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    | As of Dec. 14, 1861 & until her death in 1901, this was Victoria's relationship status | widow 
 
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    | On New Year's Eve we should give thanks to this Scottish poet for his "Auld Lang Syne" | Robert Burns 
 
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    | Teddy Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of Roosevelt Arch, at the north entrance of this national park | Yellowstone 
 
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    | Make room for 10 lords a-leaping when you receive them as your tenth gift in this holiday song | "The Twelve Days of Christmas" 
 
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    | pp (a verb form)
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 past participle
 
 
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    | Under "heroes" is Louise Lehzen, her governess, who, like her royal house, came from this modern country | Germany 
 
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    | He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep" | Robert Frost 
 
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    | Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in this country | Spain 
 
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    | Exodus 12:29 reveals their death as the tenth plague brought upon the Egyptians | the first-born sons 
 
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    | Look for this Denver band if you want to know "How To Save A Life" | The Fray 
 
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    | nom. (as in a Latin case)
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    | The background is one of over a dozen portraits of herself done in honor of this June 28, 1838 ceremony | her coronation 
 
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    | His "Ode on a Grecian Urn" includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | Keats 
 
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    | You might say the statuesque residents of this South Pacific island have big heads & are always on holiday | Easter Island 
 
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    | Serving from 1841 to 1845, the tenth president of the U.S. was this big Whig | Tyler 
 
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    | LaF (what a Cajun might speak)
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 Louisiana French
 
 
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    | qVICki has 33 friends, including DIZee, this prime minister from 1874 to 1880 | (Benjamin) Disraeli 
 
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    | It's the title of the Longfellow poem that begins, "Under the spreading chestnut tree" | (Sarah: What is solitude?) 
 "The Village Blacksmith"
 
 
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    | A gilt statue of this fire-stealer is at the heart of Rockefeller Center | Prometheus 
 
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    | Before Julius Caesar's reforms, this was the tenth month in the Roman calendar | (Will: What is October?) 
 December
 
 
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    | This band found "All The Right Reasons" "Far Away" in Canada | Nickelback 
 
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    | IE (a hyphenated family of languages)
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    | The music is this song, on which Felix Mendelssohn once improvised for Her Majesty | "Rule, Britannia!" 
 
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    | Among his poetry collections is 1942's "Shakespeare in Harlem" | Langston Hughes 
 
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    | Austrian architect Alfred Preis designed the memorial over this WWII battleship | the Arizona 
 
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    | Plato called this female poet the "tenth muse" | Sappho 
 
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    | conj. (2 words: a part of speech & the inflection of a verb)
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 (Will: Ohhhh...)
 (Alex: Sorry, time ran out...)
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 (Alex: "Oh", indeed.)
 
 conjunction & conjugation
 
 
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