“...And a raven in a Poe tree?” Pedro, Ivan, Johann and Ruan; Non-mathematical trinomials; Occupations and Operations; “Every book has a spine, right?”

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Pedro, Ivan, Johann and Ruan

What curious distinction do the lives of each of these four men share?
Chinese scholar Ruan Yuan 
Spanish dramatist and poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov
German composer Johann Mattheson
Hint: My intended answer does not involve the concept of consecutiveness.

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Conundrumbeat Appetizer:
Occupations and Operations

🥁1. Name someone at the helm of a vehicle. Remove the fourth letter and move the first letter two places forward. The result will name another person in the vehicle.
🥁2. Name a type of person that might be seen at street intersections. Advance the first letter two places forward in the alphabet, then reverse the order of the letters. The result describes how this person often appears.
🥁3. Name an occupation in six letters. Drop the last letter to name a reason the person might be fired.
🥁4. Name a military operation in four words. Take the last word and reverse two of its letters to name a musical instrument used in the military.

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Ornitholyrical Slice:
“...And a raven in a Poe tree?”

A bird is nesting in the following poetry. 
Name it.
(The poem contains alternating lines of anapestic dimeter and trochaic trimeter.)
Onto Earth we are hurled,
Heaven though is pending.
Blest with best of both worlds,
Happy is the ending.

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Non-mathematical trinomials

Will Shortz’s June 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 

The first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first and last letters of the third name, in order, name a city and lake in Europe. 
Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
The first letter of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first two letters and last letter of the third name, in order, name a tenebrous Greek god. 
Who are the person and the god? 
ENTREE #2:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. The first name anagrams to a word that might be an A, B, C, D, or F (but not an E). 
The first two letters of the second name plus the first two letters of the third name, in order, name something most pooches enjoy. 
Who is this famous person?
What are this anagram and thing that pooches enjoy?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous author who was also a lawyer. His name consists of three names. 
The last name is a word that precedes “voice,” “thesis” or “tournament.” 
The first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name spell the first name of another famous three-named author was was also a lawyer. 
Who are these two author/attorneys?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
Identify three letters in the first name that, in order, spell a word in the U.S. national anthem. Replace them with an A, B and I. 
Delete the last letter of the middle name. 
The result is a creature, followed by two places where you might find the creature. Who is this person? 
ENTREE #5:
In lyrics a Badger singer wrote, he admits he picks and grins, loves and sings, smokes and tokes... although he may just be joking. He admits to being called three names by some people. 
The names consist of  one, two and three words. 
Take six letters: the first and last letters of each name. Use these six letters to fill in the two blanks in the following sentence: 
“A smitten suitor proposes on bended knee to his beloved, presenting her with a diamond or other ___ in hopes that she will say ___.” 
What words fill in the two blanks? What are the three names some people call the singer?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a very rich and somewhat famous person whose name consists of three names. 
The first and last letters of the first name plus the first letter of the second name plus the first two letters and last two letters of the third name, in order, name an eeeeeelongated fish. 
Who are the person and the creature?
Hint: The person is associated with two no-longer-living legends. 
ENTREE #7:
Think of a famous jurist who served as a Supreme Court justice during the administrations of six consecutive presidents. 
The jurist’s name consists of three names. The first and last letters of the first name plus the first two letters and last two letters of the second name, in order, spell the last name of the pen name of a British author. 
Who are the jurist and the author? 
ENTREE #8:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
Take the first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first and last letters of the third name, in order. 
Replace the first and fifth letters of the result with the same consonant. The result is the make of an automobile. 
Who is this famous person?

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Bibliology Dessert:

“Every book has a spine, right?”

Name a bookstore section, like architecture or fiction, for example. 

Move the last letter of the section into the second position. 

Divide this result in two to name a body part and an adjective relating to that body part. 

What are these words?

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