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William Gilbert coined the word electricity, which comes from the Latin word for this fossil resin

A fluorescent lamp contains argon & a small amount of this liquid metal's vapor

(Kelly of the Clue Crew juices a lemon in the chemistry lab.) This acid--C6H8O7--is found in the juice I'm extracting

In 1985 a British Antarctic science expedition first detected one of these that forms annually in the ozone layer

Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent helped win the 1978 pennant for the Yankees with a playoff home run at this park

In a 1917 game Fred Toney & Hippo Vaughn both pitched these for 9 innings; Vaughn cracked in the 10th

In 2004 this team led by manager Bobby Cox won its remarkable 13th straight division title

Painted around 1876, his "Au Moulin de la Galette" was purchased in 1990 for $78 million

Tom Connolly & Bill Klem, "The Old Arbitrator", were the first men to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame as these

In 1987 this Van Gogh work sold for $53.9 million, then a record price for a work of art