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<b><u>Dwarka</b></u> (“DWAH-ruh-kah”) [or <b><u>Dvārakā</b></u> or <b><u>Dvāravatī</b></u>; accept Bet <b><u>Dwarka</b></u>, Beyt <b><u>Dwarka</b></u>, or <b><u>Shankhodhar</b></u>; accept <b><u>Dwarka</b></u>dhish Temple] (The <em>jyotirlinga</em> is that of the Nāgeshwaram temple.)
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<b><u>Russia</b></u> [or <b><u>Russian</b></u> Empire or <b><u>Rossiya</b></u> or <b><u>Rossiyskaya</b></u> Imperiya; accept <b><u>Soviet Union</b></u> or <b><u>USSR</b></u> or <b><u>SSSR</b></u> or <b><u>Soyuz Sovietskikh</b></u> Sotsialichetskhikh Respublik; prompt on <u>Ukraine</u> by asking “what country was Ukraine a constituent part of at the time?”] (<em>Cyclist</em> is by Natalia Goncharova.)
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William <b><u>McKinley</b></u>
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<em>The</em> <b><u><em>Human Condition</b></u></em>
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<b><u>South Carolina</b></u> [or Province of <b><u>South Carolina</b></u>; accept <b><u>Clarendon</b></u> Province until read; prompt on <u>Carolina</u> or the <u>Carolina</u>s or <u>Carolina</u> gold rice] (The assassinated Indigenous leader was the Choctaw chief Red Shoes.)
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1755 <b><u>Lisbon Earthquake</u></b> [or Great <b><u>Lisbon Earthquake</u></b>]
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<b><u>Dniester</b></u> River [or <b><u>Nistru</b></u>, <b><u>Dnestr</b></u>, or <b><u>Dnister</b></u> River; accept <b><u>Transnistria</b></u>, Trans-<b><u>Dneister</b></u>, Trans<b><u>dniester</b></u>, Administrative-Territorial Unit of the Left Bank of the <b><u>Dniester</b></u>, or Pri<b><u>dnestr</b></u>ovian Moldavian Republic; accept Pri<b><u>dnestr</b></u>ovie or Pri<b><u>dnestr</b></u>ovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika; accept Pry<b><u>dnistr</b></u>ovia or Pry<b><u>dnistr</b></u>ovska Moldavska Respublika; accept <b><u>Nistr</b></u>enia, Republica Moldovenească <b><u>Nistr</b></u>eană, or Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din Stînga <b><u>Nistr</b></u>ului] (The politician in the lead-in is Alexander Rutskoy)
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<b><u>good</u></b> [accept “Do not go gentle into that <b><u>good</u></b> night”; accept “The <b><u>Good</u></b>-Morrow”; accept “<b><u>Good</u></b> Bones”]
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Marshall <b><u>McLuhan</u></b> [or Herbert Marshall <b><u>McLuhan</u></b>]
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<b><u>Baldr</u></b> [or <b><u>Balder</u></b>; or <b><u>Baldur</u></b>; accept <b><u>Balderus</u></b>]
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<b><u>École normale supérieure</u></b> (“ay-KOHL nor-MAHL sew-pay-ree-URR”) - PSL [or <b><u>ENS</u></b> Paris; or <b><u>Normale sup’</u></b>; or <b><u>Ulm</u></b>; prompt on <u>Normal Superior School</u> or <u>Superior Normal School</u>; prompt on <u>PSL</u> or <u>Paris Sciences et Lettres</u> University]
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<b><u>sprout</u></b>s [or <b><u>seed</u></b>s; or <b><u>shoot</u></b>s; or <b><u><em>siduan</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>principle</u>s or <u>beginning</u>s]
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<b><u>Oxford</b></u> movement [or <b><u>Oxfordian</b></u>s; or <b><u>Puseyites</b></u>; accept <b><u>Tractarianism</b></u> until read; accept <b><u>Newmanites</b></u> until “Newman” is read; accept <b><u>Anglo-Catholicism</b></u> until “Catholic” is read and prompt afterwards; prompt on <u>high church</u> Anglicanism until “high church” is read; prompt on <u>Catholic Anglicanism</u> until “Catholic” is read; reject “Anglicanism” or “Catholicism”]
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<b><u>hospital</u></b>s [accept <b><u>infirmaries</u></b>; accept <b><u>hôtel</u></b>s or <b><u>Hôtel</u></b>-Dieu; accept <b><u>muristan</u></b>]
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<b><u>commencement</u></b> addresses [or <b><u>commencement</u></b> speeches; accept <b><u>graduation</u></b> speeches; accept <b><u>valedictory</u></b> addresses or <b><u>valedictorian</u></b> speeches; prompt on <u>speech</u>es or <u>address</u>es or <u>oration</u>s]
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<b><u><em>Discourses</em></u></b> <em>of Epictetus</em> [or <b><u><em>Diatribai</em></u></b>] (The “Handbook” is the <em>Enchiridion</em>, also compiled by Arrian.)
