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A recluse in latter years, Dickinson was called the "nun of" this town |
Amherst
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"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" & "Unchained Melody" |
The Righteous Brothers
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Memphis has the largest trading market for this plant fiber, with nearly half the U.S. crop going through the city. |
(Annette: What is hemp?)
cotton
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The Spud Days festival held in Shelley in this state features the Miss Russet pageant & the tater trot race |
Idaho
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Dust released by this comet causes the Orionids meteor shower each October |
Halley's Comet
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Martini & Rossi has been making this since the 1800s |
vermouth
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As a girl, Emily was forbidden to read the inappropriate works of this "Drum-taps" poet |
Walt Whitman
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"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" & "Maneater" |
Hall & Oates
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One of the lions who roared at the beginning of this studio's movies lived at the Memphis Zoo until his death in 1944 |
MGM
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Since 1940 Lincoln, New Mexico has presented a folk pageant called "The Last Escape of" this young outlaw |
Billy the Kid
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In 2005, 2 additional moons, Hydra & Nix, were discovered orbiting this dwarf planet |
Pluto
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The Constitution outlines how to fill these in Congress |
vacancies
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Emily began a poem, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er" do this |
succeed
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"Soul Man" & "I Thank You" |
(Annette: Who are The Blues Brothers?)
Sam & Dave
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Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land" |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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2012 marks the 60th year of the Florida Folk Festival, way down upon this river at Stephen Foster State Park |
Suwannee
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The 2 shortest-named constellations each have 3 letters: Ara & this one in the zodiac |
Leo
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Do something with great force & you're said to do it "with a" this synonym for retribution |
vengeance
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Emily's father served in Congress from 1853 to 1855 as one of the last elected members of this party |
the Whig
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"Shout" & "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" |
Tears for Fears
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In 1952, 10 years after the Bing Crosby movie, Kemmons Wilson opened the first of these inns in his Memphis hometown |
Holiday Inn
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During the week of this Triple Crown horse race, amphibians compete in the frog hop at Patterson Park in Baltimore |
the Preakness
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Calliope, one of these objects orbiting between Jupiter & Mars, has its own satellite named Linus |
an asteroid
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In the Church of England, it's another term for a parish priest |
vicar
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Thomas Higginson, a contributor to this oceanic-sounding magazine, was Emily's mentor & editor |
The Atlantic
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A country duo: "Stay" & "Stuck Like Glue" |
Sugarland
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The world's first self-service grocery store, this chain with a rhyming name opened in Memphis in 1916 |
(Alex: "I'm fixin' to take you to [*]")
Piggly Wiggly
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This Halloween symbol originated in Ireland, where candles were once placed in turnips to keep away ghosts |
jack-o'-lanterns
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John Archibald Wheeler popularized this term for an object so dense that not even light can escape |
a black hole
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In 1775 he invented the electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity |
(Alessandro) Volta
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