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From the Grim Reaper’s book of days, Today in History, and Wikipedia
GR, TH, W
July 1
GR: 1. 1860 was not a good year for Charles Goodyear. His last words were, “God knows. God knows all”, 2. A 23 y.o. student in West Germany died (in 1976) from months of exorcism (malnutrition and dehydration), TH: 3. emperor, prr roar (lion king), 4. vittles, vitals, and Vitellius, 5. Vespasian on a vespa, 6. the door to Dorylaeum, (first great battle of the first crusade), 7. Ming dynasty sunglasses!, 8. Ming, and Hmong, among us monkeys from Wyoming, 9. Sir Thomas More-or-Less, 10. The green witch from Greenwich served me a sandwich, 11. Phil from Philadelphia loaned me his Pennsylvanian pencil, 12. Napoleon, sleeping lion, blown apart, 13. go bonkers and conquer!, 14. Charles Darwin, graded C and D, before the Linn-A-ean society, 15. Gettysburg, forgive and forgetty, 16. Dominion of Canada, D and C, doc, 17. reading documents from doctors, sitting on the dock of the bay, 18. HH Herman Hollerith, 19. Rough Riders (Teddy Roosevelt and his volunteer cavalry), ruff ryders (hip hop label), red rider (band, of "lunatic fringe" fame), and the Ryder's cup, 20. B.S. about the battle of Santiago, 21. The first Tour de France (1903), (winner: Maurice Garin), 22. tourists with Tourettes, tourist's wrists, 23. the "single heaviest day of casualties in military history" (1916, Somme, WWI), 24. Teflon, Elon, flan, the "teflon don", and on and on, 25. Maine, El Alamein, chow mein, and insane in the membrane, 26. ants dance in France, Rover from republic of Vietnam, 27. 61 countries sign the 1968 NNT (nuclear non-proliferation treaty), 28. sitting chairman, takes a stand, 29. traffic and geese honking in Hong Kong, 30. thai advertisements, perverted adverts, 31. George Sand, like George Eliot (both female, authors), 32. the door to Thomas A. Dorsey ("father of gospel music"), 33. laughing at Charles Laughton, 34. Estée Lauder, Estelle, este o ese (this or that), 35. Olivia, olives, ollie, livid, livia (first roman empress), Via Dolorosa, 36. Leslie tells less lies; lesbian? that's a lie!, 37. Twyla Tharp's stylish harp, 38. Dan Aykroyd, annoyed with Boyd, steroids, hemorrhoids, and the void, 39. Princess Diana, p.o.w., 40. Carl Lewis, not Karl Louis, W: 41. should be good, bad is mad!, perfect on the surface, but weeping down deep, 42. chewing on virtue, rolling the dice with vice, 43. allegiance, my liege, 44. goth ostrich eats a tortilla (ostrogoth king Totila), 45. Seljuk (how much?), 46. Toronto ain't Taranto, 47. reptilians in Castilian castle, 48. Jan van Essen, n' Jesse, 49. Jimmy and Hendrik Vos, 50. bipolar on lithium, and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 51. monster minister, 52. priestly proust, 53. christ, every priest has his price, 54. GR, german republic, glorious revolution, general relativity, 55. AU, astronomical unit, distance of earth from sun, 93 million miles, 8.3 light minutes, 56. loony in Lunenburg (Nova Scotia), 57. Grand Duke, G-D, 58. Keti Koti (emancipation day in Suriname, abolition of slavery by Netherlands), 59. Canada Day, not Canada Dry, 60. birthday of US DOJ, 61. Charles Taze Russell, don't tase me, bro, 62. St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and St. Stephen's church/school, San Francisco, 63. monastic orders and modus operandi, 64. fakir in a Fokker, 65. the radius of the sun is 432,474 miles, 66. the earth's equator is 24,901 miles, 67. Gina, regina, vagina, angina, 68. Morpheus and Dave's Dream, which dropped Gilda, 69. ZIP code (zone improvement plan), 70. Kaiser Permanente and Kim Philby, 71. Marlen Knusel and MK-ultra, 72. Tawny has autonomy, 73. bliss in Guiniea-Bissau, 74. Madeleine Albright, mad alright?, 75. ICC prosecutes: a. genocide, b. crimes against humanity, c. war crimes, d. crime of aggression, 76. singing the wrong song in Hong Kong, 77. wussup? oh, not much, stars n shit, you?, 78. crows eat carrion, Croatia.
July 2
GR: 1. 12 gauge shotgun to the head, did the deed. Hemingway’s father also committed suicide (revolver) due to poor health. The sun also rises. His granddaughter, Margaux Hemingway, also suicided (overdose); 3 of his siblings, too, apparently. Geezus. TH: 2. elected king?, 3. Charlie Brown, the "roundhead", 4. Saxe, Saxony, saxophone, sacks, and Sacramento, 5. The Factory Act, 6. gas mask, ass passes gas, 7. Pruth river, the truth according to Ruth, 8. Lake Constance, and an instance of resistance, 9. Jack Dempsey, j.d., 10. I saw Shirley Temple at church, possibly, 11. "mad eye" moody, and Helen wills moody, 12. martial law, marital strife/bliss, and the marshall plan, 13. the Marsha plan, 14. Mel and Elle had a swell time at Roswell, 15. Caws and claws, cause for clause, at Roswell, 16. Christopher Willibald von Gluck, and Louise Gluck, 17. HH Herman Hesse ("when dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane"), 18. Thurgood Marshall, and George C. Marshall, 19. instant messaging Imelda Marcos (Marco! Polo!), 20. Richard Petty and Tom Petty, 21. Urban Cowboy, and the UC system, 22. James Garfield, killed by his doctors; Jesse/Greg, Jerry Garcia, 23. playing chess with Chester, W: 24. regency and pregnancy and nancy, 25. kool aid man and the emperor of tang, 26. focus on Phokas, 27. tards, tortillas, and tordesillas, 28. made in the Moldavian mold, 29. hiding in my Toyota, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 30. Acadia, Akkadia, Arcadia, 31. frigate about it, 32. Belfast, Belgrade, rebellion, ring a bell?, 33. Baja isn't Bahia, 34. Crimean criminals, 35. Rome, Romania, Aromania, 36. PS, Papal States, 37. Guiteau, git 'r done, 38. Sherman? sure, man!, 39. Antitrust act and trustworthiness, trust no one, some latin phrase, 40. SRV, socialist republic of Vietnam ('76), north Vietnam annexes south, 41. Augusto Pinochet and Hugo Chavez, 42. communicating with ex, not excommunicated, 43. yucca and mecca, 44. thai baht, not a bought tie, or robot; whatever floats your boat/baht!, 45. SF, Steve Fossett, 46. the tank's gas tank, 47. Indonesia and outdoor amnesia.
July 3
GR: 1. Howlin’ wolf on Howland Island, South Pacific, 2. Jim Morrison, age 28, died in his bathtub (heart failure, likely a drug overdose), in Paris; JM, Juris Master (similar degree to master of laws), Fender jazz master (guitar), Just Muslim (non-sectarian), TH: 3. taking command (and taking command!), 4. the condor over Condorcet, 5. if ponies could talk...the Pony Express, 6. Joshua Slocum, s.j., 7. an essay on the Spanish-American war, 8. William Tilden and Tilden park (named after Charles Lee T-), 9. JLT, and John Logie Baird (color tv), 10. Abbott and Costello, abba and it was all yellow, 11. Lewis and Martin, stinky shoes and fartin', 12. ratios, rashes, rations, and rationing, 13. Nikita Khrushchev, the crucial key, 14. Jackie Robinson, Janet Reno, and who shot J.R., 15. the gall of Charles de Gaulle, 16. jeering Algeria, or cheers?, 17. gorillas, gorillaz, and guerrillas, 18. basketball like Baryshnikov, dish and swish, 19. 290 people in an Iranian passenger jet killed by U.S.N. cruiser Vincennes (in 1988), 20. compulsory military conscription is evil, 21. Hey T! I hate E! (ecstasy), let's go to Haiti, 22. Aldous Huxley, the doors of perception (locked in?), 23. chaplains, champions, and (Samuel de) Champlain, 24. Leos Janacek, and yawn, a check, 25. Franz Kafka, Czech, cough, 26. Tom Stoppard, go, 27. Gloria Allred, getting a sunburn on a nude beach, 28. Tom Cruise, om crew (scientologist meditation?), 29. Jesus Christ, JC Duvalier, James Cameron, Julius Caesar, Jackie Chan, junior college, Jesse, W: 30. I have no pull in Constantinople, 31. whim-in, 32. Fort Necessity, a cesspool, 33. Karen on Pitcairn island, 34. the cemetery fills an acre from the massacre, 35. "normal school" trains teachers in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum, 36. manatees, emancipation, manitoba, manioc, mansour, mantises, mantinea, very manly, 37. Idaho, identifying the corpse of a whore, 38. CPR, constitution of Puerto Rico; FARC, revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, heart (crazy on you) and Gary Hart, 39. Soviet, so be it, 40. Stone of scone, stoned and eating scones.
July 4
GR: 1. There’s a Hollywood cemetery - in Richmond, VA, 2. TJ, JA, JM (former presidents) all died on 4th of July, TH: 3. Cameron, Cameroon, camera, Macron, macaroon, macaroni, 4. bureau, burro, burrow, borough, borrow, brow, bro, 5. OC, Orange County, Oliver Cromwell, Oberlin College, oral contraceptive, organized crime, officer in charge, 6. eerie, the ghosts of those drowned in Lake Erie (!), 7. Where's Walden? MA, 8. professed manifesto, infestation, festival, festering, uncle fester, 9. Walt Whitman, world war, wall hitman, 10. blog and leaves of grass, 11. Alice in Wonderland, A and W, 12. Lewis Carroll, Louis Carol, Carl Lewis, 13. Zulu zoo, kazoo, zoot suits, 14. Never ask me about Nebraska, BB in WW, buffalo bill, wild west, 15. America the beautiful, the ugly, and everything in between, 16. Ethiopia is granted independence by GB, France, Italy (and God!), 17. Barbie and Ken dolls, and Klaus "butcher of Lyon" (nazi Barbie), 18. Nasa Mars Pathfinder, and the terrestrial Nissan kind, 19. Mt. Everest is named after a Welsh surveyor-general of India, (Sir George E-), 20. Nathaniel Hawthorne, every Rose has its thorn, 21. Gigi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, 22. Stephen Mather, aftermath, 23. Calvin Coolidge and cool Cal, 24. Neil Simon, and kneeling simony, 25. top and bottom, treaty of Paris, and autumn, 26. nuclear families, fission and fusion, obsession confession, W: 27. Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint, 28. Guy of Lusignon, some guy, losing (yawn), 29. Guy Of Dampierre, another guy (and GOD), 30. province of NY (pony), 31. A-Z war (anglo-zulu), 32. there's a sable on the stable table, 33. (William Howard) Taft, don't be daft, 34. Jack Johnson knocks out Jim Jeffries (geez, or jaze, I should say), 35. HW, heat wave, homework, George HW Bush, 36. Sarajevo, Sara, sorry-yay-vo, 37. Mehmed, meds (olanzapine, risperidone) meh!! (inauthenticity? or everything is authentic..), 38. camels, amyl, Hamel, and enamel, 39. Manute Bol-shevik, 40. Riga, the rig veda, and big rigs, 41. Sebastopol, California, and Sevastopol, Crimea, 42. holocaust hologram, holo-decked, 43. the walls of the Walla-Walla state penitentiary (SP), in Washington, 44. Wanda, the gal from Kigali, Rwanda, 45. boing! bang! Boeing crashes in Bangui (!), 46. Temple, the body is a temple, temples on your head, and Tempel (comet), 47. Mindanao and then, 48. concerned at CERN.
