sources: Wikipedia, Grim Reaper's book of days, Today in History (H channel book)
January 1
1. Hungarians call themselves Magyars. The word is not etymologically related to hunger. 2. Julius Caesar was posthumously deified. (The other JC God). 3. Galla Placidia was a placid gal. 4. PAC man discovered Brazil! (Pedro Alvarez Cabral). 5. The Byzantines were busy teens. 6. Nicaea is a nice place. The Great Lakes are great, too. 7. Is the commode named after Commodus? commodities and other oddities, 8. What pertains to Pertinax? 9. Portuguese have geese on the porch. 10. I ate a series of cereals before spotting Ceres (asteroid). ass 'roid! 11. burros in boroughs. 12. Alcatraz "the diver", a federal prison from '34-'63. 13. melee in Malaysia. ire in Ireland. hate in Haiti. mad in Madagascar. Rid of madness in Madrid. 14. the first cut is the deepest (Coordinated Universal Time, UTC). 15. the internet was created in 1983. 16. brew is nigh in Brunei. 17. ozone depletion (omg, mj is in the zone). 18. who elected the mare mayor? 19. was Pervez Musharraf a perv? 20. Bangkok and UB40: T before U and cock before bang (!). 21. coptic cops, stoned in Estonia. 22. Bulgarian bulges and Romanian manias. 23. a stampede of stamp-collectors (philatelists). 24. pal from Palermo's palavering about palindromes.
January 2
1. etymology of 'ratify' (?!) lol., (lionizing and ratifying!) 2. Hradec Kralove (has love in it), 3. curious about Mercurius (the first Pope to change his name upon elevation to Papacy), 4. 'Nero' strikes me as a good way to combine the words One and Zero (binary, hole and phallus). It is said he committed suicide (aged 30). He was tyrannical, self-indulgent, and debauched. He had a weird beard. 5. In the Northwest Indian war, there was something called the Big Bottom Massacre (referring to a flood plain, lol). 6. ' Sri Lanka ' means "resplendent island." Lanky willy Wonka :-)
January 3
1. General Douglas MacArthur had a corncob pipe, like Frosty the snowman. 2. ground forces, grinding to a halt. 3. wry wit, and jewish and russian rye. 4. ah, Austria-Hungary. 5. mummery (amateur actors) parade and the egyptian mummy of Tutankhamen. 6. Order of statehood (Alaska 49, in '59).. 7. Sidney Street Siege, Pentagon Papers, Stephen Stills (today's alliteration). 8. Lucretia Mott's middle name was 'Coffin'. 9. Ray Milland (AAAA: academy award-winning american actor), 10. Great Dane (Victor Borge), On Deadly Ground (Joan Chen), German Driver (Michael Schumacher), 11. cat emperor (prr, roar), 12. VT (Vermont) and TV (television), 13. BOP! mm, bop. battle of Princeton, battle of nui bop, biography of power. 14. Prussia, Russia, and Ussia (lol). 15. Grass Valley and Giuseppe Verdi, 16. God, Almaty. 17. woof, wolf, and George Woolf. 18. "severing" diplomatic relations (ouch!), with Cuba (cube? QB), 19. what's Angola's angle?, 20. Fidel Castro (F and C! bad grades), communicating with his ex!, 21. cowabunga, and the UNGA (UN General Assembly), 22. Manuel Noriega (unwell, man), 23. Mamoney, Russia and trouble with rubles, 24. a bite of cake for bitcoin's birthday, 25. Yutu can chang'e.
January 4
1. Art Acord in an Accord, going to an AA meeting. 2. sigh-anide, giving up on yourself, vs. giving down on yourself. 3. a kidnap of a kid, napping (a baby goat?!). my goatee is the greatest of all time! 143, I love you. 4. minor miners, 5. a stunning stunt, 6. muggles that smuggle!, 7. a question about satellites on the SAT, 8. hypothesis and hyperthesis, 9. you can't have an assassination without asses, sin, or a nation, 10. torture by being forced to eat tortes, or tortillas. 11. you can't have death without the DEA (drug enforcement agency), 12. the earth is a gun (revolver!), 13. Cornelius Vanderbilt was named after a corn van. 14. An economist named Richard. 15. having a malt in a mall in Malta, 16. National gnashing of teeth, 17. gorilla guerrillas, 18. ants in France, 19. Damiens had demons, 20. Greece and eminence grise, eek, grease, reeses, gr. 21. Chinese chi, located in the chin. 22. full of pee, in the Philippines, pining over felled pine trees. 23. Yugoslavian slaves, you go, girl. 24. Soviet, so be it. 25. Saint Nick and sputnik, 26. Albert Camus and a bear that goes moo, 27. apprised of winning the prize, 28. calm moonies and communists, 29. a campfire burning out vs. a cease-fire, 30. at a picnic with Dick Nixon, 31. hawks that aukwardly play hockey, 32. currency for the current See. 33. General Purpose (jeep) and General Motors, vehicles specifically for Generals. 34. The (financial) haul of fame.
