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First female mp |
Nancy Astor
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First female us president candidate
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Victoria woodhull
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Module crashed into moon deliberately
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Lunar prospector
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Pop star whose partner is simon konecki
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Adele
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Pop star whose toddler won damages
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Adele
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Lib dem mp controversial Gaza tweet?
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David ward
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Health sec from 97 and holborn mp?
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Frank Dobson
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Former labour director of public prosecutions
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Keir starmer
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Sochi snowboarder lost photos
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Jenny jones
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First British Olympian to win gold on snow
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Jenny jones
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Willem Alexander's queen?
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Maxima
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Back flipping commonwealth games netballers?
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Sasha and Kadeen Corbin
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Contemporary cottish classical violinist?
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Nicola benedetti
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Council area in docklands with controversial new floating homes?
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Newham
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Red shoe designer
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Christian louboutin
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Florence, as in machine, surname?
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Welch
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Motorway from m25 to Dover
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M20
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Motorway between m25 and stansted
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M11
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Tulisa surname
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Contostavlos
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Woodall and Constantine?
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Trinny and Susannah
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Brit cage fighter went out with jordan
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Alex Reid
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Plays gene hunt in life on mars
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Philip glenister
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Legendary NZ all rounder
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Richard Hadlee
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Spectator chairman?
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Andrew Neil
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Nme feminism married to tony parsons
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Julie burchill
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Danish pm?
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Helle thorning–Schmidt
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Danish pm married to whose son?
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Neil kinnock
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Ed miliband wife
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Justine Thornton
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Contemporary Cuban Ballet dancer
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Carlos Acosta
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Liz I court painter?
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Marcus gheeraerts
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Spads stand for?
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Special advisors
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New education sec
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Nicky Morgan
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'Good day to bury bad news' on 9/11
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Jo Moore
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New environment sec
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Liz truss
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Previous environment sec
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Owen Paterson
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Controversial special advisor to Gordon brown?
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Damian mcbride
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Chancellor until 93
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Norman Lamont
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P&o stands for?
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Peninsular and oriental
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New welsh sec
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Stephen crabb
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Un high commissioner for human rights
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Navil pillay
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FAA acronym?
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Federal aviation administration
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Palestinian presideng
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Palestinian pm
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Rami hamdallah
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New Indonesia president
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Joko widodo
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Indonesia presidential race loser
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Prabowo subianto
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Italian ferry? Near what island?
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Costa Concordia, giglio
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Philip green owns what shop?
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Top shop
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Kenyan 800m runner
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David rudisha
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Australian female cyclist
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Anna meares
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Australian female swimmer
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Alicia coutts
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Scottish male 200m breaststroke silver medallist
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Michael jamieson
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Scottish 400m hurdler female
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Eilidh child
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Female 100m olympic champ
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Shelly Ann Fraser pryce
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English make triathletes
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Alastair and Jonny brownlee
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Scottish female 400m individual medley swimmer
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Hannah Miley
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Male cyclist team and individual spring gold medal
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Jason Kenny
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Female cyclist team pursuit and omnium champ
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Laura trott
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British female cyclist gold team pursuit
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Jo rowsell
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British male backstroke holds wr in 50m
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Liam tancock
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Female Brit weightlifter not Zoe smith
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Michaela breeze
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Brit female butterfly and freestyle 50m
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Fran halsall
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Brit female boxing champ
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Nicola Adams
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England cricket coach
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Peter moores
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Oval sponsored by
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Kia
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England t20 captain
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Stuart broad
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Anderson pushed which Indian cricketer?
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Ravi jadeja
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Company run by churchill grandson Rupert soames?
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Serco
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Bolshoi director attacked with acid?
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Sergei filin
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St Petersburg ballet
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Mariinsky
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Bill of rights influenced by which writer
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John Locke
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SEAL acronym
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Sea air land
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Sang 'at last'
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Etta James
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Film set in metroville
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The incredibles
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Royal disease
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Haemophilia
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Last line of Casablanca
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Louis this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
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Casablanca director
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Michael curtiz
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Main stars of Casablanca
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Bogart and Bergman
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Casablanca based on what book
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Everybody comes to rick's
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It happened one night and it's a wonderful life director
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Frank Capra
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Malayan 60s communist insurgent
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Chin peng
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Bible translated into English century?
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14th
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First black Victoria cross
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William hall
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Act of union year
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1707
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Brit king died of dysentery
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Stephen
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EFTA acronym and members
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European free trade association, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
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Falsely convicted of 1970s pub bombings
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Guildford 4 and maguire 7
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Known as book of winchester
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Domesday book
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In the days of the Spanish New World Empire, the mainland of the North and South American continents enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico was referred to as the
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Spanish Main
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Uk's first nuclear weapons program
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Polaris
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Uk us 1962 treaty on nuclear weapons
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Nassau agreement
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Uk nukes were going to be usa's...
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Sky bolt
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Uk nuclear submarines 1960–94
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Resolution
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Uk nuclear submarines
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Vanguard
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Previously called sandwich islands
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Hawaii
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Sword used by William wallace
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Claymore
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Mayflower year
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1620
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George ii's son, and how did he die?
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Frederick louis hit by cricket ball
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Monarchy law in 1701
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Act of settlement
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Act of parliament before William and mart
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Bill of rights
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Where is Yale uni
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New haven Connecticut
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Iconic feminist 'we can do it' image
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Rosie the riveter
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Trade union action in 70s at film processing
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Grunwick dispute, mrs desai
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Played cpt Kirk in Star Trek
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William shatner
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Hikaru sulu in star trek
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George takei
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Facebook celebrities app
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Mentions
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Hard sell knife adverts
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Ginsu
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Hills south west of edinburgh
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Pentland
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Fingals cave which island
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Staffa
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Cobbled street in Shaftesbury Dorset
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Gold hill
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Gold hill advertised what and who directed ad
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Hovis, Ridley Scott
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Broad region including Edinburgh
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Lothian
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Fingals cave named after poem by
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James McPherson
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Fingals cave poet also created what
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James McPherson Ossian
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How many cities in uk
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69
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Mway London Brighton
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M23
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Mesozoic eras in order?
