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This element, Mg, can be used in underwater flares because it can pull oxygen from the water when combusting |
magnesium
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While on a long vacation, you may experience nostomania, the strong desire to do this |
go home
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If he'd used his full birth name, he'd have released "The Marshall Bruce Mathers III LP" |
Eminem
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It begins, "How it happened that Maestro Cherry, Carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept & laughed like a child" |
(The Adventures of) Pinocchio
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The II & last czar of this name was born near St. Petersburg in 1868 |
Nicholas
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The Watergate break-in: June 17 of this election year |
1972
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At sea level at this temperature Fahrenheit, the volume of water expands about 1,700 times into steam |
212
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Typically without need or profit, it's the recurrent impulse to steal |
kleptomania
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Benjamin Montmorency Tench III goes by Benmont as keyboardist in this band backing up Tom Petty |
The Heartbreakers
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He calls himself a "Giant of the Senate" in his memoir detailing his unlikely turn from comedian to politician |
Al Franken
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Soviet foreign minister Molotov was famous for heavy use of this 1-syllable Russian word |
nyet
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The 1929 massacre of 7 of Bugs Moran's guys: this day |
Valentine's Day
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A halocline occurs when fresh water sits on top of salt water, the separation caused by the difference in this |
specific gravity (or density)
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This abnormal interest in fire can be dangerous & destructive |
pyromania
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Edward Louis Severson III, seen here, is better known as this impassioned singer |
Eddie Vedder
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This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice |
Who Moved My Cheese?
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After a 1955 novel brought him wealth, he lived in an elegant Swiss hotel |
(Vladimir) Nabokov
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The Black Dahlia murder: this decade |
(Hilary: What is the 1930s?) ... (Alex: It happened in '47.)
the 1940s
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The zebra type of this mollusk is so successful at filtering the Great Lakes, water clarity is causing algae blooms |
a mussel
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Similar to TV detective Monk, you have a compulsive desire to do this if you have arithmomania |
count objects
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"The Man" singer Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III goes by this name that contains Aloe for smoothness |
Aloe Blacc
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"The Encircling Sea" is a chapter in her nonfiction book "The Sea Around Us" |
Rachel Carson
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He leapt to fame at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1907 |
Nijinsky
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The Gardner Museum heist: this day in 1990,as Boston was sleeping off St. Paddy's Day |
March 18
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The lake in the center of the Kawah Ijen this in Indonesia has a pH of less than 1 |
a volcano
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Pontius Pilate probably had ablutomania, an obsessive need to do this |
(Marcus: What is wash? ...What is [*]?)
wash hands
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In 1973 singer Loudon Wainwright III didn't name his son Loudon IV but this |
Rufus
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Kind of like a Swedish Forrest Gump is the novel called "The 100-Year-Old Man" who did this "& Disappeared" |
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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It follows "Nizhny" in the name of the Russian city formerly known as Gorky |
Novgorod
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Jack the Ripper's ripping: this decade |
(Caity: What are the 1850s?)
the 1880s
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