90s Trends

This adornment has been seen on Cher, Dennis Rodman & the 5,000-year-old "Iceman" found in 1991

tattoos

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American

Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man

Lincoln

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Colleges and Universities

The only state that's home to 2 Ivy League schools

New York (Cornell and Columbia

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Symbols

In 1972 programmer Ray Tomlinson chose it to separate an e-mail user's name from the computer's name

@

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Myths

Seen Tantalus

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Highways and Byways

On Dec. 7, 1995 this state officially renamed its portion of Interstate 10 as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway

Arizona (the USS Arizona was sunk at Pearl Harbor

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Films of the 30s

1933 film inspired by William Burden's 1926 Dutch East Indies trip & capture of the world's largest lizard

King Kong
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Same Last Name

The 2 founders of a textbook publishing house, or the pair who sang the country hit "It's Your Love"

McGraw and Hill

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Poetry

The woman with the most quotes in the new edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is this American

Emily Dickinson

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British Novelists

In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable"

George Orwell

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Television

In reviewing this May 1997 4-hour miniseries, TV Guide said NBC didn't "quite hit a Homer"

The Odyssey

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Food and Drink

Its name is from Gaelic for "water of life"

whiskey

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Children's Authors

This author & illustrator has said, "Max is like my demented son and he's taking care of his father for life"

Maurice Sendak

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19th Century America

Graders, gaugers, spikers & bolters built these

Railroads

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Children's Lit

This Roald Dahl book begins, "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket"

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Animals

Odobenus, the genus name of this animal, comes from the Greek for "one who walks with his teeth"

walrus

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Poem Titles

This poem says, "For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Greek Mythology

Ariadne got the ball of twine that she gave to Theseus from this man before his flight from Crete

Daedulus

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Communication

A government website says it's "a complete, complex language ...said to be the 4th most commonly used" in the U.S.

American Sign Language

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