July 5
GR: 1. Sherlock Holmes says to be sure to lock your home when you are out, TH: 2. Pope Celestine V, the first pope to resign (for which he was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII), 3. tornado, leaves MA ripped and torn, 4. Miss Missouri, 5. an essay on the Salvation Army, 6. Ian Fleming, and Xian phlegming, 7. Skin Fork, WV (?!), 8. William Shockley invents junction transistor, (used in radio, tv, computers), 9. coup, kook, cook a cookie, kick a cock, coke and cake, 10. bikini (swimsuit) unveiled in '46 (thank you, Louis Reard!), 11. PT Barnum, and Peggy Teshara, PT boats, philosophy talk, porcupine tree, Palestinian territories, pacific time, personal trainer, 12. Cecil John Rhodes, english diamond tycoon, of Rhodesia and Rhodes scholars fame, (road to Zimbabwe), 13. John Cocteau, Jacques Cartier, John Calvin, John Clare, John Chancellor, Jimmy Carter, James Cagney, other JC's, 14. HL, Huey Lewis, holy land, hannibal lecter, half-life, House of Lords, hit list, headline, 15. Middletown, Midway island/atoll, Kate Middleton, W: 16. Danube and jujubes, 17. aches and pains in Achaea, 18. Pina colada at Manolada, 19. Kingdom of Kandy (a real thing, Sri Lanka), 20. the pistol from Bristol, 21. Isaac Newton and close fig newton, fahrvergnugen, 22. umpires, empires, vampires, om pyre, (e.g. buddhist monk self-immolation), 23. dire buyer ire, hire a sly liar to get you out of the legal quagmire, spire, fire, choir, higher, lyre, inquire, ryerson, sire, tire, perspire, 23. Vire, Normandy; Viar, Iran, 24. chipping away at the Chippawa, 25. Secret Service, not nazi, 26. Spam, spam, spam, spam (introduced, 1937), 27. an emphasis on Memphis, sis, 28. let's go see tennis, in TN, 29. a picnic with tricky dick nixon, 30. Juvenal, don't be juvenile, act your age, grow up!, 31. koo day ta, coup d'etat, 32. AA, AA- Arthur ashe, African american, 33. Bjorn Borg, just born candies, you will be assimilated, 34. Armenian army, are mean ya?, 35. elections are held, hopefully not helled, 36. Urumqi, and Urukhai (Tolkien demons), 37. a horde of whores with a hoard of gold, 38. Juno, Jupiter, June, July, Julie, Jue, Giuliani, and jews, jujubes, juju, jiu.
July 6
GR: 1. Feckless Faulkner exclaims, fuck fake folk!, TH: 2. tutors, two doors, and the tudors, 3. Captain William Kidd and Jason Kidd, 4. German 'Thaler', person or thing from the valley, anglicized to "dollar", named US currency in 1785, with decimal coinage system, 5. mm, malted milk, 6. Jim Thorpe, world's greatest athlete, 7. aqua from Nicaragua, and Aqaba, 8. Althea Gibson, and Althea (Grateful Dead song), 9. John and Vladimir, Lennon and Lenin, 10. Sir Stamford Raffles (founded Singapore), winning a raffle at Stanford (?), W: 11. 187 day of year, 12. Sun City and Heliopolis, 13. catholic cowboys and papal bulls, 14. Black Lives Matter, and the Black Death, 15. burnt steak is better than being burned at the stake, 16. King of Ng, 17. King Kong plays bongos at the Congo river, 18. monastery monsters, munster ministers, 19. 2-4 million people are estimated to have died in the French wars of religion, 20. The 30 years war killed an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians, 21. diocese, die! O, cease!, 22. grenades in Grenada, (named because the bombs resembled pomegranates), 23. Al Jazeera and Algeciras, 24. Bagram and Wagram, 25. worship on an airship, 26. Brunete and brunettes, 27. Brisbane and brisboon!, 28. Moroni is the capital of The Comoros, and also an angel, you moron, 29. Piper Alpha, a North Sea drilling platform that killed 167 in a fiery explosion in 1988, 30. Monica from Srebrenica, 31. Piper at the GOD (Pink Floyd album), gates of dawn, (piper is my aunt's dog), 32. G-D, Great Dane, 33. The Troubles, the trouble with tribbles, and roubles.
July 7
GR: 1. Arthur Conan Doyle and AC/DC; he gave lectures on spiritualism: “so convincing that several people committed suicide so as to join the spirit realm”, TH: 2. posthumously acquitted!, 3. a huge hoagie in The Hague for Hugo the Huguenot, 4. first comic book (1802), 5. commodore, commander, 6. Navajo navy, 7. great white sharks, and the (16 american battleships: ) great white fleet, 8. HH Heinrich Himmler, 9. shooting saints out of cannons, shot to the heart...you give love a bad name, W: 10. Jeff Sun and Kat Starr and Sun Myung/Keith Moon and Teshara (as earth), 11. Michael Mercury, Venus Williams, Bruno Mars, 12. listening to some Nep-tunes, 13. Klingons on Uranus?, 14. Jew pit er, cemetery, er columbarium, 15. cremated, liquidated, vaporized, whatever, you name it, 16. Ashley, Ashby, Atascadero State Hospital, 17. Dustin to dusty Springfield, 18. Dirty thoughts, muddy waters, filthy rich, soylent green, 19. Dust devil and speed demon and meth/mass monsters and original sinner and satanic panic and Johnny rotten and Sid vicious and evel knievel and cruel to be kind, in the right measure, 20. witchy woman and wicked Wiccans eating camaron al diablo and the anarchist antichrist, 21. hey little sister shotgun, twisted sister, life in the fast lane, 22. tourist tired of the city of Tyre, 23. heresy and balderdash, 24. conquistadors from the east and conquest of the west, 25. Tombs in Otumba, 26. origin of gin, 27. check out the abs on those aboriginals, 28. I can't stand Nemours any more, 29. call the exterminator, I'm protest-ants, 30. ants in my pants make me dance in france, 31. aunt knows the ontology of antimony, 32. argh, the argonauts were targeted in the battle of Larga, 33. auto in a rush? Ottomans and Russians!, 34. pondering Ticonderoga, 35. L Ron Hubbard and old mother Hubbard and the battle of Hubbardton, 36. quasi-Ozzy, 37. Telsat and treaty of Tilsit, 38. wry wit, riot, writ, 39. abolish ball-polish!, 40. Monty Python in Monterey, 41. the quest to find Kong, 42. early morning, pacific time (konked out west), 43. military draft, millet, draft beer, fart'd, 44. sassy assassin, 45. Phillip's head screwdriver, + ball peen hammer equals Philippine eye lands, 46. Newlands Resolution (1898) annexes Hawaii to USA, 47. Newman center, born again, 48. to fall is folly, to urinate is whiz dumb, 49. the art of S and M (smart), 50. cums to an end, 51. he stole my purse, that's persecution, 52. the YMCA was founded in 1844 (better than being found dead!), 53. older, bolder, colder in Boulder, CO, 54. damned Hoover dam sucks, 55. hover over Hoover!, 56. the Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a chinese tactical victory, japanese strategic victory, 57. a partition party, 58. awkward occupation, 59. auks are ok with me, 60. bonsai isn't banzai, 61. borzoi isn't a bore, 62. HH Howard Hughes, 63. steamship, not nazi, 64. for example, Ernesto Guevara, 65. Che, cheech, cheese, chess, checkers, cheat, chemistry..., 66. white Dwight, black is back, 67. ASA, Alaska statehood act, 68. Solomon Islands, Sports Illustrated, St. Ignatius, smart/intelligent, stupid/ignorant, sick/ill, systeme internationale, self-immolation, Spanish Inquisition, 69. Sandra Day O'Connor and night court, 70. Bjorn Borg and Boris Becker, 71. going topless, beheaded, 72. smelt it, dealt it, delta II rocket, rockettes, 73. flash flood in Krasnodar krai (cry), 74. formica, for Micah.
July 8
GR: 1. A psychologist said, “the place where optimism flourishes most is the insane asylum”, TH: 2. Julius Caesar conquers a fishing village (Lutetia Parisiorum), the founding of Paris (52 b.c.), 3. CIA, acquired considerable importance, 4. speaking Portuguese on the porch, 5. Trebek from Quebec, 6. Rhode Island is not Rhodesia, 7. Charles E. Barnes of Lowell, MA patents the machine gun (1856), W: 8. VDG, Vasco de Gama, van de graff generator, Vulcan death grip, 9. Kazan and Gaza, 10. Tatarstan and satan tart, 11. poultry in Poltava, 12. the most powerful earthquake ever recorded was in 1960 Chile, 9.4-9.6, 13. Fort Carillon and the musical instrument (bells), 14. Bayonne Statute, b.s. (yawn), 15. Chippewas, with chips on their shoulders?, chips off the old block, adios Ontario, 16. Hamburg massacre, where's the beef? (in US, actually), 17. Soapy Smith, kind of nazi, actually, (killed 1898), 18. Dow Jones, Lowest level, during Great Depression, closes at 41.22, 19. pow! right in the kisser! KSSR, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), 20. In Sudan, 2003, a plane crash kills 116 of 117 on board, 21. 2011, space shuttle Atlantis flies to final mission of the (not nazi) program, 22. Abe Lincoln and Shinzo Abe.
