Not Quite a Random Assortment of Questions by LearyField

This AMERICAN CONGLOMERATE HOLDING COMPANY is based in Omaha, Nebraska. Its Class A shares have never split, and currently sell at a price in excess of $300,000/share.

This METAL-LINED FIREPLACE, intended to produce more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open fireplace, was invented in Pennsylvania around 1741-1742.

With this STATE's affirmative vote on June 21, 1788, the U.S. Constitution became the supreme law of the land, as it was the 9th state to ratify.

This COLLEGE, founded in Virginia in 1775, is one of only three all-male liberal arts colleges remaining in the U.S.

The list of ingredients for this CONDIMENT, created in 1837, includes malt vinegar, spirit vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind extract, onions, garlic and spice flavourings.

This Pulitzer Prize winning NOVEL by Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 2002, is the family saga of Callie or Cal Stephanides, an intersex man with 5 alpha-reductase deficiency, a recessive condition that caused him to be born with certain feminine traits.

This Class I U.S. freight RAILROAD operates 19,500 route miles in the eastern United States, and is a major transporter of coal.

This easternmost ARM OF THE BERING SEA is home to the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery.

This southern Virginia CITY, one of nine independent cities in the Hampton Roads region, is the largest in area (429 sq. miles). The locals may tell you that it's the Peanut Capital of the World due to an association with Planters Peanuts.

This now defunct AUTOMOBILE BRAND was an early leader in the production of affordably-priced cars with enclosed passenger compartments. In 1929, it ranked third in sales in the U.S., behind Ford and Chevrolet.

This CAPITAL CITY of the island of Montserrat had to be abandoned in 1997 due to the eruption of the previously dormant Soufriere Hills volcano.

This action-comedy TELEVISION SERIES that aired on CBS from 1979 to 1985, featured the General Lee, a 1969 Dodge Charger stock car.

The attached picture portrays an event, COMMONLY CALLED THIS, which takes place immediately after the harpooning of a whale. The whale, attempting to flee, drags the whaler's longboat along with it.

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