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The Clash: "____ Calling" |
London
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An important climate component is the amount of water vapor in the air, or atmospheric this |
humidity
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Yale University Library classifies books in excess of 27 cm in height or 19 cm in width as this big "O" |
(Jacqueline: What is octavo?)
oversized
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The year he turned 32, William Blake published "Songs of" this; by 37 he "lost" his & made "Songs of Experience" |
Innocence
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Thai on his mom's side, he shot a 48 for 9 holes... at age 3! 12 years later, he was U.S. Jr. Amateur champ |
Tiger Woods
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In 1291 Acre, the last major Holy Land castle held by this group, fell to the Mamelukes |
the Crusaders
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Simon & Garfunkel: "Are you going to ____ Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme" |
Scarborough
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The length of the day affects a region's climate; at this latitude, days are always a nice even 12 hours |
0
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When it comes before "esque", this outdoorsman's name means fantastically large |
Paul Bunyan
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While writing "Tropic of Cancer" in Paris, he served as a proofreader for the French edition of the Chicago Tribune |
(Henry) Miller
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Jerry Yang put an exclamation point on co-founding this web directory in 1994; these days, Jerry's worth about $2.2 billion |
Yahoo!
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The last czar of Russia abdicated in this year |
1917
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George Strait: "All My Ex's Live In ____" |
Texas
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Webster says this word may be an "alteration of huge + monstrous" |
humongous
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Of the reaction to this novel, Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" |
The Jungle
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The son of immigrants from India, this state governor got an Ivy League education at Brown University |
Bobby Jindal
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In this year, FDR started his third term |
1941
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Ian Hunter: "____ Rocks" |
Cleveland
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From the Greek, it's a much larger than life-size statue, such as an Ancient Wonder |
a colossus
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O, by the way, Willa Cather took the title of this 1913 novel from a Walt Whitman poem |
O Pioneers!
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This son of Chinese parents made his Carnegie Hall debut before his 17th birthday |
Yo-Yo Ma
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In 1828 he declared himself dictator of Gran Colombia, a region he had freed from Spanish rule |
Simón Bolívar
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Bob Dylan: "Stuck Inside Of ____ With The ____ Blues Again" (2 different cities, please) |
Mobile & Memphis
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This synonym for "gigantic" was in use more than 200 years before a 1912 event put a new spin on it |
titanic
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Perhaps it was "An American Tragedy" that there was a ban on this author's semi-autobiographical "The 'Genius'" |
(Eric: Who is Dreier?)
(Theodore) Dreiser
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His resume includes first Asian-American 4-star general, Army Chief of Staff & Veterans Affairs Secretary |
(Eric) Shinseki
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On Oct. 14, 1066 this son of Godwine lost the Battle of Hastings |
Harold II
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