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<b><u>Antigone</b></u> [or <b><u><em>Antigòn</b></u> an Kreyòl</em>; prompt on <u>Aneeka</u> by asking “what earlier character is Aneeka based on?”]
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<b><u>superconductivity</u></b> [or <b><u>superconductor</u></b>s]
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<b><u>Heraclitus</b></u>
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Angela <b><u>Lansbury</u></b> [or Dame Angela Brigid <b><u>Lansbury</u></b>]
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<b><u>transonic</u></b> [or <b><u>transsonic</u></b>; or answers that indicate <b><u>crossing</u></b> the <b><u>speed of sound</u></b>; accept <b><u>supersonic</u></b> or answers that indicate going <b><u>faster</u></b> than the <b><u>speed of sound</u></b>]
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<b><u>Dejima</u></b> [or <b><u>Deshima</u></b>; or <b><u>Tsukishima</u></b>]
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<b><u>waltz</u></b> [or <b><u><em>valse</em></u></b>; accept <em>La <b><u>valse</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Valses</u></b> nobles et sentimentales</em>; prompt on <u><em>poème</u> chorégraphique </em>or choreographic <u>poem</u>]
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<b><u>Palestinian</b></u>s [or al-<b><u>Filasṭīniyyūn</b></u> or al-<b><u>Filasṭīni</b></u> or <b><u>Fālasṭīnīm</b></u>; accept <b><u>Palestinian Arab</b></u>s; accept <b><u>Gazan</b></u>s and <b><u>West Bank</b></u> residents before read; prompt on <u>Arab</u>s]
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<b><u>P</u></b>ierre <b><u>Trudeau</u></b> [or Joseph Philippe <b><u>P</u></b>ierre Yves Elliott <b><u>Trudeau</u></b>; prompt on <u>Trudeau</u>]
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Franz <b><u>Schubert</b></u> [or Franz Peter <b><u>Schubert</b></u>] (The lullaby in the third clue is “The Brook’s Lullaby” from <em>Die schöne Müllerin</em>.)
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<b><u>chop suey</b></u> [or <b><u>chop sooy</b></u>; or <b><u>zá suì</b></u>; accept “Cornet <b><u>Chop Suey</b></u>”; prompt on Chinese <u>food</u> or Chinese-American <u>food</u> or similar answers until “Chinese-American” is read]
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<b><u>fever</u></b> [or dengue hemorrhagic <b><u>fever</u></b> or yellow <b><u>fever</u></b>]
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<b><u>metallicity</u></b> [accept <b><u>metal content</u></b> or <b><u>metal richness</u></b>; prompt on <u><em>Z</em></u>]
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<b><u>khand</b></u>a [accept <b><u>khadg</b></u>a, <b><u>kharg</b></u>a,<b> </b>or <b><u>patissa</b></u>; accept <b><u>sukhela</b></u>; prompt on <u>asi</u>; prompt on double-edged <u>sword</u> until read] (The rite in the first line is <em>kharga shapna</em>; the god mentioned is Khandoba; the leader is Baba Deep Singh; Gohalwar is also known as the Battle of Amritsar.)
