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THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING |
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"Open sesame" are the magic words that this man used to take gold from 40 thieves |
Ali Baba
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The pen name he used for "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was a wink to his unfinished doctorate |
Dr. Seuss
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East Pittsburgh, Nov. 2, 1920: Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium |
(Charlie: What is television?)
radio
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If you're this, you might be AWOL, mistaken or a few steps away from first |
off-base
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Black medic & Canada thistle are types of these invasive things, my lawn's mortal enemies, & I kill 'em on sight |
weeds
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Princess Toadstool is in trouble in this 1985 Nintendo game, yet her 2 rescuers are all about those gold coins |
(Charlie: Who are the Mario Brothers... [*]?) (Alex: Thank you.)
Super Mario Brothers
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NBA: Oklahoma City |
Thunder
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Margaret Mitchell was recovering from an ankle injury when she wrote this Pulitzer winner |
Gone With the Wind
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Philly, July 12, 1776: John Dickinson asks the Continental Congress, hey, did you read these Articles I sent you? |
the Articles of Confederation
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This hyphenated 4-word phrase describes something that starts & ends & starts & ends, like some relationships |
on-and-off-again
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I love to cruise in my Husqvarna TS 354X with armrests & hydrostatic transmission, it's one of these |
a riding lawnmower
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In a 1964 film Goldfinger wants to detonate a dirty bomb in the gold reserves at this locale, making his stash more valuable |
Fort Knox
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He drew from his own background when writing "The Prince of Tides" |
Pat Conroy
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1541, Lima: This conquistador is murdered at dinner in his palace |
Pizarro
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The Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street or the Actors Temple Theatre on West 47th, for example |
off-Broadway
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My lawn is a bit smaller than the 15-acre green space in New York's Central Park, known as this grazing animal's meadow |
Sheep Meadow
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In 1922 people in Kanab, Utah were convinced that the gold of this Aztec was in a mountain cave near their city...nope |
Montezuma
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In a story by this sci-fi master, "I Sing the Body Electric!" is the title of a pamphlet for a robot grandmother |
(Cathy: Who is Isaac Asimov?) (Charlie: Who is Robert Heinlein?)
Ray Bradbury
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London, 1854: Dr. John Snow identifies the Broad Street pump as the cause of an epidemic of this disease |
cholera
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The prayers & griping of college football fans were rewarded with this at the end of the 2014 season |
a playoff
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I plant the same tall fescue grass used in this directional lawn that hosts an annual Easter Egg Roll |
the South Lawn at the White House
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In an opera this dwarf makes a ring from the gold of the Rhine & enslaves the Nibelungen |
(Dan: Who is Rumpelstiltskin?)
Alberich
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AAC football: This colorful Tulane squad |
Green Wave
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"Miss Lonelyhearts" was one of his satiric novels of the 1930s |
(Nathanael) West
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1862, this Tokyo castle: Iemochi marries Princess Kazu in a shogun wedding |
Edo Castle
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9-letter word for zealously authoritative |
officious
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I keep an eye out for infections like this fungal one that sounds like you'd find it on iron, not grass |
rust
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