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    | In 1848, the year he turned 13, he became a printer's apprentice for Joseph Ament's Missouri Courier | 
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    coal
 
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    | Around 274 B.C. this republic, which later went full-blown empire, gained dominance over Italy with the defeat of Pyrrhus | 
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    Peter Marshall,  1966-1982 | 
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    impossibility
 
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    | The Belwind Offshore Wind Farm, Bel for Belgium, is in this sea | 
    the North Sea
 
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    | A Kraft favorite debuted in 1937 containing this food in orange powder form | 
    cheese
 
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    | After the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs fell under the hegemony of this empire of nomadic Turks | 
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    | Heidegger espoused this philosophy that stresses individual choice | 
    (Lesley: What is... individualism?)
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    | She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon" | 
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    | The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center has over 90,000 solar these--aiieee!  Turn it away!  I'm going blind! | 
    panels
 
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    | Orange chicken is the most popular item at this restaurant founded by Andrew Cherng | 
    (Jason: What is P.F. Chang's?)
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    | In 386 B.C. Persia ratified this city-state's hegemony, about 100 years too late for Leonidas & his 300 | 
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    | In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe | 
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    | (Alex reports from aboard the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.)  The huge hydroelectric potential of the falls led to a war of inventors; it was only settled when Westinghouse was given the right to build the A.C. generators that were designed & patented by this man | 
    (Alex: [*]'s right, yes! Oh, my gosh, that was good. Way to go!)
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    | The country tune "Song Of The South" mentions pie made from this tuber | 
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    | In October 1919 he reorganized his political party, the Kuomintang, & was communism's rival for power in China | 
    (Jason: Who is Chiang Kai-shek?) ... (Alex: The man who preceded Chiang Kai-shek--[*].)
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    Ed McMahon,  1983-1995 | 
    (Lesley: What is TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes?)
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    | When a man sees a woman only as a thing serving his needs, not as a person, that's this process | 
    (Alex: You got it, with less than a minute to go now.)
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    | In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory | 
    Dickens
 
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    | One of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place in 2011 at this Japanese plant No. 1 | 
    Fukushima
 
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    | In Yiddish tsorres (trouble) should not be confused with tsimmes, a stew containing mern, these veggies | 
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    | In the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., this 2-letter city established its hegemony over the rest of Sumer | 
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