THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT |
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HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
(Mark: Who is, uh...)
(Queen) Victoria
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A cryptid is a creature not proven to actually exist, like this one of western North America |
Bigfoot
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Robert Hooke devised a compound one of these that helped him look at his subjects for his 1665 book "Micrographia" |
a microscope
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You can learn all about this company & even do some tastings at its museum on Chocolate Avenue in Pennsylvania |
Hershey
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Powerful steel worker Joe Magarac bent that alloy with his bare hands in tales from this city, the Paris of Appalachia |
Pittsburgh
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As the title character in this film, Wesley Snipes' character rescues Karen Jenson, a hematologist |
Blade
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George Washington |
King George III
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A habitual hurrier in a hot rod |
a lead foot
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His 1632 "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" got him in hot water |
Galileo
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Boarding his Air Force One plane is a highlight of his library & museum in Simi Valley, California |
Ronald Reagan
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In an original tall tale by Pat Mora, Doña Flor is a southwestern giant who makes these baked items that can be used as rafts |
tortillas
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Other famous roles in this spoofy 2012 flick include Harriet Tubman, Jefferson Davis &, of course, Mary Todd |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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A greenhorn or a Boy Scout of the lowest rank |
[ERRATUM: Tenderfoot is not the lowest Boy Scout rank; it is the second-lowest, after scout.]
a tenderfoot
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Perhaps a question for his theoretical cat, "What Is Life?" by this physicist inspired Watson & Crick in their DNA research |
Schrödinger
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Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe |
(Georgia) O'Keeffe
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Able to produce enough dairy products for an entire logging camp, Bessie the Yeller Cow was the mate of this other colossus |
(Mark: Who is the Blue Ox?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
Babe the Blue Ox
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Kiefer Sutherland had to deal with meddling kids, including 2 Coreys, in this 1987 thriller |
The Lost Boys
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To avoid doing or saying anything because of nervousness |
to pussyfoot
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After "The Selfish Gene", this British atheist evolved enough to publish "Unweaving the Rainbow" |
Dawkins
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At Hawaii's Bishop Museum, you can see the still vivid yellow feathered cloak of this great warrior king |
Kamehameha
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Mose the fireman once extinguished a raging NYC fire by tunneling to New Jersey & using this water source to douse the flames |
the Hudson River
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This "Game of Thrones" actress accepted "The Invitation" in 2022 & found her new family as kind of batty |
Nathalie Emmanuel
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Theodore Roosevelt |
(Ken: You got it, yes, well done.)
Edward VII
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75,000 casualties among World War I British forces were attributed to this hitherto unknown condition |
trench foot
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Outlining some of his philosophical ideas, this German mathematician & rival of Newton published "Discourse on Metaphysics" |
Leibniz
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In 2023 the National Museum of African American History & Culture acquired a major collection relating to this 18th c. female poet |
Phillis Wheatley
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This African-American railroad man raced & defeated a steam drill in a contest, but died with his hammer in his hand |
John Henry
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In a 2004 film Hugh Jackman played the title vampire hunter with this last name; he headed to Transylvania |
Van Helsing
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