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<b><u>Planck</u></b>’s law
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<b><u>sperm</b></u> cells [or <b><u>sperm</b></u>atozoa; or <b><u>sperm</b></u>atozoon; prompt on <u>gamete</u>s]
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<b><u>cat</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Cath</u></b> Palug]
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<b><u>Caracalla</u></b> [or Lucius Septimius <b><u>Bassianus</u></b>; prompt on Marcus Aurelius <u>Antoninus</u>] (Pertinax the Younger joked that Caracalla should take the title “Geticus,” which probably referred to the fact that he killed his brother and not to his campaigns against the Getae.)
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<em><b><u>Waverley</u></b>; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since</em>
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<b><u>Portugal</u></b> [or <b><u>Portuguese</u></b> Republic; or República <b><u>Portuguesa</u></b>]
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Ezra <b><u>Pound</u></b> [or Ezra Weston Loomis <b><u>Pound</u></b>]
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<b><u>ANOVA</u></b> [or <b><u>analysis of variance</u></b>; accept two-way <b><u>ANOVA</u></b> or two-way <b><u>analysis of variance</u></b>; accept factorial <b><u>ANOVA</u></b> or factorial <b><u>analysis of variance</u></b>; accept <em>Beyond <b><u>ANOVA</u></b>: Basics of Applied Statistics</em>]
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John Scotus <b><u>Eriugena</u></b> [accept variants like Johannes Scotus <b><u>Erigena</u></b> or John the Scott <b><u>Erigena</u></b>; prompt on John <u>Scotus</u> or John the <u>Scott</u>; reject “John Duns Scotus”]
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<b><u>6/5</u></b>/3 (“six-five-three”) [or <b><u>6/5</u></b> (“six-five”); reject any partial answer]
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<b><u>1940s</b></u> [prompt on ’<u>40</u>s]
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<b><u>disco</u></b> [accept <b><u>Disco</u></b> Demolition Night; prompt on <u>dance</u> music]
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<b><u>singlet oxygen</b></u> [or <b><u>dioxygen(singlet)</b></u> or <b><u>dioxidene</b></u>; accept <b><u>1O2</b></u> or <b><u>1[O2]</b></u>; prompt on <u>oxygen</u>, <u>O2</u>, <u>diatomic oxygen</u>, or <u>dioxygen</u> until “oxygen” is read; prompt on <u>reactive oxygen species</u> or <u>ROS</u>; reject “triplet oxygen”]
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American <b><u>Regionalism</u></b> [or American <b><u>Regionalist</u></b>]
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<b><u>imatinib</u></b> [accept <b><u>Gleevec</u></b> or <b><u>Glivec</u></b> or <b><u>imatinib mesylate</u></b>]
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John <b><u>Brown</b></u> [accept “John <b><u>Brown</b></u>’s Body”; accept John <b><u>Brown</b></u>’s Fort] (James Redpath wrote <em>The Public Life of Captain John Brown</em>.)
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<b><u>Kofun</u></b> period [or <b><u>Kofun</u></b> jidai; prompt on <u>Yamato</u> until read]
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<b><u>wreath</b></u>s [or <b><u>garland</b></u>s or <b><u>chaplet</b></u>s; accept flower <b><u>wreath</b></u>s or Advent <b><u>wreath</b></u>s; accept <b><u>Advent crown</b></u>s; prompt on <u>crown</u>s]
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<b><u>domain</u></b>s [accept natural <b><u>domain</u></b>s or <b><u>domain</u></b>s of definition; prompt on <u>dom</u>; prompt on <u>inputs</u> to a function until read; prompt on <u>arguments</u> of a function; prompt on <u>basis</u>]
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<b><u><em>Scheherazade</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Shekherazáda</em></u></b>]
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<b><u>core collapse</b></u> [or <b><u>core-collapse</b></u> supernovae; prompt on <u>collapse</u>; prompt on <u>CCSNe</u>; prompt on stellar <u>explosion</u>s or <u>supernova</u>e or <u>SNe</u> or Type Ib (“one-B”) <u>supernova</u>e or Type Ic (“one-C”) <u>supernova</u>e or Type II (“two”) <u>supernova</u>e or Type II-P <u>supernova</u>e or Type II-L <u>supernova</u>e or Type IIb <u>supernova</u>e by asking “what physical process is the mechanism for the supernova?” until “supernova” is read; reject “Type Ia (“one-A”) supernovae” or “thermonuclear explosions” or “thermal runaway”] (SASI stands for standing accretion shock instability.)
