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World’s Dog’ Dies NBC Has aSmartest Replacement Show for Ellen Chaser the border collie knew He Solved the slot Clues, Factory DeGeneres’ time inWon 2022a Candy1,022

nouns A border collie that has been Kelly Clarkson’s talk show will take over called “the world’s smartest dog” died DeGeneres’ slot in 2022 a black-andTOP 4 HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS IN RI Tuesday at time age 15. Chaser, white pup given to Dr. John W. Pilley by his wife when the dog was 8 weeks old, learned to recognize 1,022 nouns thanks to Pilley’s training. The professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, spent four to five hours the golden winChaser a candyby factory. a day Find for three yearsticket, training It’s her not hundreds merely theoffictional of Willy showing objects,tale saying however. A similar their Wonka, names dozens of times each,contest then just played out for real. David Klein, founder hiding them and asking her to find them. of the Jelly Belly Company, in and his As Pilley explained in aCandy book published Kellypartner Clarkson’s talk show will replace Stephanie Thirtyacre, hid 2013, the dog even understood sentences their Dallas Cowboys (NFL) New York Yankees (MLB) Ellengolden DeGeneres’ in its time slot on NBC tickets—actually that contained a prepositionalnecklaces—in object, whenand latter’s show ends its allthe50 statesobject. and doled out19-season $5,000 Value: $5.7Labyrinth billion Value: $5.25 billion verb, direct Her death, whichprizes Haunted Scary Acres run in 2022. The Kelly Clarkson Show, to those who found them after solving Five-Year Change In Value: 43% Five-Year Change In Value: 54% her family says was due to natural causes, Cranston, RI Scituate, RI which is owned and produced by NBC’s treasure-hunt clues. They gave the clues Purchased in1989 for $150M Purchased in 1973 for $8.8 million came the year after Pilley’s death at age syndication arm, launched in Septemfor the grand prize, a candy factory: 89 last year. “She is buried with the other ber 2019. 2022, The Kelly Clarkson Pilley dogs,”By sprinkled with John Pilley’s The clues: ”Don’t have an instant idea, for Show will be the star of our daytime ashes,” the family posted on Facebook.ena treasure diehard/We see witches nearby, tertainment schedules and an asset to our two stand guard/Go Solve and Search, early afternoon ” anpeople NBCU“What we wouldnewscasts, really like to as low as our toe/Why find a nut and niversal exec said.Chaser However, some understand about is that sheof is the notwalks areIt’s no the foe”way stations currently airing unique. sheDeGeneres’ was taughtshow that opt” Pilley’s to run news segments, which ismight unique, daughter, who helped The solve: Andrew Maas, a 39-year-old her the that training. Chaser than was costdad less,with during slot rather father of two from Colorado, cracked featured newspapers and magazines Clarkson’sinshow. the code. He explains in detail in this and appeared on TV shows with Neil Facebook post. The ”treasure diehard” deGrasse Tyson and Anderson Cooper. A source with to DeGeneres’ that him referred Indiana show Jones,said telling New York (NBA) FCField Barcelona (Soccer) “The goal of who’s my father was to with teachalleher PVD Knicks Ghost Tours of Screams DeGeneres, been dealing the winning necklace was in that state. human language, and in learning any • Value: $5 billionRI • Value: $4.76 billion Providence, gations of a toxic is ”confident” West Greenwich, RI Looking at aworkplace, map, he struck upon the city new you need a vocabulary. • Five-Year Change In Value: 67% • Five-Year Change In Value: 34% with language, her decision to move on. of Kokomo because of the Beach BoysDivers Off Maine Find US Ship Sunk by German Sub So hesong began theitnames of play Purchased in1997 for $300 million Purchased - Unknown thatteaching refers toher ”take slow.” (A For Sale: ’One of the Most are to that featuring They finally found the Eagle 56—a war grave off the coasteffect, of Maine. Diversdark discoher toys, which had value to her, ” Pilley’s on the first line of the clue). He looked at Well-Known Haunted Houses’ lighting, a creepy doll, and streaks vered the wreckage of the USS Eagle PE-56, which was sunk by a German sub in daughter tells parks GoUpstate.com. Kokomo and found one “He with two Woman Throws Away $1M Lottery ofNew lightning. Not the afraid ghosts and things the was able to further teach like her verbs as hats.through the final weeks ofofWorld II,trash reports Yorklike Times. Forty-nine of the January was “winning the lottery, ” tickets fromWar the gazebos that looked witches’ Ticket, Gets It Back that go bump in the night? The independent behaviors from nouns and 62 people aboard were killed in the blast on April 23, 1945. The Navy initially so she feels doubly fortunate. ”I mean, Maas flew there and soon enough zeroedand found out that she didn’t scratch “Legend has it, the home is haunted purportedly Rhode Island she was conceptually able toaccidentally understand blamed the”sinking on a boiler explosion and didn’t formally change that conA Massachusetts woman who who does that? They’re great people. number, Abhihaunted Shah, the son of in on a covered bridge at the park, andthe by the presence of Bathsheba farmhouse that inspired the 2013 that words have independent meaning. ” clusion until 2001, thanks to the research of naval historian Paul Lawton, per the tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket I am beyond blessed, ” she says. The found his treasure buried at the foot of it.the store’s owners tells WWLP-TV. ”I Sherman, who lived in the house in horror movie The Conjuring hit Aeventually statue of Chaser, with the bronze AP. Video from the discovery, to be aired in an upcoming documentary on the collected her winnings thanks store gets a $10,000 bonus from the The resolution: Klein did indeed offerscratched the number and it was $1 the 1800s, ” said the agency, which the market Thursday for the scary footprints of Dr. Pilley nearby, will be to theMaas kindness and honesty the owners Smithsonian Channel, show” that both of state the ship’s boilers are intact.forThe ship’s lottery commission selling ownership of a of factory in Florida,million underneath the ticket. released a video featuring actor price of $1.2 million—almost threeabout placed outside Spartanburg’s of thebut store where she bought Lea Rose movehull is broken in two and sits in water 300 feet deep miles from the winning ticket.some Fiegafive saysan she gave Maas decided heit.Children’s couldn’t posing as Sherman’s ghost. “To this times the 2019 selling price, per Museum of the Upstate next year, and a Fiegahis bought the $30 Diamond Millions family an additional of recreational divers. reward. 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