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Mouselike boy in a  E.B. White  story traveling  through the heavens as a Ursa Minor

Stuart Little Dipper

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Founded in 1789 this D.C. university is the oldest Catholic college in the U.S.

GEORGETOWN

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This type of decorative work gets its name from the Greek for a place of the Muses

MOSAIC

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Illinois professor & librarian Dee Brown changed the field of Native American history with Bury My Heart here

WOUNDED KNEE

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These awards given annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences were awarded an OED entry

THE WEBBY AWARDS

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Period of rest in Genesis where working parents leave toddlers


SEVENTH DAY CARE CENTERS

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Sister school that's involved in investing $7 million to redevelop So. Hadley Mass. where it's located

MOUNT HOLYOKE

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Get off my heath wouldn't have sounded as good for Clint as using this word from Old French for heath

LAWN

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African-American History Month is celebrated in this month


FEBRUARY

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When Christian Science refers to the supreme being it uses the term divine this 4-letter word

MIND

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Middle Eastern entertainment with rapid gyrations of the hips that's a reality TV show judged by Len Bruno & Carrie Ann


BELLY DANCING WITH THE STARS

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Like Brooke Shields F. Scott Fitzgerald attended this N.J. univ. but he didn't graduate

PRINCETON

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A synonym for catastrophe its origins go back to when the ancients blamed calamities on star & planet alignment

A DISASTER

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P:A chunk of this piece of American history chipped off by a descendant of William Bradford

PLYMOUTH ROCK

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Francis Bacon penned a vision of society based on 17th century science The New this fabled lost land

ATLANTIS

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A 1940 way to say carrying a gun becomes carrying a measurement of temperature & humidity

PACKING HEAT INDEX

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Smith College the largest privately endowed women's college in the U.S. is in this state

MASSACHUSETTS

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The name of this spirit is from the German for rattle & ghost


A POLTERGEIST

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Spring buds were blooming but The Great one of these of March 1888 was one of the worst ever in American history


A BLIZZARD

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Pick a home or when to marry with these series of steps to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions


ALGORITHMS

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James Joyce's last novel goes back to school at a university in Winston-Salem

FINNEGANS WAKE FOREST

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This state-supported school for men is often just called VMI

VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE

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From the Middle Dutch word for ship comes this term for the captain of a small ship or boat

SKIPPER

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(I'm Danielle Niles from WBZ.) 16 months before he famously rode off into American history this man joined the other patriots in the Boston tea party protest

PAUL REVERE

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You can learn about quarks & gluons in Chad Orzel's How to Teach this science specialty To Your Dog

QUANTUM PHYSICS

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