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Ousmane <b><u>Sembène</u></b> (“ooss-MAHN sahm-BEN”) [or <b><u>Sembène</u></b> Ousmane] (The first line describes <em>The Black Docker</em>.)
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<b><u>Watts Tower</u></b>s
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<b><u>Fallopian</b></u> tubes [or <b><u>uterine tube</b></u>s; or <b><u>oviduct</b></u>s; accept <b><u>salpinges</b></u> or <b><u>salpinx</b></u> until “hydrosalpinx” is read; prompt on <u>uterus</u>; prompt on <u>tube</u>s] (HSG stands for hysterosalpingography.)
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<b><u>activation</b></u> functions
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<b><u>Vietnam</u></b> [or Socialist Republic of <b><u>Vietnam</u></b>; or North <b><u>Vietnam</u></b>; or South <b><u>Vietnam</u></b>; or the Democratic Republic of <b><u>Vietnam</u></b>; accept <b><u>Vietnam</u></b> War]
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<b><u>bestiary</u></b> [or <b><u>bestiaries</u></b>; accept Aberdeen <b><u>bestiary</u></b>]
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<b><u>genetic assimilation</u></b> [prompt on <u>genetic accommodation</u>]
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Charles <b><u>Dickens</b></u>
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Ennio <b><u>Morricone</b></u> (“mor-ih-KOH-nay”)
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Kingdom of <b><u>Sweden</u></b> [or Konungariket <b><u>Sverige</u></b> (“SVARR-yeh”)] (The first clue refers to Anders Chydenius.)
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<b><u>Kurosawa</b></u> [accept Akira <b><u>Kurosawa</b></u> or Kiyoshi <b><u>Kurosawa</b></u>] (The films in the first two clues are <em>Cure</em> and <em>High and Low</em>.)
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Steve <b><u>Jobs</u></b> [accept <em>The (R)evolution of Steve <b><u>Jobs</em></u></b>]
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<b><u>Ituri</u></b> Province [accept <b><u>Ituri</u></b> Rainforest or Forêt tropicale de l’<b><u>Ituri</u></b>; accept <b><u>Ituri</u></b> conflict]
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<b><u>inauguration</u></b> of John Fitzgerald <b><u>Kennedy</u></b> [or <b><u>inauguration</u></b> of <b><u>JFK</u></b>; prompt on presidential <u>inauguration</u>] (The first sentence refers to Sammy Davis, Jr.)