January 5
1. Calvin Coolidge was cool at school and college!, 2. Boy Scout kampuchea, 3. better and worse angels fighting over Nancy's soul (battle of Nancy!), 4. vini vidi vici and Catherine De' Medici (and medicine), 5. adultery (and childery!), 6. Dr. Dolittle and Alexandre Dumas, 7. Alfred Dreyfus, condemned in 1895 AD, 8. subscribing to the philosophy of magnetism, the earth's magnetic personality, 9. Anton Drexter founds a German party in 1919 AD, 10. (Walter) Chrysler, crying after his car hit a wall, 11. GGB is red, not gold. 12. FM radio's birthday (1940, demonstrated to FCC, bad report card), 13. the coal mine is mine, all mine. 14. Fighting for Inchon, inch by inch. 15. ministers doing math at night (prime minister), 16. Winston Churchill, Walter Chrysler, and WC Fields. 17. Pol Pot, high on pot? killing fields, and dead crops; morte than a million, in 3 years (through in three), 18. Throwing Peter Sutcliffe off a cliff. 19. Space Shuttle, St. Stephen's, Social Security.. 20. is safety razor an oxymoron?, 21. George Reeves and Christopher Reeves, and reevers, reefers, reefs. Superman and S and M. 22. Robert Duvall doing R and D. 23. Alvin Ailey, in AA. 24. Umberto, hum baby! Echoing an ecologist, 25. Christ the king, and king JC (Juan Carlos I). 26. Diane and Buster Keaton. 27. Kappa Alpha Psi, busting a cap in your ass. 28. Manute Bolshevik, 29. chickens go bok bok, called for a balk, the Balkan war, 30. Munich, and Nick on Muni. 31. Nellie Tayloe Ross was a governor, not a governess. Tayloe and J-Lo!, 32. Amy Johnson ran out of juice (AJ). 33. a newspaper made from old paper. dungeon master reads the Daily Mail, 34. provisional government that provides provisions, 35. rope, ropa (clothes), and the ROP (Republic of Poland), 36. Fair Deal earned high marks?, or hissed at? (harry s. truman), 37. masseur and masseuse, the masses, catholic mass. 38. God earning money, waiting for God-dough. 39. Dwight Eisenhower and the whites of your eyes. doc's doctrine. 40. seizure of power, suffering a seizure. 41. Alexander Dubcek comes to power in 1968 AD, Prague Spring has sprung. 42. professionals that probe with probity, 43. Khmer Rouge, covered in blood. 44. CP and PC, communist party, politically correct, pillow case, paper clip, capital punishment, personal computer, protestants and catholics, 45. Ossetia and the OSS, OS operating system, and so what? 46. eating a dish from Mogadishu. 47. crude or refined, like oil. cultured or hoi polloi. oy! Br'er rabbit, and shitting on the Shetlands, (MV Braer), cold air, brr rare, 48. Eris, a planet of dwarves!, 49. growing up, I got teary-eyed when it was cold : cryogenic crying? christ! criced. (Frosty's frozen tears)(snowcock, and snowballs!, lol)
January 6
1. Teddy wearing a teddy. Roosevelt's moose pelt, 2. Anne of Cleves, from Cleveland, 3. MDC and MCD, American icons (Martha Dandridge Custis, McDonald's), 4. Mary from Maryland, 5. all quiet on Long Island Sound, 6. MSG, Madison Square Garden, monosodium glutamate, 7. Rosie the Riveter, riveting!, 8. PC, pacific clipper, peaceful coexistence, parade car, police college, 9. massacre, am a sucker, sacred mass, 10. tyranny and tears, 11. Nancy Kerrigan, I don't care again. 12. G-D, Gustave Dore, 13. brunch with Max, 14. Joan of Arc, in heaven with Noah, 15. Sam Rayburn, in ray bans, 16. Kahlil Gibran's alleles and LeBron, 17. Sun Myung Moon, the night is young / Loretta Young, star power, satellites, 18. Samuel FB Morse (and Facebook), 19. Tie Juan, formerly known as Formosa, 20. a bad situation in Badakhshan province, 21. damn, Damascus, 22. Killen killed a Goodman, 23. coup coup achoo, 24. You, Kong and the Mekong, 25. Calcutta, and cutting class at Cal, 26. Alfred Wegener drinks A and W root beer, CD, continental drift, certificate of deposit, compact disk, seedy, 27. New Mexico, dawg! (47), 28. The Washington National Cathedral, wink, is Episcopalian, pentagon-pissed-cop-pal Ian (!), 29. God farted in 1839, lol, 30. Channel Islands and tv channels, chan, and Cecilia Han, 31. Maria Montessori, mass murder, and Eminem, 32. Putting the Mapuches on the map, 33. swabs from Swabia.
