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son of Hephaestus carried an iron club to commit highway robberies. slain by Theseus in the vicinity of Argolis.
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periphetes
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- isolated the tuberculosis microbe and established the eponymous “postulates” proving a specific microorganism is the cause for a disease.
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koch
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organization founded as a result of the article “The Forgotten Prisoners” by Peter Benenson, a worldwide promoter of human rights.
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amnesty international
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the strait between new guinea and Australia
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torres strait
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mormons and Paiute Indians attack the baker-fancher party
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mountain meadows massacre
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author of “The Deserted Village,” The Vicar of Wakefield, and She Stoops to Conquer.
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goldsmith
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Replaced by Koiso, successor to Konoe Fumimaro and advocate of the “New Order in Asia”
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tojo
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attacked the Jesuits in his Provincial Letters, Pensees
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pascal
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Letters to Lucilius and who wrote a drama about Emperor Claudius becoming a pumpkin.
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seneca
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philosopher of the “élan vital,” who wrote Mind and Matter and Creative Evolution
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bergson
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Francis I licensed this former monk and doctor to print his story, used the anagram Alcofribas Nasier
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rabelais
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Rabelais, about the descendants of Grandgousier, the Thelemite order, as well as such characters as Badebec and Friar John
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gargantua and pantagruel
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Les Noces, Renard, The Soldier’s Tale, Symphony in Three Movements, Apollon Musagète, Pulcinella, Petrushka
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stravinsky
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ballet premiered under Pierre Monteux’s baton with Maria Piltz playing the victim of a fertility sacrifice. collaboration with Diaghliev and Stravinsky on the riot-inducing
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rite of spring
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started by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649, an offshoot of the Levelers
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diggers
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poem “Despair”, “Christabel”, “Dejection”, and Biographia Literaria.
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coleridge
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Imprisoned under the military regime of Samuel Doe, this Liberian defeated George Weah
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johnson-sirleaf
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- leader of the Concentracion coalition and former member of the Ricardo Lagos cabinet defeated Sebastian Pinera to for pres of Chile
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bachelet
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last valois, assassinated by Jacques Clement
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henry III
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The Lehigh and Schuylkill are tributaries of it, flows through Trenton and forms part of the border of New Jersey
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delaware
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in NJ, flows towards NYC and meets up with Hackensack
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passaic
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The Fruit of the Tree and The Custom of the Country
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wharton
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Wharton, Lily Bart likes high society but pushes aside her friend Lawrence Selden and rejects Simon Rosedale’s marriage proposal
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the house of mirth
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Seven Tales of My Native Land, Fanshawe published. The Great Carbuncle, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, and Rappacini’s Daughter
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hawthorne
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Ralph Robinson made the first English translation of it, Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday discuss a fictional country
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utopia
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Miles Coverdale, Zenobia, and Priscilla Moodie live at a utopian commune based on Brook Farm
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the blithedale romance
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“Heir Conditioner” tested on daughter Deborah, used pigeons
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skinner
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fought Sertorius and pursued Mithridates. cleared the sea of pirates, Thedotus presented his head, defeated 48 BC at Pharsalus.
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pompey
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of Granicus, Issus, Arbela, and Hydaspes
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alexander the great
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The Thief and the Dogs, Children of Gebalawi.
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mahfouz
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generations of the al-Jawad family in Sugar Street, Palace of Desire, and Palace Walk
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cairo trilogy
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Heracles had to capture it alive, it was hid in a jar afterwards
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Erymanthean boar
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converted to Catholicism and took a diplomatic posts under Grant
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general longstreet
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collaborated with Amédée Ozenfant to write the Purist manifesto Après le cubism (after cubism), planner of the Indian city of Chandigarh
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le corbusier
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modernist finnish architect of dormitory at MIT
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alvar aalto
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husband of the unstable Bertha Mason who ultimately marries Jane Eyre
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edward rochester
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Ernest Gruening of Alaska and Wayne Morse of Oregon were only dissenters
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gulf of tonkin
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Adoration of the Magi, only nude is The Rokeby Venus. painted Pope Innocent X. Philip IV on Horseback, The Surrender of Breda
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velazquez
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China’s May Fourth Movement occurred in response to a provision of it giving Shandong to Japan.
