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| This adjective means 'thwarting an intended goal', like living on credit while trying to save money | |
| Per 'A Visit From St. Nicholas', it's alphabetically last among Santa's 8 reindeer | |
| It's the occupation mentioned in a 1916 James Joyce book title | |
| Piloting Vostok 6, she orbited the Earth 48 times durnig her trip into space in 1963 | |
| In 1929, while working for RCA, this inventor & engineer demonstrated the first practical all-electronic TV | |
| He wrote, 'He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die' | |
| Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens were leaders of this 'extreme' Republican group | |
| This verb can refer to making & serving sodas or to cutting meat into long strips to be dried in the sun | |
| It's the shorter, better-known name of the document 'United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967' | |
| Although Dutch is the official language, Sranan Tongo is spoken by most people in this South American country | |
| The word for a song element you won't find in instrumentals comes from the name of this instrument | |
| On Feb. 1, 1958 the Detroit Free Press said, 'U.S. Fires Moon!'; they meant the USA's first of these, Explorer 1 | |
| Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say | |
| A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline 'Google offers shares, seeks global piece of' this | |
| She said, 'I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people' | |
| 7 women have been the secretary of this, the most for any department in the president's cabinet | |
| Adding up the denominations of circulating bills with U.S. presidents on the front gives you this total | |
| It's rare to get Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Actor for the same film; he is 1 of the 2 who did it twice | |
| Her 'Agnes Grey' appeared in 1847 under the pseudonym Acton Bell (note the initials) | |
| I once wrote that without seeing it, men are led to 'advance the interest of the society' by this anatomical agent | |
| What's that I say? You need this type of implant in your inner ear that directly stimulates the hearing nerve | |
| Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, formerly Duchess of York | |
| The title of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner comes from a Jonathan Swift line about how lesser minds unite to oppose genius | |
| This noble gas used in high-speed photography lamps takes its name from the Greek for 'hidden' | |
| All isotopes of astatine, the heaviest halogen, are this, which is why they have half-lives | |
| A member of the Hanseatic League, this city with a 4-letter name was once known as the 'Paris of the Baltic' | |
| Invented in 1943, this toy was flung over tree branches by soldiers in Vietnam & used as a makeshift radio antenna | |
| Geraldine Doyle, who in 1942 took a job at a Michigan metal factory, helped inspire the look & job of this iconic character | |
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| Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, he dreamed of moving to Chicago, with its soaring architecture | |
| Haakon & Kristin, mascots of this city's Olympics, were named for a Norwegian prince & princess | |
| Pen, my boy, I fell in love with your mother's poetry before I met her in person at her Wimpole Street house in May 1845 | |
| It's from the Italian for 'little sound' | |
| The name given to these islands when they were annexed by the U.S. in 1867 reflected their position between America & Asia | |
| Mind your this 16th c. Italian art movement that gave us long-necked Madonnas | |
| John Gray: 'The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex' | |
| Meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes popularized this 5-letter term for the place where warm & cold air masses meet | |
| Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca | |
| They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year | |
| 900 years old when he died, he spoke in OSV syntax, object-subject-verb | |
| When Winona Ryder whispers, 'Hold me', this Johnny Depp title character replies 'I can't' | |
| The Battle of Chapultepec | |
| In 1848 ladies said 'yes!' when the USA's first medical school for women opened in the state capital | |
| 4 score & 7 minus the syllables in a haiku | |
| This tome was a collection of spells, charms & magical formulas for the deceased to use in the afterlife | |
| In 17th c. Virginia it cost you 50 pounds of tobacco to miss weekly attendance here | |
| Longfellow: 'Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life' these four words | |
| In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or 'Dean | |
| These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture | |
| This 1984 film included Salieri's 1788 'Axur, Re d'Ormus' | |
| Scandals during this president's tenure included the Whiskey Ring, the Indian Ring & the Credit Mobilier Crisis | |
| Its Nov. 22, 1963 front-page headline read: 'Storm of Political Controversy Swirls Around Kennedy on Visit' | |
| Prince Siegfried finds romance is for the birds (like Odette) in this 19th century ballet | |
| This 2-word term has its origins in a hostage-taking that followed the botched 1973 Norrmalmstorg bank robbery | |
| The name of this portion of the brainstem means 'the long marrow' | |
| Jean-Jacques Dessalines was killed in a revolt 2 years after declaring himself Emperor of this country | |
| Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Bayonne, France | |
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| In 2011 this politician said he didn't deserve the honor of having the Wilmington, Del. train station named after him | |
| The wives of the co-founders of the city now home to the University of Michigan both had this first name | |
| In a standard international deck, he's the only one-eyed king | |
| Yalies once cheered, 'Brek-ek-ek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax', the chorus of these creatures in an Aristophanes play | |
| An institute of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist | |
| The genus Kinixys includes the only turtles with a hinge on this, the upper shell | |
| This western European country with a 3-million-strong Turkish minority is one of Turkey's main trading partners | |
| These twins & recent First Daughters were named for their grandmothers | |
| After Nazi Major Strasser has been shot, the command goes out to 'round up' this group, the title of another film | |
| However you draw the border between Nicaragua & this 2-named country, somebody gets mad, huh? | |
| A few years back Wrigley Field introduced the Northside Twist, a 4-pound one of these with 3 dipping sauces | |
| It's the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise | |
| He began construction of his first airship in June 1898 in a wooden hangar on Lake Constance | |
| Sad songs may tug at these internal strands | |
| In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral | |
| This classic book begins, 'The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range' | |
| Fittingly, the title character of this 1841 novel dines on venison in Chapter 1 | |
| In this animated film Fred Captains the title transport to Pepperland | |
| Still in existence, it begin in 1688 in a British coffee shop popular with maritime folk; it soon got involved in their business | |
| The grizzly bear & the gray wolf | |
| The only U.S. mint ever outside the continental U.S. was opened in 1920 in this Asian country, then a U.S. colony | |
| Monistic theories reduce the search for good to one thing, like pleasure in the case of this theory | |
| A brief thaw in the icy chill of Soviet repression is named for this Russian leader who took power in 1953 | |
| On Nov. 17, 1871 Union vets dismayed by soldiers' lack of proficiency in one skill formed this organization | |
| This 1928 title character begins as a man & ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida) | |
| This European operation that began in 1948 was the independent USAF's first major international challenge | |
| June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir to a European throne | |
| Keats' 'Ode on' this says, 'Sylvan historian, who canst thus express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme' | |
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