Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 14, 2015)

Simply Synonyms



I have given you five (5) pairs of words. Fill in the blank below with a single letter to turn these pairs of words into synonyms.



EX: _TUMBLE and _RIP



Answer: STUMBLE and TRIP



1) _COLD and _HIDE



2) _AMBLE and _AGER



3) _EARNING and _RAVING



4) _ALLY and _CORE



5) _AVER and _ALTER





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Today in History for 13th March 2015

Historical Events

1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures

1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

1949 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

1963 - Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations

1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer

1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)

1925 - Anthony Milner, composer

1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)

1972 - Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)

1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)

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Famous Deaths

1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies

1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26

1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies

1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)

1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77

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