Flower by any Other Name Becomes a Country

What flower becomes the name of any country by removing the first letter, becomes the name of a city when the last letter is removed and becomes the name of a bird if both first and last letters are removed?

Everyone Needs This Riddle

Everyone needs this, it's great with an 'r' on the end but you're sad when the first letter goes away. What is it?

Emily Dickenson Poem

What was Emily Dickenson referring to in the following poem?

I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.

Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.

Logic at the Mall

I got this one from edhelper.com:

Cody, Benjamin, Sean, Cameron, Aaron, and Jordan each had a different amount of money. They all went to the mall and brought their money. At the mall, each person spent a fraction of the money they started out with. They started out with: $72, $24, $66, $18, $48, and $60. At the mall one spent 1/3 of their money, one spent 1/3 of their money, one spent 5/6 of their money, one spent 1/6 of their money, one spent 2/3 of their money, and one spent 1/2 of their money.

How much money did each person spend at the mall? How much money does each person have left?

1. Benjamin spent more than 1/6 of his money.
2. Cameron spent less than 5/6 of his money.
3. Cody did not spend 1/2 of his money.
4. Jordan spent less than 1/2 of his money.
5. Jordan spent $24.
6. Sean has $15 left after spending money at the mall.
7. Cody spent $33.
8. The person that started out with $24, has $8 left after shopping.
9. Cameron has $40 left after spending money at the mall.
10. Cameron did not spend 2/3 of his money.
11. The person that started out with $60, has $40 left after shopping.
12. Benjamin did not spend 1/6 of his money.
13. Aaron did not spend 1/3 of his money.
14. Benjamin has $8 left after spending money at the mall.

A Red Fruit of the Maius Family

It is more desirable to exist in the medium of time which constitutes a later than desirable date than not to exist in the time period at all. A red fruit of the Maius family absorbed into the digestive system every 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds keeps a medical desciple from entering your home sweet home. Individuals continuing daily functions surrounded by fused sand structures should be forbidden to hurl missles. Refrain from enumerating your poultry precursory to their incubation and emergence from their embryonic habitat.

Some Common Phrases Re-Written

1. The herbage is customarily more verduous on the diametrical selvage of the property barrier. 
2. Taciturnity is aurous. 
3. That which is acquired without difficulty is dispersed with equal facility.

Count Down

10 = Y in a D
9 = G M
8 = N in an O
7 = S in a H
6 = D of S
5 = S in the S C
4 = P on a C
3 = M and a B
2 = B G
1 = the L N


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