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(I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) |
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In chemistry, a base is a substance that turns red vegetable dyes this color |
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Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) |
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Built in the early 18th century as the mission of San Antonio de Valero in Texas, it made headlines in 1836 |
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The Schuylkill River in this city was an important subject for Thomas Eakins, as seen here |
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A prison for serious offenders |
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(Hi, I'm Jane Curtin.) I loved "World's Fair", a 1985 autobiographical novel by this author whose initials stand for Edgar Lawrence |
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A home run with the bases loaded |
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This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742 |
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Canova's statue "Daedalus And" this doomed son looked so real, he was accused of making casts of live models |
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This philosophical attitude was associated with Jaspers & Sartre |
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(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My favorite story is this author's "The Death Of Ivan Ilyich", about a man who only starts to understand what his life is about as he's dying |
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If you're trying to accomplish this feat, know that South Base Camp is in Nepal & North Base Camp is in Tibet |
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On a TLC reality series: 4-foot-tall Matt Roloff |
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Permanent cultivation of this food in the Colonies began in the largely Irish area of Derry, New Hampshire in 1719 |
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It took him to make a masterpiece in 1662 out of "The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild" |
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A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality |
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(Hi, I'm David Duchovny.) I love Fitzgerald; Hank Moody, the novelist I play, is partial to this Prague-born writer who illustrated man's alienation in society |
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Each rung on the DNA double helix represents one of these, such as A-T |
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Reverend Eric Camden (played by Stephen Collins) |
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In 1677 he drafted the first charter guaranteeing separation of church & state in the Quaker Colony of West New Jersey |
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(Hi, I'm Aisha Tyler.) One of my favorites is "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" by this novelist who's also the founder of quirky publisher McSweeney's |
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Found in a British Harry Potter title, this stone was sought by alchemists to turn base metals into precious ones |
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On ABC, Larry Bird, an alien from the planet Zabvron |
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In July 1759, when the British took from the French a crucial New York fort, the headline could have read, this "falls" |
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Merritt is his daughter, hence "Evening at Merritt's Cottage" by this beloved artist who died in 2012 |
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