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Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous
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Royal mint where
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Llantrisant
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Football team at rugby park
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Kilmarnock
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Area south east of Winchester
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Twyford down
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North west wales county
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Gwynedd
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Nw Wales peninsula
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Llyn
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Small island with lighthouse nw wales
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Bardsey
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Mary queen of scots imprisoned which Scottish castle
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Loch leven
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Mqos husband
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Henry Stuart lord Darnley
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Mary qos dad
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James v of Scotland
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Mary qos 1st husband
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Francis
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Catholic Rebellion to depose Liz i
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Rising of the north
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Most east Thames bridge
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Dartford Thurrock crossing, qe2 bridge
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Grockle West Country
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Tourist
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Mway m4 to Bristol
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M32
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Lesbian Yorkshire town
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Hebden bridge
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North laine shopping district where
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Brighton
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Official monarch residence in Scotland
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Holyrood house
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17th century Scottish architect
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William Bruce
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He left his mark on London by single buildings, such as the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and in area design for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End
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Inigo jones
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Mways meet west of heathrow
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4 and 25
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West yorks county town
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Wakefield
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Troon and turnberry county
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Ayrshire
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Ucl top art school
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Slade
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Director of Armageddon, pearl harbour, various horrors
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Michael bay
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1st commonwealth games host and year
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1930 Hamilton Canada
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Next commonwealth games
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Gold Coast
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Country features hat in flag
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Lesotho
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2nd city of Malawi
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Blantyre
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Victoria falls river
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Zambezi
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Monteverdi and Vivaldi profession
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Priest
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German for song
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Lied
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Indonesian musical styke
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Gamelan
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Chinese opera type
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Peking/Beijing opera
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Whose 8th symphony unfinished
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Franz Schubert
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Maori soprano
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Kiri te kanawa
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2nd symphony is resurrection symphony
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Gustav Mahler
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Who wrote wedding march
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Memdelssohn
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Who wrote bridal chorus
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Wagner
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Israeli American violinist with polio
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Itzhak Perlman
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had two distinct national lines of development, French (proceeding partly from the influence of Erik Satie and represented by Igor Stravinsky), and German (proceeding from the "New Objectivity" of Ferruccio Busoni and represented by Paul Hindemith.
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Neoclassicism
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First Viennese school?
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Haydn Mozart Beethoven, sometimes Schubert
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The members were:
Georges Auric (1899–1983) Louis Durey (1888–1979) Arthur Honegger (1892–1955) Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) |
Les six
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Wedding march in which piece
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Midsummer nights dream
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Which composer became a monk in rome
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Franz Liszt
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Composed circus polka for elephants
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Stravinsky
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ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphon
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Aaron Copland
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Legendary American female dancer and choreographer
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Martha graham
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Wrote voss and riders in the chariot
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Patrick white
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Composed scottish symphony
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Mendelssohn
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8th sonata pathetique?
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Beethoven
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Canadian 20th c pianist
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Glenn Gould
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Italian 16c masked theatre
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Commedia dell'arte
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John Hughes sets movies where
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Chicago
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reached the peak of his early career in the early 1940s, in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940), The More the Merrier (1943) directed by George Stevens, and two by Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942).[6]
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Joel mccrea
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Female star of Sullivan's travels
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Veronica lake
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Film about Eleanor of Aquitaine, which stars?
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Lion in winter. Otoole henry, k Hepburn Eleanor, Hopkins Richard I
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Directed ghostbusters
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Ivan reitman
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40s and 50s comedians did 'who's on first'
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Abbott and Costello
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3d film produced by Warhol
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Flesh for Frankenstein
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Pearl harbour year
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1941
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Country's citizens banned from entering us from 1902
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China
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Apple 80s alternative to mac
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Lisa
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Old pointy shoe
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Sabaton
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Quebec separatist politician lost leg
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Lucien Bouchard
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Enuresis?
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Bed wetting
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Cremaster muscle where?
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Testes
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Men long jump record holder
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Mike Powell
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5k 10k men wr holder 04–08
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Kenenisa bekele
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Aztec underworld
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Mictlan
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Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
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Erinyes/furies
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Evil Slavic mythology woman
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Baba Yaga
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Jewish anthropomorphic doll, which rabbi created one?
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Golem, rabbi low
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Shield carried by Athena or Zeus
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Aegis
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Greek gods blood
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Ichor
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Who lived in jotunheim and muspell
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Norse giants
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Unicorn collective noun
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Blessing
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Deity sided with Trojans in Trojan war
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Aphrodite
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Agamemnon king of where
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Mycenae/Argos
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Agamemnon brother
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Menelaus
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Agamemnon wife
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Clytemnestra
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Odysseus's dog
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Argos
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What is a cailleach
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Divine hag in scots Irish mythology
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Greek goddess of strife
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Eris
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Dwarf planet in asteroid belt
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Ceres
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Most massive dwarf planet
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Eris
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Other dwarf planets
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Haumea, makemake
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Lady of the lake name
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Vivienne
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Arthur final battle
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Camlann
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Odins brothers
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Vili ve
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1st woman swim channel
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Gertrude Ederle
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King Arthur's spear
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Ron
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Curling broom name
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Besom
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New England nautical folk hero
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Captain stormalong
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national epic of Iran (Persia), Afghanistan (Khorasan), Tajikistan and the Persian–speaking world
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Shahnameh
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Kinich ahau
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Mayan sun god jaguar
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Mermaid based on what animal
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Manatee dugong
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Manatee dugong what family
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Sirenia
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Inca creator god
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Viracocha, son was inti
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Arab mythology fish that supports the earth
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Bahamut
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Illness named Greek 'purple pigment'
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Porphyria
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The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer")
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Charities Greek graces roman
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Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs. In answer, she was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound when the god's frustrated breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes
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Syrinx
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Paul Sheldon protagonist of which book
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Misery
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His most well–known act from that time is perhaps the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters with a .22 rifle
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Chris burden
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Lead singer of spinal tap
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David st hubbins
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Band wears eyeball masks
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The residents
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Separates Scotland and Orkney
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Pentland firth
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Cinque ports
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Hastings, new Romney, hythe, Dover, sandwich
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Open air museum in Durham
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Beamish
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McManus gallery city
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Dundee
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Salford peat bog
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Chat miss
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First mway service station in uk
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Watford gap
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Watford gap county
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Northamptonshire
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Architect of Watford Gap services and Art Deco odeon cinemas
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Harry weedon
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Russian foreign minister
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Sergei lavrov
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Unguja and pemba
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Zanzibar
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Cruel intentions adaptation of which booj
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Dangerous liaisons
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Prince Albert actual first name
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Francis
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'Father of the raf'
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Lord trenchard
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Founded great north run
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Brendan foster
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1830 France revolution month, two monarcgd
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July, Charles x, louis–Philippe
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French president 1848–70
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Louis Napoleon, Napoleon iii
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Enemy at the gates film set during
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Battle of Stalingrad
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French Protestants 16–17c, inspired by who
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Huguenots, john Calvin
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Musical based on la boheme, and who by
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Rent, jonathan Larson
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First Rodgers &h musical
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Oklahoma
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Protagonist of The show includes the well–known songs "If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Walk Alone"
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Carousel, billy bigelow
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Musical with 'old red hills of home' and 'all that wasted time'
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Parade
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The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen–year–old employee, Mary Phagan.
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Parade
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Wrote Cinderella
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Charles Perrault
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The songs include 1960s–style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real–life Buddy Deane Show.[1
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Hairspray
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'Memory' in what musical
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Cats
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Cats musical based on
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Old possums book of practical cats by ts Eliot
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Longest running musical show
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Phantom of the opera
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'Getting to know you' and 'hello young lovers' musical
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King And I
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Grease leading characters
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Sandy Olsen Danny zuko
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Songs for a new world, parade, urban cowboy producer
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Jason Robert brown
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Wrote bridges of Madison county
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Robert James Waller
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made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six (as of 2014) Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. In 1985, she played Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both.