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<b><u>Estevanico</u></b> [or Mustafa <b><u>Azemmouri</u></b>; or <b><u>Esteban</u></b> de Dorantes]
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video <b><u>game</u></b>s [or <b><u>VG</u></b>s; accept Nvidia <b><u>Game</u></b>Works or <b><u>game</u></b> loop or <b><u>game</u></b> engines; accept <b><u><em>Quake</em></u></b> until read; accept specific types of games such as first-person <b><u>shooter</u></b>s or <b><u>FPS</u></b>s or <b><u>MMO</u></b>s or MMO<b><u>RPG</u></b>s or C<b><u>RPG</u></b>s or <b><u>RTS</u></b>s or <b><u>TBS</u></b>s or <b><u>TBT</u></b>s or <b><u>MOBA</u></b>s]
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Battle of <b><u>Kosovo</u></b> [or Battle of <b><u>Kosovo</u></b> Field; accept Battle of <b><u>Kosovës</u></b> or Battle of <b><u>Kosovo</u></b> polje; accept Battle of the <b><u>Field of Blackbirds</u></b>]
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<b><u>sitzprobe</u></b> (“sits-probe” or “ZITS-pro-buh”) [or <b><u>Sitzproben</u></b>; reject “Wandelprobe”]
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<b><u>nucleoside</u></b>s [accept <b><u>nucleoside</u></b> analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors or <b><u>nucleoside</u></b> transporter; prompt on <u>nucleobase</u>s; prompt on <u>purine</u>s or <u>pyrimidine</u>s; prompt on h<u>ENT</u>s or h<u>CNT</u>s; reject “nucleotides” or “nucleic acids”]
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<b><u>Chinese Communist</u></b> Party [or <b><u>CCP</u></b>; prompt on <u>Communist</u> Party] (The second sentence refers to Hú Shì’s critique of Lǐ Dàzhāo.)
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national <b><u>debt</u></b> [or government <b><u>debt</u></b>; or public <b><u>debt</u></b>; or sovereign <b><u>debt</u></b>; accept <b><u>debt</u></b> fairy; accept “Growth in a Time of <b><u>Debt</u></b>”; accept <b><u>debt</u></b>-to-GDP ratio until “tax” is read; reject “(budget) deficit(s)”; reject “(deficit) spending”; reject “household debt”] (In the thought experiment, the “debt fairy” converts all debt to an equivalent amount of capital overnight.)
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<b><u>Manchester</b></u> [accept <b><u>Manchester</b></u> United FC or <b><u>Manchester</b></u> City FC]
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“<b><u>When We Dead Awaken</u></b>: Writing as Re-Vision” [or “<b><u>Writing as Re-Vision</u></b>”] (by Adrienne Rich)
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<b><u>forest</u></b>s [or rain<b><u>forest</u></b>s; prompt on <u>tree</u>s until read; prompt on forest <u>canopies</u> or forest <u>floor</u>s until read by asking “what larger ecosystem is that a zone of?”]
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<b><u>astronomer</u></b>s (The Matejko work is <em>Astronomer Copernicus</em>.)
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<b><u>Mao</u></b> Zedong
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<b><u>Reza</u></b> (“ray-ZAW”) Shah [or <b><u>Reza</u></b> Khan, <b><u>Reza</u></b> Shah Pahlavi, <b><u>Reza</u></b> Shah the Great, or <b><u>Reza</u></b> Khan Sardar e Sepah; prompt on <u>Pahlavi</u> until read; reject “Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,” “Mohammad Reza Shah,” “the shah,” or “Reza Pahlavi II”] (The water dispute with Mohammad Zahir Shah concerned Sistān’s Helmand River. The Trans-Iranian Railway was part of the “Persian Corridor” during World War II.)
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<b><u>worm</u></b>s [accept “The Conqueror <b><u>Worm</u></b>”]
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Felix <b><u>Mendelssohn</u></b>-Bartholdy AND Jenny <b><u>Lind</u></b> [accept Jakob Ludwig Felix <b><u>Mendelssohn</u></b>-Bartholdy in place of “Felix Mendelssohn”; accept Johanna Maria <b><u>Lind</u></b> in place of “Jenny Lind”] (That final oratorio is <em>Elijah</em>.)
