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Perhaps to sound more macho, the town of Juliet, Illinois "explored" new names & came up with this one in 1845 |
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A superstition says pull out one of these from your head & you will soon find several new ones growing |
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As you can probably guess, this is the featured color of the fins of the flame tetra |
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To prevent a check from bouncing due to insufficient funds, banks offer this type of protection |
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He's Massachusetts' senior senator |
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At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'" |
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With a name from the Chippewa for "on the summit", Ishpeming is a top ski center on the upper peninsula of this state |
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In Oxford's "Dict. of Superstitions", trimming nails is among the many things not to do on this day of the week |
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This hooded snake of India is the longest of the venomous snakes |
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This restaurant chain with an Aussie atmosphere says, "No rules, just right" |
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In 2005, after 25 years as its anchor, he said goodnight to "Nightline" |
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Thor Heyerdahl recounted his real-life sea adventure, 4,300 miles across the Pacific on a raft, in this 1948 classic |
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This New England town's famous "cottages" are actually lavish mansions such as Belcourt Castle & Marble House |
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When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true |
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One popular breed of cat bears the name of these mountains, the world's highest |
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It's the problem with the photo seen here |
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A decade after "Politically Incorrect", he launched "Real Time" on HBO |
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It was originally published under the title "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours" |
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This state capital has trolleys & buses called 'Dillos that take folks to attractions & music clubs |
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After popping off one of these at a wedding, bring the couple luck by slitting it & putting a coin in it |
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Not Rommel's but Ruppell's sand fox lives in this desert |
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Among the more famous ones were Belle Starr, Butch Cassidy & Billy the Kid |
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With some 2 million acres, much of it for his bison, he's America's largest private landowner |
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In his final adventure, Gulliver meets these filthy & despicable brutes; do a web search if you're not sure |
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In 2006 rival cities got crabby when Men's Fitness magazine named it the fittest city in America |
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Cast in a play with Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti enraged the superstitious star by whistling & by naming this Shakespeare play |
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3-letter name of the mythical bird of Arabian legend that was so huge it could carry off an elephant |
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S.E. Hinton was just a freshman in college when she published this classic tale about rival teen gangs |
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Sadly, in 1991 this concert promoter died when his helicopter crashed en route from a Huey Lewis concert |
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In this classic, an adventurous scientist finds himself in a world divided between the Eloi & the Morlocks |
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