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| It's the alliterative & often damaging practice of removing all the trees from an area, as seen here |
(Patricia: What is deforestation?)
clear cutting
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| Wherefore art thou Romeo? In "Shakespeare in Love", Romeo art this actress |
Gwyneth Paltrow
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| There are solar & lunar types of this astronomical phenomenon |
an Eclipse
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| His London home & museum boasts the original "Golden Arm" sign mentioned in chapter 6 of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
Dickens
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| From Old French for "game divided", its historical meanings include problem, trick, stratagem &, of course, danger |
jeopardy
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| This Illinois man's 2 presidential runs in the 1950s garnered a total of 162 electoral votes |
(Adlai) Stevenson
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| ...who looked like a lady, when she played Victoria Grant & Count Victor Grezhinski in 1982 |
Julie Andrews
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| Elude or evade |
Dodge (Escape accepted)
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| The city of Paris owns Hauteville House, this "Les Miserables" author's home on the Island of Guernsey |
(Victor) Hugo
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| This Roman god was unusual in that he had 2 faces & no Greek counterpart |
Janus
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| In 1858 Abe Lincoln lost a U.S. Senate race to this man but would bounce back against him 2 years later |
(Stephen) Douglas
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| It's the topmost layer of a forest formed by the crowns of trees |
the canopy
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| She won her first Oscar playing Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" |
(Patricia: Who is... I can see her face, but...) (Alex: Yeah, I can too. Mary?) (Mary: Who is [*]?) (Alex: Yes. You were seeing her face, also!)
Hilary Swank
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| A person who makes barrels |
a Cooper
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| Tourist cometh to Tao House, the California home where he wrote "The Iceman Cometh" |
Eugene O'Neill
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| After the death of Ian Curtis, the members of this band formed New Order |
Joy Division
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| In 1976 he fell 117 delegate votes short of defeating President Ford for the Republican nomination |
Ronald Reagan
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| Tilda Swinton went on a gender-bender in 1992's "Orlando", based on this writer's 1928 novel |
Virginia Woolf
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| Uranium or titanium, for example |
(Alex: [*], yes indeed, a Honda [*].)
an Element
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| You can follow in the footsteps of this novelist on Dublin walking tours led by his nephew, Ken Monaghan |
James Joyce
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| William S. Burroughs' first novel |
Junky
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| This former Minnesota gov. ran unsuccessfully 9 times for the GOP presidential nomination |
(Dave: Uh, who is Ventura?)
(Harold) Stassen
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| In the 2005 film "Transamerica", she's the he-almost-turned-she seen here |
Felicity Huffman
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| In Arthurian legend, this island represented an earthly paradise |
(Alex: [*], yes, Toyota makes the [*].)
Avalon
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| Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country |
Sweden
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| "EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BOMBSHELL", read the headlines in 1952 when she returned from Europe |
(Alex: Correct--that should have been in LADY LOOKS LIKE A DUDE category.) [ERRATUM: The headline of the Daily News actually read "EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY".]
Christine Jorgensen
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| 1 electoral vote shy of being president, he left $2.4 million of his estate to help found the N.Y. Public Library |
(Dave: Who is Rockefeller?)
Samuel Tilden
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