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Nuclear Disasters
March Madness
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a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces

Serif

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This nuclear accident in April 1986 is widely considered to be the worst ever -- it was started during a safety test where power unexpectedly dropped and created unstable core temperatures

Cherynobl

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in overtime, this team won the 2019 March Madness Tournament

Virginia

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this national park, notable for sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States, brings in nearly 1mil visitors a year

Badlands National Park (SD)

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A quad house at Harvard

Cabot

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Created in 1931 for a British daily newspaper -- it has no connections to Italy, just falls heavily in the Antiqua side of the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

Times New Roman

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This accident in 2011 was caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which knocked out emergency generators, and lead to three nuclear meltdowns

Fukushima

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the first 16 seed vs 1 seed upset in March Madness history was by this team in 2018

UMBC (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) Retrievers

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this national park in southwest Utah is famous for Angels Landing -- a steep trail that a total of 9 people have died from 

Zion National Park (UT) 

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The capital city of Mississippi

Jackson

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since 2007, it has been the default font in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint

Calibri

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The plant that is most famous for its 1979 partial meltdown wasn't actually shut down until September 2019.

Three Mile Island

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the lowest seeded team to win was this school, which was No. 8 seed in 1985 when they won; they most recently won in 2016 and 2018

Villanova

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This is the newest National Park, the world's largest  gypsum dunefield -- it's still subject to closure when missile tests are conducted

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Jerry's infamous counterpart

Tom

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This sans serif font was developed in 1957 -- it's name means "Swiss" in Latin, a reference to origin

Helvetica

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An emergency shutdown of the PNPS plant in 1986 in this New England town caused more than $1bil in damage -- the third most expensive in US history

Plymouth, Mass.

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in the 2008 tournament, Steph Curry made a name for himself while playing for this school -- they made it to the Elite Eight

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The only (modern) man-made national park* is this 630ft monument to Westward Expansion

Gateway Arch National Park (MO)

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a financial instrument of indebtedness of the issuer to the holders; a safer option than stocks

Bond

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this font was created in 1983 by 23 year old Chris Costello -- who had been studying the Bible and wondered what a font would've looked like in Biblical times

Papyrus

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In 1995, this Russian president became the first world leader to ever actually activate the nuclear briefcase -- after a Norwegian research rocket was launched to study the Northern Lights

Boris Yeltsin

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of the ivy league schools, this school has had the most appearances in the March Madness tournament

Penn (12)

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The national park with the highest number of visitors outside of the contiguous US (at 1,368,376)

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HI)

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influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida

Osceola