| PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY |
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| IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 |
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| PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME |
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| If you read Lisa Scottoline's bestsellers, it makes sense she graduated from this school at Penn & has taught there |
(Kate: What is Wharton?) ... (Ken: She writes legal thrillers, so it's [*].)
the Penn Law School
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| Funny ladies on Season 49 of this show included Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman & Ego Nwodim |
Saturday Night Live
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2005: Provoking an angry reaction, cartoons of this religious figure are published in a Danish newspaper |
Mohammed
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| Vincenzo Lunardi used this gas, not hot air, when he made the first balloon flight over England in 1784 |
(Kate: What is helium?)
hydrogen
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| She won Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award & "Woman of the Year" in Sweden in 2019 |
Thunberg
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| Adjective describing a first-person account of a life story |
autobiographical
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| A short story by Wyalusing-born Philip Van Doren Stern was the basis for this beloved Jimmy Stewart holiday movie |
It's a Wonderful Life
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| In the 1970s, Lynda Carter rose to fame playing this superhero & became a role model to millions of girls |
Wonder Woman
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1935: This source of electricity astride the Nevada/Arizona border is officially dedicated |
the Hoover Dam
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| In 2021, Zara Rutherford used her gap year after high school to become the youngest woman to do this solo |
fly around the world
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| In 2010 he became the first chef to receive Spain's Order of Arts & Letters Medallion |
Andrés
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| A nondisclosure agreement is also known as this kind |
confidentiality
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| This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill District of Pittsburgh has become an arts center |
(Ken: Ryan?) (Ryan: Can't pull it... no.)
August Wilson
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| Golda Rosheuvel plays her on "Bridgerton"; India Amarteifio plays a younger version on a "Bridgerton" offshoot |
Queen Charlotte
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1968: This wide-body Boeing airliner is shown to the public for the first time |
747
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| Once thought to have crashed back onto the Moon's surface, the ascent stage of this lunar module from Apollo 11 may still be in orbit |
the Eagle
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| After reading "The Cosmic Connection", Isaac Asimov told him, "You are smarter than I am. I hate that" |
Carl Sagan
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| It's the practice of living on fruits, nuts & other plants, maybe some eggs & dairy, but definitely no meat |
vegetarianism
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| His first 4 novels, including "Rabbit, Run", all depict a fictional version of Berks County, where he grew up |
Updike
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| She's currently the only woman to anchor a nightly network news broadcast on one of the big three networks |
O'Donnell
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1991: This ex-priest who came after the Duvalier era is forced from office as Haiti's president |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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| This lethal combat helicopter with a Native American name is loaded with hellfire missiles, 70-millimeter rockets & a 30-millimeter cannon |
an Apache
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| Per Time magazine, "on the seventh day" he "cobbled together the World Wide Web's first (but not the last) browser" |
Tim Berners-Lee
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| Marijuana advocates have long pushed for this removal of serious penalties; in 2024, the Biden administration moved to grant their wish |
decriminalization
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| Before vast novelized histories of Hawaii & the Mideast, he put his Doylestown youth into "The Fires of Spring" |
James Michener
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| A 2-time Oscar nominee, she plays Athena Grant on "9-1-1" |
Angela Bassett
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1787: This ship for which a Pacific Northwest river is named sets off on the first round-the-world voyage by a U.S. vessel |
the Columbia
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| Almost 4,000 of these bombers nicknamed the Superfortress were produced in the 1940s, but only 2 still fly today |
B-29s
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| Before she was appointed U.S. Attorney General, she received the Medal of Honor--from the Florida Bar Association |
Reno
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| It's the branch of medicine concerned with the distribution & control of diseases |
(Kate: What is immunology?)
epidemiology
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