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Patti lupone
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Max Bialystok, Leo bloom feAture in
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The producers
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His most well known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
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Mel brooks
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Originally titled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends
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Company
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his most famous works include (as composer and lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gyps
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Stephen Sondheim
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Tony award named after
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Antoinette perry
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Sky masterson Nathan Detroit which musical
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Guys and dolls
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best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, The Shaggy Dog, Enchanted, and most recently, Tangled and Mirror Mirror.
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Alan menken
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Sings 'memory'
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Griselda
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Broke through in 'seesaw'
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Tommy tune
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Gangs in west side story
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Sharks and jets
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Countries without decinal currency
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Madagascar Mauritania
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UPC bar code acronym
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Universe product code
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best known for two articles in particular: "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), which introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the nature and limits of firms, and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960
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Ronald coase
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Colonel sanders name
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Harland
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Built up mcd's
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Ray Kroc
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McDonald's brothers names
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Richard Maurice
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Bonnie and Clyde actors
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Warren Beatty Faye dunaway
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Zionist terrorist group post ww2
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Lehi
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Other name for Persian empire
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Achamenid
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Snp deputy
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Nicola sturgeon
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Unrecognised state within Azerbaijan
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Nagorno–karabakh
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Last hung in Britain
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Peter Allen, gwyne Evans
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A6 murderer
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James hanratty
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Drowned in butt of malmsey wine
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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
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Roman flavouring fish paste
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Garum
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Hunger games set where
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Panem
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Played Robin Hood and Marian in 2010 film
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Crowe, blanchett
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Film about falling in love with ai
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Her
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made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), followed by critically acclaimed performances in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), and Safe (1995). Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), and The Hours (2002). Other notable film appearances include The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), and Children of Men (2006
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Julianne Moore
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Mean girls based on book
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Queen bees and wannabes
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Directed wolf wall st
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Scorsese
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Adult rating of films in usa
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Nc–17
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a 2011 British drama film cowritten and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. It was coproduced by Film4 and See–Saw Films. The film's explicit sexual scenes regarding sexual addiction resulted in it being rated NC–17 in the United States
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Shame
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MGM stands for
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer
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Protagonists and antagonists of transformers plus leaders
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Autobots led by Optimus prime, decepticons led by megatron
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Germany's president
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Joachim gauck
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King of Belgium
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Philippe
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Poet a Shropshire lad
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Ae Housman
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Graves of 'first and last' died in ww1
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St symphorien
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1st ww1 battle
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Mons
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Big nasa telescope 2018
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James Webb space telescope
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Guy disabled by Reagan bullet
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James Brady
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Founded Achaemenid empire
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Cyrus
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Dynasty built most of china great wall
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Ming
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Charlemagne dAd and brother
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Pepin the short, carloman
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Capital Spain before madrd
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Toledo
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1389 battle Turks Bt Serbs
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Kosovo
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Soviet leaders between Brezhnev and Gorbachev
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Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, andrei Gromyko
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Acting russian leader thrice in 80s
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Vasili kuznetsov
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SALT stands for
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Strategic arms limitation talks
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'Epitaph to a dog' name of dog
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Boatswain
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Cheltenham gold cup winner 2014
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Lord Windermere
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Created c programming language and unix
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Dennis Ritchie
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author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy
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Andreas Vesalius
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Old area of Belgium and Netherlands
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Brabant
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Spanish king before golden age, also holy roman
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Charles I/v
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King and queen of spain
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Felipe vi, Letizia
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Czech decathlete won 2004 gold
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Roman sebrle
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Usa 10000m record holder man
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Galen rupp
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Womens heptathlon 1st and last
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100m hurdles, 800m
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88 92 heptathlete gold
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Jackie Joyner kersee
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Nigerian gold medallist, female long jump 96
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Chioma ajunwa
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Only man to throw javelin 100m
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Uwe hohn
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Javelin men gold 92 96 00, has 5 best throws ever
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Jan zelezny
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Female heptathlon gold04
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Carolina kluft
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Sport 'indoor bandy'
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Floorball
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After securing a position as the babysitter for Zappa's children, she at last found herself a few years later finding multiple opportunities to compare the drawing with the actual object.[3] She famously paired up as a friend to a lot of old school rockers, as well as with future sexual partners Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon,[3][4] Nick St. Nicholas, Noel Redding, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, and actors Brandon deWilde, Michael Richards, Woody Allen and Don Johnson.[2]
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Pamela des barres
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Marvin lee aday
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Meat loaf
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Meat loaf famous album
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Bat out of hell
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American pie singer
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Don McLean
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The "Classic 5" lineup: David Ruffin (bottom left), Melvin Franklin (top left), Paul Williams (top right), Otis Williams (bottom right), and Eddie Kendricks (center) c. 1965.
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Temptations
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Band wore red hats called energy domes
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Devo
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Composed pictures at an exhibition
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Played Billie Halliday in lady sings the blues
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Diana Ross
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Elp band stands for
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Emerson lake and Palmer
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Did music for Mario, Zelda etc
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Koji kondo
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Famous 70s synthesizer
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Moog
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Vincent David furnier
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Alice cooper
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stars Diana Ross as Tracy Chambers, a poor African–American woman who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome
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Mahogany
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Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner.
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Eagles
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Eagles formerly backing band for
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Linda ronstadt
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Tears of a clown song by
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Smokey Robinson and the miracles
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Jackson 5 first us no1 single
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I want you back
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Summertime blues 'first heavy metal song' by
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Blue cheer
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LSD cook in 60s
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Owsley Stanley
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Junior walker instrument
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Saxophone
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Had hit 'you light up my life'
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Debby Boone
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Burnt down in Beijing by Brits and French during 2nd opium war
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Summer Palace
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Cold War euphemism for the political demarcation between the Communist and capitalist and non–communist states of East Asia,
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Bamboo curtain
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Victory in hindi
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Vijay
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India Pakistan war 1999
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Kargil war
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Hural parliament of where
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Mongolia
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Women's World Cup 2015
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Canada
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Fictional Jeeves and Wooster fascists, leader
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Black shorts, Roderick Spode
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NZ born Irish scrum half
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Isaac boss
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Heineken cup first final
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Toulouse bt Cardiff in 1996
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This is the name of the magical reverse pass which Gregor gave to Gavin Hastings for Scotland to register a dramatic and famous last–minute 23–21 victory against France in Paris in 1995.