January 7
1. Berryman, buried, man, 2. inept and out-ept, 3. typewriters, she's not my type, the right type, 4. tisk tisk James Fisk, 5. icq, I seek you. 6. lean on me, even if you have communist leanings, 7. true troops and false Falstaff, 8. heroic Hirohito, 9. dagger types and the daguerrotype, 10. Millard Fillmore, at the gas station, topping off, 11. The Addams family (and the subtract 'ems), 12. Kenny Loggins, log in, 13. Fourth Republic of Ghana (aka, frog), 14. Gahanna, OH and Gehenna, 15. guys in guises, 16. Kentucky Air National Guard, and Kang, 17. Erin, Iran, and Eireann, 18. Marathas and Mara Salvatrucha, and Mara Papiyan, 19. Galileo Galilei with 2 gals, 20. sedition, sed (spanish for 'thirst') and dish, rebellion against the established order, often a high form of patriotism, in my book! a hunger and thirst for righteousness?, mad hatter, sed- social, economic disparities, 21. dressed in black for Betty White, 22. grift, graft, and mcgruff the crime dog, 23. depths of depravity in the Golan Heights?, 24. manifesto and womanifesto, 25. in fashion, a passion for bashing, 26. King Ray, raking, 27. outrage and inrage.
January 8
1. immutably mute, 2. blue whale, feeling blue, sings the blues, 3. Louisiana slave revolt, revolting, charged, volts, voldemort, voltaire, votes, devoted... 4. Bono, and the Battle Of New Orleans, 5. Duran Duran sings about the wild boy of Aveyron. 6. CH, Crazy Horse, porch, 7. Pauly's gal from Gallipoli, 8. WW, Woodrow Wilson, world war won, 14 points, troop 14 rah, 9. warning against war, 10. Jose Ferrer and Josette Ferrer, (st. Stephen's classmate), 11. State of the Union (SOTU, so, too..), 12. bullshit papal bull, 13. Ben Kalin from Kaliningrad (st. Ignatius classmate), 14. convent, coventry, covington, coveting, 15. Democratic Party organized, 1828 (birthday), 16. Herman, her man, 17. PC, punch card, 18. wow, the Huaorani, 19. The War on Poverty (does poverty ever win?), 20. shaking up the sheikhs, 21. Armenian meanies, 22. LEO, low earth orbit, love each other, law enforcement officer, 23. no child left behind (or right front), brb, 24. CR, Costa Rica, camp royaneh, Colorado rockies, consensus reality, chili relleno, 25. El Loco gang, in Venezuela (vs. Los Cuerdos?! lol)
January 9
1. Phillip works at the gas station: fill 'er up!, 2. the wits of Switzerland, 3. satan laughing spreads his wings, slaughter - S laughter, 4. whole Lada love, 5. getting C's on the seagoing university, 6. Oh no, it's Buono, 7. Don't be Leyte, 8. Tricky Dick, born in lucky '13, 9. balance, like Balanchine, 10. poet laureate, Poe and Laurie, 11. gory gr of pope Gregory?, 12. no good in Novgorod, Ivan the Terrible, it. 13. gawd bless the jooz, 14. sad music from the Song Dynasty, 15. geezus, the Black Nazarene, 16. Connect and cut, in a fight, in CT, 17. 1792 Treaty of Jassy (not Jesse), 18. Scrabble Players Championship, Special Purpose Company, and St. Paul's Cathedral, 19. Nimrod expedition, lol, 20. Phi Beta Sigma and pbs, 21. Mario Cuomo at Howard university, (Como, how word), 22. TV and the Treaty of Versailles, 23. PC, Panama Canal, 24. slurpee in Srpska, 25. extrasolar planets, exoplanets, xoxo!, 26. DAG in Dagestan, deputy attorney general, Australian affectionate insult (dags, poopy sheep fur), dag's dog, 27. Abba, and Mahmoud Abbas, 28. pique in Mozambique.
January 10
1. The Buffalo Bill code, 2. speared by an icicle! that's cold, God. 3. archenemy, the archbishop. lauding William Laud, beheaded and de-headed, 4. the Bourbon king, drunk with power, 5. a pamphlet by Pamela; Thomas Paine in the ass, pita bread, 6. b, bee; c, sea, i, eye; j, jay; l, elle; p, pee; q, queue; r, are; t, tea; u, you; x, ex; y, why (12), 7. the right to vote, and the left staying home, 8. by chance, a chancellor, 9. Sinn Fein, shin feign, 10. the Marshall plan and the martial plan, 11. affordable fords, 12. Surveyor 7, out of service, 13. AI and the automobile industry, 14. grokking Grock, 15. juicy Julius Caesar, 16. dating men, mandated, 17. Norm, the Norman, a pal from Palermo, with a sister from Sicily, 18. Philip the Good (and therefore, God!), 19. sin, sin, nasty in Cincinnati, 20. London Underground, underwear under where?, 21. taking a stand against Standard Oil, 22. methodically methodist, first meth, then o.. 23. Tasha and Kent, in Uzbekistan, 24. Ellen participating in the Salvadoran civil war (FMLN), 25. general strike, a blow from a general, 26. common scents, 27. quiet down, Quetta, a tan backpack, made in Pakistan, 28. traffic accident, ta, and riffraff with an axe, rifaximin, Axum and Halifax, magicians' riffle, raffle, and rifle; rough play against the ref, on the roof, 29. (Jayme) Closs' loss.
