Des Moines - duh moin First named fort raccoon after the river that runs through it

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First name of civil rights activist wife of MLK jr

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Coretta

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Students wear flower pins with long ribbons known as mums to this school dance event
In Texas

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Homecoming

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Noteworthy as the precursor to the U.S. constitution
Also how many

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Articles of confederation
13

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First black woman crowned miss America

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Vanessa Williams

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This story tells of 2 men resizing the boy they’ve kidnapped is more trouble than he’s worth

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The ransom of red chief BY O Henry

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Performing its signature sound bite this web service provider marked its 20th birthday with a world yodeling record

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Yahoo

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Nemonic device for name of planets

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My very eager mother just served us nachos

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This Milton Bradley game of physical skill wqs originally called pretze because it ties you up in knots

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Twister

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This environmental region of southeast Europe is characterized by flat treeless great lands

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Steppe
Step

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A rare cartridge of this classic Nintendo game starring link once sold at auction for 870K

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The legend of Zelda

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Da Vinci drawing of ideal human proportion wqs named for him - an ancient Roman with this artistic occupation

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Vitruvius vuh true v us
Architect

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This lawyer and former Mississippi state legislator wrote the best selling novel the boys from Biloxi

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John Grisham

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The legendary manticore has the head of a man the body of this and the tail of this

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Body of a lion
Tail of a dragon or scorpion

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Ring my bell song

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Anita ward

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Fastest woman in the world
Also won 3 gold medals at these Olympics

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Florence Griffith Joyner
88 Seoul

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, wife of President George W. Bush, had her memoir “Spoken from the Heart” published in 2010.

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Laura Bush

Born Laura Lane Welch, the former First Lady has a Master’s degree in Library Science (as does my wife, my own First Lady!). Given that background, it’s not surprising that two causes that Laura Bush focused on while in the White House were education and literacy. She established the annual National Book Festival, first held in Washington, D.C. in 2001, after having co-founded the Texas Book Festival in her home state.

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The UK Parliament is divided into these two houses, with

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the upper house known as the House of Lords and the lower house as the House of Commons. The members of the House of Commons (MPs) are elected, but most new members of the House of Lords are appointed. Historically, a large proportion of the membership of the upper house were hereditary peers, but recent legislative changes are reducing the numbers who can sit in the House of Lords by virtue of birthright.

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was a noted American film critic and screenwriter. He wrote an autobiographical novel “A Death in the Family” that won him his Pulitzer in 1958, albeit posthumously. He was also one of the screenwriters for the 1951 classic movie “The African Queen”.

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James Agee

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The African Queen” is a 1935 novel by C. S. Forester that was adapted into a very successful 1951 film of the same name starring these 2. The title refers to a steam-powered launch that travels the Ulanga River. The story is set during World War I. At the climax of the tale, the African Queen is used as a makeshift torpedo to sink a German gunboat (spoiler!).

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Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart

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generally regarded as the natural divide between the continents of Europe and Asia.

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The eastern side of the Ural Mountains in Russia and Kazakhstan

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Like one of the ace community :

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ASEXUAL
Someone described as asexual lacks sexual attraction to others. “Asexuality” can be abbreviated to “ace”, and the population of asexual persons can be referred to as the “ace community”.

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This has been around since the Middle Ages. It is a stringed instrument that is played by plucking, and is used most often in Hindustani classical music.

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sitar

In the West we have been exposed to the instrument largely through the performances of Ravi Shankar and some music by George Harrison of the Beatles, a onetime student of Shankar.

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The difference between a premium and regular gasoline is this

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It’s octane rating.

This is a measure of the resistance of the gasoline to auto-ignition i.e. its resistance to ignition just by virtue of being compressed in the cylinder. This auto-ignition is undesirable as multiple-cylinder engines are designed so that ignition within each cylinder takes place precisely when the plug sparks, and not before. If ignition occurs before the spark is created, the resulting phenomenon is called “knocking”. We sometimes use the adjective “high-octane” to mean “intense, dynamic, high-powered”

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The six title characters in the sitcom “Friends” met each other in this coffeehouse from the very first episode.

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Central Perk

There is now a Central Perk franchise in reality, with locations all around the globe. The Central Perk in Dubai was opened by actor James Michael Tyler, who played the coffeehouse manager Gunther on the show.

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is a competition in which poets read their own work (usually), with winners being chosen by members of the audience.

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poetry slam
Apparently the first poetry slam took place in Chicago in 1984. Now there is a National Poetry Slam that takes place each year, with representatives from the US, Canada and France.

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This is a type of bow saw with a thin blade that facilitates intricate cutting. The saw takes its name from its use in making intricate decorative designs

resembles a “P

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fretsaw

intricate decorative designs called fretwork.

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Burger with a jingle listing its ingredients :

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BIG MAC
In 1974, McDonald’s started advertising the Big Mac with a jungle that listed the sandwich’s ingredients: “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.”

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In the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale called “Snow White”, the seven dwarfs were not given any names. The names were added for the 1937 classic Disney film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. The seven dwarfs are:

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Doc (the leader of the group)
Grumpy (that would be me, according to my wife …)
Happy
Sleepy
Bashful
Sneezy
Dopey

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Pentecost is a holiday observed in the Christian tradition. Also known as this

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Whit Sunday, it takes place on the 49th day after Easter Sunday. Well, it’s the 50th day, if we include both Pentecost and Easter Sunday. The term “Pentecost” comes from the Greek “pentekoste” meaning “fiftieth”.

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Seasoning on “pommes frites”

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“sel” (salt) on pommes frites” (French fries).

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This is an offshoot of the Atlantic Ocean that is located between Britain and Scandinavia

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The North Sea

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There was a draper in London in the seventeenth century named this , and he gave his name to the lace fabric that he sold.

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Doiley

The fabric in turn gave its name to the ornamental mat that we call a “doily”. I can’t abide doilies …

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This is an Italian dessert made from cream, sugar and gelatin and perhaps some flavoring. The name really wasn’t used in Italy until the 1960s, and the dish became popular in the US starting in the 1990s.

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Panna cotta

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Google’s ChromeOS operating system is based on this , and uses the Google Chrome web browser. I’m writing this post right now using ChromeOS, which runs my Chromebook. I am a huge fan …

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Linux

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German no

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Does drei times drei equal acht?” can be translated from “German” as “Does three times three equal eight?” The answer is “nein”, which translates as “no”, and sounds like “nine”.

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NERF” is an acronym, standing for

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Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.