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Toonie flip
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Plays michelle fowler in eas tenders
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Susan tully
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Minder main characters
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Dennis waterman as terry McCann, George cole as arthur Daley
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Actresses brookside lesbian kiss
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Anna friel, Beth Nicola Stephenson
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Mike in the young ones
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Christopher Ryan
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Created inspector morse, played inspector morse
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Colin dexter, john thaw
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Dr who original planet
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Gallifrey
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Crossroads set what fictional village
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Kings oak
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The series centres on the life of five twentysomething law graduates embarking upon their careers while sharing a house in south London.
It is considered to be the definitive statement on twentysomething life in mid–90s 'Cool Britannia' London and is notable for its Britpop soundtrack and pushing of sex and drugs broadcasting boundaries of the time |
This life
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Played finchy
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Ralph ineson
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starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington.[4] Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play): the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self–regarding landlord of a run–down Victorian town house who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants
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Rising damp
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Played 2nd dr who
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Patrick troughton
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Played jeremy and Margot lead better in good life
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Paul eddington, Penelope Keith
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Spitting image creators
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Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie–Nairn
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Porridge cell mate, warden, warden assistant
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Lennie godber, mr Mackay, mr barrowclough
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John Gibbs marshall
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John sessions
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Greco Persian wars final battle
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Salamis
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Athenian commander at end of Greco Persian wars
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Themistocles
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Sea battle at same time as Thermopylae
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Artemisium
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Historical region including athens
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Attica
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Thebes region
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Boeotia
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Separates peloponnese from mainland
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Corinth canal
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Resident alien ancient greece
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Metic
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Richest man in roman history, beat Spartacus, triumvirate with Pompey and caesar
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Crassus
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1st bearded roman emperor
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Hadrian
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Roman emperor 0ad
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Augustus
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Hannibal dad
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Hamilcar
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18–19c Danish archaeologist
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Christian jurgensen thomsen
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3age system archaeology
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Stone bronze iron
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a flat, thin, single–sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden). The term is also used for thin discs, especially in gold, to be sewn onto clothing in the ancient world, as found for example in the ancient Persian Oxus Treasure, and also later silver coins produced in central Europe during the early Middle Ages.
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Bracteate
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Indian empire 320–550 ce
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Gupta
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period in Europe from about 376 to 800 AD[2][3] during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. This period was marked by profound changes both within the Roman Empire and beyond its "barbarian frontier
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Migration period
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Roman emperor killed while weeing on road
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Caracalla
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seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.[5] invaded caledonia
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Septimus Severus
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Hodgson r speech impediment
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Rhotacism
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an old English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition.
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Ashen ******
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Socrates wife
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Xanthippe
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Straight street through ancient rome
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Via del corso
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Argentina manager 86
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Carlos bilardo
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Premiership ball
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Nike ordem
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How many Punic wars
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3
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claims to promote "the restoration of classical Roman religion, culture, and virtues" and "shared Roman ideals" what state?
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Nova Roma, Maine
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Caesar beat who and said 'veni vidi vici'
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Pharnaces ii
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Argonaut Golden Fleece place
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Colchis
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Carthage in Phoenician
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Kart hadasht
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an ancient city located between Carthage in the south and Hippo Diarrhytus (now Bizerte) in the north, near the outflow of the Medjerda River into the Mediterranean Sea. It is traditionally considered to be the first colony founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa
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Utica
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Assassinated Cassius chaerea
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Caligula
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French dressing
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Vinaigrette
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mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, spanspek
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Cantaloupe
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the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years (according to differing interpretations)[1] before the Day of Judgment (yawm al–qiyamah / literally, the Day of Resurrection)[2] and will rid the world of evil.[3]
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Mahdi
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Teachings of Mohammed
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Hadith
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Polish blue cheese
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Rokpol
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Mayu Yamamoto extracted vanilla flavour from what
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Cow dung
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Pasta e fagioli
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Pasta and beans
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an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of French–speaking exiles from Acadia in Eastern Canada
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Cajun
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Triple sec tastes like
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Orange
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Casablanca director
|
Michael curtiz
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Main stars of Casablanca
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Bogart and Bergman
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It happened one night and it's a wonderful life director
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Frank Capra
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Brit king died of dysentery
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Stephen
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Previously called sandwich islands
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Hawaii
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Trade union action in 70s at film processing
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Grunwick dispute, mrs desai
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Played cpt Kirk in Star Trek
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William shatner
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Cobbled street in Shaftesbury Dorset
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Gold hill
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Broad region including Edinburgh
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Lothian
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Mway London Brighton
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M23
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Football team at rugby park
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Kilmarnock
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Area south east of Winchester
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Twyford down
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Mqos husband
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Henry Stuart lord Darnley
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Mary qos 1st husband
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Francis
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Most east Thames bridge
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Dartford Thurrock crossing, qe2 bridge
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Grockle West Country
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Tourist
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Mway m4 to Bristol
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M32
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Official monarch residence in Scotland
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Holyrood house
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Troon and turnberry county
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Ayrshire
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Next commonwealth games
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Gold Coast
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2nd city of Malawi
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Blantyre
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Victoria falls river
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Zambezi
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German for song
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Lied
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Chinese opera type
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Peking/Beijing opera
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Whose 8th symphony unfinished
|
Franz Schubert
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Wedding march in which piece
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Midsummer nights dream
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Composed scottish symphony
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Mendelssohn
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Canadian 20th c pianist
|
Glenn Gould
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Directed ghostbusters
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Ivan reitman
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40s and 50s comedians did 'who's on first'
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Abbott and Costello
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3d film produced by Warhol
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Flesh for Frankenstein
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Pearl harbour year
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1941
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Old pointy shoe
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Sabaton
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Men long jump record holder
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Mike Powell
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Aztec underworld
|
Mictlan
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Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
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Erinyes/furies
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Shield carried by Athena or Zeus
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Aegis
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Agamemnon king of where
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Mycenae/Argos
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Agamemnon brother
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Menelaus
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Greek goddess of strife
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Eris
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Dwarf planet in asteroid belt
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Ceres
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Most massive dwarf planet
|
Eris
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Other dwarf planets
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Haumea, makemake
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Arthur final battle
|
Camlann
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Odins brothers
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Vili ve
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King Arthur's spear
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Ron
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Mermaid based on what animal
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Manatee dugong
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Arab mythology fish that supports the earth
|
Bahamut
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The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). Greek and roman names
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Charities Greek graces roman
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Paul Sheldon protagonist of which book
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Misery
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Band wears eyeball masks
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The residents
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Separates Scotland and Orkney
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Pentland firth
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Open air museum in Durham
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Beamish
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Architect of Watford Gap services and Art Deco odeon cinemas
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Harry weedon
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Prince Albert actual first name
|
Francis
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Founded great north run
|
Brendan foster
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Enemy at the gates film set during
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Battle of Stalingrad
|
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French Protestants 16–17c, inspired by who
|
Huguenots, john Calvin
|
|
First Rodgers &h musical
|
Oklahoma
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|
Wrote Cinderella
|
Charles Perrault
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Longest running musical show
|
Phantom of the opera
|
|
Grease leading characters
|
Sandy Olsen Danny zuko
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Songs for a new world, parade, urban cowboy producer
|
Jason Robert brown
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Wrote bridges of Madison county
|
Robert James Waller
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|
made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six (as of 2014) Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. In 1985, she played Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both.
