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  | THE NASTY CRITIC REVIEWS THE 19th CENTURY |  |
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    | His presidential library has a sailfish he caught during his 1953 honeymoon in Acapulco | Kennedy 
 
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    | Over a 20-year period, he played vigilante Paul Kersey in 5 "Death Wish" movies | Charles Bronson 
 
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    | He left Elba in February 1815 but abdicated (again!) by June 22... what a dreadful performance | Napoleon 
 
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    | The "Shuffle", "Nano" & "Photo" are versions of this Apple music player | the iPod 
 
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    | Contrary to popular legend, this breed never carried a cask hanging from its collar on rescue missions | a Saint Bernard 
 
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    | Do something intensely & you do it "to the" this, like Planck or Born | max 
 
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    | In a 1989 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the Queen of England made him an honorary knight | Ronald Reagan 
 
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    | I kid you not!  In 1972 he brought his famous role to TV, starring in a sitcom version of "Anna and the King" | Yul Brynner 
 
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    | In 1843 Congress granted $30,000 for a  line to test his new telegraph; finally, some brilliance in the competition! | Morse 
 
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    | NASA technology used to detect a star's birth is now used in the ear type of this, which measures your infrared energy | a thermometer 
 
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    | The Gordon breed of this was named for a Scottish nobleman who bred them | setter 
 
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    | Oh, happiness!  She shares "The View" with Elisabeth & Barbara | (Alex: [*] Behar, correct.) 
 Joy
 
 
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    | Of the actors who have played James Bond, he's the one born in Ireland in 1951 | Pierce Brosnan 
 
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    | I'd say this man's "ornithological biography", written from 1831 to 1839, is for the birds | Audubon 
 
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    | With the Delphi Roady, you can listen to NASCAR in the car on this satellite radio provider | XM 
 
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    | This breed was launched in the U.S. with the gift of dogs from the Dalai Lama to an American traveler in 1933 | (Linda Sue: What is a Tibetan terrier?) (Alex: Oh, no.  What is [*]?  [*].  Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.)
 
 the Lhasa apso
 
 
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    | A German soldier during WWI, or a member of Attila's tribe | Hun 
 
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    | He was nicknamed "The Driving Force" (& "The Trust Buster") | Theodore Roosevelt 
 
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    | For his starring role in "The Pianist", he shed 30 pounds & brushed up on his arpeggios | (Adrien) Brody 
 
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    | After an 1835 election loss, he told Tennesseans, "You may all go to Hell & I will go to Tex."; never did like his hat | Crockett 
 
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    | The 2nd version of his game system has over 5,000 game titles; no news on how many Blu-ray titles for the 3rd | PlayStation 2 
 
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    | This hound with a 6-letter name hunts by sight, not scent, & was used to hunt wolves in Russia | (Joe: What is a basset?) (Linda Sue: What is basenji?)
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 (Alex: Russian wolfhound, also known as the [*].  [*].)
 
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    | A sealed vase in which to keep a loved one's ashes | urn 
 
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    | In 1931 Herbert Hoover, who had been this Pres.'s Secretary of Commerce, helped dedicate his tomb in Marion, Ohio | (Linda Sue: Who is Taft?) 
 Harding
 
 
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    | This Dublin-born actor who's featured in "The Usual Suspects" & "Stigmata" was formerly married to Ellen Barkin | (Gabriel) Byrne 
 
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    | I found this Swedish soprano's 1838 debut as Agathe in "Der Freischutz" to be second-rate karaoke, at best | Jenny Lind 
 
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    | RFID chips, this type of I.D., can be placed on store products or on soldiers to find them in an emergency | radio frequency 
 
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    | Named for a British city, this terrier is a cross between the whippet & the black-and-tan terrier | (Alex: And the British city in this case is [*].  It's [*].  Don't see 'em that often.) 
 the Manchester terrier
 
 
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    | A projection on a gearwheel; you may feel like one in a giant machine | cog 
 
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