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Technically the first three words of Moby-Dick are "The pale Usher ...," since the book includes a background section called Etymology that comes before the text itself. However, as far as most people are concerned, what is that book's famous three-word opening?
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Poet Marianne Moore co-wrote "A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell" in 1967 with what athlete?
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What name is given to the study of word origins and how words change over time?
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Ruth Plumly Thompson added 19 books of her own to the 14 that L Frank Baum had written about what land?
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In addition to writing about a mutiny on a minesweeper called the Caine, who served on a minesweeper himself during World War II?
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