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Clara was a caregiver, with the Red Cross she found fame / aided at the Johnstown flood, this was Clara's last name |
Barton
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This process used in energy production is short for hydraulic fracturing |
fracking
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One night in 1927, a DJ in this city said he's been playing grand opera & now was switching to the Grand Old Opry |
Nashville
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Union & league are the 2 main types of this rough-&-tumble sport that began in England |
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
rugby
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Corsica & this island just a few miles south together formed a province of the ancient Roman Empire |
Sardinia
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Emily was a poet, Massachusetts born & bred / wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", lived in this town 'til she was dead |
(Dave: Who is Emily Dickinson?)
Amherst
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Stephen Fry tweeted, "Books are no more threatened by " this Amazon device "than stairs by elevators" |
Kindle
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In 1991 a New Mexico radio station owner boosted ratings by playing this Led Zeppelin song for 24 hours straight |
"Stairway To Heaven"
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In the title of Joseph Campbell's study of world mythology, "The Hero" has this many faces |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a thousand
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It's a follow-up election to resolve an earlier one that did not produce a winner |
runoff
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Corsican mint is used to flavor this sweet green liqueur with a 3-word French name |
creme de menthe
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Aretha was "The Queen of Soul", & as such, could do no wrong / in '67 she spelled it out, hit No. 1 with this great song |
"Respect"
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In 1959 the USPS tried sending mail via a cruise type of this--it never took off as a delivery method |
a missile
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SiriusXM's radio classics channel airs such favorites as "Hopalong Cassidy" & "Fibber McGee &" her |
Fibber McGee and Molly
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A bestseller long after Zora Neale Hurston's death, "Barracoon" is about the last one of these ships to reach America |
slave ships
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A popular syncopated ballroom style based on an Afro-Cuban folk dance |
the rumba
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"V" is for this type of traditional family revenge practiced in Corsica despite efforts to suppress it |
vendetta
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Coco was a French designer, dabbled in perfume for fun / got her business set for life with this No. in '21 |
Chanel No. 5
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The Argand burner, which ran on oil, revolutionized the lighting of these, like the one at Cape Hatteras |
a lighthouse
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Radio's first quiz show is claimed by the public radio station with these call letters that contain the Big Apple's initials |
WNYC
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"The Great" this 9-letter word is the story of the 1918 pandemic that killed as many as 50 million |
influenza
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This viral disease is AKA German measles |
rubella
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In 1769, a year after Genoa ceded Corsica to France, Carlo & Letizia welcomed the birth of this son |
Napoleon
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Margaret this was out of Philly, she's an anthropologist / wrote of teens so far away, I chose her to end this list |
(Margaret) Mead
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Berlin's Magnetbahn used this technology to move its trains |
maglev
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If DJ & war movie subject Adrian Cronauer was late to the studio, he'd drag out "Gooood" in this phrase as he frantically set up |
"Good morning, Vietnam"
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A Hulu miniseries of the same name was based on this Lawrence Wright book subtitled "Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" |
The Looming Tower
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From the Latin for "chewing", it' an animal with a multi-chambered stomach |
a ruminant
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Gee, Corsica has a lot of these cute little caves--19th century poet-traveler Edward Lear said, "We have seen so many" |
grottoes
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