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versailles
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one symphony known as Plutonian Ode
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glass
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included Narcisco López, who tried to conquer Cuba, and William Walker, who ruled Nicaragua, American privateers in Latin America
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filibuster
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Noble Numbers and Hesperides, Cavalier poet of “Corinna’s Going a-Maying”
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herrick
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cannibalistic witch of Eastern European folklore
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baba yaga
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1971 Supreme Court case arising from Pennsylvania’s system of tax breaks for parochial schools
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lemon v kurtzman
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seven of his ninety plays survive, Seven Against Thebes and his Orestia trilogy
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aeschuylus
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first Greek playwright to use a third actor, he wrote Electra and Oedipus at Colonus.
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sophocles
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New Comedy author of The Girl from Samos, The Self-Tormentor, and Dyskolos.
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menander
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fresco Parnassus adorns the Stanza della Segnatura, contributed the “Disputa” and “The Cardinal Virtues” to apartments of Julius II, Madonna of the Goldfinch
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raphael
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a battle called Bloody Run. Long Assembly failed. Attack on the estate of Thomas Matthews by Doegs
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bacon's rebellion
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messiah of this racial separationist movement was Wallace Muhammad. They organized the “Million Man March”
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nation of islam
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geological theory of uniformitarianism
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lyell
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biologist was the foremost proponent of acquired characteristics being inheritable
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lamarck
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soviet Lamarckian that destroyed the agriculture
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lysenko
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meditation on the death of Richard West. The titular place was probably Stoke Poges.
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elegy written in a country churchyard
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“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife”, “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”
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elegy written in a country churchyard
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tried to make his horse Incitatus a senator.
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caligula
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made repeated attempts to kill his mother Agrippina and built a golden palace called the Domus Aurea after a fire
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nero
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Symphonia Domestica, opera Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra, Death and Transfiguration, Don Juan, and Also Sprach Zarathustra.
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richard strauss
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elder brother Artabazanes, he built the hall of one hundred columns before Artabanus murdered him
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xerxes I
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Mardonius was defeated and killed here by Pausanias
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plataea
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Albert Parsons was hanged, resulted in the death of eleven people including Mathias Degan. August Spies gave a speech advocating a strike
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haymarket square
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Highest point in the British Isles
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ben-nevis
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Liza of Lambeth, Cakes and Ale, The Circle, The Razor’s Edge, The Moon and Sixpence
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maugham
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autobiographical Maugham novel follows the life of Philip Carey, an orphan with a clubfoot who later becomes a country doctor
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of human bondage
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collaboration with Whitehead and Russell on a three-volume work whose basic assumption was overturned by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
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principia mathematica
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Buddy Willard cheats on Esther Greenwood, who is sent to Dr. Gordon, given electric shock therapy. the pen name Victoria Lucas was used by Plath
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the bell jar
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Rayleighs criterion and Bragg’s law are about it
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diffraction
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commissioned by Coolidge
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appalachian spring
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Herran, pauncefote, Banau-Varilla
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hay
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napoleon of the Pacific
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Kamehameha
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Egyptian lion-god
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sekhmet
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VP Jiri Paroubek and pres Vaclav Klaus lead it
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czech republic
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Steinbeck, namesake neighborhood of Monterrey, it discusses Big Joe Portagee, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Danny, and other “paisanos.”
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steinbeck
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Cathy Ames leaves Adam Trask after the birth of Caleb and Aron.
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east of eden
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The Prince of the Pagodas, opera Albert Herring, Paul Bunyan, War Requiem, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, and Billy Budd.
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britten
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coin the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."
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haeckl
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wrote text Tatvartha. Split into Digambaras and Svetambaras, founded by Mahavira
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jainism
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two main inlets are Chignecto Bay and the Minas Basin
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bay of fundy
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separates the mainland of Canada from Prince Edward Island
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Northumberland strait
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forms border between Maine and New Brunswick, flows through Fredericton and
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Saint John River
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Sophia of the Palatinate received the line
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hannover
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secretly married the Catholic Maria Fizherbert, his father annulled it
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george IV
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poems “Venus and Adonis”, “The Rape of Lucrece”, and “The Phoenix and the Turtle”
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shakespeare
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“Sailor King”, 1830-1837, succeeded George IV and by Victoria
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William IV
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- hymn “Veni, Creator Spiritus” and “Chorus mysticus” from Goethe’s Faust, nickname coined by Emil Gutmann eighth Mahler symphony
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symphony of a thousand
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produced in the Leydig cells, aromatized to estradiol. deficient in Klinefelter’s syndrome
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testosterone
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The Amen Corner, The Fire Next Time, and Giovanni’s Room
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baldwin
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Harlem Renaissance poet of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
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johnson
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Harlem Renaissance poet of “The Ballad of the Brown Girl” and “Yet Do I Marvel.”