July 9
GR: 1. Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier, and moved residences so often he couldn’t even vote for himself, TH: 2. Prague-ress, 3. eating tacos in Tacuman, (not Tacoma), 4. Tina and a gent from Argentina, 5. good grass in Yerba Buena, 6. bee stings in Hastings, 7. successful open heart surgery, without anesthesia (1893) !, 8. Johnny Weissmuller set 51 world records, 9. Nikola sucks on a ricola, Tesla (born, 1856) drives one, (scientist, engineer, inventor - patented fluorescent lights and about 700 other inventions), 10. Peggy listens to Ottorino Respighi, 11. Thanks, Tom Hanks!, W: 12. Yo, Hadrian!, 13. Alvin, Simon, Theodosius (really quite precocious), 14. Ravens in Ravenna, 15. Odoacer, go Frodo! ace the test, 16. Theoderic and Theodosious and Theo's theological theory, 17. Sendai, send artificial intelligence!, 18. timid Fatimids, submissive submarines, 19. sempiternal Sempach, 20. goregasm in the dutch town of Gorkum, 21. Bohemia and Bo-she-mia, 22. boys from Boise, girls from Girls Planet 999, 23. men are from mars, women are from Venus, by John Gray (where are the grays from?), 24. car payments in Carpi, seize the fish, carpe carp, 25. Ghent and Ents, again, 26. Catherine the Great, and shitty Shiites, crappie fish, craposyncracies (about gods, angels, prophets), 27. everybody poops, sometimes, 28. Wolfgang, a pack of wolves, Amadeus, loving god, 29. Men without hats plays Manhattan, 30. continental army, and incontinence, 31. debt accrued, a wet crew, crude bet, 32. Dave Thomas and David Thompson, 33. Zachary Taylor, and zero tolerance, 34. a refreshing breeze in Tabriz, 35. Bab from Babylon, baby, 36. due process, doodie process, (a shitty pun), 37. the millenium falcon flies over the Balkans, 38. bull whim, the running of the bulls, and Wimbledon, 39. Metallica and the Olympics (gold, silver, bronze), 40. RA, royal assent, 41. a cute chin, and executing christians, 42. how are train collisions possible!? they're on different tracks!, 43. downfall of Mussolini, and a dead moose, and deadmau5, 44. Joe's toes, and Tojo, 45. REM, rapid eye movement, and the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 46. megatsunami in '58 (AK) causes a 1722 foot wave, 47. Nazi hunters and nazi honeys, 48. plebeians vote by plebiscite, 49. nuns having Nunavut, 50. Alexei Navalny and Navaly (Sri Lanka), 51. SP, student protests, 52. Summer in Addis Ababa, baba o' Riley, 53. Imagine a USA (United States of Africa!), not just OAU, and AU, 54. lumpy koala at the zoo (or soup?), in Kuala Lumpur.
July 10
GR: 1. Brookline MA isn’t Brooklyn NY, 2. Mel Blanc was the voice of “hundreds” of cartoon characters (hearing voices?), TH: 3. the racquet racket, 4. Wales, whales, bob Marley and the wailers, 5. Mack smokes pot on the Potomac, 6. world's first concrete paved street, in Ohio (1892), 7. WW, TV: Woodrow Wilson, treaty of versailles; William Wallace, 8. Boris Yeltsin and Boris Johnson, and hunting boring boars, 9. JW, Johnny Weissmuller, James Whistler, Jehovah's Witness, Joko Widodo (Yoko widow), 10. Marcel Proust, Marcel Marceau, Marcel Duchamp, Marsellus Wallace, Marseillaise, 11. Arthur Ashe, African-American, Alcoholics Anonymous, 12. VW, virginia wade, W: 13. Dubs from Dublin, go warriors (don't worry be happy), Ellen's body double, 14. the peasant finds it pleasant to eat pheasant, 15. Lady Jane Grey and William I of Orange, 16. Deftly done, Delft, 17. Kingdom of Great Britain, KGB, 18. oxymoron of War of the Pacific, 19. like paci-fist, 20. every day of the week is "bloody" (I entered Bloody Monday thru Bloody Sunday, on Wikipedia), 21. silly sister from Sicily, 22. Kaesong and the killer's playlist, 23. junta and Hu Jintao, 24. Moktar Ould Daddah, old dad, dadaism, and Islamic Socialism, 25. Mauritania and more it mania, 26. DGSE, MI6, CIA, FSB, Mossad, ISI, 27. Intelli-gents, guys or dames, 28. Neanderthal dna analysis posits an "African eve" 100,000-200,000 ya, 29. Macedonia, and Mass is done, go out to love and serve the lord, 30. SSM, same sex marriage, surface/ship missiles, 31. the consul is in Mosul, 32. VB, Volkswagen Beetle, Victoria Beckham, Virginia Beach.
July 11
GR:1. firefighting “demonstration” gone wrong (puts the demon in demonstration), TH: 2. Catherine of Aragon high school, 3. bowling with Anne Boleyn, 4. drinking at a bad bar in Barbados, 5. duel, dual, do L, dua lipa, 6. War of the worlds, (wow, in 1938), 7. Frank Sinatra, sings Sumatra, 8. 7-11 opens, in '64, 9. Camp David, MD, named after Eisenhower's grandson, 10. Vega, the 5th brightest star in the night sky (and Suzanne), 11. Donny wears Armani, 12. You'll sing yule with Yul Brynner, 13. Leon Spinks, spanks a lion, 14. Robert the Bruce, and Bruce the Robert, robbing brew, W: 15. polygamist pigs, 16. Bahais in Baja, 17. Rig Veda and Darth Veda, 18. epic Eric, 19. Jessica, Metallica, and ICA (immaculate conception academy), 20. nominally numinous, 21. Ricimer's dulcimer plays Anthemius' anthem, 22. emperor abdicates, becomes a monk (Mike and Cate, monk keys), 23. Louis the stammerer, Charles the fat, Charles the simple, 24. Rolo candy, Rollo of Normandy, and rolls royce, 25. a trippy trip to Tripoli, 26. Bohemian grove, Bo-she-mia, and Bo knows, 27. revering Rover in Rovere, 28. Celebi is a celebrity, 29. Laura Dern in Edirne, 30. Frobisher's fishy afro, 31. SB, storming of the Bastille, 32. a foolish dueler, 33. Yagan, again, history repeats itself, said Carl Sagan, and Saint Fagan, 34. fed up with confederacy, fed-ex, and federalists in fedoras, 34. Tijuana, Argentina, Sudan, Nepal, Pakistan, Nicaragua (Juana, Tina, Sue, Dan, Paul, Stan, Nick), 35. Nick and Nikki and Nikka, (and Nike), 36. Salomon eats salmon, 37. Fiat fights fate, 38. Chester Gillette, Penn Jillette, Gillette razors, and Gill/E.T., (Kathy, Ellen), 39. bowling with bolsheviks, 40. fuct at UCD, oomph at IMF, 41. crocs in DROC, cats in Katanga, 42. I will not be mocked, mockingbird!, 43. policing a copper mine, 44. copulating with Copernicus, 45. Incans from Cuenca, Ecuador, 46. eating okra in Oka is okay by me, 47. Mohawk, modus operandi, of misery in Missouri, down below where its prey is quietly trembling, (cowboy junkies, Good Friday, lyric reference), 48. Mumbai train bombings (Bomb-ay), 49. camping with Allah, in Kampala (Uganda), 50. Satan? nah, listen to a sonata at Shri Sanatan (original name of Hinduism), 51. Ziggy in Zygi (Cyprus), 52. Shiva with a shiv! Avis rent-a-car.
July 12
GR: 1. Max Geller, owner of Green Parrot Bar, and Sarah Michelle Gellar; his murder was solved (?) by a talking parrot, who kept repeating the killer’s name, Ed Morrow says, TH: 2. Geoffrey Chaucer visited me in a flying saucer, 3. I ate Cadbury chocolate while reading the Canterbury Tales, 4. habeas corpus, hydrocarbons, and honoris causa, 5. Joseph Smith had a divine revelation that said polygamy is okay :-), 6. Panama Canal is so p.c., (paper clip, pillow case, personal computer, peace corps, presbyterian church, probable cause, pro-choice, peaceful coexistence, pancreatic/prostate cancers, primary/pallliative care, politically correct, 7. space shuttle Enterprise, and Star Trek starship, too, (USS Enterprise), 8. pictures of Kodiak with my Kodak, 9. I dig Modigliani, 10. Pablo Neruda eats gouda with Buddha, 11. Milton Berle and John Milton and Milton Friedman and Milton-Bradley, 12. Van Cliburn, burning van, burning man, viet cong, and virtuous virtuoso, 'oso' means bear, 13. Bradley Cooper, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, British Columbia, Baja California, before christ, Boston College, W: 14. Euboea constrictor, 15. Jose knows Joseon dynasty, 16. acting Bishop of Yucatan burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya (1562), 17. Bengal tiger, and Ben's gal, 18. Necking Jacques Necker, 19. Bengal Sultanate, storming Bastille, slavic bible, 20. CCC, civil constitution of the clergy, 21. Bavarian aria in an Aryan area, 22. bad in Baden, wolves in a den in Aden, 23. vikings taking Vicodin in Vidin, Biden in Viden, 24. Gary from Bulgaria, 25. how do you kidnap 1300 miners? (not minors!), 26. playing frisbee in Bisbee, 27. bocce ball and battleship Kawachi off Karachi, 28. dreadlocks on a dreadnought, 29. patching things up with the Apache, 30. Cold War and Syrian hot.
July 13
GR: 1. Kate Hudson on the Hudson River, 2. John C. Fremont at Mission San Jose, 3. OT, Oregon Trail, Overtime, Old Testament, Operating Thetan, TH: 4. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, 5. Lebanon, NJ, 6. Virgin Mary appears (as a vision) at Fatima, Portugal (fat ma?), 7. rigid dirigible, and risible derision, 8. The first World Cup (Uruguay, 1930), 9. NYC in '77 has a 25 hour blackout, 10. Philip the good, Charlamagne the god, 11. David Storey, playwright and novelist, telling stories, 12. PS, Patrick Stewart, 13. Erno Rubik has a net worth of (earned?) $100 million, 14. bucking broncos, bull riding, Lindsey Buckingham, W: 15. AT&T and Alexander the third, 16. Live on, Livonians!, 17. Harlem NY and Haarlem Netherlands, trotting on their steeds, around the globe, 18. Chester from Rochester, 19. aryan paliamentarian at the gulf of Darien, 20. buy a car, or a carbine, 21. student from Calcutta, cutting class at Cal, 22. jails, prisons, locks, walls, aches, and Wallachia, 23. Queen Noor in Norfolk, 24. Fifi at the FIFA World Cup, 25. grinning Montenegrins, 26. hm, Harold Macmillan, 27. which side was God on, during Ogaden War?, (Ethiopian victory over Somalia), 28. Paul and Columbus, and polyps in your colon, 29. Lenin peak, in Afghanistan (yup, Vladimir), 30. I be Ingrid Betancourt, ub40, 31. wanna visit Wanat?, 32. South Sudan, not nazi (hopefully), 33. Typhoon Soulik, a wind blowing in my soul? ha, 34. Theresa May, Augustus, Julie, Jan, 35. Lake Piru is in California (not Peru), 36. Naya Rivera, and mayan rivers.
