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Poet laureate Robert Southey wrote that "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to" do this |
roost
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In 2003 Tim McGraw covered this man's "Tiny Dancer" & performed it with him on the American Music Awards |
Elton John
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This was Indira Gandhi's maiden name (her father was India's first P.M.) |
Nehru
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In 1909 in a 25-HP plane, Louis Bleriot flew over 23 miles to cross this in 37 minutes |
English Channel
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Rather than a single disease, it's a general term for lung diseases involving inflammation |
pneumonia
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In "Eugene Onegin", Pushkin wrote, "Now southward swept the caravan of the wild" these, "a noisy clan" |
geese
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This group is heard here covering a song written by Stevie Nicks |
The Dixie Chicks
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Last name of the sisters whose 1846 book of poetry, published under male pseudonyms, sold 2 copies |
Bronte
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In 2001 NASA's Helios, a plane powered by this, flew to a record altitude of 96,500 feet |
solar power
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This extinct flying reptile's name is from the Greek for "finger wing" |
pterodactyl
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Pistol calls his wife "my duck" as he kisses her & goes off to war in France in this Shakespeare history play |
Henry V
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For "Common Thread", a tribute album to this group, Clint Black contributed "Desperado" |
The Eagles
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After the death of his younger brother George, he supplied lyrics to Kurt Weill & Jerome Kern |
Ira Gershwin
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In 1943 Jacqueline Cochran took charge of the Air Force program known by this insect acronym |
WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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It's any type of severe mental illness characterized by hallucinations & delusions |
psychosis
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Intelligentsia |
(Leonard: What is Latin?)
Russian
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"We will eat our mullets, soused in wines" & "sup pheasants' eggs", this Elizabethan dramatist wrote in "The Alchemist" |
Ben Jonson
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If you need a friend, Buck Owens was sailing right behind in his hit cover of this Simon & Garfunkel song |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
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On March 17, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt walked this niece, who was marrying her cousin, down the aisle |
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Kremer Prize was awarded to Paul MacCready in 1977 for the first plane successfully powered by this |
human power
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In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere |
Ptolemy
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Trek |
(Jim: What is Greek?)
Afrikaans
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Last name of William Carlos, who wrote, "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow beside the white chickens" |
Williams
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(Hi, I'm Ricky Skaggs) On my 1995 "Solid Ground" album, I covered this famous story song by Harry Chapin |
"Cats in the Cradle"
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In 1551 this explorer's son Sebastian founded the Merchant Adventurers of London |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now.)
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
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Company name on the record-setting XP-59 & the JetRanger III helicopter |
Bell
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This subatomic particle, which has no electric charge, consists of a quark & an antiquark |
(Leonard: What is a photon?) (Jim: What is a positron?)
psi particle
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Om |
(Jim: What is Hindi?) (Sara: What is Indian?)
Sanskrit
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