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heath cliff is rival to Edgar Linton for the love of Catherine Earnshaw
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wuthering heights
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he turned away the last Mahdi invasion, won battle of Omdurman in 1898
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kitchener
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viceroy of India until 1905 but got into a quarrel with Kitchener and resigned. namesake line was a proposed boundary between Poland and Russia
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Curzon
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model of the atom proposed by JJ Thomson.
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plum pudding
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author of kaddish, expelled from Columbia for making obscene drawings in the dust in his dorm room, he wrote about mother Naomi
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ginsberg
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Dean Moriarty, Carlo Marx, and Sal Paradise
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on the road
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editor of the Marion Daily Star and married daughter rival Amos Kling, infidelity with Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton
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harding
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Led by John McDonald and orville babcock. Uncovered by Benjamin Bristow
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whiskey ring
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operetta about Frederic by Gilbert and Sullivan.
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pirates of pinzance
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commander of the HMS Paramour, he posited a core-fluid-crust model of Earth. financed the publication of Newton’s work
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halley
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Tonight We Improvise, Right You Are If You Think You Are, Six characters in search of an author
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pirandello
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commander of the Griffon was murdered by his own men, lieutenant Henri de Tonti named Louisiana and traveled along the Mississippi.
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la salle
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successor to Gabriele Münter’s New Artists’ Association. Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky.
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blue rider
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Ishikari Plain, borders the Sea of Okhotsk north. Tsugaru Strait separates its Oshima Peninsula from Honshu.
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hokkaido
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leader of Union Parotica, predecessor of Franco who ruled Spain 1923-1930
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primo de rivera
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alien manipulation of science, founded by Li Hongzhi, 70 million Chinese members
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falun gong
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Jung later preferred the term “objective psyche”
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collective unconcious
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the Pittsburgh cycle
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august wilson
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house was in Cushing Maine, known as the Olson House
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christina's world
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black, protruding tongue, wild hair, a belt of dismembered arms and a chain of decapitated heads.
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kali
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she arose from the foam of the sea and she is seen as a goddess of beauty
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lakshme
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killed the buffalo-demon Mahisasura, rides a lion or tiger, and has eight or more arms.
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durga
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formed by the confluence of the Brigach and Breg Rivers at Donaueschingen
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danube
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reign was overshadowed by his generals Ay and Horemheb
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tut
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one of the wives of Akhenaton
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nefertiti
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Eugene Rastignac, daughters Nucigen and Restaud marry wealthy men namesake dies of apoplexy
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le pere goriot
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Known as the father of Blitzkrieg, this German wrote 1936’s Achtung! Panzer
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guderian
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the harvest and years of wandering are commemorated via certain structures, celebrated by sleeping in a makeshift “booth” outdoors
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sukkot
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land fought over by Chad and Libya
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aouzou strip
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Lord Lucan, Raglan, and Cardigan artillery on the Causeway Heights
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charge of the light brigade
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poet of “Miniver Cheevy” and “Richard Corey.”
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robinson
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Yajur and Sama are two others
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vedas
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name translates as “Sittings close to a Teacher.”
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upanishads
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Gremio and Hortensio are in a futile rivalry, Baptista refuses to allow Bianca to be wed until Katherina finds a husband, who turns out to be Petruchio
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taming of the shrew
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“Pyramus and Thisbe” is performed within this play, which ends with a song by Oberon and Titania.
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amidsummer nights dream
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war chief of the Ogala Sioux, collaborator with Red Cloud in the Fetterman Massacre and Wagon Box fight
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crazy horse
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Miami chief defeated Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair before giving command to blue jacket who lost at fallen timbers
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little turtle
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San Carlos revolt against George Crook and surrendered at Skeleton Canyon.
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geronimo
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1699 French, friction equation
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amonton's law
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this author of Nightflight and The Little Prince.
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saint-Exupery
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Clunian reforms of the Church. 1095 council called the First Crusade, excommunicated Phillip I
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clermont council
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first Valois King of France
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philip Vi
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light above the cutoff frequency strikes a metal plate and creates a current between the plate and a cathode.