July 14
GR: 1. Bastille Day, man of steel, thieves of steal, 2. Anton Chekhov cranks up the AC, (Andrew Cunanan, too), 3. Opening fire at the closing campfire, TH: 4. first crusade, christian knights from europe capture Jerusalem and begin massacring the city's Muslims and Jews, 5. populations and momulations, 6. Henry Purcell and selling purses, 7. Brian, lord Byron, brain, 8. harmony and glee in my Karmann-ghia, 9. HH hanoi hilton, 10. The agony and the ecstasy, and royal tannenbaums, 11. Isaac Bashevis Singer, wasn't (he was a writer), 12. Woody woodpecker, woody Guthrie, Sheriff woody, Woody Allen, Woodrow Wilson, Woody Harrelson, 13. cries and whispers, 14. divine right of kings, the king as god's representative, with authority from god, vs. the right and power to govern residing in the people, themselves, 15. French Revolution executed tens of thousands of people, priests and nuns, prisoners, the reign of terror, committee for public "safety", killed at least 40,000 people; more than 10,000 people (lost their heads) to the guillotine, designed by a doctor, 16. overthrown and thrown over, throne over!, 17. elf says, "liberte, egalite, fraternite", W: 18. Frankish, Jewish, kinda sorta maybe-ish, 19. let's go to Beeway, honey, (Beauvais), 20. sacking cities, like Santa Claus!, 21. gasp! it's Gaspar, risen from the dead!, Portola found the portal!, 22. Junie, Sara, and Junipero Serra, 23. Iron Man on Bastille day, 24. false and malicious statements on f.m. radio, 25. Finnish War (finished! 17 September 1809), and the war to end all wars , 26. Edward Whymper, why wimper? 4 died on descent (of Matterhorn), if it matters, 27. Billy the kid, and billy goat gruff, 28. Tientsin, tension, ensign, and ten sinners, 29. Harry Atwood, Margaret Atwood, and the 'Hanging Dog baptist church cemetery' (NC), 30. devil in the details at Delville Wood, 31. Eugenics and Eugene, OR, 32. Diamond, MO (named after the shape of a nearby tract of land, not a diamond mine), 33. jeopardy-type answer: baby formula one, Jane GoodAllah, 34. sleeping chimpan-zzzz, 35. Jacques Chirac, and Abd al-Karim Qasim, seems awkward, 36. Solar System, not nazi.
July 15
GR: 1. Spending Summer at Fort Sumner, NM, 2. School superintendent, not nazi, TH: 3. In 1205, Pope Innocent III created Church doctrine making all Jews liable to perpetual servitude and subjugation because of their crucifixion of Jesus (!)...godslave, Matthew 23:11; 4. Islam means submission, Luke 22:42 (not my will but thine), 5. Zebulon Pike? that's my name, too! lol, 6. Iron is pronounce eye-urn?, 7. Stockholm, Sweden, not nazi, 8. William Boeing has a bouncy baby boy...boing! boing!, 9. Wiley Post in '33, first solo flight around the world; when I was a kid, we called going around the block "around the world", (Clara Adams, first woman, '39), 10. cattle from Seattle, 11. PS, prodigal son, 12. CCR and CCM, Clement Clarke Moore, 13. lute, flute, loot, and fruit loops, W: 14. Tam the cow, moos during Tammuz, 15. An Lushan, Hong Kong, Dinah from China, chinese heinies, lol, 16. burning myrrh at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 17. why can't I be buried in Canterbury?, 18. can't spell Novgorod without God, (no v r good), 19. Nas in Nasrid dynasty, 20. Neva again, (a river), 21. Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War and my mom, PLT (Peggy Lawrence Teshara), 22. Griswolds go to Grunwald, 23. Turku is in Finland, not Turkey, 24. cheery Chirikov, (discovers/first European to visit) Alaska (derived from Aleut word, alyeska, meaning "great land"), 25. Rose knows Rosetta (Egyptian village; also a European space probe), 26. HMS Bellerophon ring a bell? Napoleon surrenders, sur - ender, no more global south?, 27. the spanish inquisition lasted nearly 356 years (!), 28. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an address to the Harvard Divinity School, discounted the biblical miracles and called Jesus a great man, but not God (to the outrage of the Protestant community there), 29. The CSS Arkansas, despite evoking ark and saw, was an ironclad, 30. Scientology makes Emil Kraepelin feel crappy, 31. the holocaust wasn't holy, or hollow, or the price/cost of anything, 32. nobody is for nuclear weapons! why do they exist?, 33. steel strike, not nazi, 34. the whole world should be a demilitarized zone, 35. PS, police state, 36. at the Orly airport, early, 37. supplying aid to the enemy (the devil?), ecclesiastical/canon law, 38. DD, DDD (distracted by dating), causing death by dangerous driving (2021 Bowburn crash).
July 16
GR: 1. Ears are said to be as unique as fingerprints, 2. Seeking asylum, insane asylum, TH: 3. Meccan mechanics and that funky cold Medina!, 4. moo-hom-mid (midway between cow and man), 5. 622 c.e. (traditional start of Islam, beginning of islamic calendar, when persecuted Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina), 6. Joan of Arc (american river college, american red cross, advance reading copy, story arc, archangel, noah's ark), 7. Ninefold celestial hierarchy!!, 8. Kissing outlawed in England (!) (1439) to stop the plague... 9. Sister Sarah and Franciscan Junipero Serra, 10. Colombia is not Columbia, 11. Columbus and Columbine, 12. Hong Kong and Crete, honking cretins, and concrete, 13. bausch and lomb, auschwitz poland, cow-shwitz, wittgenstein, wit and shit, anheuser-busch, ow, poland/richmond, 14. lame-o's from los alamos, 15. vampire victims, fangs, and the Vickers Viscount, discounted, 16. Weary Willy, worldwide, wicked wiccans, wonder woman, weight watchers, woodrow wilson, white witch, wrong word, 17. Barry Goldwater, Bill Gates, border guard, blood glucose, basal ganglia, beegees, 18. "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue", 19. Quentin Coldwater and Bury Goldwater, 20. it took an estimated 400,000 engineers, technicians, and scientists (and $100B in today's dollars) to go to the moon, 21. Sarto's art, 22. Mbe, Nigerian language, Mary baker eddy (founder of Christian Science), 23. Orville Redenbacher, that's my name, too!, 24. thousand yard stare of Fred Astaire, 25. Gr, Ginger Rogers, 26. Tim Duncan, Chris Webber, Margaret Court, 27. Datsun becomes Nissan ('81), dot sun becomes honorable niece!; way out, man! cosmic!, W: 28. blessing in the skys; dissing guys, in disguise, 29. battle of spercheios, what a bunch of bull, who cares about bulgarians vs. byzantines, in 997 a.d.?, (busy teens one), 30. battle of las navas, wasn't naval, wasn't by a novice, (means 'treeless plateau', I think), 31. St. Francis of Assisi, a yes! yes!, 32. The Caramelite order, lol, love is sweet, even camels do it, (Carmelites, named after Mt. Carmel in the Crusader States, not Carmel CA; modern name Mt. St. Elias/Elijah, or Mount Mar Elias, in arabic), 33. La Paz, Bolivia be with you, contigo, 34. alone with a cat in Catalonia, 35. David Farragut, rear admiral, admiring her rear, says the assayer, 36. Persian or Parisian?, 37. Shah Qajar and Qatar, 38. First OA ceremony (order of the arrow, not outdoor adventures), for Boy Scouts "who best exemplify the scout oath and law", 39. oath: on my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country, to obey the scout law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight, 40. law: a scout is trustworthy loyal helpful friendly courteous kind obedient cheerful thrifty brave clean and reverent, 41. Selassie, selling Lassie (how much is that doggie in the window?), 42. mass arrest, and arresting someone (everyone?) at church, 43. MP's, ministers of parliament, Manhattan project, military police, missing person, Madhya Pradesh, millennium park, melting point, machine pistol, 44. Nazgul from Nazareth, 45. Baudouin I of Belgium, and bedouins, 46. Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), and kill 'em all (debut studio album by Metallica), 47. shout! shout! let it all out! (Schouten Islands), 48. Apollo 11, and AK-47, 49. Isles of Scilly (silly or skill?), and Scilllium (Tunisia), 50. take Equatorial Guinea, for example, 51. launching lunch, 52. Java and Rojava.
July 17
GR: 1. Alvaro Obregon, obre-gone, 2. Billie Holiday, a prostitute as a teenager, died (age 44) from going into a coma, from alcoholism and heroin, 3. al in the alcohol, hero in the heroin, doug into drugs, and pa smoking pot, TH: 3. The French beat England in the 100 years war, (why didn't they just flip a coin?), 4. Spain ceded FL to the USA as part of a deal to cancel debt ($5 million), 5. Harrods and Herod and Herodotus and Harrah's and hairy Harry and hurrah, 6. legal tender, illegal rough, 7. federal reserve notes, green as a fern, 8. eating edam in edo, 9. Tokyo, toe key oh! (yoyo? yo!), 10. Olduvai gorge, old duv, 11. Anastasio, anal o, nasty Stasi, yummy samosa, Sammy Sosa, Samoza, some more uh, Saddam and Gomorrah, sodom and sodomy and oh my, 12. C3 p.o. in a B2 bomber enjoying A1 sauce, 13. Disneyland opens ('55), 14. hissing at the state security service, 15. Perry Mason in the evening, 16. Phyllis Diller , ill ill PD, you be illin', 17. illin' ellen, 18. a hassle to get off, with David Hasselhoff, 19. Knight Rider, Baywatch, sit-in on the dock of the bay, wasting thyme, 20. Pigpen and Bobby Thigpen, W: 21. Pope dies 23 days after being elected, (but 6 other popes in history died even earlier!), 22. Damasus and Damascus, damn ask us, 23. Damasus II (24), Marcellus II (23), Sisinnius (21), Theodore II (20), Celestine IV (16), and (drum roll) Urban VII (13 calendar days), 24. Zhu Di (Yongle emperor), and Judy (what's your angle?), 25. Ming dynasty and Wyoming, 26. Reims France doesn't remotely sound like Rheems PA, 27. shrew is a mammal; virgo virago, 28. Water Music and Handel singing in the shower, 29. Kugluktuk, cool name! Like Winnemucca, 30. Jacob Bin Laden and the Jacobins, 31. Ore-Ida in Florida, 32. Vampires at the NEC Corporation, 33. 1902, first air conditioner, Willis Carrier invents, 34. I talk to the Windsors, the wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear, 35. Chekists and chess and Czechs and bank checks, 36. Pat and Kat at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 37. you drove from the Bahamas? I took the RMS Car-pathia!, 38. Day of Democracy, Dept. of Defense, 39. Altamont (counterculture rock concert) and Altona, and Altamira (prison riot), 40. Kings and democratic candidates both "reach majority" (age of, vs. plurality). 41. Demo-crazy and demo-sane (Demosthenes!), 42. Popular Front and unpopular behind, 43. Port Chicago is in California, not Illinois, 44. Winston Churchill in the water closet, with Walter Cronkite, 45. Potsdam and hella skunky weed, 46. Anaheim Anna, 47. playing billiards in Iraq, 48. Soyuz means 'union' (not a vegetarian appeal to use soy), 49. Helmut Kohl and coal-miners's helmet!, 50. submarine goes 'ping!' off the coast of Papua New Guinea, 51. my partner's from Patna, 52. less stupider about Jupiter.