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Patti lupone
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|
His most well known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
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Mel brooks
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Sky masterson Nathan Detroit which musical
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Guys and dolls
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Gangs in west side story
|
Sharks and jets
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Countries without decinal currency
|
Madagascar Mauritania
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UPC bar code acronym
|
Universe product code
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Built up mcd's
|
Ray Kroc
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McDonald's brothers names
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Richard Maurice
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Bonnie and Clyde actors
|
Warren Beatty Faye dunaway
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Bay watch filmed where
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Venice beach
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New noël fielding show
|
Luxury comedy
|
|
Liberia president
|
Ellen Johnson sirleaf
|
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Noah actor
|
Russell Crowe
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Noah and black swan director
|
Darren aronofsky
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Noah antagonist
|
Ray win stone
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Men Olympic triple jump champ
|
Christian Taylor
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400m hurdles 2010 commonwealth champ
|
Dai Greene
|
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Commonwealth male squash champ 2010–14
|
Nick matthew
|
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Mercedes drivers
|
Hamilton rosberg
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Toe of itaky
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Calabria
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Nibali team
|
Astana
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Streetcar named desire playwright
|
Tennessee Williams
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Streetcar named desire set where
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New Orleans
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Phone hacker scored for wimbledon
|
Glenn mulcaire
|
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Who had affair with Kimberley quinn
|
David blunkett
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Sun gossip column
|
Bizarre
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former editor of the Daily Mirror who had become a professor of journalism at City University, London
|
Roy green slade
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Fracking stands for
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Hydraulic fracturing
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Feng shui translation
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Wind water
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Europe Ryder cup captain.
|
Paul Mcginley
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No1 test cricket team as of 29.7.14
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South Africa
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Israel defence minister
|
Moshe ya'alon
|
|
First newspaper crossword
|
Arthur wynne New York Times
|
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P/e in economics
|
Price/earnings ratio
|
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Jailed russian oil magnate
|
Mikhail khordokovsky
|
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Chinese eBay
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Alibaba
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Chinese google
|
Baidu
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Previous Italian Tour de France champ
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Marco pantani
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Future bug problem year
|
2038
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Italy allies ww2 armistice
|
Cassibile
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Italian king during ww2
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Victor Emmanuel iii
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Hungarian currency 1927–46
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Pengo
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Queens horse drugs test
|
Estimate
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New bob leader
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Adam walker
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Berlusconi prostitute
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Karima el mahroug/ruby the heartstealer
|
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Bosnian Serb war criminal
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Ratko mladic
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Chicago mayor
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Rahm Emmanuel
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Big tobacco sued for $23.6bn
|
R j Reynolds
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Ex military dictator of panama
|
Manuel Noriega
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Panama dictator in what video game
|
Call of duty black ops ii
|
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Southern Chinese province with island
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Hainan
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Commonwealth cycling team pursuit
|
Wiggins, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, and Andy Tennant
|
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Dell olio last boyfriend
|
Trevor nunn
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Wrote score for Matilda
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Tim minchin
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Played gollum, King Kong, Caesar in dawn of planet apes
|
Andy serkis
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|
Aldi founder dies
|
Karl Albrecht
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Last caliph 1924
|
Abdulmecid ii
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Isis leader
|
Abu bakr al baghdadi
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Mohammed death year
|
632
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First 4 caliphs after Mohammed
|
Rashidun
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Caliphate before ottoman
|
Umayyad, Abbasid
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Declared seat of isis
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Raqqa, Syria
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Mohammed's Meccan tribe
|
Quraysh
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Wheeled suitcase inventor
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Bernard sadow then Robert Plath
|
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German finance minisuer
|
Wolfgang schauble
|
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Prince George middle names
|
Alexander louis
|
|
Supreme Court justice???
|
Clarence Thomas
|
|
Egypt pm
|
Ibrahim mahlab
|
|
Golf career grand slam winners
|
Ben hogan, gene Sarazen, player Nicklaus woods
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Elly Jackson and ben langmaid which band?
|
La roux
|
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Early 20c russian violinist
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David oistrakh
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Watson come here I want to see you
|
First telephone conversation
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Black square russian artist
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Kazimir Malevich
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The mirror crack'd which detective
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Miss marple
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Wine city in iran
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Shiraz
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Iran religious capital built 550bc
|
Persepolis
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Iran city 'half of the world'
|
Isfahan
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Standing stones on outer hebrides
|
Callanish
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Bret maverick star
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James garner
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Rockford files star
|
James garner
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Ladies who lunch singer married to john bay
|
Elaine stritch
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Us company owned by john Malone bought virgin media and bid for itv
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Liberty global
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Microsoft chief
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Satya nadella
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City 'fear index'
|
Vix
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'Britains favourite brand' ahead of john Lewis and bbc iplayer
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Aldi
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Company that owns hbo, bid for by 21c fox
|
Time warner
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Tesco old and new ceo
|
Philip Clarke, dave Lewis
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Tescos founder
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Jack Cohen
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Owned 200 papers, head of Heinz, Ireland first billionnaire
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Tony o'reilly
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Malay flight numbers
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370, 17
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Cma acronym
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Competition and markets authority
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Christian grey in film?
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Jamie dornan
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Anastasia Steele actress
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Dakota Johnson
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Us attorney general ???