January 11
1. Sam Scott and Carol Wayne died, (both with first name last names), Alice Paul born, 2. scarred in South Carolina, 3. William Herschel did not discover my anus, 4. A pineapple is neither an apple, or the fruit of a pine (right?), 5. Reading Popular Mechanics in the evening, 6. soundly defeated, and prisoners forced to listen to music, 7. Grand Canyon National Monument, ($ a grand, gr, can yawn, yin (and yang), gnash, mon, mint), Olympus Mons on Mars, "man can only mar it." , 8. Amelia Air heart, 9. Ben Davis becomes the first AA army general, 10. Dutch East Indies, Agnus Dei, Borneo bores Neo, born EO Wilson, 11. Leon Trotsky, Leonard Thompson, Luther Terry, and Larry Teshara, 12. Chris, Ezra and Cornell U; 13. Ah, Alexander Hamilton, 14. blues and greens (demes), 15. mechanized conquest of Mecca at 6:30, 16. drink gin, later, 17. adoring Theodora, 18. pen refills, and Philadelphia, PA, 19. the A to Z of the Anglo-Zulu war, 20. Lawrence, MA; ma and pa, 21. sabotaging a Saab, 22. AMPAS, amperes, amp'd, 23. New Equal Treaties, gross and net, 24. convents, converts, and conventions; 25. Throggs Neck, lol. Throxgore! 26. gone in Huascaran, 27. Jon Burge and urging on, burgers, 28. First recorded COVID-19 death, 2020, Wuhan (woe, gone).
January 12
1. Agatha Christie, an A/C, in my book, 2. goring Goering, 3. Bonaparte, blown apart, 4. Charles Darwin, C/D, 5. RC religious community, 6. Frederic Augustus, F/A, 7. Detroit Automobile Company, D-A-C, 8. Pastor Pasteur, 9. starvation and disease, sad, 10. defense against communist aggression, and daca, 11. agent orange wasn't orange (there was a stripe on the drums it was in, though), 12. Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, FCD, 13. chow chess coup, Ceaucescu, 14. Amos n Andy, Calvin n Colonel, wgn out, 15. Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, FCCB, 16. mister minister administering minestrone at the minster, 17. silly sis in Sicily, ill, 18. Emperor of Ethiopia, and ee cummings, 19. what's up? what's goin' down? the University of Philippines, 20. Minnie, not a mouse, not a mini-, but a 155-casualty disaster, (by casualty, I mean mortality), 21. an offensive Oder, 22. Teshara, to share RA (red army?), 23. Dr. Bedford, in bed with the Bedouins, 24. Harrisburg 7, getting hairy, 25. The A-Z of Azerbaijan, 26. what's wrong with cloning humans?, 27. Haitian vibrations, 28. Bucharest library, up up and quit your books, give the book a rest, 29. Borno state, Nigeria (not Borneo.. not a bore, either); boko haram, means: western education is forbidden/sinful, or Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad. BHS, boko haram school, berkeley high school, burlingame high school. 30. Blue Mosque. bm. a sad fly.
January 13
1. Wyatt Earp and James Joyce, the joy of burping, 2. Dr. William Brydon, lone survivor of 16,000 (b.a.d.), British army doctor, 3. a meal with cola, and Emile Zola, 4. an essay in Scientific American, scared and angry, 5. The O.K. Corral? it's just okay, like Oklahoma, or the Icelandic volcano, 6. javelin, sprint, basketball, and golf! BDZ, 7. plutocracy on Pluto, 8. Douglas Wilder, a wild and crazy guy, getting cultured, 9. PC, like the Poor Clares, 10. a mist of phlegm, and the Flemish mystic, Antoinette Bourignon (bore and yawn?), 11. bears don't have to chase salmon, 12. Julia Louis Dreyfus, jailed, dry fuss, jew-loo, 13. church, and chubby checker, 14. Avezzano, gone-o, 15. Sara from Saarland, 16. burning bush, in Australia, 17. truculent, fierce, cruel, savagely brutal, the kind who buy trucks?, 18. petrol patrol, 19. president of Togo, got to go, 20. you should work for SHUD (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development), 21. Kofi drinks coffee, Addo adds sugar, gone in Ghana, 22. thousands of casual tee's?, ya man!, 23. a pub for Republicans, 24. does this endeavor ever end?, 25. the savior of El Salvador, 26. panic, Anne and Nick, icky bread, 27. I and I, incitement and insurrection.
January 14
1. Alice in Wonderland, under land, 2. Humphrey Bogart, bogarting a cigarette, free hump, happy birthday (xmas), happy deathday (xxday), 3. Tom, reading Treaty of Madrid, Francis of France, 4. laughing gas and alcohol, Hebrew, a fun time at the bar, 5. Clare, in the net, clarinet, invented in Nuremberg, 6. on top of the dresser, treaty of Paris, 7. first cesarean section, caesar sex, seize her, 8. impress the Empress, 9. me and you, us, menu, unconditional surrender, 10. Jamaica me crazy, 11. modern queen Maud land, 12. bras and tits, and Josip Broz Tito, 13. Jagadguru (world teacher), pronounced Jah-God-guru?
