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LET THE SUNSHINE IN
CRY ME A RIVER
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JULY BABY
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This Doc was the bandleader and trumpeter on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Who is Doc Severinsen? Today, he plays occasional live concerts with various bands.
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This building is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What is the White House?
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This is the opposite of sunset.
What is sunrise? Sunrise and sunset occur approximately 12 hours apart at the equator.
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This river runs between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Rio Grande? The river not only serves as a natural boundary between the United States and Mexico but also runs between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Born July 1, 1961, this late Princess of Wales died in Paris while she and Dodi Fayed were riding through a tunnel.
Who is Princess Diana?
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This beloved children’s author who wrote classics such as Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham was born Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Who is Dr. Seuss? Oh, the Places You’ll Go! was originally a commencement address he gave at Lake Forest College—the only commencement address he gave.
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This elected official lives at Number 10 Downing Street.
Who is the British prime minister?
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He sings “A Place in the Sun” and “You Are the Sunshine of My Life.”
Who is Stevie Wonder? Motown Records discovered Stevie Wonder when he was 11 years old. His first Motown Album was Little Stevie Wonder: The 12 Year Old Genius.
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This river runs north and south and divides the United States into the east and the west.
What is the Mississippi River?
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Born July 7, 1940, he was the Beatles’ drummer.
Who is Ringo Starr? Ringo was born Richard Starkey. He was the second drummer and replaced Pete Best. He performed vocals on only a few Beatles’ songs, but he sang the lead on “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from My Friends.”
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This 1965 film was set in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and followed Lara and Yuri’s romance during the turmoil.
What is Dr. Zhivago? The film stars Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. Did you know there are two versions of Cyrillic lettering? One is pre-revolutionary, and the other is post-revolutionary. The film allegedly uses the wrong one—the post-revolutionary version.
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The Taylor family lives at 322 Maple Road, Mayberry, North Carolina, on this popular 1960s sitcom.
What is The Andy Griffith Show? The name changed to Mayberry R.F.D. when Andy Griffith left the show in 1968.
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According to Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 classic, the sun also does this.
What is rises? The book is The Sun Also Rises.
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This river flows through the middle of London.
What is the River Thames (or Thames River)? You can see Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the Tower of London when you cruise down the Thames.
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Born July 13, 1942, this actor walked away from a vintage, two-seater airplane crash this spring, and you probably remember him for his role in Working Girl with Melanie Griffith.
Who is Harrison Ford? This was not his first crash; he survived a helicopter crash in 1999.
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This controversial Turkish-American surgeon hosts a popular daytime television show and is fond of saying, “When I go home, I’m not Dr., I’m Mr.”
Who is Dr. Oz? Though some believe it is best to take Dr. Oz’s advice with a grain of salt, he’s very entertaining, especially when he talks about how his wife pushed him into alternative and complementary medicine.
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This famous detective lives at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
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This knighted singer, composer, and pianist sings “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.”
Who is Elton John? A 1970s icon, he’s known for his glitzy glasses and flamboyant costumes—reminiscent of Liberace’s style.
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This is the longest river in the world, and it runs through the city of Cairo.
What is the Nile River? The river is more than 4,100 miles long and splits into two tributaries in Sudan—the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
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Born July 14, 1913, this American president pardoned President Richard Nixon.
Who is President Gerald Ford? He was Speaker of the House and ascended to the vice presidency when then-Vice President Spiro Agnew stepped down in 1973. President Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid impeachment after the Watergate scandal, and Ford became president.
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This pediatrician advised mid-20th century mothers on motherhood through his book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Who is Dr. Spock? According to Bio.com, “The book has been published in 39 languages and sold over 50 million copies.” Dr. Benjamin Spock advised against corporal punishment, which was a controversial position at the time.
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This morbid family lived at 0001 Cemetery Lane along with their butler, Lurch, and a disembodied hand called Thing.
What is the Addams family? The Munsters and The Addams Family were dark-comedy hits during the 1960s, and Dark Shadows was a creepy daytime soap opera.
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Bill Withers recorded two classics during his career—one was “Lean on Me,” and this was the other one.
What is “Ain’t No Sunshine (When She’s Gone)”?
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This 4,000-mile river runs through South America and is the second-longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River? The river and its tributaries run through six countries—Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.
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Born July 26, 1856, this Irish playwright penned Pygmalion, which later became My Fair Lady when the story moved to the big screen.
Who is George Bernard Shaw? Did you know he’s the only person to have been awarded a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award? He won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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