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Peanuts comic strip museum
Charles M Schultz in Santa Rosa California
This stadium is home to the University of Hawaii’s Warriors football team
Aloha Stadium is located in Honolulu
Oahu
nominated for Oscars for her performances in two films: “Gloria” (1980) and “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974).
Gena Rowlands is an actress best known for the films made with her husband, actor and director John Cassavetes. Notably, Rowlands played a lead role opposite James Garner in the weepy, weepy 2004 film “The Notebook”. “The Notebook” was directed by her son Nick Cassavetes.
The most famous work by this French writer is his 1898 open letter “J’Accuse!” written to French president Félix Faure.
Émile Zola
The letter was published on the front page of a leading Paris newspaper, and accused the government of anti-Semitism in its handling of the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a Jewish military officer in the French army, falsely accused and convicted of spying for Germany. Even after the error was discovered, the government refused to back down and let Dreyfus rot away on Devil’s Island rather than admit to the mistake. It wasn’t until 1906, 12 years after the wrongful conviction, that Dreyfus was freed and reinstated, largely due to the advocacy of Emile Zola.
This animal name is Mexican Spanish, in which language it means “trickster”.
coyote
In Native-American folklore, the coyote is an important character, one often playing tricks and defying conventional behavior. Coyotes can sometimes mate with domestic dogs, creating hybrid animals known as “coydogs”. Coyotes can also mate with wolves, creating a “coywolf”. South Dakota named the coyote its state animal in 1949.
The coyote is a canine found in most of Central and North America
No. 1 Katy Perry album featuring the No. 1 song “Firework” :
TEENAGE DREAM (the Atlanta Dream)
“Teenage Dream” is a 2010 studio album released by Katy Perry. It was destined to become only the second album in history to spawn five number-one singles. Only Michael Jackson’s 1987 album “Bad” had achieved the same feat.
Oscar-winning role for Rami Malek :
FREDDIE MERCURY (the Phoenix Mercury)
Freddie Mercury was a British singer-songwriter who was lead singer for the rock group Queen. Mercury wrote many of Queen’s hits, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Somebody to Love”, “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “We Are the Champions”. Mercury’s real name was Farrokh Bulsara, and he was born to Parsi parents in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) in East Africa. He grew up mainly in India, and arrived in England at the age of 17 after his family fled from the Zanzibar Revolution.
The Phoenix Mercury play in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded in 1997 and is owned by businessman Robert Sarver, who also owns the Phoenix Suns of the NBA.
Prov. that borders all but one of the Great Lakes :
ONT
The province of Ontario borders on four of the Great Lakes: Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario
Busch Gardens city :
TAMPA
The Busch Gardens group of theme parks was originally envisioned as a vehicle for the promotion of Anheuser-Busch products, so free beer samples were made available to patrons (but no longer!). The Tampa location was the first of the parks to be opened, in 1959. The Tampa property has an African theme, whereas Williamsburg, Virginia property has a European theme. There are plans to open a third park in Dubai, although the project has been put on hold due to the current financial climate.
Gomez’s hairy cousin :
ITT
In the television sitcom “The Addams Family”, the family has a frequent visitor named Cousin Itt. He is a short man with long hair that runs from his head to the floor. Itt was played by Italian actor Felix Silla.
Gomez and Morticia (“Tish”) Addams were the parents in “The Addams Family”, a creation of cartoonist Charles Addams. In the sixties television show, Gomez was played by John Astin and Morticia was played by Carolyn Jones.
This 1995’s film was the world’s first feature-length computer-animated movie. “
“Toy Story”
Toy Story” was also Pixar’s first production. The main roles in the film are Buzz Lightyear and Woody, who are voiced by Tim Allen and Tom Hanks respectively. Hanks was the first choice to voice Woody, but Allen was asked to voice Buzz after Billy Crystal turned down the role.
The Chicago Sky are a WNBA basketball team who play home games at Wintrust Arena, located in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago. The Sky were founded in 2006, and the team’s mascot is a Sky Guy, a blue and yellow bird with a basketball for a head.
Very, in Biarritz : TRES
Theis coastal city in southwestern France sits on the Bay of Biscay, about 20 miles from the Spanish border. It is a fashionable spa resort with an economy that largely depends on tourism.
Biarritz
Gangnam Style” rapper :
PSY
“PSY” is the stage name of South Korean rapper Park Jae-sang. PSY became an international star when his 2012 music video “Gangnam Style” went viral on YouTube. That video had over 1 billion views on YouTube in about six months, making it the most viewed YouTube video clip of all time. The title of the song refers to a lifestyle experienced in the Gangnam District of Seoul.
The fruit might also be referred to as an alligator pear
Avocado
The wonderful avocado comes from a tree that is native to Mexico and Central America. The avocado fruit is sometimes called an avocado pear, because of its shape, even though it is not related to the pear at all. The fruit might also be referred to as an alligator pear, due to the roughness of the green skin of some avocado cultivars.
was the first female African-American author to have a play produced on Broadway.
Lorraine Hansberry
That was “A Raisin in the Sun”, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959. Leading the cast in that production were Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. Sadly, Hansberry passed away at only 34 years of age in 1965.
Title came from Harlem” is a 1951 poem by Langston Hughes