January 15
1. Otho, 69!, 2. TOYZ, truce of yam-zapolsky, Livonia lives on, 3. BM, British museum, 4. chocolate coins, with a hint of mint, 5. making a killing, decimal coinage that decimates, 6. friggin' frigates, fuggedaboutit, 7. polarized light, and the north/south poles, too, 8. LA, legislative assembly, some assembly required, 9. Afrikaans parlance, in Paarl, 10. PMC, private military contractor, Pemberton medicine company (early coca-cola), 11. Holy Toledo! (Ohio, or Spain), 12. Black Dahlia and bdsm?, 13. ten sins in Tientsin, 14. manuscripts and womanuscripts, 15. coup d'etat (ooh! eh? ah), 16. vegetarians urge you to use soy, but Soyuz means "union," in Russian, 17. drive an MG, like Muammar Ghaddafi. His TIT (third international theory), on the boob tube, 18. Alvor Agreement, another AA, 19. Wikipedia goes online, in 2001! happy birthday, (hip hop scratchers go "wiki wiki"), 20. Frankly, the franc? I don't give a damn.
January 16
1. Bigod's rebellion, by God!, 2. ratification of the Act of Union, lol (ratfuck?), and also the CUM agreement, (Canada, U.S., Mexico), 3. dragoons, dragons, and dragging on, 4. I'll have Samoa that, please. Syria(l), Turkey. Sandwich islands (former name of Hawaii), served on fine China. 5. Saint Ignatius, and self-immolation, 6. Iranian Shah, and running to Shaw, 7. ooga-dugu? Ouagadougou !, BF, 8. Rakhine state, raked over the coals.
January 17
1. Teshara, to share RA (Roald Amundsen, Rome/Avignon), 2. Livonia lives!, as does Livia, 3. Drusilla, both Octavian's and Buffy character, 4. Sextus Pompey, sexed us, pompously, 5. Have some Madeira, my dear, 6. Augie and Augustus, Hugo and the Huguenots, 7. Is St. Germaine germane?, or German?, 8. James Cook, and what's eating James?, 9. 6k defeats 100k (BCB, battle of Calderon bridge), 10. dervishes, with a focus on the universal values of love and service, deserting the illusions of ego to reach God, 11. waking up on Wake island, 12. deflowering the Virgin Islands, 13. Puerto Rico, a rich port, CPR, 14. a fistula in Vistula, 15. ow and shit, and not much wit, in Auschwitz, 16. arms control, and babies, learning to control their arms?, 17. Patricia, Patrick, and Patrice, 18. Gary Gilmore, in '77, 19. Ferdinand Marcos, on FM radio, 20. writing a check to pay for a trip to the Czech Republic, 21. are there crocs in DROC?, chocodiles, yum!, 22. Doomsday Clock, in DC, 23. Muslim vs. Christian rioting in Nigeria, 24. Finland, fin, the end.
January 18
1. Seven year old emperor (Leo II), 2. Council of Trent (Reznor!), 3. Siamese king defeats Burmese prince, in single combat! Whoa. 4. Konigsberg is now Kaliningrad, k?, 5. First Fleet, in Botany Bay, 6. Where was Mel born?, 7. warlock and war-key, wary; warsaw and warhammer, 8. Albert DeSalvo and advertisements, 9. Santa Monica, Saint Monica, of Hippo!, 10. to win, and Toulouse, 11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MMA, (mixed martial arts), 12. Tamara, Samara, tomorrow, some more, sodom and gomorra, gonorrhea, logorrhea!, 13. cyclone Kyrill, killed (a lone psyche?), 14. a bushfire, the burning bush, (michael) helbush, and Dubya/GHW, on fire! in the zone! burning man.
January 19
1. ingratiating Gratian, the flavor of Flavius, 2. coochie coochie coo, Kucha, conquored by tang?, 3. Rouen, in ruins, 4. Norman D., 5. a gondola from Mirandola, 6. calmar, calamari, and the Kalmar Union, 7. vanilla from Manila, 8. the vast and Tavastia, 9. a beef dish, and seditious libel, 10. avian bats and the Batavian republic, 11. Baden Powell in Aden, 12. Giuseppe Verdi, a jew, verily, 13. successful secession, 14. Queen Victoria paralyzed, 15. ACLU, getta clue, 16. sunk "with all hands" (ha?), 17. war criminals? anybody that goes to war! all sides, both sides, any side, 18. crisis, cry sister, 19. Barbie doll and Klaus Barbie, nazi war criminal, 20. cows and crabs, chewing cud, scuttling about, and SCUD missiles, 21. ill from the spill, 22. LeBron in Hebron, 23. Shogun Ogun shows gun.
