WORLD HISTORY
SIZING UP SIZES
APPS & WEBSITES
THE HERO'S JOURNEY
STARTS WITH A BODY PART
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In this 1900 rebellion, members of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists put up their dukes against Westerners & Chinese Christians

The Boxer Rebellion

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Upright,
spinet,
ballroom grand

piano

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A dating app named for this profession seeks out "rural singles, cowboys, cowgirls, ranchers... & country folk"

farmers

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Or the antihero's! Before "Breaking Bad", Walter White was a high school teacher of this subject, which did come in handy

chemistry

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This Nissan SUV sounds like a fleet of warships

Armada

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In this 1900 rebellion, members of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists put up their dukes against Westerners & Chinese Christians

Richard the Lionheart

400

CR2
D,
AAA

batteries

400

Lily is the name of the character you can try to impress on this language-learning app

Duolingo


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Mahershala Ali hit the road to play some classical music in the 1960s South in this film

Green Book

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A trendy fellow, perhaps listening to indie music & devoted to pour-over coffee

a hipster

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Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566, one of his nicknames was the "Lawgiver"

Suleiman (the Magnificent)

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Octavo,
quarto,
folio

pages (book sizes)

600

This social media app that began as an internal Twitter project by then CEO Jack Dorsey hit 30 million users in January 2025

Bluesky

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...took this cop & family man for a spin(off), from "The Walking Dead" to "The Ones Who Live"

Rick Grimes

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If your parents went to a fraternity or sorority & you want to go to the same one, you're considered one of these

a legacy

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Fought in spring & summer of 1953, one of the final actions of the Korean War was the pair of battles for this "meaty" hill

Pork Chop Hill

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Corona,
Panatela,
Presidente

cigars

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In 2023 this video-editing company released by TikTok's developer obtained 200 million monthly active users

CapCut
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Jobs of this character included deputy director of Pawnee's Parks & Rec Dept., Governor of Indiana & (maybe?) the presidency

Leslie Knope

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It's the extremely pleasant name for that itty bitty bouquet of flowers

a nosegay

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This son of an Irish-born father was Chile's chief liberator & its first leader after independence

(Bernardo) O'Higgins

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Stellar,
intermediate,
supermassive

black hole

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This "Project" that offers more than 70,000 ebooks is named for a 15th century German

Gutenberg

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IMDb, on this film:
A "journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel... for a series of psychedelic escapades"

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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An old-timey adjective referring to bawdy, vulgar speech

ribald