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Eric holder
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Philippines president after Marcos
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Benigno Aquino
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Israeli newspaper
|
Haaretz
|
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Sean bean latest us series
|
Legends
|
|
Italy pm
|
Matteo renzi
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|
Chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff
|
Martin Dempsey
|
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Large silver city Bolivia
|
Potosi
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Bolivian ethnic group
|
Aymara
|
|
Measure of economic equality from 0 to 1
|
Gini co efficient
|
|
Former head of China security and legal
|
Zhou yongkang
|
|
When women wee, the vodka diaries by who
|
Rachel hirons
|
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Arrival of Queen of Sheba composer
|
Handel
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Smoke on the water by
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Deep purple
|
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The Brazilian song by
|
Genesis
|
|
Chief inspector of schools
|
Michael wilshaw
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Provide energy to cells
|
Mitochondria
|
|
Soviets shot down plane in 1983
|
Korean air lines flight 007
|
|
Derogatory Arab word for Christian
|
Nazarene
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Paris jewish suburb
|
Sarcelles
|
|
Substance in inhalers
|
Corticosteroid
|
|
New defence secretary
|
Michael Fallon
|
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Peaches geldof husband
|
Thomas Cohen
|
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Sky cycling coach
|
Dave brailsford
|
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primary British main battle tank of the post–World War II period
|
Centurion
|
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Chilean Marxist president 70–73
|
Salvador Allende
|
|
Shakespeare in love scripted by
|
Tom Stoppard
|
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Shakespeare in love with
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Violet de Lesseps
|
|
Jason's lover commits infanticide play
|
Medea by Euripides
|
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In court of Charles ii, abducted Elizabeth mallett, dandy libertine subject of 'blazing star'
|
John wilmot earl of Rochester
|
|
Nicholas cage latest film, Texan forester
|
Joe
|
|
The rock real name
|
Dwayne Johnson
|
|
Wes Anderson latest film, protagonist played by
|
Grand Budapest hotel, gustave, ralph fiennes
|
|
Dorothea tanning married which artist
|
Max Ernst
|
|
Winter holiday book by
|
Arthur ransome
|
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Barefoot in the park play by
|
Neil Simon
|
|
The good companions book by
|
JB Priestley
|
|
Film where white woman marries Sydney Poitier
|
Guess who's coming to dinner
|
|
Japanese after work red lantern sake bars
|
Izakaya
|
|
Menorca capital
|
Mahon
|
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Menorca 2nd town
|
Ciutadella
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Hungarian wild horse
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Przewalski's horse
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Eleuthera island where
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Bahamas
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Kon tiki guy
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Thor Heyerdahl
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First black woman Olympic gold, event
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Alice coachman high jump
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Glaxosmithkline ceo
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Andrew witty
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RB pharma stands for
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Reckitt benckiser
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Russia largest car maker
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Avtovaz
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Rosneft chairman
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Igor sechin
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Bp CEO
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Bob Dudley
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Khordokovsky company
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Yukos
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Built up bear stearns
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Alan Greenberg
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OECD stands for
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Organisation for economic cooperation and development
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Arrested anchor of 'economic news' in China
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Rui chenggang
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Israel operation rescue Uganda 1976
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Entebbe
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India richest man
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Mukesh ambani
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Satirical german political party
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Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
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Chief inspector of prisons
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Nick hardwick
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Colombia president
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Juan Manuel santos
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Western region of china, ethnic group
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Xinjiang, Uighur
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Enola gay type of plane
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B29
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Axel kicillof finance minister of where
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Argentina
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Buenaventura wheee
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Colombia
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FARC guerrillas from where
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Colombia
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Where was ban on handguns overturned
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District of Columbia
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California governor
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Jerry brown
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Usa most popular real estate listings site, rival just bought
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Zillow, trulia
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Banco Espirito Santo country
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Portugal
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Who wrote book minority report
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Philip k dick
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Bieber ex, star of come and get it
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Selena Gomez
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Other name for Persian empire
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Achamenid
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Snp deputy
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Nicola sturgeon
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Unrecognised state within Azerbaijan
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Nagorno–karabakh
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Last hung in Britain
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Peter Allen, gwyne Evans
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Drowned in butt of malmsey wine
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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
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Roman flavouring fish paste
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Garum
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Hunger games set where
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Panem
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Played Robin Hood and Marian in 2010 film
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Crowe, blanchett
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Mean girls based on book
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Queen bees and wannabes
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Protagonists and antagonists of transformers plus leaders
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Autobots led by Optimus prime, decepticons led by megatron
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Germany's president
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Joachim gauck
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King of Belgium
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Philippe
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Poet a Shropshire lad
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Ae Housman
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Founded Achaemenid empire
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Cyrus
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1389 battle Turks Bt Serbs
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Kosovo
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3 Soviet leaders between Brezhnev and Gorbachev
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Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, andrei Gromyko
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SALT stands for
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Strategic arms limitation talks
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Created c programming language and unix
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Dennis Ritchie
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Old area of Belgium and Netherlands
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Brabant
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Spanish king before golden age, also holy roman
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Charles I/v
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Czech male decathlete won 2004 gold
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Roman sebrle
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Womens heptathlon 1st and last
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100m hurdles, 800m
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Javelin men gold 92 96 00, has 5 best throws ever
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Jan zelezny
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Meat loaf famous album
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Bat out of hell
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Band wore red hats called energy domes
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Devo
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Composed pictures at an exhibition
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Played Billie Halliday in lady sings the blues
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Diana Ross
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Vincent David furnier
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Alice cooper
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Eagles formerly backing band for
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Linda ronstadt
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Jackson 5 first us no1 single
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I want you back
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Junior walker instrument
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Saxophone
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Cold War euphemism for the political demarcation between the Communist and capitalist and non–communist states of East Asia,
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Bamboo curtain
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Heineken cup first final
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Toulouse bt Cardiff in 1996
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Minder main characters
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Dennis waterman as terry McCann, George cole as arthur Daley
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Mike in the young ones
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Christopher Ryan
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Created inspector morse, played inspector morse
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Colin dexter, john thaw
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Dr who original planet
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Gallifrey
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Crossroads set what fictional village
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Kings oak
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Porridge cell mate, warden, warden assistant
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Lennie godber, mr Mackay, mr barrowclough
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Greco Persian wars final battle
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Salamis
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Sea battle at same time as Thermopylae
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Artemisium
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Thebes region
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Boeotia
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Separates peloponnese from mainland
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Corinth canal
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1st bearded roman emperor
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Hadrian
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18–19c Danish archaeologist
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Christian jurgensen thomsen
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3age system archaeology
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Stone bronze iron
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Roman emperor killed while weeing on road
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Caracalla
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seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.[5] invaded caledonia
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Septimus Severus
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Hodgson r speech impediment
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Rhotacism
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Argonaut Golden Fleece place
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Colchis
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Carthage in Phoenician
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Kart hadasht
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Assassinated by Cassius chaerea
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Caligula
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Teachings of Mohammed
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Hadith
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Pasta e fagioli
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Pasta and beans
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Vivian liperto and June carter married to
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Johnny cash
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What year Black Tuesday
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1929
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Director of fifth element, subway, leon
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Luc besson
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Wrote Adam bede
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George Eliot
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2013 Nobel literature
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Alice Munro
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Wrote the autobiography of Alice b Toklas
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Gertrude stein
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She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.
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Carolyn shoemaker
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She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since. She has won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award and seven Golden Globe Awards (including 3 special awards) among many other accolades. She announced her retirement from acting in 1991, but returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule, released in 2007.
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Jane Fonda
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Death of a salesman by
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Arthur miller
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best–known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph)
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Lady in portrait of a lady
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Isabel archer
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Princess author of heptameron
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Marguerite of Navarre
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first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
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Henry iv
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Countries with bourbon monarchs
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Spain Luxembourg
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Isak Dinesen better known as, most famous book
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Karen blixen, out of Africa
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Plane hijack money USA
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Db cooper
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When is thanksgiving
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4th thurs in November
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Mother of pearl
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Nacre
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Tacoma where
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Near Seattle, Washington
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Seattle area
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Puget sound
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used as placeholder names for a party whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action, case, or discussion.[1] The names are also used to refer to a corpse or hospital patient whose identity is unknown. This practice is widely used in the United States and Canada, but is rarely used in other English–speaking countries including the United Kingdom itself, from where the use in a legal context originates.
