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MY PRESIDENTIAL FANTASY DRAFT |
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AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY |
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The largest natural lake on this North Atlantic island is Thingvallavatn near the capital |
Iceland
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"Howling Mad" Murdock was part of this title TV group that also included Sgt. B.A. Baracus |
the A-Team
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Like his dad, he made the big leagues, & his 1794 appointment as minister to the Netherlands pads his intl. stats |
John Quincy Adams
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Makes you strong to the finish if you eat it all: CASH NIP |
spinach
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Near Ulaanbaatar is the world's largest equestrian statue, a 131-foot-tall one of this Mongol leader |
Genghis Khan
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After learning about the Intl. Red Cross while visiting Europe, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
Clara Barton
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Peggy Olson & Joan Holloway are characters on this '60s-set series |
Mad Men
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In saying there was no "right of secession" but not backing it up, his PTCWOL (push the Civil War onto Lincoln) is huge |
(James) Buchanan
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It's a type of Chinese cabbage: BOY HOCK |
bok choy
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A 25' headless shark monument was installed in England Aug. 9, 1986, anniversary of the dropping of one of these |
the second atomic bomb
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Until 1995, the U.S. maintained an air base on St. David's Island in this British group off the coast of Cape Hatteras |
(Jamie: What are the British Virgin Islands?)
Bermuda
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On the '90s sitcom "Mad About You", he played Paul Buchman |
(Paul) Reiser
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His R.E.M. (re-election metric) is killer; he won 49 states--only Minn. said no--& his I.G. (invade Grenada) stats are big, too |
Ronald Reagan
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A pungent green: AURA LUG |
arugula
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Go to this European capital if you'd like to see a statue of Saint Wenceslas mounted atop the belly of a dead horse |
Prague
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In 1889, in one of its earliest relief efforts, the Red Cross aided victims of the killer flood in this Pennsylvania city |
Johnstown
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In antiquity this Spanish archipelago with an avian-sounding name was known as the Fortunate Isles |
the Canary Islands
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This "SCTV" veteran became the Mad Hatter for a 1999 TV movie of "Alice in Wonderland" |
Martin Short
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His R.E.M. (re-election metric) is killer; he won 49 states--only Mass. said no--but his TC (term completion) worries me |
Nixon
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Its name tells you it's an aquatic plant: REST ARC SEW |
watercress
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Careful--this American mobile artist's fountain in Barcelona has mercury coursing through it |
(Alexander) Calder
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This island was discovered on May 21, 1502, the feast day of the mother of Constantine the Great |
St. Helena
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This fiery money manager literally rolls up his sleeves to host CNBC's "Mad Money" |
(Jim) Cramer
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His O-LZT (out-living Zachary Taylor) looms large but I worry about his short pres. career of only 32 months |
(Megan: Who is Polk?) (Janet: Who is John Tyler?)
(Millard) Fillmore
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Caesar salad is made with it: AUCTIONEER MELT |
romaine lettuce
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Thebes in Egypt is home to a vast one of these, from the Greek for "city of the dead" |
necropolis
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