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Vitosha Boulevard in this Bulgarian capital is now a shopping hub |
Sofia
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"Animal House": "Women--can't live with them, can't" do this |
live without them
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The Moon's gravitation accounts for the diurnal & semidiurnal types of these |
tides
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An achromatic painting is one done in black, white & shades of this color |
gray
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It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website |
eBay
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The name of this prayer is simply Latin for "Hail Mary" |
Ave Maria
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In 2006 Lithuania was banned from adopting the euro as its rate of this was 2.7% & the max allowable was 2.6 |
inflation
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Jon Stewart: "Before we bring" this type of govt. "to... Afghanistan, it might be prudent to bring it to Florida" |
a democracy
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Before its 1846 sighting, this 8th planet's existence was deduced from its gravitational effect on other planets |
Neptune
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French for "gluing", it's a picture made by gluing photos, news cuttings, ticket stubs, etc, to a surface |
(Marshall: What's a mosaic?)
a collage
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The logo of this giant online retailer is a smile that can also be seen as an arrow that goes from "A" to "Z" in its name |
Amazon.com
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It's literally "something for something" |
quid pro quo
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Right-wing parties on the rise include Hungary's Jobbik, which fiercely attacks these people, also called Roma |
Gypsies
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Woody Allen: "I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live" one of these toy animals "in my crib" |
a teddy bear
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This 1915 "General" theory says gravitational acceleration is a geometric result of the properties of space-time |
the general theory of relativity
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He once said, "When I was young I could draw like Raphael, but it has taken me my whole life to learn to draw like a child" |
Pablo Picasso
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The name of this online shoe store is an alteration of the Spanish word for "shoes" |
Zappos.com
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From Horace comes this 2-word bit of advice, literally "seize the day" |
carpe diem
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500,000 people, many lighting candles, marched in this country in 2005 to honor the late Pope |
(Marshall: What is Vatican City?)
Poland
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Chris Rock: "If you haven't contemplated murder, you ain't been in" this |
love
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In the 18th century John Michell theorized that gravitation could affect the path of this |
light
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His Philadelphia museum houses more than 120 sculptures, including a bronze cast of "The Thinker" |
Rodin
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Club O is the frequent buyers program of this online closeout retailer founded by Dr. Patrick Byrne |
Overstock.com
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Meaning "in the same place", you see this word in footnotes to refer to a source cited in a previous entry |
ibid.
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In this country's 1996 elections, the statist Iliescu lost to the more market-oriented Constantinescu |
(Kyle: What is Greece?) ... (Alex: Those names should have led you to [*].)
Romania
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The late Greg Giraldo on this pres.: "Cheat on your wife & cover it up for 200 years, you're... thinking you're home free" |
Jefferson
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Newton said the gravitational force between 2 objects is inversely related to the square of this measurement |
the distance between the 2 objects
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Robert Kalin founded this site for selling handmade items; the meaning of its 4-letter name is a mystery |
Etsy.com
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Rene Descartes came up with this phrase that translates to "I think, therefore I am" |
cogito ergo sum
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