as well as tales of this Anne |
Anne of Green Gables
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In olden medicine & psychology, the spleen was said to produce the melancholy humor, a fluid of this color |
black
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Tim McGraw won a Grammy for the touching title track of the 2004 album "Live Like You Were" this |
Dying
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Montreal holds an expo; we excuse Dorothy Parker's dust; Louis Armstrong hits with "What A Wonderful World" |
1967
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This maker of Stylus cameras started out 87 years ago as a microscope manufacturer |
Olympus
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The hominid fossil remains known as Lucy were dug up in Hadar in this East African country in 1974 |
(Freddy: What is Kenya?)
Ethiopia
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The spleen is the biggest structure in this fluid-carrying system that also has many nodes |
lymphatic
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