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English: a newspaper story you saved;football: blocking below the waist from behind

English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son;basketball: the opposite of zone

(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the slopes of Park City, Utah while a snowboarder does a stunt.)English: the sudden seizing of something as in the power type;snowboarding: a move where you hold your board

English: a small piece of candy;golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake

In England no patents are listed from Jan. 30, 1649 to May 29, 1660 due to this man's tenure as Lord Protector

The first British patent was given in 1449 by Henry VI to make stained glass for this largest English boys' college

Litigation on this man's 1796 patent for steam engines established that improvements for known machines were allowed

John Harrington's patent for a water closet was denied by this ruler in 1596 on grounds of propriety

James Burbage was part of the Earl of Leicester's men, which in 1574 was the first ever of these to get a patent