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In part for his "virility of ideas", this "Jungle Book" author was the first Brit to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
Kipling
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This movie & TV show rental .com claims "more than 27 million members in the United States and Canada" |
Netflix
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Elevators are a common trigger for this fear |
(Jerald: What is acrophobia?)
claustrophobia
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I may be nostalgic, but I still love the work of this man, such as Pride Of Parenthood |
Norman Rockwell
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The Rolling Stones: "Paint It, _____" |
Black
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The USA's oldest mental hospital was established in 1773, convenient to the college of William & Mary in this state |
Virginia
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The press called Rev. W. Awdry "the Puff Puff Parson" after the success of his children's books about this train car |
(Mark: What is The Little Engine That Could?)
Thomas The Tank Engine
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This Salt Lake City-based online retailer features Mobile O, Club O Rewards & O.biz |
Overstock.com
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It's the type of surveillance used to take the photo seen here of Cuba |
reconnaissance
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Allen Dulles, John Foster's brother, was the first civilian director of this agency from 1953 to 1961 |
the CIA
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Psychedelic Furs: "Pretty In _____" |
Pink
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From Broadmoor Asylum, after killing a man, William Minor sent thousands of citations to this British dictionary |
the OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
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This military man lost the "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" manuscript in a train station |
T.E. Lawrence
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Founder Jeff Bezos wanted to call it Cadabra, but when a lawyer misheard it as "cadaver", went with this instead |
Amazon(.com)
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Adverb used before "speaking" when you're talking about a possible future situation |
hypothetically
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In 1853 he won $2 at an Illinois fair for the "best center draft plow" |
John Deere
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Grandmaster Flash & Mellie Mel: "_____ Lines (Don't Do It)" |
White
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This film with Leonardo DiCaprio seeking a patient was filmed at Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts |
(John: What is The Island?)
Shutter Island
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Titles about angst in sports include Handke's "The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick" & Alan Sillitoe's "The Loneliness Of" him |
The Long Distance Runner
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Nick Swinmurn founded this .com in '99 after an unsuccessful trip to the mall for some shoes |
Zappos
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Here's Faust, with this fellow in red, who's one heck of a bargainer |
Mephistopheles
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His life & music inspired the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" |
(George M.) Cohan
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This David Bowie title comes between "Barefoot" & "Night" in a Jake Owen No. 1 country hit |
Blue Jean
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This Marquis was locked up at Charenton near Paris, where the play usually called "Marat"/him is set |
(John: Who is Lafayette?)
de Sade
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"Black Beauty", written toward the end of her life, was her only novel |
(Mark: Who is Anne Sewell?) ... (Alex: And Mark realizes now that he changed her name. It's [*]--not Anne.)
Anna Sewell
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This matchmaking site says there are "29 key areas that help develop a great long-term relationship"; music to our ears! |
eHarmony
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Statements you know to be false, put out in order to influence others' behavior |
(Alex: And that 14-letter word is [*].)
disinformation
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As well as writing her own poems like "The New Colossus", she also translated the works of other Jewish poets |
(Emma) Lazarus
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On "Sesame Street" Elvis Costello redid this song as "A Monster Went & Ate My Red 2" |
"The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes"
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Composer Bedrich Smetana died in an asylum in this world capital |
Prague
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