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Mark Twain composed on a Remington one of these, rarely seen around the office anymore |
a typewriter
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Vengeful repayment |
retribution
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Carson, the butler on this TV show, said, "Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans... they will not beat us" |
Downton Abbey
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To make trivial distinctions is to do this to "hairs" |
split
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Richard Steele once wrote, "A woman seldom writes her mind but in her" this, abbreviated P.S. |
postscript
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The authorities are so proud of the Krasnoyarsk Dam in this country that it's featured on the 10-ruble bill |
Russia
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He's the character in "Gone with the Wind" whose world is truly gone with the wind: "winnowed out", as Rhett says |
Ashley Wilkes
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This adjective coined in the 20th century means exemplifying an earlier time's styles |
retro
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On TV 6'9" Ted Cassidy played this "Addams Family" butler |
Lurch
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The discontinuity named for Andrija Mohorovicic, a seismologist, is where Earth's crust ends & this layer below starts |
mantle
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P.J. O'Rourke said this -ism was "the result of... women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex" |
feminism
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When the reservoir behind Switzerland's Verzasca Dam was filled in 1965, tremors were felt in these mtns. |
the Alps
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In the late 1970s Philips introduced this home video disc that, alas, couldn't record |
LaserDisc
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Prudential's "Day One Stories" are about the first day of this--get out the fishing pole |
retirement
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"Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film |
(Alex: Played by Michael Caine, [*].)
Alfred
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A break in a friendship, or a tear in an organ, often the appendix |
rupture
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"The female of the species is more deadly than the male", wrote this Bombay-born British poet |
Kipling
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Name in common to a "low" dam (completed in 1902) & a "high" dam (1970) built to control the Nile's annual floods |
Aswan
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Akin to a manatee, the Steller's sea this reached 30 feet & 20,000 lbs.; it was extinct within 30 years of its 1741 discovery |
cow
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Having a netlike appearance; you may have heard of the python |
reticulated
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The name of this butler to Frank-N-Furter in "Rocky Horror" sounds like he's one of the lowest class of people |
Riff-Raff
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Failed chromosomal disjunction can lead to trisomy 21, aka this syndrome causing cognitive issues |
Down syndrome
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In 1888 this German philosopher wrote, "Woman was God's second mistake" |
Nietzsche
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Originally named the Karababa, a dam on the Upper Euphrates was renamed this to honor the founder of modern Turkey |
Kemal Atatürk
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This liberal radio network with the name of a Mel Gibson-Robert Downey Jr. film lasted from 2004 to 2010 |
Air America
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A body of retainers who wait upon someone important |
a retinue
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"The Third" incarnation of this "colorful snake" finds Rowan Atkinson playing butler to Prince George |
Blackadder
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In geometry, it's any line that cuts an angle into 2 equal parts |
(Jennifer: What is... diameter?)
bisector
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This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "can't live with them, or without them!" |
(Jermaine: Who is Sophocles?)
Aristophanes
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Woody Guthrie wrote the song "Roll On Columbia" in praise of this "Grand" dam |
the Grand Coulee
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