July 18
GR: 1. John Paul Jones in his “sleep of death”, (nap!) at Annapolis, MD, 2. Horatio Alger, Alger Hiss, flowers for Algernon, and Algeria, (named for the city Algiers, which translates to "the islands" (for the 4 islands off the city), 3. Addison’s disease, in the Summer, TH: 4. Mersey, have mercy, 5. Mein Kampf and chow mein at camp; I me mine, 6. 2/3 of Rome burns in 64 a.d., 7. the doctrine/dogma of papal infallibility (in matters of faith and morals, 'ex cathedra') was proclaimed by the Vatican Council, in 1870, 8. CW, conventional wisdom, civil war, culture war, cold war, creative writing, chemical weapons, 9. The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe's last film, (and a rock band), 10. microchips, at the bottom of the bag, lol, 11. lauding jean-claude in Fort Lauderdale, 12. Nadia Comaneci and the naughty man, 13. India's first satellite, Rohini (the name of a Hindu goddess, consort of the moon god, Chandra), launched in 1980, 14. Hunter S. Thompson and Harry S. Truman, hissed, 15. the bloody skeleton of Red Skelton, 16. Metta Worldpeace and William Makepeace Thackeray (author of Vanity Fair), 17. VC, viet cong, venture capital, vassar college, victoria cross, 18. LL cool J, LL bean, nelson mandela, 19. red ink and blueprints, 20. ecumenism isn't interfaith dialogue, 21. R and B, resentment and bitterness, W: 22. PS, Parthian and Sasanian, Iranian empires, 23. Aquileia and aqualung, 24. getting antsy in Anshi, 25. Goguryeo and Gregory, 26. Almohad (from believers in one god) forces and 'almohada' (spanish for pillow), 27. Florence and footprints on the ceiling, 28. a gunpowder magazine is not like a periodical, say Guns and Ammo, or People, or whatever, 29. Kayes and k's, bees, seas, ease, geez, eyes, jays, Elle's, pee, are, tee, you, ex, why, 30. Umar Tall and Martin Short, 31. dogma and catpa, catnap, catma, Katmandu, dogpa, a dog park in Dog Patch, SF, 32. infallible, in the Fall, 33. SB, secret ballot, 34. status of state statistics, 35. fascists rock: schist (geology is in fashion), 36. Mitt Romney's Messerschmitt, 37. Hideki Tojo's mojo, 38. the gleam in her Gemini, 39. target vehicle, boom, (Gemini 10), 40. Intel on Intel (founded in Mountain View, 1968), 41. Massacres at a McDonald's, and Killeen, TX, 42. patriotic front and subversive behind, 43. Montserrat, Monty, Sara, he's a rat, 44. Burgers at Burgas airport, 45. GOD, Gvt. Of Detroit, $20B in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in US History, 46. Hadrian the Sabian.
July 19
GR: 1. Monopoly op, TH: 2. "Doc" Holliday and Billie Holiday, and holy daze, 3. some easy, light reading, from novelist Emile Zola, 4. Harry Belafonte, and a hairy elephant, 5. damn swans! and the Aswan dam, 6. the ship's sensors sense censorship!, 7. Spain, Russia, and the Franco-Prussian war (germans won), 8. mayonnaise and apple juice, Charles Mayo (co-founder of clinic) and AJ Cronin (author), crones and ronin and nine inch nails, 9. Charles Teagarden, trumpeter, chucking tea (boston tea party), japanese tea ceremony, sara money, 10. It was all (Rosalyn) Yalow, 11. ordination and Lizzie Borden, 12. gruesome? the garden grew some!, W: 13. GFR, Great Fire of Rome, Grand Funk Railroad, 14. tarsal bones and Tarsus (modern Turkiye), 15. King Roderic's sick daughter, 16. (Pat and Dick, godparents) Zoncas from Simancas, 17. social status, not nazi, 18. Apamea - culpa, 19. HH Halidon Hill, and haldol, 20. lone bull eats bologna in Boulogne, 21. Battle of Klissow goes to the underdogs, 22. George Anton Schaffer, what a gas, 23. SP, screw propeller, 24. Typing Heavenly Kingdom! (Taiping, defeated actually), 25. Paris Metro in the evening, 26. bots fighting in the Battle of the Somme, 27. casualties and casual ties, 28. German U-boats inflicting massive damage with little risk was called "The Happy Time", 29. the dark arts and a shadow government, 30. Hell's Kitchen and Helsinki, 31. Evelyn Waugh, (a man, an author), 32. eating dessert in Bizerte, 33. over 100km (62.14 miles) up qualifies as spaceflight under international convention, 34. Joe Walker, JW, 35. Was (John T) McNaughton mc-naughty?, 36. chapstick on Chappaquiddick, 37. Oh man, you can go far in Dhofar, 38. napalm in Nepal, 39. cri de coeur from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 40. Sandy, my niece from Nicaragua, meet Nick, 41. Two oil tankers collide ('79), 42. Mosque ow, moss-cow, mosque-O, Moss corporation, Moscow, named after Moskva river (formerly called Moscov), 43. Get out of (David S.) Dodge (penetration, possession, mind control, all in all), 44. anti-mafia judge killed by car bomb in Palermo outside his mother's apartment by Sicilian mafia, 45. chobani yogurt in Kobani, Syria, 46. a dhampir (half human, half vampire) puts a damper on things, 47. Sudan comes from arabic, "land of the blacks."
July 20
GR: 1. Pancho Villa, villain, TH: 2. "people are dead" (5 senses: o/x/x/z/z: orgasm ("little death"), death, abortions (xx), deep sleep (Zz-, "dead to the world"), not alive!/Zombie-ish), (sixth is people are their dead ancestors or have the souls of dead people), 3. life in the Tamerlane, 4. insultin' the sultan, satiating satan, insulin insolence, 5. 12 tribes, 12 jurors, 12 apostles, and the Riot Act (forbidding assemblages of more than 12 people), 6. loam in Colombia, 7. in no sense am I innocent, 8. Maclaren folding baby buggy (and McLaren automobile!), 9. the moon is 240,000 miles from earth, you lunatic, (238,856 average), 10. Paul Cook (sex pistol, SP) is so p.c., 11. Carlos Santana and satan's car, bmw, black magic woman, 12. stolen from Solano, 13. CS Lewis, Carlos Santana, christian scientists, W: 14. Street fights in SF, 15. Kardam of Bulgaria, such a card, 16. shart in Chartres, 17. Norman D., 18. are germs germane to Germans?, 19. San Germano (present day Cassino) is in Italy, not Germany, 20. killing in Kellistown, 21. SOS, sultans of swing, 22. the yin and yang of ping pong in Pyongyang, 23. Sulu, the Zulu from Oulu (Finland), 24. Morea (the Peloponnese) and the mines of Moria, 25. amish in Michigan?, farms in Berkeley?, 26. NN ICE, Nicephore Niepce gets a patent for his internal combustion engine, 27. Bogota, go-go dancers from Togo, pogo is a no-go, says Yoko Ono, 28. Seneca, Senegal, cynical, 29. Shawn the Shawnee, 30. John Bell Hood, in the 'hood, 31. Melissa and Lisa, from Lissa, 32. Vis is a small Croatian island in the Adriatic, vis-a-vis V, 33. Hugo from Yugoslavia, 34. go to Silivri? don't be silly, 35. Legoland in Togoland, 36. Tanganyika? yikes!, 37. Minneapolis, a mini-city, where Minnie Mouse lives, 38. S and P, Seattle and Portland, 39. Standup comedy club in Berne, wit in Switzerland, getting burned, 40. phosphorus in the Bosphorus for us, 41. motion pictures, and the human eye can see between 30 and 60 frames per second, 42. studio system, not nazi, 43. Deutschmarks in Denmark, 44. NKJB and NKVD, 45. Harry Gold and Sarah Silverman, 46. King Abdullah was kind of dull, 47. the world's first female head of government, 1960, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), PM SB, 48. Polaris Missile, and prime minister, 49. Cai Be and Khyber pass and Kai, baby, 50. Soldier Field, Chicago, and Chicago style pizza in SF, 51. Chris Darden and the Dardanelles, 52. Otto John and OJ, 53. Special Olympics, intellectual disability, and the birthday plate "you are special today", 54. cosmic Buddha! The Sea of Tranquility (moon, where Apollo 11 made the first manned landing), 55. Vampire Weekend and the 100 hour war, 56. sniper from Cyprus, 57. yo dawg, the dictator of Greece!, 58. Johnson from Johnstown (not Jonestown), 59. a ballad about Balad (Somalia), 60. hiding in Hyde Park, 61. ants, ill at ease, in the Antilles, 62. playing tuba in Aruba, 63. ASSK, ass-kisser, 64. Vaclav Havel, vacuuming in Czechoslovakia, lava/gavel?, 65. Falun Gong's ("dharma wheel of practice") symbol has a swastika in it, headquartered in Dragon Springs, Deerpark, NY (dragons eat deer!), 66. James Holmes, wassup Holmes? (the illest hip-hop detective); twelve consecutive life-sentences, spared the death penalty by one vote, 67. full diplomatic relations, and hungry humanitarian hostages.
July 21
GR: 1. Rheumatism, Rumi, and get a room, 2. Ferris wheel, at the faire, life is unfair, TH: 3. Alex and Andrea, in Alexandria, 4. Peggy T, gypsies, and Egypt, 5. the Pope dissolved the Jesuits??, 6. Taschereau (first Canadian catholic cardinal) and Teshara and Texeira, 7. Cat Stevens is Yusuf Islam, 8. Don Knotts, tied the knot with 3 women: Metz, Czuchna, and Yarborough, 9. Norman Jewison is Protestant, 10. the gleeful violin playing of Isaac Stern, 11. Sally Hemings and Hemingway, and hem and haw, 12. loitering with goiter, reconnoiter for Reuters, 13. Vicki, Victor, and Nguyen, and Champ, Biden's dog, sorry for your loss, W: 14. Croesus rhymes with Jesus, 15. Emperor arrests the Pope (Maximinus Thrax, Pontian sent to Sardinia), 16. might makes right on the Isle of Wight, 17. Alva, simony, Theodoric?, 18. Dorgon's gorgons, 19. against all odds, the queer mathematician against all evens, 20. Reading a Serbian tabloid at the bar again, re-pub-Blick!, 21. Belgian bells, 22. molasses at Manassas, a sticky situation, for an ambassador, 23. a dare to live in Adair, Iowa, 24. "Pumpsie" Green, black, plays for the red socks, who lost to the white socks; color revolutions, the rainbow flag, blue meanies, indigo girls, purple rain, orange free state, yellow river, red china, violet femmes (sp), 25. Siri and Sirimavo of Sri Lanka, 26. sorry I wore the sari, 27. The Washington Monument, not neo-nazi, 28. world's lowest temperature (in an inhabited location) is -128.6º F, 29. Akashi (Japan) and Akasha (sky), 30. Erden Eruc, emperor of ethiopia, ee cummings (edward estlin), electrical engineer, an employee of EE limited (formed as Everything Everywhere), expressed emotion, evangelism explosion, bra size, one of the 15 Cook Islands.
