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The "Fifty Shades" movement goes on with Maya Banks' "Burn", in which the dominant is named Ash & Josie is this counterpart |
submissive
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A staircase casts the shadow of the world's largest sundial at this country's Jaipur Observatory |
India
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1977: "More Than A Woman" & "You Should Be Dancing" |
Saturday Night Fever
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In computer marketing, "above the fold" refers to the part of a web page seen without doing this |
(Arthur: What is clicking?)
scrolling (down)
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In 1988 Lakers coach Pat Riley trademarked this term denoting a trio of consecutive title wins |
a three-peat
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A stool; a nursery rhyme miss sat on one |
a tuffet
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Full of greed, ego & backstabbing, this is the town covered in Mark Leibovich's "This Town" |
Washington, D.C.
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The twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory on this dormant Hawaiian volcano are each 8 stories tall |
Mauna Kea
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2007: "Good Morning Baltimore" & "Welcome To The '60s" |
[Myfanwy laughs.] (Alex: Yeah, Padraic's upset that he didn't get in first on that one.)
Hairspray
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Typically, full banner ads measure 468 of these wide, 60 tall |
pixels
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Fort Riley is named for General Bennett Riley, who led the first military escort along this trail to New Mexico |
the Santa Fe Trail
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Surface seen here |
a tarmac
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Take a large swallow, as you may do with some of Mary Roach's digestive tract descriptions in her book of this title |
Gulp
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The University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory has the world's largest telescope of this type with a convex lens, not a mirror |
refracting
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1984 & 2011: "Almost Paradise" & "Let's Hear It For The Boy" |
Footloose
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Forcing users to do a certain Facebook action before getting more product info is called this "-gating" |
like
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The thrill isn't gone for this blues great born with the first name Riley in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925 |
B.B. King
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Fishing gear |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go, you're right.)
tackle
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Her book "My Story" suggests that her Mormon faith helped her through her 9-month kidnap ordeal |
Elizabeth Smart
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Kitt Peak National Observatory, on land of the Tohono O'odham tribe in this state, operates 22 optical telescopes |
(Padraic: What is Nevada?)
Arizona
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1956: "I Whistle A Happy Tune" & "Shall We Dance?" |
The King and I
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One online ad payment model is PPS, pay per sale; PPC stands for "pay per" this, meaning only a view is needed |
click
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In 1878 pioneering bug scholar Charles Riley was appointed chief entomologist of this Cabinet department |
Agriculture
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From the Greek for "wound", it's a shock to the body |
trauma
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The nonfiction book about these title men tells how art historians & museum curators saved art from Nazi looting |
(Arthur: Who are--the resistance?)
the Monuments Men
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Since 1999 a green laser has been beamed into the sky from this observatory to mark the prime meridian |
Greenwich
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1944: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" & "The Boy Next Door" |
Meet Me in St. Louis
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There's nobody like you--you're this type of "visitor" counted only once even if you visit a website 10 times |
a unique
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This "Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin" |
James Whitcomb Riley
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As a noun, it's the reeds or palm fronds that cover a roof; as a verb, it's the act of covering the roof |
thatch
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