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

He was born in Michigan in ____. 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 ____ in Los Angeles.

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

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

He ____ worked for other major sports broadcasting stations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucian had an enormous ____ on Western literature.

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

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

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

The Gauls were ____ by priests, who were called Druids.

By 390 B.C. the Gauls had moved ____, across the Alps and 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 ____, so that by 50 B.C. the region became part of the Roman Empire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He used the ____ afterward for all his nonacademic works.

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

Willard Van Orman Quine was an ____ logician and philosopher.

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

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

His mother, ____ Van Orman, was a teacher.

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

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

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

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

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