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VEGGIES' SCIENTIFIC NAMES |
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He stopped at Gomera in the Canaries for nearly a month, then headed for the New World on Sept. 6, 1492 |
Columbus
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Elijah Blue Allman is her son |
Cher
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& in this corner, standing "six cubits and a span", from Gath & I Samuel 17, "The Philistine Fist" ...him! |
Goliath
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Allium cepa, & stop that crying right now! |
onion
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This Johnny Cash song begins, "Love is a burning thing" |
"Ring Of Fire"
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Its classic ads instructed, "Don't leave home without it" |
American Express
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His 1872 book was titled "How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa" |
Stanley
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The U.S. Army's blue uniforms were first replaced with khaki & then this color, abbreviated O.D. |
olive drab
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Before killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, he set 300 foxes' tails afire; does PETA know about this? |
Samson
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Solanum tuberosum, we dig 'em! |
potato
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She helped Johnny kick his drug habit & converted him to fundamentalist Christianity; they married in 1968 |
June Carter Cash
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"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's" this |
MasterCard
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On May 11, 1848 Johannes Rebmann became the first European to see this snow-clad mountain on the Equator |
Kilimanjaro
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It's the Illinois university whose sports teams are nicknamed the Blue Demons |
DePaul
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This shepherd buys the farm in Genesis 4:8 |
Abel
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Lactuca sativa, it's also a slang term for paper money |
(Alex: Minute to go now, Mark.)
lettuce
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No flamboyant, rhinestone-studded outfits for Johnny Cash, whose usual stage wear earned him this nickname |
"The Man in Black"
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"It pays to" use this credit card that has a Cashback Bonus award |
Discover
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In 1919 this British officer lost the manuscript for his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", so he rewrote it from memory |
Lawrence
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Virginia's Blue Law of the 1620s said that if you missed church on Sunday the penalty was a pound of this |
(Mark: What is salt?)
tobacco
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"Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" he asks in chapter 7 of his book |
(Mark: Who is Isaiah?) ... (Alex: Lots of lamentations.)
Job
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Brassica oleracea italica, it was once "banished" from the White House kitchen |
broccoli
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In a 1956 song Johnny had the "Blues" for this title place; he recorded a live album there in 1968 |
Folsom Prison
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This credit card says that "it's everywhere you want to be" |
Visa
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On April 17, 1524 he became the first European to sight New York Harbor; 440 years later a bridge named for him opened there |
Verrazano
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In part because of the popularity of sushi & sashimi, this variety of tuna can sell for $50 a pound |
bluefin
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In I Kings 2, this man sat "upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly" |
Solomon
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Raphanus sativa, its giant white variety is known as a daikon in Japan |
(Mark: What is cauliflower?)
radish
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Johnny wowed the MTV crowd with his stark cover of "Hurt", originally by this Trent Reznor band |
Nine Inch Nails
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A forgotten wallet led to the creation of this charge card, whose logo is seen here |
Diner's Club
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