July 22
GR: 1. Mariner I (a single incorrect character in its guidance programming, minus a minus!) $18.5 million, gone, 2. John Dillinger, j.d., TH: 3. no folks at Roanoke (history mystery), 4. Bancroft in Berkeley, bishop John Bancroft (1574-1640) and bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), 2 bishops, like chess, 5. Alexander Mackenzie and MacKenzie Scott, 6. ATB, america the beautiful, andre tanneberger, 7. 13.6 mph was the speed record (ha) in the first automobile road race (in france, 1894), 8. Aleksandr Karensky, the other AK, avtomat kalashnikova, and Alaska, 9. war is worse in Warsaw, 10. Frank Dobson (FD) and Augie Brown-Basmaji (ABB), and Bob Dole (BD), and David Foster Wallace (DFA), 11. Gray grades? not black and white, 12. 2200 couples married in 1982 in NYC by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, (biggest wedding ceremony in history), 13. a flutterby lands on William Archibald Spooner, 14. The devil, Mr. Scratch, W: 15. Anzen and Shenzen, 16. a bas! with the abbasids, dad (abba) named sid, 17. Godfrey the free God, 18. kingdom, killing the dumb, 19. Al and Big Jen, the Albigensians, 20. battle array, shield wall, phalanx, and schiltron, 21. cantonese cantons? I can't go on!, 22. Belgrade means "white city" (capital of Serbia), 23. knocking on doors in Dornach, 24. Snoke takes a smoke on Roanoke, 25. groaning in Groningen, 26. envy of NV, 27. Albany, NY (anyone? anyone?), 28. Cleveland named after general Moses Cleaveland, not Anne of Cleves, 29. Salamanca, salad, and manga, 30. salaam, slalom, salami, Salome, salmon, Solomon, and Islam!, 31. savory slavery, save a slave, the "slavior", 32. Britney Spears, Presbyterians, I'm a slave for you, 33. Bald Hill and Harry Potter and hairy mountain mint, 34. Tetuan and tattooine, 35. Irgun and ergonomics, Oregon, urgin' a virgin to eat sturgeon, 36. Sarawak, dead Sarah, so whack, 37. DX, Deng Xiaoping, and Deus Ex, Delta Chi, diagnosis (Dx), 38. luxury prison (the standard of fairness!), 39. Kaskaskia, IL and AK and Damascus, 40. the portal between Sarnia and Narnia, 41. Mustapha and getting mousse off, 42. ay, ay - Uday and Qusay, you say?, 43. slow police response in Oslo? No way!, 44. put a sock in it, Al-Husakah!
July 23
GR: 1. Ulysses S. Grant’s real name was HUG (Hiram Ulysses Grant), TH: 2. first Olympic Games, (foggy?), in 776 b.c. in Olympia, Greece, 3. Augie has 2 doggies, which he walks around the block, when its foggy, 4. byzantine business of busy teens, 5. first american lighthouse, in MA, at Little Brewster Island (and punky brewster), 6. Peggy gyp'd by a gypsy in Egypt, (all apologies, gitanos), 7. first typewriter, patented, 1829 (William Burt, of MI), 8. civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, MLK jr., 9. sex described as "pneumatic", 10. ultimatum frisbee with ultraman!, 11. Petain's pet, Petunia the pig, 12. Vichy government, and Vishy (pronounced v-she), 13. Bell X-2 piloted by Frank Everest goes about 1900 mph (mach 2.87), ("fastest man alive"), 14. LBJ lost his "war on poverty" (only modest results), 15. VW, Volkswagen, Vanessa Williams, Vampire Weekend, 16. cut a rug with Kerri Strug, 17. FRY in hell (Slobodan Milosovic becomes pres of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), you go girl, Hugo boy, Hugo boss, wherever I go, Hugo, 18. slobo, war criminal, died of a heart attack in his cell, 19. Tiger Woods and Lionel Messi and Cat Stevens and Bobcat Goldthwait, and Los Gatos, Catalonia, caterpillar, cattle, catherine, katrina, catholic, catharism, catcher, catharsis, catarrh, caterers, 20. Detroit '67, 12th street riot, 83 killed, 1800 injured, and $100 million in damage, 21. RC, Raymond Chandler, river cats, Roman Catholic, remote control, reinforced concrete, Rubik's cube, rancho cordova, royal crown, ravenclaw, 22. Ras Tafari (spellcheck 'was safari'), Haile Selassie I, emperor of ethiopia, born 1891, 23. a party at Sardi's, 24. St. Stephen, Stephanie Seymour, not nazi!, 25. Karl Menninger has meningitis, the meaning of mennon, 26. Michael Wilding, Oscar Wilde, and (Portuguese surname: Melo), mellow Melanie, crazy Chris, loco locals, insane Danes, in the weird ward, 27. Stage Fright in San Francisco, Sigmund Freud, suck/fuck, science fiction, Sinn Fein ('we ourselves'), space force, special forces, six flags, street fighter, 28. the crazy, from A to Z, (and lazy, hazy, amazing, doesn't phase me, daisy, Patrick Swayze, yeezy), W: 29. Knights Hospitallers were a military order, so they weren't exactly MSF, but oxymoronic, killing people, (Hippocratic oath hypocrisy), 30. off the Dieppe end, 31. Marstrand, not Mars, 32. Mainz, not Maine, 33. Mora, Maura, Moira, Mara, Maria, Mare, 33. HH Henry Halleck, 34. Goa (India), boa constrictor, mauna loa, moa, Noah, whoa!, 35. Ottoman automobiles, man, 36. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (pronounced with the j's like I's (2 eyes!), liubliana, lee ub lee ah nah), 37. CCP, center for child protection, concealed carry permit, chinese communist party, 38. Fox film doesn't make pornos (although it sounds like they would), 39. PS, porn star, 40. Assizes, and ass sizes, capsizing, a shrink with a big head, 41. officers and on-icers, 42. Sandinista Sandy on Easter, 43. louse from Laos, germ from Germany, mosca de Moscu, mosquito from mosque, and worm from Worms, 44. shiite shit, peruvian pooh, 45. lauding Lod, Israel, (is Elle wry? a wry wit about a riot!), 46. taboo and Qaboos bin Said al Said, in the caboose, 47. Elim grove, and LTTE, 48. that electric ab stimulator thing, and Abkhazia, 49. mmmbop - song by hanson, comet hale-bopp, bopped on the head, and mexico, biography of power (book), 50. shawarma and a milkshake, in Sharm El Sheikh, 51. Xixi, near Huxi, and Xi Jinping, he said she said, 52. General Secretary, Chairman, President, Paramount Leader, 53. not quite as long a form of address as Tsar Nicholas II or Idi Amin, but getting there!, 54. Idi Amin's: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshall al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", :-), 55. Huzzah! Shiite Hazaras!
July 24
GR: 1. asthma, as ma, AZ/MA (Arizona, Massachusetts), TH: 2. son of a tree! (treasonous!), riesen for the season, (happy halloween), 3. bee head, beheaded (insect, in sections), 4. learn how to be a queen, at Queen's college, Oxford (hug and kiss for D), 5. settle down, settlers!, 6. How do you say Detroit in French?, 7. pain in Spain, an altar on Gibraltar, 8. virgo virgin from Virginia, 9. the admiral admires Albert, 10. Wasatch mountains, where you can watch the Sasquatch itch her crotch, 11. Massachusetts and Machu Picchu (achoo! god bless you), 12. HH Herbert Hoover, (renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy!), 13. popcorn! the speaking clock service, over the telephone :-), 14. begin the Beguine (huh? a. dance similar to foxtrot, b. a lay order (sisterhood) of catholics, without vows), 15. burnt hamburgers (not funny), 16. beguiling guy, 17. SB, supreme being, Sara brown, Simon Bolivar, somebody, sports basement, suicide bomber, 18. read Dumas, do more, "all generalizations are dangerous, even this one", 19. Robert Graves, raving mad at the rave, buried in a small churchyard on a hill in Deia, (Mallorca, Spain), 20. hermione-afro-deity, hermaphrodite, 21. cannibal ate a meal 'ya ear/heart, 22. Cootie Williams and his orchestra, Hootie and the blowfish, duty calls, booty call, pootie-tang, 23. more grading! : Bella Abzug (BA): attorney, congresswoman, feminist (ACF), 24. Gus Van Sant, GVS, a Yugo model, and something called galvanic vestibular stimulation, W: 25. Battle of Nocera, no Sarah, 26. A life in Alife, 27. Mardin, city in Turkey; Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday; Martin and Marlen, marlins smoking marlboroughs, 28. Mary, queen of Scots, forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one y.o. son, James VI (wow), 29. castelsarrasin (Sara sin?), Saracens, 30. Jews from Anjou, 31. Marshall Villars, illin' like a villain in a village near Vilnius, 32. O. Henry embezzled, fo'shizzle, 33. Albania, well I'll be, 34. Volkswagen, and folks happy like dogs, waggin' :-), 35. Ricky Schroeder and Shkoder, 36. Silver Spoons, nazis, Jezebel - Sade, 37. Man date of pal o' Stein, 38. Menin, Lenin, Benin, Manon, Lennon, mennonites, mennon, 39. The president at Ypres, 40. Chateaubriand and the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 41. cereal killer (cannibal/carnivore/vegetarians all eat Life!), 42. Dust Bowl, Super Bowl, take the skinheads bowling, bowler caps, and Paul Bowles , 43. Hamburg, from this date in '43 until November 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30k people and destroyed 280k buildings, 44. lunacy in Lunenburg (Nova Scotia), 45. get to school sooner, in a schooner, 46. matrix says we're batteries, but I'm an anglophone, 47. PRN, (of medications) pro re nata, as needed, and President Richard Nixon, 48. drinking sake in Nagasaki, 49. hockey and walkie-talkies, 50. Broom Hilda, a witch, and Hulda Crooks, 91 y.o. american woman who ascended mount Fuji (I am not a crook), 51. opening fire and closing ice, 52. IST, integrated studies, incompetent to stand trial, and information science and technology, 53. Nadi, Fiji and naughty fugees, 54. tsar of Bulgaria becomes (elected) prime minister of Bulgaria (!), 55. cameras, civilian and military, 56. Rashad and Mashhad, 57. trains have speed limits, too, 58. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and kookookachoo (I am the walrus), 59. Oh God, b/f.
