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BIRTHDAY PARTY LOCATIONS
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200
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You & your friends can gape at the animals at the Central Park this where "Madagascar" is set
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the zoo
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400
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This party place "where a kid can be a kid" used to have "pizza" in its name now all that's left is the "cheese"
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Chuck E. Cheese's
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600
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Amaze your guests in the TImes Square home of Ripley's Believe It or Not--this type of place but starting with "oddi" not "audi"
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an odditorium
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800
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Celebs like Demi Lovato have celebrated their birthdays at Pinz whose name tells you it's a venue for this game
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bowling
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1000
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At Bounce U this word meaning "designed to be filled with air" is both a noun & an adjective
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inflatable
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SPORTS STARS
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200
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On July 9 2011 this shortstop became the first player to reach 3 000 career hits as a Yankee
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Derek Jeter
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400
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In 2005 she became the first woman to lead a lap in the Indianapolis 500
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Danica Patrick
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600
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In 2012 he was the talk of the NBA with 136 points in his first 5 starts for the Knicks
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Jeremy Lin
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800
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In 2000 they became the only sisters in Olympic history to win gold in women's doubles in tennis
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Venus & Serena Williams
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1000
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This snowboarding champion is known as the "Flying Tomato" for his long red hair
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Shaun White
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AROUND THE WORLD
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200
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This desert covers much of the African country of Mali
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the Sahara
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400
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It's the only country Portugal borders
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Spain
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600
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From about 60 miles away Mount Fuji towers over this capital city
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Tokyo
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800
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Cities in this country include Chennai & Mumbai formerly Madras & Bombay
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India
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1000
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The 224-mile-long Shannon River flows through this country
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Ireland
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COMMUNICATION
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200
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To close one eye; it can be used as a signal like to mean "I'm not really serious"
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wink
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400
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People will understand your writing better if you put this also called a full stop at the end of each sentence
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a period
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600
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Doing this with 2 fingers in your mouth is an old-fashioned but effective way to hail a taxi
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whistle
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800
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He was only 15 when he developed his system of writing for the blind
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Braille
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1000
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This 5-letter service that lets you video chat with faraway grandmas over the Internet is part of Microsoft
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Skype
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LET'S PLAY IN THE YARD
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200
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This plaything consists of a pole with foot rests & a strong spring; you work it by bouncing up & down
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a pogo stick
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400
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The 2 iron stakes on the pitching court of this game are 40 feet apart
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horseshoes
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600
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This version of jump rope requires 2 people twirling 2 ropes one clockwise one counter-clockwise
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double-Dutch
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800
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Violations in this game include stepping onto an opponent's half of the pole & striking the rope instead of the ball
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tetherball
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1000
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A standard croquet course may have 6 or 9 of these metal hoops
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wickets
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KID RHYMES
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200
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To offer money for something at an auction
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bid
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400
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Fast mover of the deep with 10 arms
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a squid
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600
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The cover of a jar
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a lid
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800
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To slip sideways on a road
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skid
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1000
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An arrangement of straight lines that cross each other to form squares
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a grid
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CREATURES
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400
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A type of beetle is named for this outer covering of tree trunks which it damages
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bark
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800
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The chestnut mandible type of this tropical bird has what looks like a disproportionately large bill but it's actually lightweight & mostly hollow
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a toucan
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1200
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Take 2 letters out of Barracudina to get this better-known predatory fish
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a barracuda
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1600
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Boston Massachusetts) Discovered in 1935 a skull at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is called a type specimen as it helped paleontologists establish this type of dinosaur
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the triceratops
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2000
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In 2011 a "lone" one of these predators crossed from Oregon to become California's first wild one since 1924
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a wolf
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KID HEROES
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400
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The 2011 movie "Soul Surfer" tells the heroic tale of Bethany Hamilton who was attacked by one of these
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a shark
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800
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On Nick 12-year-old Aang must overcome the ruthless fire nation as The "Last" this
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an Airbender
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1200
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This youngest member of "The Incredibles" doesn't show any superpowers until Syndrome tries to abduct him
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Jack-Jack
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1600
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Number 6 shows up to help the title alien in this movie that features otherworldly superteens
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I Am Number Four
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2000
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Taylor Lautner & Taylor Dooley play these imaginary heroes who come alive to fight Mr. Electric in a 2005 film
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Sharkboy & Lavagirl
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THE 21st CENTURY
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400
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The last flight of one of these took place with the launch of the Atlantis on July 8 2011
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a space shuttle
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800
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In 2006 she became Alaska's first female governor
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Sarah Palin
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1200
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On Jan. 15 2006 NASA's Stardust spacecraft having "tailed" this type of celestial body came back with dust from it
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a comet
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1600
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Name of the man seen here who has presided over the U.S. Senate since 2009
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Joe Biden
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2000
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In 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated Mir Hossein Moussavi to win re-election as president of this country
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Iran
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THAT'S A MYTH
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400
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These one-eyed giants forged Zeus' thunderbolts
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the Cyclopses
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800
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Daedalus built this maze that confined the Minotaur but was later imprisoned in it himself
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the Labyrinth
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1200
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Only this one of the 3 Gorgons was mortal; Perseus killed her
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Medusa
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1600
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Poets gave this name to Amor the winged boy god of love
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Cupid
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2000
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She's Apollo's older twin sister
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Artemis
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BOYS IN BALLET
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400
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This stretchy one-piece garment for both sexes was named for a guy a French acrobat
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a leotard
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800
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In the ballet "Checkmate" the red one of these gets to die an agonizing death at the hands of the black queen
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a king
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1200
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Boys' classes often emphasize jumps maybe even the difficult tour en l'air which means this in the air
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turn (twirl accepted)
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1600
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A boy named Fritz breaks this title gift given to his sister Clara by Drosselmeyer
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The Nutcracker
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2000
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After a performance ballerinas curtsy; men perform a small one of these equivalent gestures
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a bow
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WORD"Z"
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400
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A peach is covered with it
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fuzz
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800
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Jade Cloe Sasha & Yasmin were the first 4 of these fashion dolls
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Bratz
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1200
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A ballroom dance it can also mean something that can be accomplished with little effort
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a waltz
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1600
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Varieties of this round snack cracker made by Nabisco include whole wheat & honey butter
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Ritz
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2000
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As a verb it can mean to move swiftly; as a noun it's one who has remarkable skill
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whiz
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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FINAL
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This country in the Americas has more than 125 000 miles of coastline the most of any country in the world
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Canada
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