January 20
1. fabulous fabian, martyred, mort, 2. pow, Palace of Westminster, 3. Lalli, lollypop, lol, 4. king of Poland, kop, 5. abdicate, and Kate's abs/dick, 6. January 1, 1502 Guanabara Bay discovered, hence Rio de Janeiro (January River), 7. AA, ambushed and annihilated!, 8. Battle of Yungay, young guy, 9. Pontiac was previously Oakland Motor Car Company, 10. humanitarian intervention, and Hawaii (HI), 11. Prince of Wales, pow; fingerprints of whales, (Right Whales, called 'right' by whalers, because they move slowly, and float after being killed, so therefore were the "right" ones to hunt), 12. wee! wisdom, erudition, education (haskalah), 13. SF and the final solution, 14. racist radio, national negro network, 15. Macaronesia, macaroon amnesia? vs. Madeleine, 16. a carousel on the Paracel islands, Paracelsus, 17. a thrall, a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the viking age.
January 21
1. Isa ibn Musa, Jesus, son of, music?, son of a moose? moose music! Moses knows us. the nose always knows. 2. bap-tize, make into black African princesses, like Ana, 3. blackguards with placards, 4. oh give me home where the buffalo roam, or livestock, like Stockholm, 5. Ah, Abdul Hamid, yes. don't insult the sultan. it's okay to call him caliph. k? laugh, 6. guillotine, and (Kathy) Gill, as a teen, German Gullon, ghee yo, 7. USS, United States senate, 8. UC Davis and Jefferson Davis, 9. AI, Alcatraz island, what robots want to do, Botswana?, 10. Monty and Carlo, 11. eating Kiwis in the Kiwanis, 12. well, I'll be, it's Albania, 13. guarding iron? precious iron, 14. hiss and purr, snake and cat, Alger and perjury, 15. the uss nautilus and Santa's naughty list, 16. a rhesus named Jesus, scallops receiving a wallops, 17. Albert bores, and the Alborz mountains, 18. Laurie in a DeLorean, (and Austin and Marlen in an Aston Marton), 19. Reno, and don't come back, 20. the eye of a Newt Gingrich, 21. did they have a FEMA in Colima?, 22. tickle me Belmopan, sleazy fleas in Belize, 23. lol, more (Hamas), 24. tyranny in Tirana (mania in Albania), 25. whim in, and women. whoa, mean. woe to men. Janice in January, marching in March, dumping on Trump.
January 22
1. Constantine, the vampire (constant teen), 2. Mamluks, good luck m'am, 3. Tongue goo dynasty? (Taungoo), me n' ma in Myanmar, 4. watching Mulan in Multan, 5. ruthless Ruthenians, 6. 5 A's for Guadalajara!, 7. Bloody Sunday, no b.s., 8. SS (steam ship) (schutzstaffel) (st. Stephen's) (social security) (Sarah Salazar) (serpent, satan), (Slytherin, sibilant hissing), 9. Woodrow Wilson and World War won, 10. World War II operation cum piss, (compass), 11. "skillful, well-prepared, and resolute" Japanese, 12. operation shingle and shingle springs, 13. cigarette intel, CIG, four runners (2 cia), 14. Sinai and sin at Alcatraz island, 15. "mad bomber" found legally insane, committed to a state mental hospital, 16. Konrad Adenauer's adrenal gland, 17. lunar module, and a lunatic modern jeweler, 18. dumbo flying next to a jumbo, 19. the singing rich of Singapore, 20. smoking a joint for the joint session of congress, 21. George Foreman, with the strength of four men, 22. a computer mouse is better than a computer bug, 23. opening fire, and closing campfire, 24. in the air in Zaire, 25. that light in the sky? merely Mir, 26. a stain on radical Hinduism, 27. dad in a bag, from Baghdad, 28. Mini-mouse? Maxi-moose?, 29. KMART, kill murder assassinate rape torture? no, Kresge. CVS, crime vice sin. consumer value stores (originally).
January 23
1. Honorable Honorius, Theodosius' theology, God="the O" (omg), 2. peace corps and war corps, 3. barren barons, 4. Ming dynasty, and Wyoming, 5. Rabelais wrote for the rabble, 6. assassinated by firearm (no relation to either arm or ass), 7. Utrecht me, Penn n Teller!, 8. Blaise Pascal's blazing sacrifice, 9. very slavery, 10. acres of massacres, 11. Spion Kop, spying on cops, a state of free oranges?, 12. Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Permanente, 13. An International Opium Convention (!), (a drug control treaty), 14. lions and horses, Leon Trotsky, 15. CAL, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 16. Battle of Rabaul (and RuPaul?), 17. Panzer Army (panther?) no, armor, from "breastplate", 18. WWII, Operation Hannibal, 19. wham-O and wham bam thankyou mam, 20. a knish with the Knesset, 21. vuvuzela from Venezuela, 22. hi Jack! bye Jack, 23. strippers paying pole taxes, 24. Ivory Coast, where the soap comes from, 25. Hall of Fame, and living room of fame, bathroom of fame..., 26. SOS, Secretary of State, 27. Benghazi, now I'm less shoegazy and Fugazi.