July 25
GR: 1. Yes, caller? Coleridge, cholera, TH: 2. get paid, get laid, get made, get k'd, 3. euchre, lucre, and Blucher (first steam locomotive), 4. desperate for a desperado, 5. 2 ocean liners, Italian and Swedish, crashed, in a fog (1956), 6. Concorde crashes, (2000) killing all 113 aboard, 7. Flora Adams DARling (founded Daughters of the American Revolution), 8. Gavrilo Princip and powers, principalities, virtues, dominations.., 9. Sara and seraphim, 10. The Real McCoys (from the Scottish Mackay family), 11. Crowds and Power, ow ow, bow-wow, 12. we are all sentenced to death (of old age, cellular replication), by God, (or is genetically engineered virtual-immortality possible?), 13. immortality: forever young/eternal youth, biological immortality, life extension, mind-uploading, W: 14. Sherry Darling, mon cherie, kalx deejay, (not calyx), 15. Constantine, constant teen (vampire?), 16. emperor, electro magnetic pulse, Ruhr, 17. Maxentius, anxious, 18. salon in Thessalonica, 19. tainted water in Aquitaine, 20. opal, Constantinople, no pull, and papal people, 21. the seagull chews poorly (portugal), 22. Ourique and ooh-ooh- Ribe! (Jose Uribe, baseball player, SF Giant), and ribeye steak, 23. Melina, Melissa, Melinda, Melanie, battle of Molinella, 24. Manoa and Moana, 25. God and gold: Cadillac Eldorado, golden calf, gold rush, fool's gold (pyrite), Goldie Hawn, golden eagle, goldfish, golden globe, Golden Gate Bridge, golden rule, Goldman Sachs, etc., 26. refuse (garbage), refuse (not allow), and re-fuse (fusion), 27. I could kill a guy in Guayaquil, 28. crowned, a crow named Ned, 29. Carac-awesome!, Venezuela, 30. oranges and parmesan cheese, Maurice and the duke of Parma, 31. protestant protists, 32. Westminster Abbey Hoffman, 33. 1668 earthquake in china kills over 42k people, 34. Sabrina from Sabinas, 35. Peter the Great, and Catherine (so p.c.), 36. Dumb and (William) Dummer, 37. deportation in French is derangement (?), 38. Literotica, cuddle lore, and Cuddalore, 39. Brunswick Manifesto used as toilet paper, 40. Tenerife, rife with (say ten?), 41. wanna go to Guanacaste? no? cost, eh?, 42. what's in Watsonville?, 43. daimyo dames, 44. is the sinai peninsula chinese? Sino-sin, No. Sinai is named after the biblical Mount Sinai, which is assumed to be a mountain there (Egypt), 45. Jack London, in jail (J.L.), undone, 46. Guanica (Puerto Rico) isn't Guernica (Spain), but if you prick me, do I not bleed?, 47. kombu soup, and kombucha, 48. a chance at becoming chancellor, 49. man manifesto, 50. boats are she's, 51. Cotonou, Benin: cotton! now!, 52. code 187, and the Sohagpur massacre, 53. Ponce, Puerto Rico (effeminate man, alphonse, kept man), 54. Sinhalese isn't chinese, either; Allah in Sinhala, 55. Svetlana Savitskaya, not a nazi, skay in the sky!, 56. Gia, armed Islamic group (not Gina).
July 26
GR: 1. Dayton, TN and Niton, isle of Wight (there’s also a Knighton, isle of Wight), 2. Ed Gein gave “venison” to his neighbors, for gifts (!), (he was committed for life to a hospital for the criminally insane in Wisconsin), TH: 3. nasty dining, dying a nasty death, and dynasties, 4. Peru and prr, you, Peruvian desert cat (leopardus colocola), 5. bizarre Franciscans and Francisco Pizarro, 6. Gosden common, near Guildford (Surrey, England), can't spell either without 'god', 7. crickets playing cricket? jiminy? criminy! (name derived from Anglo-Saxon word 'cricc', meaning shepherd's staff), 8. capture the flag is an actual military thing, 9. sitting on Sid's knee, in Sydney, Australia, 10. walking sticks used to be made of bamboo, rattan, and -yes- cane; thus, the name, 11. the church of Ireland was dissolved in 1869 (those opposed were, antidisestablishmentarianists), 12. Black Bart wasn't (Charles Boles, white devil), 13. How you say, "Read a book in Esperanto!" in Esperanto?, 14. American women get the right to vote (1920), when 19th amendment ratified, 15. TV system patented (1923), by scotsman John Logie Baird, 16. fulgent praise for Fulgencio Batista, demoted to barista, 17. there have been 6 crewed U.S. lunar landings, 18. birth of the FBI (1908), no fib, 19. George Catlin and George Carlin, 20. Jung's birthday (1875), forever Jung, yutes!, 21. Ah, Aldous Huxley, 22. Essay on Salvador Allende, world's first democratically elected Marxist president, (Chile, 1970), 23. the hubris of Stanley Kubrick in a tunic, 24. Mick Jagger, born same day as my dad ('43), Larry Teshara, xx, Tes-la, 25. Kevin Spacey, Sissy Spacek, Zack Space, space-x, hearts of space, the final frontier, W: 26. exciting/overwhelming, 27. foster, adopt, rescue, advocate, 28. critical of criminals, 29. I'm Fitna write 'til I die, 30. Dave Navarro and Leon Spinks, battle of valdejunquera, 31. recognize! respect!, 32. SF Bay discovered by Francis Drake in 1579, 33. lies and beer and liberty in Liberia, 34. Babe Ruth and Bayreuth, 35. Stellaland is stellar!, 36. Tahiti is cool, even in the heat, 37. Noether and no other, 38. Potsdam and mad stop, (Madrid!), 39. Justinian and Tinian, 40. aloha, a low ha, a high cry, 41. Alice in Wonderland, Alice In Chains, CIA, 42. mist! ice! a cold fog and an armistice, 43. Gamal and Jamal, 44. lunar rover, dogs in space, like Lanka, 45. grades: CFAA, computer fraud and abuse act, cop-uter, 46. again: ADA, Americans with disabilities act, 47. Mokpo, Po will not be mocked!, 48. gargle from Kargil, 49. Ahmedabad, and scientologists (bad medicine/psychiatry), 50. Yoko sends cocoa to Boko Haram, 51. Giving Boko the book.
July 27
GR: 1. Gertrude Stein asked, “what is the answer?”, got no reply, then asked, “in that case, what is the question?” (stupid little anecdote, if you ask me), TH: 2. press 'pow!' (power and prestige), pushing buttons, playing the game, misinformation and disinformation, lies of omission and commission, lying liars, lai plays the lyre, 3. sacrilege in Sacramento, 4. sacred soccer, 5. go suck a sock, 6. first council of lions, pride is a sin, 7. lyin' lions in Lyons, 8. Ollie and Raleigh, tobacco, to back O-sensei, 9. ack of parliament, 10. surge protector and surgeon general, 11. a million, max. Pierre in a bathrobe. (Maximilien Robespierre), 12. HJ Heinz, backed into a meat-grinder, got a little behind in his work, (wah-wah-wah), 13. Ellen the felon?, Dillinger be illin', messy Jesse, the Sara era, and wavy gravy, 14. Bugs Bunny, playboy bunnies, the easter bunny, honey-bunny, Roger rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Thumper, Peter rabbit, the White rabbit, Br'er rabbit, Energizer bunny, Oswald the bunny, 15. we are all empty shells, animated by god!, says rabbi abbott, 16. Ellen's melons, Shari's berries, food for dudes, ladies from hades, Anna's bananas, Wetzel's pretzels, chewy louiey, Hegel's bagels, murder burger, reggie's veggie's, Pete's meats, 17. Stalin said, "not one step backward! Panic-makers and cowards must be "liquidated" on the spot", 18. made into liquid, huh? bite me, Stalin, 19. bomb Guam, 20. Colonel Nasser went to Vassar, 21. lesbian Sue, sailing through, the Suez, 22. Mikhail Baryshnikov, muslim brotherhood, Milton-bradley, Mercedes-benz, bachelor of medicine, 23. Does Belarus ring a bell? Does Pavlov? Does Campbell soup? liberty?, 24. father guido sarducci, and the poet Carducci, 25. Wynn and Lou's, 26. Norman lands on Normandy, 27. Ellen needs insulin, W: 28. Siward in the sewer, 29. north of the Firth of Forth, 30. King Nemanja smokes ganja, 31. Barbarossa means red beard, not barbarian, 32. sultanate of Rum, Whiskeytown, wine country, and Scotch, of course, 33. drinking in Justin Bieber, vodka is diminutive of voda (water, russian), 34. Yoda drinks voda, 35. bovines in Bouvines, 36. ahem, clear my throat, phlegm and the flemish, from Fleems, 37. the treatment of nicotine in the media, and Nicomedia, 38. Edward Gibbon, and I'm an apeman -kinks, 39. getting thin in Bithynia, chubby in Chubut, 40. grumpy cat in Killiecrankie, 41. the Gangut gang, 42. hanky-panky in Hanko, 43. single "hotshot" cannonball kills 275, in the Battle of Negro Fort, 44. valentine on Valentia island, and Heart's Content, Newfoundland, (transatlantic telegraph cable), 45. Wizards on Maiwand, Afghanistan, 46. Wilhelm, takes the helm, 47. passion at Passchendaele, 48. treatment: a mint treat, impeachment: peach/mint, 49. bugs bunny, big bird, and bb king/netanyahu, 50. de Havilland Comet, and disability hate crime, 51. Syngman Rhee, and a karaoke encore, 52. cop from Kuopio, 53. sluice gate and Watergate, 54. Al Jaffee and Jaffna, 55. Colombo (Sri Lanka), Columbo (crime drama, Peter Falk), 56. TNT and Trinidad n' Tobago, 57. clean and white, in Washington, 58. exploding cigars and pipe bombs, 59. massacres suck ass, 60. EMT and EFT, emergency medical technician, external fuel tank, 61. jab, punches, and puns, (it's a job), in Punjab.
July 28
GR: 1. the revolution solution, 2. B-25 crashes into Empire State Building, 78th floor, killing 14, severing an elevator cable, and sending an elevator operator 1000 feet, weightless, reaching 200mph, crashing into bottom: she survived, and recovered (!), TH: 3. KH8 had 6 wives, 4. Battle of Talavera, and Calaveras county, and aloe vera, 5. KLN survived an assassination attempt, by a guy named Fleschi, who fired 25 guns at once (the fleschi is weak!), 6. fingerprinting becomes a thing in 1858 (in India), 7. CAT, confederate army of TN, 8. the hungry ostrich declares war on Sir B-uh, start of WWI (being crazy, but Y knot), 9. United States, United Nations, a house divided, military divisions, and Yoona T, 10. worst 3 earthquakes: 1976, 242k xx (Tangshan); 1737, 300k xx (Calcutta); 1556, 830k xx (Shaanxi), 11. 14th amendment, 1868, (all persons born or naturalized in the United States): AA's granted state and country citizenship, equal protection of the laws, 12. living like an animal, in a state of nature (naturalized?), 13. need for speed: fastest any human has ever gone (inside the earth's atmosphere) was 2193.16 mph, in a Lockheed SR-71, in 1976, 14. Thomas Mann and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Butch Cassidy, Hermann Goering, and Mennonites, singing hymns, muy macho, 15. Malcolm X, Malcolm in the middle, Malcolm Lowry, Malkovich at the mall, Allahabad (India), Seville (Spain), Sindh (Pakistan), 16. Rick Wright and "Lefty" O'Doul, 17. Dexter and Sinister, sister with dexterity, 18. Steven Wright and Elvis has left the building, 19. Vida Blue and Redd Foxx, W: 20. Warsaw was raw, 21. constitution and consti-three-tion, 22. revellers and revolution and revving your engine, 23. ghee or guillotine?, G-men make an offer you can't refuse, 24. Kaleb the caliph, 25. JoBo (Joseph Bonaparte), 26. Julie Sam Miette, and Jose de San Martin, 27. boat in the sky, USS Constellation, and Sutro Tower (SF), 28. something fishy about bones in Ischia, 29. let's go to Miami, my friend, 30. first flight of the flying fortress (B-17), 31. gum and vanilla from Guam and Manila, 32. penal battalions (jesus effing crist), 33. Woodstock, Watkins Glen, and rock festivals (arf!), 34. Hell's Angels, Blue Angels, Victoria's Secret Angels, the baseball team, angel hair pasta, angel dust (PCP, phenyl cyclohexyl piperidine), Los Angeles, angel island, Criss Angel, Arcangelo Corelli, Angelina Jolie, a very old man with enormous wings -Gabo, 35. University of Copenhagen Denmark, University of California Davis, and University College Dublin, 36. several Aggies, too (Davis, Texas A&M), agronomists, 37. Souls from Seoul, and alma mater, (mother soul?), 38. Nikki Henderson and Ricky Henderson, 39. Wendy Tuck and Friar Tuck.
