'90s MUSIC
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK
USEFUL PLANTS
AMPHIBIANS
SOME SCIENCE
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After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do"
Sheryl Crow
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This nursery rhyme about a rodent & a timepiece has been called an ancestor of the limerick
"Hickory Dickory Dock"
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Barbecue pit masters know all about this shrub that's the name of cities in Texas & Nevada
mesquite
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The wood frog of the Arctic can live with 65% of its body frozen due to using this sugar in its blood as an antifreeze
glucose
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Able to become billions of times as bright as the Sun, it's called "the 'last hurrah' of a dying massive star" by NASA
a supernova
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In 2020 a signed, original pair of Nike Air these, worn in play in 1985, netted $560,000 at auction
Jordans
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This country superstar's "Friends In Low Places" was named CMA Single of the Year in 1991
Garth Brooks
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In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix"
Ski
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Resorted to along the trail & maybe during COVID-era shortages, mullein is also called cowboy's this bathroom stuff
toilet paper
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Sirens are aquatic salamanders that can breathe through lungs as well as through these
gills
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Often seen in swirls of green, the northern lights are also known by this Latin name
the aurora borealis
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In 1990, exactly 100 years after it was painted, this artist's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold for $82.5 million
Vincent van Gogh
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This Seattle band's 1991 debut album was titled "Ten" for the uniform number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock
Pearl Jam
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A Lewis Carroll girl "grew...thinner & thinner / The reason was plain / She slept out in the rain / & was never allowed any" this
dinner
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This seed plant of the genus Fagopyrum gives good pancake & pillows from it are said to help align your spine
buckwheat
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Although this "biblical" frog is the world's largest at around 12 inches long, its tadpoles are the same size as other frogs'
a goliath frog
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God bless this radioactive element discovered in 1944 by a group of U.S. scientists when they bombarded plutonium with neutrons
americium
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Someone laid down $960,000 for his "Blackie" guitar, which he played on "Lay Down Sally"
Clapton
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In 1998 these gals had back to back No 1 hits with "There's Your Trouble" & "Wide Open Spaces"
the Dixie Chicks (The Chicks)
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This prolific sci-fi & sci writer also produced "Lecherous Limericks" & a "Grossery" of limericks--we'll quote neither
Isaac Asimov
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The painted daisy is not so pretty to some tiny creatures, as it's a source of pyrethrin, a natural one of these substances
insecticide
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Snakes have these on the outside of their skin, but caecilians, which resemble snakes, have them embedded in folds in the skin
scales
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Originally obtained from ants, today this chemical used as a preservative & antibacterial agent is mostly made synthetically
formic acid
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In 1993 this Texas billionaire & presidential candidate got himself a Soyuz space capsule for $1.7 million
Perot
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"Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name
Wu-Tang Clan
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19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard"
Lear
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This herbal partner of goldenseal is no recent fad--it was introduced in the 1880s as "Meyer's Blood Purifier"
echinacea
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This 3-letter term is the terrestrial juvenile stage of development of the eastern newt when the body turns bright orange
an eft
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"Discover" magazine said, "Few organisms rank lower in life than the gelatinous, pond-dwelling" this genus of protozoans
Paramecium
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Christie's recently offered art, objects &, of course, photos from this late former husband of Princess Margaret
Lord Snowdon