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photoelectric effect
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Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Farnsworth House, worked with Johnson on Seagram Building
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mies van der rohe
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namesake of the Sistine Chapel
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sixtus IV
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captured Francois I at the Battle of Pavia, his tutor later became Pope Adrian VI, guaranteed safe passage of Luther to the Diet of Worms
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charles V
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novel in which Jos Sedley wants to leave Becky Sharp, by Thackeray
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vanity fair
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created the “Polovtsian Dances” and tone poem In the Steppes of Central Asia
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borodin
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1926, last Vietnamese emperor before the Viet Minh seized power.
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bao dai
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tutor of Achilles, recounts the tale of Meleager in the Iliad.
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Pheonix
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Modified by Argersinger v. Hamlin, it drew on Powell v. Alabama
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Gideon v Wainwright
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Judar Pasha’s army sacked its capital after battle of Tondibi. ruler Daoud, 1493 usurper Askia Mohammad. Sonni Ali was first great ruler. capital at Gao
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songhai
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Stanley Prusiner discovered these agents made entirely of protein, cause mad cow disease and kuru
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prions
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Samuel Davis’s Virginia preaching was the Southern impetus
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first great awakening
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The Betsileo and Merina ethnic groups. Onilahy, Betsiboka, and Tsiribihina rivers, largest lake is Alaotra. Maromokotro mountain
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madagascar
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Originally it was a ballet named Fandango and depicted twenty men brawling over a woman
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bolero
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executed his biggest rival, Draza Mihailovic, after winning an election in 1945 as head of the National Liberation Front
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tito
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1955 Bandung Conference founded it led by Yugo, India, and Indonesia
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nonaligned movement
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unseated Prodi to become PM
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berlusconi
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defeated José Aznar’s Popular Party
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zapatero
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Lizard League. fought for King Andrew II of Hungary against the Cumans. two Treaties of Thorn, defeated in the Thirteen Years War, Hermann Von Salza was best leader
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teutonic knights
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capital of Andhra Pradesh, this city on the Musi river was long ruled by the Nizams
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hyderabad
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Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
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evelyn waugh
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marriage to Henry Clinton's daughter Cornelia ensured his namesake status. arming the newly captured Little Sarah, renaming it La Petite Democrate, and dispatching the vessel to prey on Britishships.
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citizen genet
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charles cotesworth pinkney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall
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xyz affair
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aided by a shadowy figure known as the Sefert, resides throughout the Duat and in the Hall of Double Justice alongside the fearsome Ammut
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osiris
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fights the monstrous Apep every evening to protect the barque of Ra
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seth
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Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, "Nevsky Prospect" and "The Nose"
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gogol
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chichikov who purchases titles to serfs
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dead souls
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gogol, civil servant Khlestakov is mistakened for a government official, evevntually discovered by the postmaster
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the inspector general
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gogol, Akakyevich Bashmachkin is invited to parties after he gets a new garment made to replace his patched-up one, but dies after he is robbed of it.
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the overcoat
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relates the reaction velocity of a catalyzed reaction to its maximum velocity and the substrate concentration
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Michaelis-Menten model
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successor to sargon II, powerful Assyrian king
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sennacherib
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first king of the neo-babylonian empire, ousted Assurbanipol of Assyria
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nabopolasser
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son of Sin-muballit, conquered his rival Rim-Sin of Larsa and Isin
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hammurabi
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defeated Lugalzaggisi of Uruk to conquer all Mesopotamia
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sargon
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person says that another person has the socially unacceptable emotion
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projection
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channeling of sexual desires into socially appropriate behaviors
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sublimation
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developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis
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PCR
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appointed Superintendent of Union Army Nurses in 1861. Taught Sunday school at the East Cambridge House of Correction when she produced the Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts
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Dix
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Long Branch New Jersey, A Game of Croquet, and Snap the Whip
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Homer
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radiation left over from the big bang explosion
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Cosmic microwave background radiation
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ambassador to Mongolia. he replaced the Jewish minister Litvinov, name means "hammer"
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Molotov
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son of Leirope and Cephisus (a river god)
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NArcissus
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Tennyson poem about the death of Arthur Henry Hallam.