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John Doe
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is a hair styling technique in which hot curling tongs are used to induce a curl into the hair.
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Marcelling
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clients included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987),[1] and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994). In 2002, offered to represent former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević declined any legal advice from any pa
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Jacques verges
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Khmer Rouge brother #2
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Ieng sary
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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
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Carlos the jackal
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12 years a slave protagonist
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Solomon northup
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Mary Celeste captain
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Benjamin Briggs
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Hudson castaway painting by
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John collier
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El Salvador Marshall Islands castsway
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Jose alvarenga
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remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland
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Erik the red
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L'anse aux meadows famous for
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Vinland
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Fernão Lopes (died 1545) was the first known permanent inhabitant of
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St Helena
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Henry viii pope
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Clement vii
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1913 voyage ended wrangel island
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Karluk
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It was widely adopted as a high–energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.
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Pemmican
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Sea above Bering strait
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Chukchi
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the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. is also the closest Russian settlement to the United States.
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Uelen
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Three great Siberian rivers
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Ob, yenisei, Lena
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southernmost island of the world.
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Berkner island
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a city in the Peruvian Andes located near a gold mine.[1] It is the highest elevation human habitation in the world
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La rinconada
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Honshu Hokkaido strait, tunnel
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Tsugaru, seikan
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The most remote city with a population in excess of one million
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Auckland
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The most remote city with a population in excess of 500,000
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Honolulu
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northernmost point of the British Isles, lying immediately 600 m north of Muckle Flugga and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the island of Unst
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Out stack
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peninsula in Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, that includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Great Britain. The point, known as
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Dunnet head Easter head
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most northerly settlement in the United Kingdom
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Skaw
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Deepest known cave on earth
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Krubera/voronya
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In 1969 he became the first man fully recognized for walking to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's famous, but disputed, expedition.[1] He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time
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Wally herbert
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Eustache Dauger
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Man in the iron mask
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Green children appeared where
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Woolpit
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He was responsible for the Western epic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
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B traven
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Rosa Luxembourg accomplice
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Karl liebnecht
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counter–intelligence program initiated by the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (a forerunner of the National Security Agency) that lasted from 1943 to 1980.[1] The program attempted to decrypt messages sent by Soviet Union intelligence agencies, including its foreign intelligence service and military intelligence services
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Venona project
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3rd–century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria, who led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire
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Zenobia
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Played Lucy in I love Lucy
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Lucille ball
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Rko pictures stands for
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Radio Keith Orpheum
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was a Scottish–born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide. Called the "Greatest Australian Woman" by Miles Franklin and given the nomenclature of "Grand Old Woman of Australia' on her eightieth birthday, was commemorated on the Australian five–dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of Australia.
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Catherine spence
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Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law.
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Emily murphy
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Legendary royal ballet English ballerina
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Margot Fonteyn
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Queen of jazz
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Ella Fitzgerald
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She was the first non–royal female head of state and head of government in the Western Hemisphere in modern times.
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Isabel peron
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nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award–winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
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Miriam makeba
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Her novel The Good Earth was the best–selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
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Pearl s buck
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In addition to being both Iceland and Europe's first female president, she was the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
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Vigdis finnbogadottir
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the modern world's first female head of government
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Srimavo Bandaranaike
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the longest–running number–one song in U.S. chart history
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One sweet day by mariah Carey and boyz ii men
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18th number–one single in the United States, more than any other solo artist
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Mariah Carey
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Anna Mae bullock
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Tina turner
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Anne bronte other novel
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Agnes grey
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Afi voted top female Hollywood star
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Katherine Hepburn
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Elite hotel, luxury liner singer
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Emmylou Harris
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someone who supports a centralized Republic, with power made at the national level in contemporary usage. At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of left–wing revolutionary opinions.
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Jacobin
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Liliuokalani last monarch where
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Hawaii
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In December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat
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Constance markiewicz
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American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year.
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Maureen Connolly
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Other two stars of singing in the rain
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Debbie Reynolds, Donald o'Connor
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1913 us flood
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Great Dayton
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Chief Justice of us
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John Roberts
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Philippines president after Marcos
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Benigno Aquino
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Large silver city Bolivia
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Potosi
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Bolivian ethnic group
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Aymara
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Former head of China security and legal
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Zhou yongkang
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When women wee, the vodka diaries by who
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Rachel hirons
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Arrival of Queen of Sheba composer
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Handel
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The Brazilian song by
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Genesis
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Chief inspector of schools
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Michael wilshaw
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Provide energy to cells
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Mitochondria
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Derogatory Arab word for Christian
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Nazarene
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Substance in inhalers
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Corticosteroid
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New defence secretary
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Michael Fallon
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Peaches geldof husband
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Thomas Cohen
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Sky cycling coach
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Dave brailsford
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Shakespeare in love with
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Violet de Lesseps
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Nicholas cage latest film, Texan forester
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Joe
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The rock real name
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Dwayne Johnson
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Wes Anderson latest film, protagonist played by
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Grand Budapest hotel, gustave, ralph fiennes
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Dorothea tanning married which artist
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Max Ernst
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Film where white woman marries Sydney Poitier
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Guess who's coming to dinner
|
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Menorca capital
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Mahon
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Menorca 2nd town
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Ciutadella
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Hungarian wild horse
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Przewalski's horse
|
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Eleuthera island where
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Bahamas
|
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First black woman Olympic gold, event
|
Alice coachman high jump
|
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Rosneft chairman
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Igor sechin
|
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Bp CEO
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Bob Dudley
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Khordokovsky company
|
Yukos
|
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OECD stands for
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Organisation for economic cooperation and development
|
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Arrested anchor of 'economic news' in China
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Rui chenggang
|
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India richest man
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Mukesh ambani
|
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Satirical german political party, who runs it
|
Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
|
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Chief inspector of prisons
|
Nick hardwick
|
|
Colombia president
|
Juan Manuel santos
|
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Western region of china, ethnic group
|
Xinjiang, Uighur
|
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Where was ban on handguns overturned
|
District of Columbia
|
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California governor
|
Jerry brown
|
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Usa most popular real estate listings site, rival just bought
|
Zillow, trulia
|
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Banco Espirito Santo country
|
Portugal
|
|
Who wrote book minority report
|
Philip k dick
|
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X
|
X
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Wrote the autobiography of Alice b Toklas
|
Gertrude stein
|
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Countries with bourbon monarchs
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Spain Luxembourg
|
|
Isak Dinesen better known as, most famous book
|
Karen blixen, out of Africa
|
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Plane hijack money USA
|
Db cooper
|
|
When is thanksgiving
|
4th thurs in November
|
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Mother of pearl
|
Nacre
|
|
Tacoma wgeee
|
Near Seattle, Washington
|
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12 years a slave protagonist
|
Solomon northup
|
|
1913 voyage ended wrangel island
|
Karluk
|
|
the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. is also the closest Russian settlement to the United States.
