Celebrity from Day "1/1"
Irr-Elephant Facts
Cult Classics
Connecticut's Finest: Kate and Chris
Nicknames
A Virtual Tour
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"The British are coming!"

Paul Revere

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Elephants are killed for this material in their trunks

Ivory

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This later became a Netflix series--home of the Bears!

Waco

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My mom graduated from this flagship university known for women's basketball

University of Connecticut

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Those born under this fourth sign are nicknamed "moon children"

Cancer

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Prospective college students can tour campuses online, like Northeastern University & Berklee College of Music in this city

Boston

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Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

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This type of elephant is the world's largest land animal

African elephant

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"Don't drink the Kool-Aid" references a cult responsible for this massacre

Jonestown Massacre

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Home to Kathryn Valakos, my mother, this town is famous for something you don't want to be famous for

Newtown

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This NFL field is called "The Frozen Tundra"; the 1967 title game was played there at -13 degrees

Lambeau Field

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Two recently excavated homes are part of the tour of the ruins of this ancient city buried by Vesuvius

Pompeii

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America's darling seamstress

Betsy Ross

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Elephants have 150,000 muscles in this body part

Trunks

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Manson's famous rhyme

Helter Skelter

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Home to Chris Valakos, my stepdad, this town is famous for being home to the United States Coast Guard Academy

New London

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A bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima; the bomb dropped on Nagasaki had this nickname

Fat Man

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First stop, the Governor's Palace as you begin your tour of this Colonial capital of Virginia

Williamsburg

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Director who caught Baby Face Nelson and George Machine Gun Kelly

J. Edgar Hoover

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Elephants bathe in this to prevent from getting sunburned

Mud

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Joker star Joaquin Phoenix was born into this cult

Children of God

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A town near my stepdad's current CT apartment, this town was home to one of Julia Roberts' first movies

Mystic

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This bird is mentioned in one of Louisiana's state nicknames

Pelican

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High up in the Andes of Peru, you can peruse this fascinating city of the Incas

Machu Pichu

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actor, comedian, artist, stunt performer, one of the shortest men in the world


Verne Troyer

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Elephants have three times the human amount of these things--you are using them right now!

Neurons

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Comet Hale-Bopp was the fatal comet that caused mass suicide in San Diego in 1997 in this cult

Heaven's Gate
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My stepdad went to Hartford University: Go _____!

Hawks

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In "The Final Problem", Holmes tells Watson that Professor Moriarty is this, for his ability to organize evil

the "Napoleon Crime"

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You'll "find" that you can virtually explore this Space Shuttle, inside & out, at a Smithsonian hangar in Virginia

Discovery

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