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Fishhook pincushion says it all as the name of one of these prickly succulents native to the Sonoran Desert
a cactus
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This horror writer noted an omnibus of "Tales from the Crypt" when giving The Washington Post a 2023 tour of his personal library
Stephen King
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The slowest of the 4 Olympic swimming strokes, it provides a great cardio workout
the breaststroke
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Songwriter Irving Berlin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1918, wrote this patriotic song about the "land that I love"
"God Bless America"
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This desert that ranges from the Sierra Nevada range & the Colorado Plateau is home to Joshua Tree National Park
the Mojave
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Among the military histories owned by "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell was 1902's "Reminiscences of" this war
the Civil War
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Though associated with the bike, this co. founded in 2012 offers a rowing machine that works "86% of your muscles in just 15 minutes"
Peloton
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Rock art more than 7,000 years old showing giraffes and other animals hints that this largest hot desert used to be green
the Sahara
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Harvard's collection of books owned by this man includes his marked-up copy of the 1839 work "Natural History of the Sperm Whale"
Herman Melville
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This discipline, seen here, has evolved from a martial art to a more placid way of maintaining health
tai chi
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The Gobi Desert stretches 500,000 square miles between China & this landlocked country
Mongolia
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A library he started in Conn. includes "Birds of Eastern North America", inscribed "To Jean Clemens with her Father's love"
Mark Twain
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CrossFit people refer to chain workout spots as this gym, after the soulless one that opposes Average Joe's in "Dodgeball"
Globo Gym
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Anakin Skywalker would hate this desert on the same-named Middle East Peninsula--it has the Earth's largest stretch of sand
the Arabian Desert
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In the chain of Southern lit, his library at Rowan Oak has the last novel he read, William Styron's "Lie Down in Darkness"
Faulkner
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In 2025 Beatrice Chebet became the first woman to break 14 minutes in this distance, often used for charity runs that go a bit slower
a 5K