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Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once

  1. Omnisexually
  2. Facetiously
  3. Ambidextrously
  4. Pseudomythical
  5. Abstemiously
  6. Unviolatedly
  7. Hugoweavingly
  8. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
  9. questionably
  10. Audiometry
  11. Equivocally
  12. cyberjournalism
  13. Cyanomercuric

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Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner

Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit.

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Are you sure we’re going to find thirteen people who qualify for this category?

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Alas, poor Baker’s Dozen thread! We hardly knew ye…

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Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner

Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit.
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OK if we also make it a town that no longer exists?

  1. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
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Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner – Santa Rita NM
  2. Mentuhotep – Thebes, Egypt
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY

Of the Everly Brothers.

Come on, this isn’t that hard.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat

Harris Village was one of about 30 settlements abandoned after the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in 1995.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama

When he was born there, it was a company town owned by US Steel, which later leveled the old town, to make industrial space.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon

Nothing there now but fields and an archaeological dig, where a farmer found the remnants of the royal city.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage

The city was conquered and destroyed.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage
  9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York

The island is a now closed military base in New York Harbor.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage
  9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York
  10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana
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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage
  9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York
  10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana
  11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece

Philosopher, for whom one of Plato’s famous dialogues is named. There’s a modern district and village in Greece nearby with the same name but the ancient city is in ruins.

By the way Governor’s Island is now busy during the day with a park, school and artistic and cultural activities going on, but nobody lives there.

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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage
  9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York
  10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana
  11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece
  12. Mark Twain – Florida, Missouri
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Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town.

  1. Ralph Kiner - Santa Rita, NM.
  2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt)
  3. Don Everly --Brownie KY
  4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat
  5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii.
  6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama
  7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon
  8. Hannibal, Carthage
  9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York
  10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana
  11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece
  12. Mark Twain – Florida, Missouri
  13. Eva Adams – Wonder, Nevada

She was director of the US Mint through the 1960s, appointed by President Kennedy.

Everyone seems to have found this topic problematic, so I’ll wrap it up and pass.

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You have to “mind” these songs.

  1. You Were On My Mind - We Five
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You have to “mind” these songs.

  1. You Were On My Mind - We Five
  2. Mind Games - John Lennon
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You have to “mind” these songs.

  1. You Were On My Mind - We Five
  2. Mind Games - John Lennon
  3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others
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You have to “mind” these songs.

  1. You Were On My Mind - We Five
  2. Mind Games - John Lennon
  3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others
  4. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
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You have to “mind” these songs.

  1. You Were On My Mind - We Five
  2. Mind Games - John Lennon
  3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others
  4. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
  5. Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles