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At the mouth of the Mississippi River, this major class of rock is said to be more than 40,000 feet thick |
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1981: The "Tattoo You" tour |
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He wrote the somewhat autobiographical 1858 play "Le fils naturel", or "The Natural Son" |
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This eminent lady was born in 1819 |
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This U.S. circus is so prominent that circus folks call it "Big Bertha" |
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Guinness says three people took a 1994 roundtrip ride in one of these from London to Cape Town; the fare: 40,210 pounds |
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Intense glaciation has formed these long, steep-sided coastal inlets; the ones in Norway & Chile are especially deep |
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Scottie, daughter of this author, grew up to be a journalist & Washington socialite |
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Trekkies might know the first long-distance traveler to bear this name, seen here |
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The rubberman is the person who sells these souvenirs |
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This airship, named for the Ohio city of its construction, sailed overhead during FDR's 1933 inauguration |
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This landmark in Rio's Guanabara Bay is an example of an inselberg, or "island mountain" |
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Jack, son of this author, took his fly rod on a parachute jump into WWII occupied France, claiming it was an antenna |
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Five-letter name for the item shown in use here |
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It's the "bovine" term for a circus elephant, whether it's male or female |
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John Ericsson, who built a steam locomotive in England in 1829, built this famous Civil War steam-powered ship |
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This crater is formed when a volcano explodes & the cone collapses; Oregon's Crater Lake is an example |
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1997: "The Dance" reunion tour |
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As an assistant to this author, Samuel Beckett had to fight off the advances of his daughter Lucia |
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In 2000 he coached the Rams to the Super Bowl title & then quit |
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Candy vendors are known as these, allegedly because a notable early one was a meat carver, too |
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This South Bend, Indiana automaker was once the world's largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles |
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Meaning "rock globe", it's the layer of rock encompassing the crust & outermost part of the upper mantle |
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First name of novelist Kingsley Amis' son, also a noted novelist |
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It's his 17th century young woman seen here |
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Term for any dessert served in the cookhouse, or the kind of "honeymoon" Debbie Reynolds sang about in 1950 |
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In 1986 he & Jeana Yeager flew nonstop around the world without refueling |
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