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From the Ted Talk by Ronald Rael: An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall

Unscramble the Blue Letters

or cannons that shoot packets of cocaine and heroin over the wall. Now during medieval times, desiased, dead boieds were sometimes catapulted over walls as an elray form of biological warfare, and it's speculated that today, humans are being ppollreed over the wall as a form of immigration. A ridiculous idea. But the only person ever known to be documented to have launched over the wall from Mexico to the United staets was in fact a US citizen, who was given permission to human-cannonball over the wall, 200 feet, so long as he ceriard his passport in hand

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or cannons that shoot packets of cocaine and heroin over the wall. Now during medieval times, ________, dead ______ were sometimes catapulted over walls as an _____ form of biological warfare, and it's speculated that today, humans are being _________ over the wall as a form of immigration. A ridiculous idea. But the only person ever known to be documented to have launched over the wall from Mexico to the United ______ was in fact a US citizen, who was given permission to human-cannonball over the wall, 200 feet, so long as he _______ his passport in hand

Solution

  1. early
  2. states
  3. carried
  4. propelled
  5. bodies
  6. diseased

Original Text

or cannons that shoot packets of cocaine and heroin over the wall. Now during medieval times, diseased, dead bodies were sometimes catapulted over walls as an early form of biological warfare, and it's speculated that today, humans are being propelled over the wall as a form of immigration. A ridiculous idea. But the only person ever known to be documented to have launched over the wall from Mexico to the United States was in fact a US citizen, who was given permission to human-cannonball over the wall, 200 feet, so long as he carried his passport in hand

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