Bygone, in Chaucer’s tales
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OLDE Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author. He is often referred to as the father of English literature because he established vernacular English as a legitimate language for artistic works, as up to that point authors used French or Latin. Chaucer’s most famous work ...
Sonic the Hedgehog company
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SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog is a title character in a videogame and the mascot of Sega, the computer game developer. Sonic was set up as a rival to Nintendo’s mascot Mario. ...
Volcanic cloud component
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ASH Our word “volcano” comes from “Vulcano”, the name of a volcanic island off the coast of Italy. The island’s name comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The Romans believed that the island of Vulcano was the chimney of the forge belonging ...
Little Energizers
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AAS We are all fairly familiar with the Energizer Bunny, I am guessing. It was introduced in 1989 to promote Energizer batteries, by parodying the Duracell Bunny that made its debut in 1973. ...
Experienced campaigner, for short
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POL Politician (pol) A politician is an individual who is involved in politics, which is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group or society. Politicians play a crucial role in the governance of a country, region, or community. Here ...
La Brea ___ Pits
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TAR The La Brea Tar Pits are located right in the heart of the city of Los Angeles. At the site there is a constant flow of tar that seeps up to the surface from underground, a phenomenon that has been around for tens ...
Clan symbol
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TOTEM “Totem” is a word used to describe any entity that watches over a group of people. As such, totems are usually the subjects of worship. Totem poles are really misnamed, as they are not intended to represent figures to be worshiped, but rather ...
Forget-me-___ (blue flowers)
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NOTS The plants known as forget-me-nots were given their distinctive name first in French, i.e. “ne m’oubliez pas”. “Forget-me-not” is simply a translation into English. “Forget-me-not” refers to a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, and it is particularly associated with the ...
Explosive Minecraft block
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TNT Minecraft is a video game that was released in 2011. It is the most popular video game of all time, with well over 200 million units sold. “TNT” can refer to different things depending on the context: Trinitrotoluene (TNT): This is a yellow ...
“Don’t do that dorky thing you do”
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BE COOL I consider “dork” and “adorkable” to be pretty offensive slang. “Dork” originated in the sixties among American students, and has its roots in another slang term, a term for male genitalia. ...
Kind of tree in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
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PEAR The fabulous Christmas carol called “The Twelve Days of Christmas” dates back at least to 1780 when it was first published in England, though it may be French in origin. The concept of twelve days of Christmas comes from the tradition that the ...
Tortoiselike
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SLOW The external shell of a tortoise is actually fused to the creature’s ribcage. Tortoises often have long lives. The oldest recorded age for a tortoise is 188 years. ...
Layered pasta dish
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LASAGNA “Lasagna” was originally the name of a cooking pot, but the term came to mean a dish that was cooked in it. “Lasagna” also became the name of the flat noodle used in the dish. If you order lasagna on the other side ...
Lake bordering Ohio and New York
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ERIE Lake Erie borders four US states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan) and one Canadian province (Ontario). Lake Erie is one of the five Great Lakes in North America and the fourth largest by surface area. Here are some key facts about Lake ...
Scottish caps
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TAMS A tam o’shanter is a man’s cap worn traditionally by Scotsmen. “Tams” were originally all blue (and called “blue bonnets”) but as more dyes became readily available they became more colorful. The name of the cap comes from the title character of the ...
Like Death Valley’s climate
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ARID Death Valley is a spectacular desert valley in California that is part of the Mojave Desert. Badwater Basin in Death Valley is the lowest point in North America, sitting at 282 feet below sea level. Remarkably, Badwater Basin is located just 84 miles ...
Nintendo enthusiast, e.g.
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GAMER Nintendo is a Japanese company, and one of the largest manufacturers of video games in the world. Nintendo was founded way back in 1889 and originally made hanafuda cards, Japanese playing cards. The name “Nintendo” translates as “leave luck to heaven”. ...
Mineral known as the “imperial gem”
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JADE “Jade” is actually the name given to two different mineral rocks, both of which are used to make gemstones. The first is nephrite, a mineral with a varying degree of iron content, the more iron the greener the color. The second is jadeite, ...
Shoulder muscle, informally
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DELT The deltoid “muscle” is actually a group of “muscles”, the ones that cover the shoulder and create the roundness under the skin. The deltoids (delts) are triangular in shape resembling the Greek letter delta, hence the name. “Delt” could refer to various things ...
Followers of an “enduring” philosophy
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STOICS Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher famous for teaching at the Stoa Poikile, the “Painted Porch”, located on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Because of the location of his classes, his philosophy became known as stoicism (from “stoa”, ...
