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    | The major settlement of New Netherland was New Amsterdam on this island | Manhattan 
 
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    | Every year this greeting card company produces 19,000 card designs in 20 languages | Hallmark 
 
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    | This cubist's "Bull's Head" sculpture was made from a bicycle seat & handlebars | Pablo Picasso 
 
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    | This long-haired country music "outlaw" was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993 | Willie Nelson 
 
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    | Marbles made of this mineral are popularly called aggies | agate 
 
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    | With the proceeds from "Animal Farm" he bought a home on the Hebridean island of Jura | George Orwell 
 
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    | To protect the Panama Canal during WWII, the U.S. established a base in this Ecuadoran island group | Galapagos Islands 
 
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    | When its Beautyrest mattress was introduced in 1925, Henry Ford endorsed it in advertisements | (Ken: Who is Sealy?) ...
 (Alex: Sealy is the Posturepedic; [*] is the Beautyrest.)
 
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    | In 1915 Gutzon Borglum designed a memorial to the Confederacy on this Georgia mountain | Stone Mountain 
 
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    | "Skinny" nickname of Otis Dewey Whitman Jr., who sold millions of albums through TV ads | "Slim" 
 
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    | Produced when seawater evaporates, halite is a rock composed of this substance | salt 
 
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    | Her bestsellers "Chances", "Lucky" & "Lady Boss" all revolve around Lucky Santangelo | Jackie Collins 
 
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    | Called the most important of Rome's 7 hills, it was home to upper class villas | Palatine Hill 
 
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    | Co-founder Frank Seiberling added the winged foot to this tire company's logo | Goodyear 
 
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    | This Greek statue, now in the Louvre, may have held an apple in the hand of its missing left arm | Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos) 
 
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    | Mary Chapin Carpenter sang in a coffeehouse while earning her B.A. from this Providence, R.I. university | Brown 
 
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    | Some of the oldest-known mines for this decorative blue-green stone are in the Sinai Desert | turquoise 
 
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    | In 1996 this author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" spun a new story, "The Tailor of Panama" | John le Carré 
 
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    | Xerxes built a bridge of boats across it to invade Greece; Leander could have walked | Hellespont 
 
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    | Formally organized in March 1901, it was the first billion-dollar corporation | U.S. Steel 
 
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    | In 1880 he began work on "The Gates of Hell" but never completed the project | Auguste Rodin 
 
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    | Crystal Bernard, who plays Helen on this sitcom, released her first country CD, "The Girl Next Door", in 1996 | Wings 
 
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    | The name of this soft black mineral is from the Greek for "to write" | (Kim: What is... oh, black mineral, talc?) 
 graphite
 
 
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    | Short story writer Hector Hugh Munro took this pseudonym from Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" | Saki 
 
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    | In 1958 the Communist Chinese bombarded Quemoy & this island to force the Nationalist Chinese out | Matsu 
 
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    | This San Francisco-based company is the USA's largest canner of fruits & vegetables | (Ken: What is Dole?) 
 Del Monte
 
 
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    | This British sculptor created works for the UNESCO building in Paris | Henry Moore 
 
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    | This Texan was just 13 when her hit single "Delta Dawn" made her a country star in 1972 | Tanya Tucker 
 
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    | True alabaster is a variety of this mineral used for making plaster of Paris | (Ken: What is calcium carbonate?) (Kim: What is calcium chloride?)
 
 gypsum (calcium sulfate)
 
 
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    | Like "Rebecca", her novel "My Cousin Rachel" was made into a film | Daphne du Maurier 
 
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