STATE AMPHIBIANS & REPTILES |
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Almost hunted to extinction but now upgraded to threatened, the alligator became its state reptile in 1987 |
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He tipped his scale in 1848, setting absolute zero at a brisk -460 degrees Fahrenheit |
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Paul Lynde voiced Templeton the rat in this 1973 animated film based on an E.B. White book |
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More than half of the 400,000 people in this city lost their homes shortly after an event on April 18, 1906 |
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Generally, prisons are run by the state or feds & hold felons; these are local lockups for misdemeanants |
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Tender plants & flowers are cultivated in one |
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The resolution making this largest North American frog Oklahoma's state amphibian says it makes a "jug-o-rum" sound |
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This Russian physiologist went to the dogs & termed salivation the "unconditioned reflex" |
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This 1993 film set during WWII was nominated for 12 Oscars |
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One who supported George III against the American revolutionaries was called this; get the tar & feathers |
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This service lets you "rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries" |
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Proverbial food item you want no part of & get rid of quickly |
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New Hampshire elevated the red-spotted newt to publicize its declining numbers due to this type of precipitation |
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The dad of this physicist was professor of physiology at the U. of Copenhagen & his bro, a big-time mathematician |
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A failed hit on Irish crime boss Albert Finney leads to an all-out mob war in this 1990 Coen Brothers film |
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It's the old gag of putting a lighted match in someone's shoe |
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Shh... What was that? The timber species of this snake, West Virginia's state reptile |
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It's a chemist, Charlie Brown! In 1931 this American published his classic text "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" |
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"Hired killers by day... lovers by night. Until they found their next assignment was each other" was this film's tagline |
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On Dec. 2, 1954 this Wisconsin man was condemned in a 67-22 vote for conduct "contrary to Senate traditions" |
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Around 1900 the organization Volunteers of America pioneered these houses for those leaving incarceration |
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If you've done this fabric "to" someone, you've come to gradually like him |
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This turtle, the state reptile of New York, is said to have "jaws that can cut through flesh like butter" |
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From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission |
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15 is middle-aged in this 1976 Michael York sci-fi flick; folks turning 30 don't turn 31 |
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On Jan. 22, 1944 the U.S. Fifth Army charged ashore at this Italian town, taking the Axis by surprise |
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Mi amigo, some hotels in Mexico & the Southwest offer these comfy cottages, Spanish for "little houses" |
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This hilly region in the Midlands is one of the most peaceful & picturesque areas of England |
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