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This is the process of turning animal skins or hides into useful leather |
tanning
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Some of this singer's fans call themselves the "Sinead Brigade" |
Sinead O'Connor
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The first stone arch bridge with this name was begun over the Thames in 1176 & completed in 1209 |
London Bridge
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This cracked while tolling the 1835 death of Chief Justice John Marshall |
the Liberty Bell
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This ocean, the world's largest, represents 45.9% of the world's total ocean area |
the Pacific
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Sorcerer's helper (10) |
an apprentice
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These everyday items produce flame by the reaction between red phosphorus & potassium chlorate |
(Barbara: What are fireworks?) (Lynn: What are flares?)
matches
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In 1984, while her husband was vice president, she was named "Outstanding Mother of the Year" |
Barbara Bush
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A Juneau, Alaska fish hatchery, which has guided tours, hatches about 150 million of this fish's eggs each year |
salmon
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The 1st justice with a U.S. law degree was Benjamin Curtis, who earned it from this Mass. university in 1832 |
Harvard
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This is the world's best-selling book with about 2.5 billion copies sold between 1815 & 1975 |
the Bible
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Occasion for practical jokes (5,5,3) |
April Fool's Day
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This green coloring material of plants in soluble in alcohol or ether |
chlorophyll
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Nichelle Nichols called her 1994 memoir "Beyond" this "Star Trek" character |
Uhura
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You can enter this national park from Cody, Wyoming, Gardiner, Montana or 3 other entrances |
Yellowstone
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In 1945 Justice Robert H. Jackson went on leave to prosecute war criminals in this city |
Nuremburg
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At 2,133.76 gallons, the world's largest cocktail was one of these tequila concoctions |
a margarita
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Vermilion, the red pigment in Chinese lacquer painting, is a compound of this metal, Hg |
mercury
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In 1994 this princess' daughter Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones married artist Daniel Chatto |
Princess Margaret
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The Breakers Mansion in this Rhode Island resort city is open to the public from April to October |
Newport
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In Ex Parte Milligan, a case that grew out of this war, the Court limited the application of martial law |
(Lynn: What is the War of 1812?)
the Civil War
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The Jahre Viking, the world's largest ship, is this kind of ship |
(Lynn: What is a cruise ship?)
an oil tanker
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For bidding place (7) |
an auction
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This brown pigment of hair, skin & eyes is a polymer |
melanin
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In June 1994 Vanessa Williams replaced this leading lady in Broadway's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
Chita Rivera
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Tourist sites in this Syrian capital include Saladin's Tomb & the Mosque of Sultan Suleiman |
Damascus
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John Paul Stevens, who replaced William O. Douglas, was this president's only appointee |
Gerald Ford
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The world's widest waterfall is Khone Falls on this river in Laos |
the Mekong
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Anne Tyler's tourist (10) |
accidental
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