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| Talk about primo & to the point! It was the alpanumeric license plate--London's first--issued December 1903 |
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| This New Kent County, Virginia woman was the public face of a 1780 campaign to raise money for troop supplies |
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| "Somewhere" this smooth transoceanic tune from Bobby Darin provided the title of a movie about his life |
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| A hemiparasite that makes food but steals water & nutrients, this plant is better known for Christmas kissing |
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| L.A. is this "of Angels"; the Shadowhunters live in Cassandra Clare's this "of Glass" |
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| Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go |
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| 2 inclined & opposed banks of 4 cylinders is this type of internal combustion engine |
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| Dolley Madison was a hero of this war for her actions during the burning of the White House |
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| "I'm On A Boat" smoothly paired T-Pain with this comedy musical trio |
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| In a chain of parasitism, the love vine feeds on galls, the tissue swellings made by these bee relatives, which feed on oak trees |
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| "The Asphalt" this is about the mean streets where a jewel heist is going down |
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| This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer" |
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| Suze Orman said never borrow against this retirement plan; you'll play double taxes on the money you borrow |
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| 1998 DNA tests showed Jefferson to be the likely dad of some of the kids of this woman |
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| "Come Sail Away" was a '70s top 10 hit from this band with a name out of Greek mythology |
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| With a smell like rotting meat, it's the largest flower in the world but has no other plant parts like roots or leaves. |
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| In this novel by Cormac McCarthy, a man finds $2 million in cash |
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| To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight |
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| The building site of the Millennium Dome, aka this alphanumeric arena, skirts the Prime Meridian along the Thames |
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| Though his wife was mentally ill & occasionally violent, this Virginia orator refused to institutionalize her |
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| "Sailing, takes me away" to this mellow singer who also did the best that he could do with "Arthur's Theme" |
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| Colorful flowers called these "paint brushes" steal nutrients from perennial grasses |
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| In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away" |
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| From the Chinese, it means to show excessive subservience |
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| This plastic explosive needs a shock to go boom; match-lit, it burns slowly, & was used by Vietnam soldiers as a cooking fire |
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| Julia, nee Stockton, bore 13 children with this best-known physician & second-best-known Benjamin of the Revolution |
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| Prior to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", this singer took a smooth trip around "Christian Island" |
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| Trifolium is the genus of this plant grown as livestock feed & sometimes damaged by the parasitic plant dodder |
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| This Jean Rhys novel is about the early life of the madwoman in the attic from "Jane Eyre" |
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| To spend time with the rich & famous |
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