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Herbert George... |
H.G. Wells
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To accessorize granny dresses chicks wore these necklaces of little balls for peace & goodwill |
(Alex: You guys are too young to remember those!)
Love beads
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An old French word for "thicket" gave us this word for something tossed by a bride |
Bouquet
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The Mouton girls of Louisiana were the first of these successfully separated, in 1953 |
Siamese twins
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In 1959 the Russian probe Luna 1 came within about 4,000 miles of this body & Luna 2 hit it |
The moon
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In July 1994 St. Vincent & the Grenadines issued a set of these honoring The Next Generation's last episode |
Postage stamps
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Pelham Grenville... |
P.G. Wodehouse
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In a famous '60s slogan it came between "turn on" & "drop out" |
tune in
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From a Provencal word for "witch", it's a sports team's good-luck symbol |
Mascot
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On January 8, 1963 art viewers in the U.S. got their first smile from this woman |
Mona Lisa
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The U.S. launched its first satellite in 1958, while the second in this Soviet program was orbiting |
Sputnik
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Chase Masterson, Leeta on "DS9", is staying in the genre co-hosting an entertainment show on this cable network |
Sci-Fi Channel
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Alan Alexander... |
A.A. Milne
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Bought a black light for my posters, man, & one of these ooze lights for my mantle |
Lava lamp
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This word for a swinging cot is derived from Spanish & from the Taino language of the West Indies |
Hammock
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In 1895 C.B. Macdonald won the first official U.S. Amateur Championship of this sport |
Golf
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In the early '70s Pioneer 10 & 11 slipped through this "belt" to reach Jupiter |
Asteroid belt
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These include the Galileo & the Magellan, & the Enterprise has a bay for them |
Shuttles
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Clive Staples... |
C.S. Lewis
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In '67 we did a psychedelic paint job on our "bus" from this German company & headed off to Frisco |
Volkswagen
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From middle English & Latin for "toward" & "to climb", one does it to a staircase or the throne |
Ascend
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He was the 1st to succeed to the presidency due to a death, & the 1st incumbent pres. photographed, in 1844 |
John Tyler
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Gordon Cooper was the last astronaut launched in this first U.S. manned space program |
Mercury
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(Hi, I'm Jeri Ryan.) "Star Trek" occasionally adds new characters to the original casts; among them were Dr. Pulaski, me & this Walter Koenig Russian |
Pavel Chekov
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Howard Phillips... |
H.P. Lovecraft
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The fact that Leslie Hornby modeled under this name "sticks" in our minds |
Twiggy
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From old English for a male servant or a boy, it's a synonym for a jack in a deck of cards |
Knave
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Henry Wells, in his Duryea, was probably at fault in the USA's first of these, in 1896 |
Automobile accident
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The 1960s rocket that shared its name with this planet only went as far as Earth's moon |
Saturn
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1 of the 3 alien races Mark Lenard portrayed in the "Star Trek" TV shows & films |
Klingons, Romulans or Vulcans
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