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19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES |
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She won for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"& "The Golden Girls" & more recently for hosting "Saturday Night Live" |
Betty White
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This South American country contains 60% of the Amazon rainforest |
Brazil
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In an 1819 tale this character awakens from a 2-decade nap to find his wife has passed on |
Rip Van Winkle
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In 1762 she had herself proclaimed Empress of Russia |
Catherine the Great
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Yer pie hole, or the river's end flowing into the sea |
a mouth
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From November 2007 to May 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn served the IMF as this, M.D. for short |
managing director
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In 2015 she became the first African-American woman to win for Lead Actress in a Drama Series |
Viola Davis
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The 2 main varieties of rainforest are temperate & this other type, named for its location near the Equator |
(Warren: What is equatorial?)
tropical
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Eliza escapes on the Underground Railroad & her husband George Harris later joins her in this 1852 novel |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What goes around, comes around-- in 1541 this conqueror was murdered at his palace in Lima |
(Francisco) Pizarro
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A seasoning, or a term for an old sailor, matey |
salt
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M-D is manic depression, now called this disorder |
bipolar disorder
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Jill Soloway, who won for directing this Amazon series, thanked her own father, a transgender woman |
Transparent
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The densest areas of biodiversity are found in this high layer of rainforest formed by adjacent treetops |
the canopy
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In this author's "The Portrait of a Lady", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go... poorly |
Henry James
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After he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony, he founded the colony of Rhode Island |
Roger Williams
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A European plant of the mustard family, or a shy person who stays on the side at a dance |
a wallflower
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MD is short for Maryland, whose state seal features the motto & arms of this family |
(Lisa: Who is Lord Baltimore's family... of [*]?) (Alex: That's it, [*].)
the Calverts
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Nominated 7 times, Isabel Sanford won in 1981 for playing Weezy on this sitcom |
The Jeffersons
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Seen here is this rainforest primate that has another animal in its name |
a spider monkey
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Dorothea & Tertius each get married in this really long George Eliot "Study of Provincial Life"; things go... poorly |
Middlemarch
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He was born July 6, 1832 in Vienna and was executed June 19, 1867 in Mexico |
Maximilian
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A section of written work, or a voyage by water from one country to another |
a passage
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MD can stand for this disease, of which Duchenne is the most common childhood form |
muscular dystrophy
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2016 winner Tatiana Maslany said her multiple roles, looks & accents on this series are "a dream for any actor" |
Orphan Black
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You can visit a butterfly farm or zip line through the rainforests of Puntarenas in this Central American country |
Costa Rica
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Charles, a simple widower, marries Emma, this title Frenchwoman; things go... poorly |
Madame Bovary
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Rome's greatest orator, he was invited to join the triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus & Pompey but declined |
Cicero
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A martini-making accessory, or a member of a celibate religious group |
shaker
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For pianists, M.D. means use this |
the right hand
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