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Dick Enberg was ____ of America’s most beloved sports broadcasters.

He was born ____ Michigan in 1935. In the early 1960s, he became an assistant professor at San Fernando Valley State College, where he also served as a coach of its baseball team.

Afterwards, he began a full-time sportscasting career in Los ____

In 1973, he became ____ first U.S. sportscaster ever to visit China.

He joined NBC ____ in 1975 and remained with the network for about 25 years, covering such big events as the Olympics.

____ later worked for other major sports broadcasting stations.

He made his last live broadcast in 2016 and died the following year at the ____ of 82.

He served as Chairman of ____ American Sportscaster Association for more than three decades.

Enberg was also a best-selling writer and won Emmy Awards as ____ sportscaster, a writer, and a producer.

Lucian of Samosata was born in 125 CE, near the Euphrates River at the far eastern edge of the Roman ____

He became an assistant to ____ uncle, who owned a statue-making shop.

Lucian proved ____ have little talent as a sculptor, but was a gifted writer and speaker, so he became a traveling lecturer.

He lived in Athens for a decade and later in his life, gained wealth as ____ government official in Egypt.

Due to his satirical and ironic style, and desire to be entertaining, it is difficult to know how seriously to ____ his statements.

He frequently ridiculed religious practices, superstition, and belief in ____ paranormal.

Lucian had an enormous impact on Western ____

His ideas ____ the work of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and many others reaching into the modern era.

The ancient Gauls were a Celtic people who spoke forms ____ the Celtic language.

They occupied the ancient country of Gaul, a region west of the Rhine River and north of the Pyrenees ____

The Gauls were led by priests, who were called ____

By 390 B.C. the Gauls had moved southward, across the Alps ____ into Italy. In the third century B.C., they battled the powerful Romans and were briefly successful.

Ultimately, however, they were defeated, ____ subjects of Rome.

Later, under Julius Caesar, the Romans occupied all of Gaul, so that by 50 B.C. the region ____ part of the Roman Empire.

Five centuries later, Gaul was ____ by the Franks, for whom the region was named.

Thus, it can be ____ that French people today are descendants of the Gauls.

Born in 1832 in ____ England, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was best known later by his pen name, Lewis Carroll.

He was the ____ son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys.

Dodgson received a scholarship to study ____ Christ Church, Oxford, where he was later appointed as a mathematics lecturer.

Apart from serving as a lecturer, he was an enthusiastic photographer and wrote essays, ____ pamphlets and poetry.

In 1856 a poem called “Solitude” was published under the pen ____ Lewis Carroll.

Dodgson arrived at this pen name by taking his own names Charles Lutwidge, translating them into ____ as Carolus Ludovicus, and then reversing and retranslating them into English.

He used the name afterward for all ____ nonacademic works.

His most famous books include Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and ____ the Looking-Glass.

Willard Van Orman Quine ____ an American logician and philosopher.

____ in 1908 in Ohio, he was the youngest son of the family.

His father ____ Cloyd Robert Quine, an engineer who founded the Akron Equipment Company.

His mother, Harriet Van Orman, ____ a teacher.

After studying mathematics and logic at Oberlin ____ Quine won a scholarship to Harvard University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1932.

He traveled throughout Europe, meeting some of the leading philosophers and logicians of the day, including Rudolf Carnap and Alfred ____

Returning to teach at Harvard, Quine’s philosophical career was briefly interrupted during World War II when he spent four years decoding messages ____ the US Navy intelligence.

A ____ traveler, he was said to be prouder of the fact that he had visited 118 countries than of his many awards and fellowships.

Quine became professor of philosophy ____ Harvard in 1956, and taught there until his death in 2000, aged 92.