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POETS' MONOGRAMS

200

'How do we love her?:
EBB'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

400

'Nokomis knows him:
HWL'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

600

'She wove "The Harp Weaver":
ESM (or ESVM)'

Edna St. Vincent Millay

800

'He spoon-fed us "Spoon River":
ELM'

Edgar Lee Masters

1000

'Prominent Pre-Raphaelite:
DGR'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

PRO CHEERLEADER SQUADS

200

'In the NFC West:
The Gold Rush'

the 49ers

400

'In the AFC East:
The Flight Crew'

the (New York) Jets

600

'In the NBA's Central Division:
The Automotion'

the Pistons

800

'In California's capital:
The Royal Court Dancers'

the (Sacramento) Kings

1000

'A midwestern N.L. team:
Team Fredbird'

the (St. Louis) Cardinals

PALINDROMIC YEARS

200

'Mitt Romney wins an election to become a governor'

2002

400

'The Soviet Union dissolves'

1991

600

'Tombstone has a famous gunfight'

1881

800

'Though having financial problems & shunned, Rembrandt still receives several important commissions'

1661

1000

'Spanish missionaries relocate Mission San Carlos Borromeo to Carmel, California'

1771

"MEN" AT WORK

200

'Rediscovered c. 1900, the work of this Austrian monk was thought irrelevant to evolutionary theory'

(Gregor) Mendel

400

'This journalist said no one "has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses"'

(H.L.) Mencken

600

'This composer of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" won 2 Pulitzers for his work'

(Gian Carlo) Menotti

800

'This physician saw the benefit of a group practice after visiting the Mayo Clinic; he later started a clinic in Kansas'

Menninger

1000

'Yee-haw! He's the musician seen here, fiddlin' around'

Sir Yehudi Menuhin

18th CENTURY AMERICA

200

'It was small, but had a big heart: it was the 1st Amer. colony to prohibit the importation of slaves, in June 1774'

Rhode Island

400

'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Capitol Building in Williamsburg, VA.) In April of 1781, this general, an American traitor, helped British forces seize Williamsburg & raise the English flag over the capitol'

Benedict Arnold

600

'Yum! Chocolate manufacturing in the American colonies began in 1765 in what is now this state, in Dorchester'

Massachusetts

800

'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Monitcello, Virginia.) Until the early 1790s, this was Monticello's main cash crop, the cultivation of which Jefferson called "productive of infinite wretchedness"'

tobacco

1000

'As a teenager, he wrote essays for a New England newspaper under the female pen name "Silence Dogood"'

Benjamin Franklin