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Tiny blood vessels; also, tiny channels that carry bile |
capillaries
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This 1990 11-hour Ken Burns documentary made good use of photos & writings of soldiers |
The Civil War
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To this first name belong the spoils |
Victor
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The Annapolis Convention met in 1786 & concluded that the document called these Articles wasn't going to cut it |
the Articles of Confederation
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Yudansha is a term used to describe students who have acquired this rank in karate |
a black belt
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One of the first books in English, this chivalric work by Thomas Malory has a French title |
Le Morte d'Arthur
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Orbicularis oculi palpebral muscles close this piece of tissue, palpebra in medical speak |
an eyelid
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Sort of "Top Gun" meets "Law & Order", this 1995-2005 show mixed legal, military & personal stories |
J.A.G.
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In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather |
The Farmer's Almanac
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This rank in British peerage below a marquis & above a viscount is also a first name |
earl
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The socially alienated Meursault is the title character of this Camus novel |
The Stranger
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4 women & 1 man share the common bond of loving someone in the military on this Lifetime series |
Army Wives
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Where to harbor your yacht |
marina
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It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product |
whale oil
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It was the highest military rank held by both Erwin Rommel & Bernard Montgomery |
field marshal
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In 2014 a friend said, I found your lost-since-the-50s novel "Go Set the Watchman"; age 88, she said, "It's Go Set a Watchman" |
Harper Lee
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The endometrium is the tissue that lines this organ |
(Alex: Bring out the Sean Connery in you. Come on.) (Robert: [Imitating Sean Connery] I'll, uh, I'll wager $6,000, Trebek.) ... (Alex: No. Valerie is smiling because she knows it's [*].)
the uterus
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The Vietnam War was seen through the eyes of nurses near the front lines on this Dana Delany show |
China Beach
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Tom Canty, at the start of a Twain novel |
(Valerie: [Whispers] Shoot... What is... prince?) (Alex: Ooh, you picked the wrong one.)
pauper
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In the 1780s this "Gouverneur" proposed the decimal monetary system & devised the name "cent" for the basic coin |
Gouverneur Morris
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In Eastern Orthodoxy an exarch, ranked below a patriarch, is the equivalent of this Catholic rank |
bishop
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Liam O'Flaherty wrote this novel whose title refers to one who tells the authorities about a comrade |
(Greg: What is The Informant?)
The Informer
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This gland's main duct, the duct of Wirsung, collects its juices & empties into the duodenum |
(Robert: What is the... gallbladder?) ... (Alex: Robert, you're going in the wrong direction.)
the pancreas
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Surprise! surprise! surprise! "Opie Joins the Marine Corps" was an episode of this classic sitcom |
(Valerie: What is The Andy Griffith Show?)
Gomer Pyle
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Destiny, Turkish style |
kismet
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Built as a NYC home early in the century, it later became a tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers |
Fraunces Tavern
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Not sure if they were nattering, but one of these was a provincial governor in the old Mogul Empire |
a nabob
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This 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel gets its nocturnal title from John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" |
Tender is the Night
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