January 24
1. Claudius, clawing his way up, 2. fat Fatimid, 3. basil, basal, and Basel, 4. Corvinus in a Corsair, Corvair, corvette, 5. Jousting? or jesting?, Colin Jost, 6. Arauco war and Saudi Aramco, 7. Boroa and barbacoa, 8. dissolving parliaments, cigarettes in the rain, 9. burghers eating burgers, 10. Andy in the Andes, 11. slave revolt, or revolting slave, 12. Marshall law, 13. cutting class at the University of Calcutta, 14. mold on the wall, Moldavia and Wallachia, roaming all over Romania, 15. Domnitor, lol, 16. Boers, bores, and boars, 17. First Boy Scout troop organized, 1908 (England), 18. Battle of Dogger Bank, dawg. 19. having a fit about the federal income tax, 20. Greg, Ian, Gregor, MacGregor, and the Gregorian calendar, cal-ender, 21. terms of office, and terminology, 22. chilling earthquake in Chillan, 23. bombard, the Bard, bums, and bombs, 24. Casablanca and the White House, 25. seizing See's candies, 26. jeering Algiers, 27. VW and the Vietnam War, 28. 1972, ww2 ends for Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant hiding in a Guam jungle (!), 29. touched by the Atocha massacre, 30. Soviet Satellite, radioactive debris, 31. a personal computer for your own personal Jesus, 32. Bundy puts his buns on an electric chair, Florida State Prison puts on an electrifying performance, 33. Hiten, flying heavenly beings in Buddhism, 34. Homeland Security in high school.
January 25
1. emperor emporium, electro magnetic pulse, 2. dynasty, dies nasty, 3. Friuli, and fries with Julie, 4. King of nipples (Naples?), 5. a response to Alfonso, 6. reamed at Reims Cathedral, 7. Sao Paolo, founded by Jesuits (!), 8. Luanne in Luanda, 9. Ta ta, Tatiana, 10. UC and Upper Canada, 11. UV light, University of Virginia, 12. otc and over the counter, oriental telephone company, etc., 13. Richard Strauss' Elektra debuts in Dresden, 14. take an upper, Ukrainian People's Republic, 15. Finnish Defense Forces, finish him!, Mannerheim where are your manners?, 16. 1924, first Winter Olympics, in France, jeaux olympiques, 17. SJ war (Sino-Japanese), sin and knees, 18. Honolulu and Lulu, 19. Bob, at the battle of the bulge, Bulgarian bulge, belly bulge, 20. awful AFL, 21. miscellaneous MSC (military staff committee), 22. ads for "amusement device," 23. Emmy, am me, 24. Idi Amin, a meanie, 25. protect your neck, Cove Neck NY, 26. Elim grove, and the Tamil Tigers, 27. Moro Islamic Liberation Front vs. MILF, 28. Bangsamoro bangs some more.
January 26
1. can't spell caliph without Ali, 2. I protest ant-ism, 3. Livonia lives on!, 4. ceding territory and seeding your field, 5. The Rum Rebellion, drunken monkey style, 6. Michigan 26!, 7. King Kong terrorizes Hong Kong?, congress, kong re assess, 8. Point No Point treaty (ha, what's the point?), 9. Battle of Seattle, has a nice ring to it, 10. I feel for Joseph Hooker's mom, 11. Virgo virgin from Virginia, 12. Cullinan diamond weighs 3106.75 carrots, 13. JLB and JLT, TV and 2022, 14. Indian National Congress, ink incorporated, 15. Barthelona taken, 16. Audie Murphy drives an -, 17. Porkkala, pork, and Allah, 18. cold case (of beer?), 19. fp, foreign policy / foul play, 20. eating at the Delhi deli
January 27
1. Trajan wasn't a Trojan, Nerva, what nerve, 2. Constance and Constantine, 3. mopping the Florence, 4. ant-christ and papal -bull and moth-er mary and monk-eys and Anne-imals, (beast, be a saint), 5. ahh, meds (from Ahmed), 6. ugh, University of Georgia, 7. bells and lasers, Bellingshausen and Lazarev, 8. the tot left a trail of tears, Oklahoma is just an okay home, 9. proscription of conscription, 10. beginning of the Finnish civil war, 11. mausoleum and pa's oleum, 12. a close shave in Wilhelmshaven, 13. inmates, in mates, 14. whiskey-class attack submarine, lol, 15. Attila the junta, 16. gruesome Grissom, 17. mr. universe has a celestial body, miss universe, a lesser light?, 18. negro from Niger (seems to me the country needs a newer name), 19. jeer ya, Nigeria, 20. IBM, and Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, 21. buddhist emptiness and the holocaust, hollow fellows, 22. Loco at the library of congress, 23. drive a Honda to Honduras, 24. iPad and eye patch, 25. Sanity in Sana'a, 26. nightclub fire in Brazil (262 xx), 27. curds and coffee, Rojava and Kurdistan, 28. tennessine and ts elliot and tennis and tennessee and Jesse
January 28
1. eve and ents, electric vents, events!, 2. the smell of Cologne, like your shit don't stink... 3. charlatan and Charlemagne, 4. pious, pie us!, everybody loves pie!, 5. conqueror, by conking on the head, 6. defeated and de-feeted, 7. communication with ex, vs. excommunication, 8. diet of worms, nobody loves me, everybody hates me..., 9, persecution of cute cats, 10. religious and litigious, 11. confederation, fed rations, 12. crafty, just my type, witchcraft, the eye of a Newt Gingrich, 13. Saint Kitts and Santa brought kittens, 14. Rouen rues the day of ruination, 15. foundation, fundamentals, founded found dead, 16. Sarah n dip itty, serendipity, Walpole, pole dancing, 17. pride and prejudice and other pap, 18. Illinois, the ill annoy, a less than ideal bedside manner, 19. see J, siege, 20. newspaper pronounced newzpayper not noose paper, 21. Carnegie eats carne, 22. Cuban Rubik's cube, 23. going underground, and buried/interred in a grave, in turd, 24. I am legion, for we are many - spanish legion, she's got legs, and she knows how to use them, allegiance, 25. wtf is a knickerbocker?, 26. Shanghai and Shang-bye, 27. a tan backpack, and Pakistan, 28. terms coined, and coins termed?, 29. Iceland and icy sea and ice in the air (all hail Hal!), 30. Burma, Irma, and berms, 31. Elvis Presley and evil press, 32. blizzard dumps snow, and a Dairy Queen dump plus cocaine, 33. USA, united support of artists, for Africa, half of rick?, 34. Andy mounting, and Andes mountains, 35. nitrogen and a night with Jen.
