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Topics: Famous Americans Charles Schultz and Peanuts; The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve; to be pleased to versus to be happy to versus its (ones) pleasure to; to sit versus to seat; willy-nilly Words: cartoon freelance folks memoir to

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Topics: Famous Americans Typhoid Mary; The National Hot Rod Association; complex versus complicated versus intricate; needle hit the groove; to lampoon; loner; pastime; to clean versus to cleanse Words: bacteria contaminated quarantine healthy carrie

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Topics: Movies-Twelve Angry Men; Washington National Cathedral; cool versus awesome; closure and mental loafer; no biggie Words: jury trial evidence defendant prosecution to deliberate preexisting prejudice subjective cathedral service sermon cool aw

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Topics: Andersonville Prison; garbage versus litter versus trash versus rubbish; downtime; pronouncing eight, height, and weight Words: Confederacy Union slavery to capture prisoner of war starvation disease skeleton war crimes to be hanged to execut

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