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Kansas became the 34th U.S. state in this year that also saw the beginning of a war |
1861
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In Mark 1 he says, "There cometh one mightier than I after me" |
John the Baptist
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Orwell's estate nixed a David Bowie musical based on this novel, but a song with the title made it onto "Diamond Dogs" |
1984
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No, not for anything, "not for all" this "in China" |
tea
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In 1978 Ben Abruzzo & 2 companions made the first transatlantic flight in one of these full of gas, not hot air |
a balloon
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Boston residents peeved at this ship's twice-a-day cannon blasts should know it's been going on for over 200 years |
the Constitution
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Kansas voters decide every 6 years whether to retain the members of this body; in 2016 all 5 survived a challenge |
the state supreme court
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Fittingly, in the King James version the New Testament ends with this 4-letter word |
amen
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This title of a 2014 Taylor Swift album is also the year of her birth |
1989
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In a Kipling poem this line precedes" and never the twain shall meet" |
East is East and West is West
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Ben Rich used the security alias Ben Dover when he helped design the F-117 Nighthawk, the first of these hard-to-spot craft |
stealth craft
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First a gavel, then a gong, now one of these is sounded each day at 4 P.M. to close trading at 11 Wall Street |
(Alex: The New York Stock Exchange.)
a bell
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Last name of 1930s governor Alf; in 1978 Kansans made his daughter Nancy their first female U.S. senator |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Landon
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Isaiah 1:10 tells these 2 cities to "hear the word of the Lord"; they didn't |
Sodom and Gomorrah
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This Prince album was released October 27, 1982 |
1999
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The Viggo Mortensen movie title "Eastern" these echoes a U.K. candy slogan |
promises
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This Ben, no longer head of the Fed, became an advisor to investment management firm Pimco |
Ben Bernanke
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For years the third U.S. infantry has been doing this ritual "every hour on the hour" at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
the changing of the guard
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In Romans 1 Paul says "I am debtor both to" the barbarians & these people from whom "barbarians" derives |
(Larissa: I have no idea. Who are the Barbers?)
the Greeks
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"No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones", sang The Clash in the song titled this year of Elvis' passing |
1977
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It precedes "Thai" in the name of the sport also known as kickboxing |
Muay
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Ben Shahn rose to fame in the 1930s with a series of paintings based on the trial of these two Italian-American anarchists |
Sacco and Vanzetti
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Reveille is played every morning at 6:30 A.M. at Fort Leonard Wood; this other "re" is sounded at 5 P.M. |
retreat
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Appropriately, "she weepeth sore in the night" & "the ways of Zion do mourn" are in this Old Testament book |
Lamentations
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"Oh What A Night" The Four Seasons had in late December of this title year |
1963
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"Orient' is from the Latin for "rising sun"; French for "rise" gave us this word for the area east of the Mediterranean |
the Levant
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In 1598 this dramatist killed an actor in a duel, no doubt putting him out of his humour |
(Gavin: Who is Marlowe?)
Ben Jonson
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Soldiers face off every day in an energetic and patriotic ritual at the Wagah border between these two countries |
India and Pakistan
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