January 29
1. Papa Sergio, Pope Sergius (does antipope follow antichrist?), 2. Abba and the abbasids, 3. what's your angle on the dangling Mongol?, 4. Edgar Allan Poe, and the Education Abroad Program, 5. acts of valor, and Val, actor, 6. Kansas 34!, 7. Bear River Massacre, and berm, again, 8. (Eli) Lili'uokalani, 9. Rudy did his duty in the Battle of Kruty, 10. a duck, inducted, 11. sudden death overtime, 12. lithium in Lithuania, 13. Cirkus, Sweden, 14. DR, diplomatic relations, 15. Jacques Chirac rocks, and I'm not talking about awkward auks, 16. Indoors, with amnesia, in Indo-nesia, 17. fight or flight, fright, freight, afrit, 18. Blagojevich and goyim, 19. Alma-Ata / Almaty, Kazakhstan - Almighty is the cause, 20. Alex Trebek, from Quebec, 21. Alex Azar, in AA.
January 30
1. Pegu, and Peggy, you (Burmese), pagans pay again, 2. severing seven, and the Severn estuary, 3. monster from Munster, 4. posthumous execution!!, (stupid), 5. Qing and answering, 6. Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica (where the trinity lives?), 7. Yerba Buena (good herb!) is renamed San Francisco (1847), 8. Mazda originally was a producer of cork (!), Japanese Ahura Mazda?, 9. listening to bull in Istanbul, 10. burros, burritos, bureaus, and the politburo, 11. chancellor, take a chance on me, 12. am gone to Ambon, 13. sister's cistern, howard stern, even keel, please don't you rock my boat, 14. wavoc havoc, watts amps volts ohms coulombs, joining the resistance, 15. Mahatma Gandhi's assassin was named Godse (godsend?), 16. a rebel named Jezebel, in the Jebel Akhdar war, 17. iceberg lettuce, grown on icebergs, of course!, 18. hanging Chads (gruesome), 19. Nguyen and a new win, 20. a dairy in Derry, 21. bang bang, Bankok and Bangladesh, 22. bouncing back from a flight on a Boeing (boing!), 23. embassy and f-bussy, 24. launch vehicles, and launched from a vehicle, it's not rocket science, :-(
January 31
1. catholic Sylvester the cat, consecrated or prosecrated? 2. a lion from Lyon, 3. nipple pain and Naples, Spain, 4. Pink Floyd lunatic (brain damage vs. "broken brain"), and Walloons, 5. conspirators and prospirators, 6. vd, Darth Vader, and a penis from Venus, 7. Tina, a gent from Argentina, 8. Milwaukee or mil-run-key?, 9. military law, the laws of war, and all's fair in love and war, (isn't war itself illegal?), 10. a serious bee, a comical A, and Sirius B, 11. 13, you lose (abolishing slavery), 12. touchy-feely, Robert E. Lee, 13. Tres Hermanas (restaurant) and Three Sisters (Chekhov), 14. a wicked fart, and poison gas, 15. Scotland, the land of Scott (tp? tape?), 16. getting martial on the Marshall Islands, 17. execution for desertion (deserves heavenly reward, in my book), 18. a ball of ticks, Baltic Sea, 19. Chin state, Myanmar, 20. Slovenia and fast venia, Montenegro and Monty, the negro, 21. soap opera, and singing in the shower, 22. Truman, and his thermonuclear weapons, what a real man, 23. Ian the Korean, 24. Van Halen and the Van Allen radiation belt, 25. Saigon, and (sigh, gone), Ho Chi Minh city, hoochie, 26. Nauru, now are you?, 27. VV, vietnam veterans, and eye-teeth, canines, aka fangs, 28. Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Columbine, Colombo crime family, Columbo (tv show), 29. unlocking Lockerbie, 30. obi won Kenobi in Nairobi, 31. 47 ronin and 47 years of UK in EU.
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