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    | Its prologue begins, "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote" | 
    (Alex: And that's [*], and my bad reading.)
  The Canterbury Tales
 
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    | Galatea, one of its moons, is named for the daughter of a sea god | 
    Neptune
 
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    | The 2012 first group of inductees of course includes this "King of Rock & Roll" who moved to Memphis in his teens | 
    Elvis Presley
 
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    | Meaning "not any", it's been used with both singular & plural verbs since the 9th century | 
    none
 
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    | Recruitment for the first Marines was in this Penn. city's Tun Tavern; its beer is still sold to Marines worldwide | 
    Philadelphia
 
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    | At Columbia University, the "core" this is the "set of common courses required of all undergraduates" | 
    curriculum
 
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    | Her poem No. 1333 begins, "a little madness in the spring/ is wholesome even for the king" | 
    (Emily) Dickinson
 
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    | Saturn has a moon named this, also the name of a moon in "Avatar" | 
    Pandora
 
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    | This trio recorded "Legs" & the rest of the 10-million-selling album "Eliminator " at Memphis' Ardent Studios | 
    ZZ Top
 
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    | Grammatically, it can be Massapequa, darkness or Fabio | 
    noun
 
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    | The red stripe on a marine's blue trousers honors those lost in the Battle of Chapultepec in this war | 
    the Mexican(-American) War
 
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    | Often used for research rather than power, the pool type of this has its core at the bottom of a pool of water | 
    nuclear reactor
 
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    | It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use | 
    [Tom added a leading definite article to his response.]
  Silent Spring
 
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    | Some astronomers believe that these 2 moons of Mars were asteroids at one time | 
    Phobos and Deimos
 
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    | Jim Stewart & Estelle Axton combined their names to create this label behind "Green Onions" & "Soul Man" | 
    Stax
 
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    | Soon, Shakespeare, soon | 
    anon
 
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    | The Corps is usually at the vanguard in wartime, & one of its mottos is "first to" do this | 
    (Rebecca: What is advance?)
  fight
 
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    | Paleoclimate is studied by taking these long cylinders from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica | 
    ice core (samples)
 
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    | "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" is from the famous opening line of this novel | 
    A Tale of Two Cities
 
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    | Uranus' 2 largest moons are Titania & this one, named for a fairy king | 
    Oberon
 
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    | Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won a 2005 Oscar for this film with "Hustle" in its title | 
    Hustle and Flow
 
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    | When air is liquefied at about -300 degrees Fahrenheit, this is left behind | 
    neon
 
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    | Legend says Germans in WWI called Marines "Teufelshunde", which led to this alliterative nickname | 
    (Tom: What are hellhounds?)
  devil dogs
 
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    | Core training is at the heart of this fitness discipline named for this man, first name Joseph | 
    Pilates
 
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    | Huck Finn said "when you've got" this, "you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache" | 
    spring fever
 
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    | This 2-letter moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in the solar system | 
    Io
 
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    | This reverend says, if you want to worship with me in Memphis, "here I am (come & take me)" at the full gospel tabernacle | 
    Al Green
 
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    | British legal education has long been provided by 2 institutions called these "of court" | 
    Inns
 
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    | General James Amos is the 35th man in this highest marine post; that makes him one of the joint Chiefs | 
    Commandant of the Marine Corps
 
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    | Inspired by Gandhi, James Farmer created C.O.R.E., the "congress of" this | 
    racial equality
 
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