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In Memoriam
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revised by Gobind Singh. It includes the "Mul Mantra" and the "Japji," sacred text of Sikhism
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adi granth
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The Laspayres and Paasche formulas and hedonic regression are used in calculating, Boskin Commission found it unreliable and biased
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CPI
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Pipo River, landmark the Train of the End of the World. Picton, Gordon, Navarino, and Lennox Islands, is Lapataia Bay. City of Punta Arenas
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Tierra del Fuego
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namesake "bands" of light. the ratio of fluid velocity to the speed of sound in that fluid, known as his number, which is above 1 in supersonic transport
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Mach
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where Jesus reattached the ear of the servant Malchus. Means "oil press," Jesus sweated drops of blood and asked for his cup to pass, and prayed here before his arrest
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Gethsemane
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served as Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury and in 1833 effected the withdrawal of federal funds from the bank.
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TAney
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third president of the Second Bank of the U.S. compiled an influential "Commercial Digest" of trade laws
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BIddle
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Founded in 1816, its early presidents included William Jones and Langdon Cheves
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Second US Bank
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Marggraf isolated this element from calamine. It combines with copper to form a galvanic Daniel cell.
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zinc
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wrote House of Spirits about the Trueba family
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Isabel Allende
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came to power after retirement of Stanley Baldwin, oversaw the naval component of the "Phony War"
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Chamberlain
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1711, the daughters of HRE Charles VI had precedence in succession
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pragmatic sanction
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Announced on August 27, 1789, outlined seventeen freedoms
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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A Curtain of Green, Delta Wedding, "Why I Live at the P.O.", and The Optimist's Daughter.
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Welty
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Formed from the Jefferson, the Gallatin, and the Madison rivers, it receives the Platte
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Missouri
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starts near Fort Smith and flows into Missouri before splitting into two sections that each flow into the Mississippi
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White River
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Greek philosopher from Ephesus argued for the doctrine of the universe in flux, the unity of opposites, and the construction of the whole world from fire
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Heraclitus
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wrote a refutation of Avicenna, and Incoherence of the Incoherence
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Averroes
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authorized by Robert McFarlane, violation of the Boland Amendment. Admiral John Poindexter, Fawn Hall admitted to shredding documents
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iran contra
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The Child's Bath, The Cup of Tea, Women Bathing, and The Coiffure.
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cassatt
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View of the Present State of Ireland , "Hymn in Honor of Love." Daphnaida (elegy), Epithalamion.
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spenser
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1590 Artegall and the Redcrosse Knight
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the fairie queene
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appointed Bishop Lamberton. John de Menteith captured him, won against William Heselrig at Lanark
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walllace
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Arthur Murray and wallace defeated the Earl of Surrey's force
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stirling bridge
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recognized the Bruce as king of Scotland
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Treaty of Northhampton
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the duke of cumberland in 1745 beats bonny Charlie
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culloden
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Residing in a cave in Cretan Dicte, daughters of Thaumus and Electra eventually chased to the Strophades Islands by Zetes and Calais
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harpies
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eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, who was the father of fifty sea nymphs, including Galatea
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nereus
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wrote Cretan Pictographs and Pre-Phoenician Script
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evans
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stephen daedalus grows suspicious of Father Moran's feelings for Emma Clery and watches his father and his aunt, Mrs. Dante Riordan, argue about Parnell. By Joyce
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portrait of the artist as a young man
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Joyce, includes the stories "Araby," "The Sisters," "An Encounter", "The Dead" and "A Little Cloud." 1914
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the dubliners
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written by Hoar and Edmunds, modified by theRobinson-Patman Act. Its effectiveness limited by a case involving the E. C. Knight Company.
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sherman anti-trust
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"sugar trust case", strengthened monopolies
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US v EC Knight Company
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nullified by the Dingley Act, 1894, overturned in Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust. Imposed a 2% income tax
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wilson-gorman
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income tax is legal
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sixteenth amendment
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highest peak in the Shakhdarin Mountains of tajikistan is named for him
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Marx
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anarchist author of god and the state
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bakunin
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Revolution Peak and Ismail Samani Peak, formerly known as Mount Stalin and Mount Communism. Also Marx mountain
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tajikistan
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the snow country, a thousand cranes
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kawabata
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6, 28,496, 8128
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perfect numbers
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ATP and histidine are examples, resist change in ph
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buffer
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equation states that pH of the solution is equal to pKa plus log of the ratio of conjugate base and acid concentrations.
