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Cubs, 1898-1912-- the third of a famous trio |
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Extravagantly luxurious, or to bestow profusely |
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To deal with a drippy candlestick, put it in this appliance; later, remove it & scrape off the hardened wax |
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The Roman pool at this publisher's California "castle" is decorated from floor to ceiling with glass tiles |
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Apple's Leopard is a type of OS, one of these |
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(Al Gore gives the clue.) World Power hangs in the balance as this nation surges forward; in 2010 it ended the USA's century-old standing as the no. 1 manufacturing nation |
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Shrub with pale lilac-colored flowers |
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To remove grass stains from clothes, try rubbing with the Karo brand of this type of syrup |
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The great pavement in front of the high altar at this London church uses a mosaic technique called cosmati work |
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The "HT" in both HTTP & HTML stands for this |
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(Al Gore gives the clue.) Looking to the future, we can't ignore the climate crisis as we've done too often since back in 1859 when an Irish scientist noted the heat-trapping effect of this molecule |
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A's, 1987-1997; Cardinals, 1998-2001 |
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Frenchman known as the "father of modern chemistry" |
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To keep these little plantlike protists out of a bird bath, plunk in a pre-1982 penny; copper stops their growth |
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The Blue Mosque in this Turkish city gets its name from the 20,000 blue tiles that line its ceiling |
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If your machine is being controlled by someone else, it may have been taken over by this 3-letter piece of malware |
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(Al Gore gives the clue.) The global economy is being transformed into Earth Inc, by the mechanization of human jobs & this practice of moving jobs from industrial to developing economies |
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A basin used for ceremonial washing, or an Australian tennis great |
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To save a cell phone that's been dropped in water, remove the battery & SIM card, pat dry & cover it with the white type of this |
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This Moorish fortress in Granada, Spain has a type of polygonal mosaic called alicatado |
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To set up the pictures & clips on my blog, I might need a VGA, this "array" |
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(Al Gore gives the clue.) Population & economic growth threaten our natural resources; one example is the erosion of this, the upper 6 inches of farming land that provides 99% of human food |
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Mets, 1983-1989; "Seinfeld ", beginning in 1992 |
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It's a type of middle eastern fiatbread |
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If you accidentally super glued your fingers together, dab nail polish remover containing this solvent--it breaks the bond |
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Spectacular blue tiles are a feature of Yazd's Jame mosque, seen on this country's 200-rial note |
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Send me that report as a PDF, this "format" |
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(Al Gore gives the clue.) When the future seems gloomy, think of the work of Ilya Prigogine, who said that a system open to new ideas & influences can reform itself in his Nobel-winning corollary to the second law of these |
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