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cullen
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“Massacre at Chios”, about the Greek Independence MAssacre
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delacroix
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started the Creek War
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fort mims massacre
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April 12 1864, confederates massacred the blacks
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fort pillow
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Ibsen play, Mrs. Elvsted, Mme Diana. Judge Brack, Eilert Lovberg, George Tessman’s wife kills herself
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hedda gabler
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Torvald is married to Nora, who was childhood friends with Kristine Linde who marries Krogstad
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a doll's house
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ran for mayor of NYon the Nativist ticket, home named Locust Grove. prominent for watercolor portraits, sent message “What Hath God Wrought!”
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morse
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was sculptors/museum
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madame tussaud
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made loan to the island of Salamis @48% interest, joined the Optimate side during the second civil war. mother Servilia
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brutus
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Roman plotted to overthrow the republic in 63 BCE, but he was thwarted by Cicero and defeated and killed in battle by Caius Antonius and Metellus Celer
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catiline
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close friend of Tiberius, head of the Praetorians, succeeded in banishing Agrippina and a young Nero and made plans to overthrow the emperor.
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sejanus
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ruler of Sinar and “mighty hunter before the Lord” who built the Tower of Babel.
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nimrod
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law from magnetostatics, the magnetic analog of Coulomb’s law
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biot savart
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1963 series of top-down reforms by Reza Pahlavi
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white revolution
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encouraged by Ali Shariati, proceeded when an article in Ettelaat led to riots in Qum, a new gov was established under Banisadr (first pres)
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iranian revolution
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narrated by Winterbourne, a pretty young girl dies of malaria in the coliseum, by James.
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daisy miller
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realized, is not reborn
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arhat
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delay ascension to nirvana, steps of vimala, sudurjaya and pramudita, as laid out in the Dasabhumika-sutra
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boddhisattva
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George Peabody financed the placement of American products, fire in 1936, originally in Hyde Park, but moved to Sydenham. Joseph Paxton designed
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crystal palace
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Odette and Siegfried sink into the water at the end
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swan lake
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pulsating variable stars, Leavitt deduced a relationship between their luminosities and periods, allowing them to be used as standard candles for determining distances
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cepheid variables
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Michaelangleo Merisi, The calling of St Matthew
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carravaggio
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1842 Robert Browning poem that takes place in Ferrara and discusses the murder of a mistress with a heart “too soon made glad.”
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my last duchess
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people that hosted Apollo during the winter, who lived in perpetual daylight beyond the north wind
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hyperboreans
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kept the Sabines from entering the Forum with jets of boiling water. first king of Latium, he sheltered Saturn. wife Camese. Turned Carna into the goddess of doorknobs
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janus
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imprisoned by Parliament for aiding King Charles I, enabling him to write “To Althea from Prison.”
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lovelace
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plotted to rescue Thomas Wentworth from the Tower of London. poems “Why So Pale and Wan?” and “The Constant Lover”
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suckling
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Cromwell supporter published pamphlets against Charles II anonymously but took credit for “The Garden” and “To His Coy Mistress.”
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marvell
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name given to the Indonesian section of Borneo, separate from Sabah and Sarawak, originally inhabited by Dayak people
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kalimantan
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tropical Indonesian island sits in between Java and Lombok and has its capital at Denpasar
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bali
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can also be measured by Jaeger's Method
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surface tension
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extends from Port Said to Port Tawfiq, and Britain became protector according to the 1888 Convention of Constantinople
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suez canal
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nationalized the Suez Canal in July of 1956
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nasser
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succeeded Churchill, used force in the canal crisis of 1956
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eden
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Norse daughter of Skadi and Njord, lives in the hall Sessrumnir, owns the magic Necklace of the Brisings, and loves falcons and cats
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freya
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ship Helga shelled the Customs House. capture of a consul returning from Germany, Roger Casement. Tom Clarke and Joseph Plunkett were leaders, inability to control Castle and Trinity College
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easter rising
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read the Proclamation of the Republic outside the General Post Office
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pearse
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Cao Cao’s defeat at the Battle of Red Cliffs. attributed to Luo Ghuanzhong.
