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| HEY HEY WE'RE THE MANCHUS |
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| In 1961 Wham-O introduced this 25-foot-long plastic sheet to America's backyards |
(Alex: Melizza, in about two years your kids are going to play on one of those!)
Slip 'n Slide
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| With Ellis Island, it's the USA's most visited national monument |
Statue of Liberty
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| Few of these ever reach maturity, they're destroyed by weather or eaten by other animals |
Caterpillars
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| We took over this area in 2 stages: first the "inner", then the "outer" |
Mongolia
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| Be it ever so numbing, there's no place like Nome |
(Melizza: What is home?) (Alex: I need you to fix the entire proverb; take a shot at it.) (Melizza: Be it ever so humble...) (Alex: This is a new category for us and it's a little difficult to explain.)
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
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| One of these courses is usually 6,500 to 7,000 yards long & divided into 18 sections |
Golf course
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| The USA's only natl. monument outside the 50 states is Buck Island Reef near St. Croix in this U.S. possession |
U.S. Virgin Islands
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| This butterfly has a 4-inch wingspan |
Monarch butterfly
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| Helped by a defecting general, we smashed this prior dynasty like one of their fine vases |
Ming
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| Tide groweth before a squall |
Pride cometh before a fall
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| Game seen here in a Winslow Homer painting |
Croquet
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| This Montana site was designated a national cemetery in 1879; it became a national monument in 1946 |
Little Big Horn
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| It builds its nests out of paper fibers made from bark which it mixes with its own saliva |
Wasp
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Wayne, Tristan, Kenny |
Rogers
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| Good genes: our second & fourth men in this exalted post each reigned over 60 years |
(Melizza: What are khans?)
emperors
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| A beard in the hand is worth 2 on the foot |
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush
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| The area between the wickets is called the pitch in this game |
Cricket
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| Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument covers over 4,000 acres along the banks of this river |
Snake
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| It's the only insect that can turn its head from side to side |
Praying Mantis
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| We protected this handwriting art, though we'd only just gotten our own written language |
Calligraphy
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| Absinthe makes the dart go longer |
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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| In 1995 George Zameska donned a skirt to join a women's varsity team in Philadelphia in this sport |
(Alex: That's it? You guys were cruising along so nicely there!)
Field hockey
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| It rises 1,280 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River in northeast Wyoming |
Devils Tower National Monument
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| It can't fold up its wings; what you see is what you get |
Dragonfly
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Sally, Anthony, Aidan |
Quinn
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| In 1683 we conquered this island & made it part of Fukien province |
Taiwan
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| Brevity is the seal of knit |
Brevity is the soul of wit
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