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<b><u>Solovki</u></b> [or <b><u>Solovetsky</u></b> Islands; accept <b><u>Solovetsky</u></b> Monastery]
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<b><u>som</u></b>a
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George <b><u>McGovern</u></b> [or George Stanley <b><u>McGovern</u></b>]
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<b><u>great chain of being</u></b> [or <b><u>ladder of being</u></b>; or <b><u><em>scala naturae</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>great chain</u>]
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<b><u>brahmin</u></b> [or <b><u>brāhmaṇa</u></b> or <b><u>brāhmaṇ</u></b>]
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<b><u>Seth</u></b> [or <b><u>Shet</u></b>; accept <b><u>Shehid</u></b> ibn Jerr; accept <b><u>Seth</u></b>ianism]
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<em>The <b><u>Dark Side of the Moon</b></u></em> (Clues refer to “Money,” “Time,” “The Great Gig in the Sky,” and “Money” again.)
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Church of the <b><u>East</u></b> [or <b><u>Nestorian</u></b> Church; or East <b><u>Syriac</u></b> Church; or <b><u>Assyrian</u></b> Church of the East; accept <b><u>Nestorian</u></b> Stele; prompt on Eastern <u>Christian</u>ity; prompt on <u>Syriac</u> Christians] (The second sentence refers to Patriarch Timothy I of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.)
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<b><u><em>Finnegans Wake</b></u></em>
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<b><u>Hebrew</u></b> [or <b><u>Ivrit</u></b>; reject “Modern Hebrew” or “Israeli Hebrew”] (The novella is <em>Die Judenbuche</em> or <em>The Jew’s Beech</em>.)
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Madam C. J. <b><u>Walker</u></b> [or Sarah <b><u>Breedlove</u></b>; accept Madam C. J. <b><u>Walker</u></b> Manufacturing Company]
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<b><u>smile</u></b> [or word forms like <b><u>smiling</u></b>; or <b><u>laugh</u></b>ing or <b><u>laugh</u></b>ter; accept Archaic <b><u>smile</u></b>; accept <b><u>Laugh</u></b>ing Buddha or <b><u>Xiào</u></b> fú]
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<b><u>paramagnetism</b></u> [or word forms like <b><u>paramagnetic</b></u>; accept Pauli <b><u>paramagnetism</b></u> or Van Vleck <b><u>paramagnetism</b></u>; accept super<b><u>paramagnetism</b></u>; prompt on <u>magnetism</u> or <u>magnetic</u>; reject “ferromagnetism” or “diamagnetism”]
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<b><u>tourist</u></b>s [or practitioners of <b><u>tourism</u></b>; accept cultural <b><u>tourist</u></b>s; accept <em>The <b><u>Tourist</u></b> Gaze</em>; accept you, the <b><u>tourist</u></b>; prompt on <u>traveler</u>s; prompt on <u>visitor</u>s; prompt on <u>foreigner</u>s; prompt on <u>vacation</u>ers; prompt on people on <u>holiday</u>] (<em>A Small Place</em> opens with you, the tourist, in Antigua’s V. C. Bird International Airport.)
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<b><u>self-adjoint</u></b>ness [or <b><u>Hermitian</u></b>ness]
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<b><u>Yan</u></b> Zhenqing (“yen jun-CHING”) [or <b><u>Yen</u></b> Chen-ch’ing; or <b><u>Gan</u></b> Shinkei; or <b><u>Nhan</u></b> Chân Khanh; or <b><u>An</u></b> Jinkyung; or <b><u>Ngan</u></b> Zan-hing; or <b><u>Yan</u></b>-ti or <b><u>Gan</u></b>-tai or <b><u>Nhan</u></b>-thể or <b><u>An</u></b>-che] (The idiom is “Yan muscle, Liu bone.”)
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<b><u>1848</u></b> [prompt on ’<u>48</u> or the <u>Forty-Eight</u>ers] (Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “Mexico will poison us.”)
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<b><u>Egypt</b></u>
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G. K. <b><u>Chesterton</u></b> [or Gilbert Keith <b><u>Chesterton</u></b>]
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La <b><u>Chasse-galerie</u></b> (“SHAHSS-gah-luh-REE”) [accept the <b><u>Bewitched Canoe</u></b> or the <b><u>Flying Canoe</u></b>; prompt on the <u>Canoe</u> or the <u>Wild Hunt Bewitched</u>]
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