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Philadelphia building nicknamed "the Birthplace of Liberty" |
Independence Hall
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Blinded at age 3, he not only invented a system of writing for the blind but a way to print it too |
(Louis) Braille
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In Mexico kids take a whack at cracking open these, candy-filled papier-mache figures |
a piƱata
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On Shab-e-Barat, followers of this religion pray to Allah to give them a good year |
Islam
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His apartment & office are preserved in the Senate building & he's preserved just outside the Kremlin |
Lenin
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He was the host of TV's "Music Bingo" but you might know him better as our announcer |
(David: Uh, [*]. Who is [*]?)
Johnny Gilbert
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John Gunther called this river "the Nile of the Western Hemisphere" |
the Mississippi
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J.E. Brandenberger invented this transparent packing material before World War I |
cellophane
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Two bowls of this didn't appease Goldilocks; one was too hot, one was too cold |
porridge
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Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost, celebrates the giving of this on Mount Sinai |
(Alex: I would caution you, though, David, to wait until I call on your name because you may not be the first one to have rung in.)
the Ten Commandments
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Imperial eagles used to top the towers but they were replaced by these big red symbols |
stars
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This heavyweight boxer was the last champion to fight in the bare-knuckle style |
John (L.) Sullivan
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Kingdom Come State Park in this Bluegrass state was named for a novel by John Fox |
Kentucky
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Thomas Newcomen invented a version of this over 60 years before James Watt |
the steam engine
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Cub Scouts could tell you it's an acronym for "we'll be loyal scouts" |
Webelos
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In Latin America, Dia de la Cruz celebrates the day on which St. Helena is said to have found this |
the fragments of the true cross
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Though its name sounds like it should hold only guns, it stores Faberge eggs & royal regalia too |
(David: What is the Arsenal?) (Jill: What is the Hermitage?)
the Armory
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Dinah Shore & Eddie Fisher are among the celebrities who made their TV debuts on his variety show |
Ed Sullivan
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This space center shares Merit Island on Florida's Banana River with a national wildlife refuge |
(David: What is Cape Canaveral?) (Willa: What's Cape Kennedy?)
the John F. Kennedy Space Center
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Nikola Tesla invented a transformer for this type of electrical current that he favored |
alternating current
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This game, also called jackstraws, is mentioned in they rhyme, "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" |
pick-up sticks
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The festival of Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment & death of this religious leader |
the Buddha
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The Kremlin was home to the czars until this leader put an end to that by moving the capital |
(David: Uh, who is... Lenin?)
Peter the Great
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Of his hundreds of portraits, the most famous is an unfinished head of George Washington |
Gilbert Stuart
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It's the easternmost of the Aloha State's 8 main islands |
Hawaii (the Big Island)
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William Oughtred invented this calculating device, now largely replaced by electronic calculators |
(Jill: What is the adding machine?) ... (Alex: Some of us remember using them in school.)
the slide rule
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Time called this Nintendo handheld video device 1989's hottest toy |
the Game Boy
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This church festival on August 15th celebrates the Virgin Mary's ascent into heaven |
(David: What is Ascension Day?)
the Assumption
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This 25-member group meets once a week in the Council of Ministers building |
Politburo
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On a 1984 shuttle mission she became the first American woman to walk in space |
Kathryn D. Sullivan
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