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"Voyage in the Dark" author Jean Rhys was born in Dominica; her father was from this U.K. country |
Wales
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Billy Corgan of this band wasn't Melon Collie when its third album sold over 4 million copies |
The Smashing Pumpkins
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It's noted for the size & color of its autumnal flowers |
a chrysanthemum
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Cutting taxes is one way to try to keep this downturn from taking the next step into depression |
a recession
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The first NASA operations on this Florida promontory were in 1958 |
Cape Canaveral
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Before it re-ran (& re-ran & re-ran), it ran on CBS beginning in 1951 |
I Love Lucy
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A prize named for this country's Jacobus van Looy is given every 5 years for one who has excelled as a writer & a painter |
the Netherlands
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The Roxy Music song "Pyjamarama" inspired the name of this British girl group |
Bananarama
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The nasturtium is so named because of its effect on this sensory organ |
the nose
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Today this shortfall is around 10% of GDP, which is scary enough, but in 1943 it was 30% of GDP |
the budget deficit
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In 1964 one of these named Cleo caused over $100 million in damage |
a hurricane
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Several small items worn on a necklace by hippies |
love beads
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Oleg in the 1968 novel "Cancer Ward" is a recent inmate of Soviet labor camps, like this author of the book |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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We hear Shrek is really big on this gal's songs, like "Criminal" & "Shadowboxer" |
Fiona Apple
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Oh, the vanity--these flowers represent egotism, as their mythological name indicates |
narcissus flowers
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In June 2010 President Obama marked the 10,000th roadway project begun with money from this $787 billion infusion |
the stimulus
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A monument to this ill-fated 1961 venture stands in the Cuban Memorial Plaza in Miami |
the Bay of Pigs
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This environmental disaster area near Niagara Falls is now known as Black Creek Village |
Love Canal
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"A Sport of Nature" is the story of a black activist's white wife in this, author Nadine Gordimer's homeland |
South Africa
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This "citrus" electronica band did music for 30 films in the '80s, including "Risky Business" & "Legend" |
Tangerine Dream
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The moccasin flower is also known by this other shoe name |
the lady's slipper
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In 1947 President Truman dedicated this large South Florida national park |
the Everglades
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This Shakespeare play was published in quarto form in 1598 |
Love's Labour's Lost
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This Romanian-born "Rhinoceros" author turned from playwriting to painting in his later years |
Eugène Ionesco
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"Incense & Peppermints" was the lone hit for this rock aggregate |
Strawberry Alarm Clock
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Rise & shine & sing out the name of this flower that often blooms early in the day |
morning glory
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In 1954 France became the first large-scale adopter of the VAT, short for this |
the value-added tax
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Ending the third of the wars named for them, Billy Bowlegs of this tribe surrendered with his warriors in 1858 |
the Seminole tribe
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The French call this medieval code that prescribed lovers' behavior amour courtois (& don't say "Courtney") |
courtly love
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