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henderson-hasselbalch
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rival on the Board of Trade with Blathwayt and was employed by Ashley Cooper, the Earl of Shaftesbury
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Locke
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settled the case of the Creole, US agreed to place warships off the African coast to stop slave traders, 1842
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webster ashburton
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First proposed by Ernest Opik, originof Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp
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oort cloud
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novel about Connie’s affair with Oliver Mellors, by D.H. Lawrence.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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the biggest English impressionist, Louveciennes
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sisley
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Cap Blanco is southernmost point, comprised of the Rio de Oro and Sagria el Hamra, capital is Laayoune. “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”
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western sahara
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Stephen of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir and Nicholas of Cologne were leaders
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childrens crusade
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electrochemical equation that relates an electrode's potential to its standard potential
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nernst equation
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antony and Cleopatra opera, Reincarnations and To Be Sung on the Water
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barber
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graham did the dancing, set was designed by Naguchi
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appalachian spring
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In the Beginning, The Tender Land, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the common man, Billy the Kid
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copland
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renaissance british composer and inventor of the madrigal
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byrd
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border between Texas and Oklahoma.
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red river
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served as minister of information in the government of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I gandhi
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Estelle and Inez, “roommates” forever, “hell is other people”
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no exit
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completion of it was documented by Dora Maar. Inspired by Robert Capa’s photos
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guernica
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“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, “Franny and Zooey”
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salinger
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contrasts the Pirenne thesis, which blames Arabs for the title event
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decline and fall otre
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gives all of his food to Freki and Geri while sitting on Hlidskjalf in his hall Valaskjalf. This god’s mount had runes carved on its teeth.
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odin
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Brokk and Eitri forged this object
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draupnir
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the county’s highest point is Mount Apo on Mindanao
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phillipines
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contains Lake Toba and lies across the Strait of Malacca from the Malay Peninsula, 2nd largest Indonesian island
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sumatra
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Vladimir and Estragon spend the whole play hanging around talking about inanities
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waiting for godot
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by singe, Maurya spends the play mourning the death of the men in her life
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riders to the sea
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Born Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri, disciple of the Bab joined with Mirza Yahya to formalize Baha’i. His house at Acre became an object of pilgrimage
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baha'u'allah
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The Bab’s remains are in this home to the Universal House of Justice that serves as Baha’i headquarters
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haifa
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Edith Leete reveals her crush on Julian West, who had been hypnotized by Dr. Pillsbury
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looking backward
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Virgin Lands” grain-spreading initiative made a dust bowl out of Kazakhstan.
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kruschev
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1962 to 1965 council passed the declaration “Nostra Aetate,” absolving Jews of blood guilt, and “Dignitatus Humanae”
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VAtican II
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type of unemployment involves being “between jobs”
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frictional
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availability of skilled workers in a profession does not match the geographic or market availability of jobs in that profession
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structural
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It was investigated by the Pecora Commission, which wrapped up hearings in 1934
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black thursday
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Secretary of the Treasury Abel Corbin attempted to end it by releasing some of the federal gold reserve
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black friday
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Jane Austen, relationship of Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot
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persuasion
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William Price is able to achieve promotion through friendship with the Crawfords, while William’s sister Fanny is raised by the dissolute Bertrams
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mansfield park
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founder Zacharias Frankel. In America, it rose in reaction to Isaac Wise and the “trefa banquet” of 1883
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conservative judaism
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Jöchi, Chagatai, Tolui, and Ögödei were his four sons by Börte
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genghis khan
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Nexus, The Home and the World, Wild Geese, The Golden Boat, the Indian anthem “Jana Gana Mana”
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tagore
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translated as Song Offerings, by Tagore, 103 poems
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Gitanjali
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Daniel Vorhees, Edward G. Roddy, Harrison Dodd. promoted their ideas in the newspaper The Genius of Liberty.
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copperheads
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the Four Sea Interludes are part of this Benjamin Britten opera about a mariner who drowns himself by sinking his boat
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peter grimes
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controls the exclave Naxçivan, and Nagorno-Karabakh
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azerbaijan
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Heine’s “Buch Der Lieder” is the legend of this maiden, named for a rock in the Rhine, who led fishermen to destruction
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lorelay
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