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| The major settlement of New Netherland was New Amsterdam on this island |
Manhattan
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| Every year this greeting card company produces 19,000 card designs in 20 languages |
Hallmark
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| This cubist's "Bull's Head" sculpture was made from a bicycle seat & handlebars |
Pablo Picasso
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| This long-haired country music "outlaw" was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993 |
Willie Nelson
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| Marbles made of this mineral are popularly called aggies |
agate
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| With the proceeds from "Animal Farm" he bought a home on the Hebridean island of Jura |
George Orwell
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| To protect the Panama Canal during WWII, the U.S. established a base in this Ecuadoran island group |
Galapagos Islands
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| When its Beautyrest mattress was introduced in 1925, Henry Ford endorsed it in advertisements |
(Ken: Who is Sealy?) ... (Alex: Sealy is the Posturepedic; [*] is the Beautyrest.)
Simmons
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| In 1915 Gutzon Borglum designed a memorial to the Confederacy on this Georgia mountain |
Stone Mountain
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| "Skinny" nickname of Otis Dewey Whitman Jr., who sold millions of albums through TV ads |
"Slim"
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| Produced when seawater evaporates, halite is a rock composed of this substance |
salt
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| Her bestsellers "Chances", "Lucky" & "Lady Boss" all revolve around Lucky Santangelo |
Jackie Collins
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| Called the most important of Rome's 7 hills, it was home to upper class villas |
Palatine Hill
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| Co-founder Frank Seiberling added the winged foot to this tire company's logo |
Goodyear
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| This Greek statue, now in the Louvre, may have held an apple in the hand of its missing left arm |
Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos)
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| Mary Chapin Carpenter sang in a coffeehouse while earning her B.A. from this Providence, R.I. university |
Brown
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| Some of the oldest-known mines for this decorative blue-green stone are in the Sinai Desert |
turquoise
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| In 1996 this author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" spun a new story, "The Tailor of Panama" |
John le Carré
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| Xerxes built a bridge of boats across it to invade Greece; Leander could have walked |
Hellespont
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| Formally organized in March 1901, it was the first billion-dollar corporation |
U.S. Steel
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| In 1880 he began work on "The Gates of Hell" but never completed the project |
Auguste Rodin
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| Crystal Bernard, who plays Helen on this sitcom, released her first country CD, "The Girl Next Door", in 1996 |
Wings
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| The name of this soft black mineral is from the Greek for "to write" |
(Kim: What is... oh, black mineral, talc?)
graphite
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| Short story writer Hector Hugh Munro took this pseudonym from Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" |
Saki
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| In 1958 the Communist Chinese bombarded Quemoy & this island to force the Nationalist Chinese out |
Matsu
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| This San Francisco-based company is the USA's largest canner of fruits & vegetables |
(Ken: What is Dole?)
Del Monte
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| This British sculptor created works for the UNESCO building in Paris |
Henry Moore
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| This Texan was just 13 when her hit single "Delta Dawn" made her a country star in 1972 |
Tanya Tucker
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| True alabaster is a variety of this mineral used for making plaster of Paris |
(Ken: What is calcium carbonate?) (Kim: What is calcium chloride?)
gypsum (calcium sulfate)
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| Like "Rebecca", her novel "My Cousin Rachel" was made into a film |
Daphne du Maurier
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