1. Baluster (from "balaustra").
2. The Bible.
3. Luddism.
4. Diddy (previously Puff Daddy and P Diddy).
5. Bayreuth Festival.
6. Peru and Bolivia.
7. Viscosity.
8. As "the shot heard 'round the world", adopted from a phrase in a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9. A lawnmower.
10. The Royal Society.
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