July 29
GR: 1. VVG, Vincent Van Gogh, very very good, failed as an art dealer’s apprentice (and evangelist!), sold only 1 of his hundreds of paintings, while alive, TH: 2. Berkley, Berkeley, and Berklee, 3. Jack Slack, 1751 boxing victor, first int'l prize fight, 4. Irish potato famine, (origin, brought from Colombia), 5. 7 pillars of wisdom, a classic of war literature, written by TE Lawrence (of Arabia), 6. 1907, Sir RBP organized a summer camp for boys, Boy Scouts founded in 1908, 7. first TV program in the US, by RCA (1936), 8. Citizen Kane, and Louis CK, 9. Orson Welles, ow, 10. ENIAC computes like a maniac!, 11. ace is the place for a space race, 12. Grand Moff Tarkin, and Booth Tarkington, 13. Putin and Rasputin, 14. finito, Benito, 15. lean moose, Mussolini, and mousse, 16. opening the door for Isidor, 17. Clara Bow and the order of the arrow, 18. Dag Hammarskjold and deputy attorney general, 19. theological adoration of Mikis Theodorakis, 20. Elizabeth Dole, dole pineapple, and "on the dole", 21. Bruce Jenner and Peter Jennings and Jennifer + Lucifer, W: 22. pals from Palenque, 23. trippy trip to Tripoli, culture shock, like electric eels, 24. Florence Tuscany is Firenze Italy, floor tusk fire it!, 25. looking at the Bulgarian's bulge, 26. tsar, star, and Sartre, 27. Basil and Basel, 28. St. Rose and St. Basil and St. John's wort and saints in a vegetative state, om, 29. don't irk Dirk, diggler, 30. fad, fight and die, 31. sod, siege of Damascus, 32. Edinburgh and Eden, 33. crowning an infant, 34. wag and jag, dogs and jaguars, war of grand alliance, judge advocate general, 35. tutoring the Tudors, 36. Tipperary is temporary, 37. Harris ranch and the Harris Treaty, 38. babbling Brooks, and Old Saybrook, CT, 39. hum baby, Umberto, 40. cape cod canal, civilian conservation corps, catechism of the catholic church, california community college, california correctional center, country calling codes, 41. Hopei, Hope Arkansas, Hopi tribe, hip hop, 42. No Gun Ri massacre (yes, there were guns), 43. come as you are, (I don't have a gun/did, tho), 44. oh you! IAEA (international atomic energy agency), 45. "forest fire" USS Forrestal, 46. takbir, Allahu Akbar, god is the greatest, let's talk over a beer!, 47. going to Mass with Massoud, 48. CDA, communications decency act, (but not a decent report card), 49. Eris, Greco-Roman goddess of strife and discord, (and dwarf planet, where we send all the dwarves to live).
July 30
GR: 1. The awful fate of Jimmy Hoffa, TH: 2. forensics, establishing the stabber, 3. Hussite hussies, and Husker Du, hustler magazine, Hussein (who's sane?), 4. 10k xx in Napoli, Italy (Naples) in 1626 earthquake, e.q. emotional quotient, 5. Amistad means 'friendship' (helluva name for a slave ship), 6. MCAT, meat caffeine alcohol tobacco, 7. Wintun Indians, and Winton automobile company, 8. First parachute jump!! (1918, French captain Sarret), 9. Margaret Mitchell, Eminem, Marilyn Monroe, Mike/Miwa/Mitch Matsuno, me myself, Mary Magdalene, m&m's candy, matt modine, etc. 10. NT, Nikola Tesla, New Testament, God and Goddard, 11. my (2) name (6) = god (8); jesse = buddha = (4), 12. inspire, expire, respire, perspire, conspire, church spire, spyer, SP ire, 13. Teshara: hate, heat, the A; as earth, heart, hater; the Ra (sun god, raises the rain), AR - assault rifle, all right, 14. DIos, 49 operating system, Al Gore, Buddha, 49ers, 15. US national motto: In God We Trust (in response to godless communism), 16. Mare Imbrium, sea of showers, without water, without atmosphere actually, (nuts!), 17. subpoenas, Nas (rapper), Poe (Edgar Alan), sub (submarine/sandwich); sup, P?, 18. Jess in Berkeley, and the house of Burgesses, 19. Wuthering means roaring like the wind on a stormy day, setting a tone for literary passion, 20. Thorstein Veblen (on TV!), author of 'Theory of the Leisure Class', 21. general-secretary, weird juxtaposition!, W: 22. Baghdad is founded, 762 c.e. (not dad is found dead), 23. city council, christopher columbus, Assisi, comedy central, cannibal corpse, closed captioning, cryptocurrency, climate control, caribbean community, credit card, corpus christi, crescent city, cape canaveral, etc., 24. gargoyles in Gargano, 25. Kirk is a Scottish word for church, 26. Tim Duncan from Baltimore, 27. Massachussetts masons, mas (more), 28. combi-nations, foreign affairs, 29. showing the Shoshone Shoko's Yoko, 30. foreign unfairs, 31. temporal temple, 32. immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise, 33. equality, no gods and goddesses?, or EveryOne a deity, part of The All, 34. uruk-hai, Uruguay, you are gay, 35. a joint resolution, let's get high, just like the voice I heard from On High, in God We Trust!, (you down?), 36. Mott's motto: eat more apple sauce!, 37. trembling at Wembley, 38. a falcon landed on the moon, lol, 39. memento morioka, 40. Jimmy Hoffa, off with his head, huff and puff and blew his house down, 41. a sad van (Vanuatu, van wa too!), eia - everything is alive, 42. top of the pops, stops, 43. a power grid failure/blackout affected more than 620 million people! (in 2012, India).
July 31
GR: 1. Diderot, who said “all children are essentially criminal”, was warned by his wife not to eat an apricot, before (after saying, how in the devil can it hurt me?) choking on it, and dying (!), (age 70), TH: 2. Baron, Byron, Biron, iron, Aveyron, veyron 3. a cute ex, executed, 4. Daniel Defoe, foe (pamphleteer put on the pillory), 5. marquis de Lafayette and marquis de Sade, and Marky Mark and the funky bunch, 6. 'mint' comes from silver coin made in 269 b.c. at the temple of Juno Moneta, roman goddess/protectress of funds, fun fun funds!, 7. Philadelphia Pennsylvania, pp, and liquidity, 8. corner of a corn field, 9. vuvuzela from Venezuela, 10. satan fears the sphere, 11. first waterskiing, (1922, MN), 12. South Seas, not nazi, 13. Pierre Laval, nazi puppet leader of Vichy france, attempts suicide in his cell, but is nursed back to health, in time for his execution (!), 14. war is immoral and no one should ever participate, 15. Mt. Godwin-Austen (K2) is the 2nd highest peak on earth, (ungodly high!), 16. Elyah Muhammad, Nation of Islam leader, calls for an AA state, 17. US Secretary of State (sos!), dean rusk (Russkie?), declares total commitment in Vietnam, 18. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and Finland (Finnish), 19. minutemen, ready at a minute's notice, lol, 20. the czar's car, 21. Milton Friedman, John Milton free to write in blank verse (not jailed for rhyme crime), 22. freed or fried?, 23. rowdy (Curt) Gowdy, 24. daily, Arthur Daley, Daly City, and Knight, night, and the NYT (New York Times), 25. George Melville and Herman Melville, 26. freed from slavery (manumission), freed from jail/prison (liberty), free from sin (grace, innocence), and free to roam about the country (advert), 27. Wesley Snipes, (BBC) World Service, World Series, Williams-Sonoma, warm shower, Woodstock's pizza, W: 28. Mark and Tony defeats 8 birds, (oct-avian), 29. refugees, eating Fuji apples again, 30. Yawn on the sleepy river Yonne, 31. it's onerous, being One, 32. We're number 1!, e pluribus unum, 33. 3 dads on Trinidad, (god the father is the trinity?), 34. hold on, I have a call...Aurangzeb, you rang?, 35. a ball of ants, balance; a ball of ticks? Baltics; a ball of shit, ballot, 36. Maharashtra and Havana and Alabama (lots of a), 37. Odawa and Ottawa, 38. a lotta auto-erotic Ottomans, 39. laughing at Lafayette, 40. aristocrat, a wrist, a cat, arrest a kratt (an interesting Estonian mythological creature), 41. Christchurch, NZ and the separation of church and state?, a secular state, where religious participation is very low, and a nearly a third say they have "no religion", actually a constitutional monarchy and "soft theocracy," not a republic (2010 article, by Max Wallace), 42. Queensland, she's the owner, and Albertson's it's your store, 43. the dark arts of Dr. Patrick Healy, (phd, dph), 44. Ned Flanders likes Belgian waffles, chocolate, Congo, 45. NSDAP, national socialist worker's party, satan devil taking a nap, nazi party, woohoo a party, 46. nap, non-aggression pact, 47. King Darius the Great in Persepolis, gulf of Darien, Darth Vader, dare you, 48. smoking hot Ellen in Smolensk, 49. Pierre Laval, loves all, 50. dead cat, dead Kate, dedicated, 51. amazing corn maze in Cornwall, 52. crazy dogs on the lunar rover, 53. bodies in Claudy, naughty hotties, and godly audio, 54. a pair of paramilitary attacks, 55. climbing a mountain in Edmonton (southwest highland, say), 56. sittin' with sultan satan, insulting stultifying dolts, 57. the art of diplomacy: starting to stop, stopping to START (strategic arms reduction treaty), 58. Georgia the country appears to have been named after wolves, while Georgia the US state was named after King George II, 59. do Kat, man! (Kathmandu), 60. Angie from Nanjing, 61. new work, hiring in Newark, 62. handing over Hanover, 63. fly the banner in the correct manner, Tanner!, 64. Larisa, Clarissa and Melissa, 65. miss my sis.
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