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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
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Ewe ought to know it belongs to the genus Ovis |
a sheep
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Best friends Eric McCormack & Debra Messing |
Will and Grace
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This is actually the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted--most of the signing was on August 2 |
July 4, 1776
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You "go off on" this geometric term if you digress suddenly |
a tangent
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It's where the footprint seen here was left. |
the moon
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Called the aviation equivalent of King Tut's tomb, a WWII fighter plane was discovered in 2012 in the sand of this largest desert |
the Sahara
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The stripes on the Grevy's species of this are narrower & closer together than on most other species |
a zebra
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2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge |
Beavis and Butthead
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One of the complaints spelled out in the declaration was "imposing" these "on us without our consent" |
taxes
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An oppressive ruler |
a tyrant
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Legend says his footprints & those of his blue ox, Babe, created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes |
Paul Bunyan
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He's the movie character sculpted in sand for the 2013 Weston Sand Sculpture Festival in England |
Yoda
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The prey of this wild dog of Australia includes kangaroos & wallabies |
a dingo
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Cop Billy Gardell & teacher Melissa McCarthy |
Mike and Molly
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The handwriting on the document is probably that of Timothy Matlack, clerk to the secretary of this legislative body |
the Continental Congress
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An object of little value, like a small piece of jewelry |
a trinket
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Now part of a memorial, their footprints are seen below |
the World Trade Center towers
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The Colorado national park called "Great Sand" these contains the tallest ones in North America |
dunes
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Europe's largest land mammal, the wisent, is also called this, like its American cousin |
a bison
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Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul |
Starsky and Hutch
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Born in Boston in 1722, this signer was 13 years older than his cousin who became president |
Samuel Adams
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To sully or tarnish |
to taint
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It's been defined as the amount of greenhouse gases released into the environment by a person or group |
a carbon footprint
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This rattlesnake gets its name from the way it moves across the sand |
a sidewinder
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Hmm, what's that musky smell? Why, it's this catlike mammal found in Africa & Asia |
a civet
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Lawyers Breckin Meyer & Mark-Paul Gosselaar |
Franklin and Bash
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Type of rights with which men are "endowed by their creator"; in the drafting, it changed from "in" to "un" |
(Julia: What are, um, innate--or, uh, unnate?)
unalienable
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British term for a merry-go-round; sounds like fair play |
a turnabout
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The sculpture seen here in Sanchi, India, represents his footprint |
the Buddha
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This Beach Boy had a sandbox built around his piano so he could feel the sand between his toes for inspiration |
Brian Wilson
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