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TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT |
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Electric boats are taking off like electric cars & 30 of these speed units is a common performance benchmark |
knots
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Beastly term for youthful, immature love, not just for your baby Keeshond |
puppy love
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A towering figure in 19th century engineering, this Frenchman was known as the "Magician of Iron" |
(Mayim: Yes, he built bridges as well as his very famous tower.)
Eiffel
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The 2 tablets of law that God gave to Moses were placed in this wooden, gold-plated chest but don't look at it, Marion! |
the Ark of the Covenant
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In one draft Tolkien had this character stab & kill Smaug, then nearly drown in the dragon's blood |
Bilbo Baggins
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In 1943 the USS Kidd became the first U.S. Navy ship permitted to fly this feared flag |
the Jolly Roger
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"Breaking Bad" |
New Mexico
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Bearing the name of the spiritual part of a person, this is your ideally suited one true love |
your soulmate
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Though also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse stealing & uh, brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in 1879 |
(Wyatt) Earp
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You can get a Skogsta dining table or Lommarp bookcase to build out of the box from this brand |
IKEA
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Here's "A Remembrance of Things Past" as first written--literally--by this man |
Proust
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In 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years |
(Jonathan: Uh, what is a rum runner?)
a clipper
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"King of the Hill", I tell you what |
Texas
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From the Middle English for "faint", it means to faint from feelings of love |
swoon
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A crater on Mars is named for this 11th century Norse explorer of North America |
Erikson
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18th century craftsmen got elaborate & whimsical with these boxes, named for the scented powdered tobacco they held |
snuff boxes
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In his 1917 poem "Dulce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen tried several verbs about being stricken by this: gargling, gurgling, goggling |
mustard gas
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The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did |
(Jack: What is the Bounty?)
the Caine
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"The Golden Girls" |
Florida
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Literally meaning not paid back, this adjective is used for love for someone who doesn't love you in return |
unrequited
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A World War II vet, this slain NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was buried with full military honors at Arlington |
Medgar Evers
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"America's Original Butcher", this co. that can send you beef in a box was founded by Latvian immigrants in Nebraska |
Omaha Steaks
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Elvira Entwhistle was renamed Veruca Salt by this writer who, thankfully, also went with Mike Teavee over Herpes Trout |
(Roald) Dahl
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The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river |
the Ohio
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2 people who seem perfect for each other are likened to this type of Empyrean pairing |
a match made in heaven
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Seen here are two "E"-males who helped create the motion picture--Edison & this man who made the film he used |
(Mayim: [*] of [*] Kodak.)
George Eastman
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In 2000 Al Gore said he wanted to put this government program in a "lockbox", as it then had a surplus of $150 billion |
Social Security
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Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft |
Lord of the Flies
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