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romance of the three kingdoms
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Tang dynasty poet wrote “Ballad of the Ancient Cypress” and “Facing Snow” contemporary Li Po.
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du fang
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highest pt in Oregon, second most visited summit in the world after Mount Fuji
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mount hood
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Interim president Pedro Maria Anaya negotiated it with Nicolas Trist
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guadeloupe hidalgo
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husband of O’Keefe founded Pictoralist photography in 1902, 291 Fifth Avenue studio
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stieglitz
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collections Eighteen Poems and Deaths and Entrances, radio play, Under Milk Wood, “Fern Hill”
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thomas
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Ode to the west wind, Ozymandias, To a Skylark, The Masque of Anarchy
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percy shelley
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ode to a nightingale
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keats
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written as a contest with Horace Smith
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ozzymandias
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built to celebrate the end of siege by Demetrius I. sold to an Edessan scrap metal dealer in 654, designed by Chares of Lyndus. In Mandrákion harbor
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collossus
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TTAGGG sequence repeats in germline and tumor cells, making them immortal
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telomere
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Angelloti (disguises self as woman), Mario Cavaradossi, Fort St. Angelo, stabbing of Scarpia causes the title character to leap to her death
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tosca
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final section of the ring cycle
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Twilight of the gods
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1879-1883 war between chile and Bolivia/peru
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war of the pacific
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port of Arica, Tarapaca. Ended with the Treaty of Ancon, fought over province of Tacna
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war of the pacific
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actual heir, known as "Sun of Joy, died in 1532, possibly on the orders of his brother.
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huascar
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last inca emperor, killed brother Huascar and succeeded father Huayna Capac
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Atahualpa
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twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, god of lightning, guided souls to Aztec underworld
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xolotl
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ninth level of the Aztec underworld that most ppl went to
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mictlan
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Discovered by allowing a trapped sample of gas in a
manometer to equilibrate to constant temperature, also known as Mariotte's Law |
boyle's law
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constant temperature, a gas' volume is inversely proportional to its pressure.
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boyle's law
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illegally acquired materials cannot be used in court
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exclusionary rule
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friend Joseph Knecht is awarded the title "Magister Ludi"
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the glass bead game
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highest point in Tennessee and the Great Smokey Mountians
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clingman's dome
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in Pablo's hall of mirrors causes a sentence of "eternal life" on Harry Haller
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steppenwolf
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The Good Woman of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Life of Galileo
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brecht
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Brech, set during Thirty Years War, Anna Fierling is the owner of a canteen wagon, and has offspring Eilif, Katrin, and Swiss Cheese
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mother courage and her children
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Count Miloradovich shot by Peter Kakhovsky. Pestel's Southern Society and Muraviev's Northern Society, elected Trubetskoy as interim dictator,against Nicholas I
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decembrists
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1917, Lenin created this central policy making body of the Communist Party to oversee the upcoming Bolshevik coup
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politburo
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Uhlenbeck analysis of it, characterized as a Wiener stochastic process,
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brownian motion
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Wooded Landscape with a Flooded Road, Cornard Wood, The Woodsman, The Blue Boy
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gainsborough
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Jonathan Buttal holding a feathered black hat and otherwise dressed in a different color
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the blue boy
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many of works translated by Hollingdale and Kaufman, theory of the Dionysian and Apollonian
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nietzche
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Goodrich, the radical Essex Junto led by George Cabot, was skillfully restrained by Harrison Gray Otis. proposed seven numbered amendments
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hartford convention
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Lepeaux, the leader of the Theophilanthropists, Rewbell, Carnot, and Seiyes
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directory
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Hoche controlled this counterrevolution of Brittany
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vendee revolt
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les Six member who composed Le Roi David, Rugby, and Pacific 231
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honnegger
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Snowy Mtns, Australian Alps, Grampian Mtns; Mt Kosciusko and Mt Townsend.
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great dividing range
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Communist Party tried to bribe Victoria Price to change her testimony, defended by Samuel Leibowitz. Powell v. Alabama overturned charges
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scottsboro boys
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wrote poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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jarrell
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Paul Omerod created a new one in 1993 based on rates of changev
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phillips curve
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Bernalillo County, at foot of the Manzano Mountains, in new mexicov
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albequerque
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Royal Navy recording of wind speeds
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beaufort scale
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New Zealand author of The Garden Party, The Aloe
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mansfield
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Madonna of the Long Neck, The Legend of Diana and Actaeon, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
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parmagianino
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