|
Uelen
|
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Three great Siberian rivers
|
Ob, yenisei, Lena
|
|
Green children appeared where
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Woolpit
|
|
Rosa Luxembourg accomplice
|
Karl liebnecht
|
|
Played Lucy in I love Lucy
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Lucille ball
|
|
Rko pictures stands for
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Radio Keith Orpheum
|
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Legendary royal ballet English ballerina
|
Margot Fonteyn
|
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Queen of jazz
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Ella Fitzgerald
|
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Anna Mae bullock
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Tina turner
|
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Anne bronte other novel
|
Agnes grey
|
|
Afi voted top female Hollywood star
|
Katherine Hepburn
|
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Elite hotel, luxury liner singer
|
Emmylou Harris
|
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someone who supports a centralized Republic, with power made at the national level in contemporary usage. At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of left–wing revolutionary opinions.
|
Jacobin
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Liliuokalani last monarch where
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Hawaii
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Other two stars of singing in the rain
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Debbie Reynolds, Donald o'Connor
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He is known for his overland crossing of what is now Canada to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1793. This was the first east to west crossing of North America north of Mexico and predated the Lewis and Clark expedition by 10 years.
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Alexander Mackenzie
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Raleigh armada ship
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Ark royal
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Irish navigator saint
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Brendan
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most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria
|
John hanning Speke
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famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Colombia, and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita).
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Alonso de ojeda
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First black woman in congress
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Shirley Chisholm
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Sang me and bobby mcgee
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Janis Joplin
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Green Party leader
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Natalie Bennett
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Edinburgh train station
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Waverley
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Ny ticker tape parades where
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Broadway
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Mount McKinley native name
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Denali
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Most populous landlocked nation
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Ethiopia
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Largest uninhabited island
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Devon Island
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one of the world's most active volcanoes[2] and the largest active volcano in New Zealand. It is the highest point in the North Island
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Ruapehu
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borne by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria and, later, by all members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within the Holy Roman Empire below that of king and above that of duke.
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Archduke
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Europe longest river
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Volga
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Rivers meet Shanghai
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Huangpu, Yangtze
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large indentation in the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island. It stretches from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east, a wide stretch of some 259 km of open coastline.
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Bay of plenty
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Only Lake District lake
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Bassenthwaite
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Disney castle inspired by
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Neuschwanstein
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Flag yellow sun blue background
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Palau
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large pre–Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Post Classic. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.[3]
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Chichen itza
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1956 at Old Trafford, Manchester, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia
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Jim laker
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Captain went out of wc miscalculated duck Lewis
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Graham pollock
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was an English cricketer, whose main role was as a fast bowler. He played first–class cricket for Kent and Worcestershire, and appeared in 41 test matches and 36 ODIs for England. He is perhaps best remembered for his tail–end batting with Ian Botham in England's second innings at Headingley in 1981, reaching his Test highest score of 56 in an eighth–wicket partnership of 117 in 80 minutes. This helped England to beat Australia despite following on and being quoted as 500–1 outsiders.
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Graham dilley
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Highest cricket wc total
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413 India v Bermuda
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Largest gothic cathedral in Northern Europe?
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York Minster
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Where is ettrick forest
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Scottish Borders
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Three js Dundee
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JAm jute journalism
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City of discovery
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Dundee
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Chicken peanuts vegetables chilis dish
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Kung pao
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Little sparrow dumpling dish
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Spatzle
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Japanese pancakes
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Okonomiyaki
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Hamlets parents
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Claudius Gertrude
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Britains last African colony
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Rhodesia
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First director of royal academy of music
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George Handel
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half–brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Sir Richard Grenville.[2] Adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier, he served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth[2] and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.
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Humphrey Gilbert
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Topped '100 worst britond'
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Tony Blair
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Llewellyn died where
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Climeri
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first man to perform a single–handed non–stop circumnavigation of the globe and was the second winner of the Jules Verne Trophy (together with Sir Peter Blake). For this he was awarded with Blake the ISAF Yachtsman of the Year award. In 2006 he became at 67 the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the VELUX 5 Oceans Race
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Robin Knox Johnston
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prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht
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Jules Verne
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1st ship to pass through suez canal
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Newport
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an Iron Age drystone hollow–walled structure of a type found only in Scotland
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Broch
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Bede famous work
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Ecclesiastical history of the English people
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Britain first motorway
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Preston bypass
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First actor given knighthood
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Henry Irving
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First ship of Jamaicans
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Empire wind rush
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Raleigh armada ship
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Ark royal
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First black woman in congress
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Shirley Chisholm
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Green Party leader
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Natalie Bennett
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Edinburgh train station
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Waverley
|
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Ny ticker tape parades where
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Broadway
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Mount McKinley native name
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Denali
|
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Most populous landlocked nation
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Ethiopia
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Largest uninhabited island
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Devon Island
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Rivers meet Shanghai
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Huangpu, Yangtze
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Flag yellow sun blue background
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Palau
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Captain went out of wc miscalculated duck Lewis
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Graham pollock
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Three js Dundee
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JAm jute journalism
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Chicken peanuts vegetables chilis dish
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Kung pao
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Japanese pancakes
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Okonomiyaki
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Hamlets parents
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Claudius Gertrude
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Britains last African colony
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Rhodesia
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First director of royal academy of music
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George Handel
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Llewellyn died where
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Climeri
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Bede famous work
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Ecclesiastical history of the English people
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First actor given knighthood
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Henry Irving
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First ship of Jamaicans
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Empire wind rush
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Satirical german political party, who runs it
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Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
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Satirical german political party
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Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
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Henry vii born where
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Pembroke castle
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Undertook Boston tea party
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Sons of liberty
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The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor–General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914.
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Herbert
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was a UK Government white paper written in 1969.[1] It was a proposed act to use the law to reduce the power of trade unions in the United Kingdom, but was never passed into law.[1]
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In place of strife
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Created nhs
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Aneurin bevan
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Queen street station where
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Glasgow
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Easterly point of n Ireland
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Burr point
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Highest point of Northern Ireland, what range
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Slieve donard, mourne mountains
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on the English Channel coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, stretching from the Lizard Point to Gwennap Head on the eastern side of the Land's End peninsula
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Mounts bay
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Dorking county
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Surrey
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Biggest uk zoo
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Whipsnade
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Blu and jevel film
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Rio
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Course dettori 7
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Ascot
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Beatles and Dylan met where, organised by
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Delmonico, Alan aronowitz
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Uk royal motto
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Dieu et mon droit
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Largest Hertfordshire town
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Watford
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Wigan rugby league nickname
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Warriors
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Kielder forest wgere
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Northumberland
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Largest town without city status in uk
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Reading
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Often described as England's smallest city,[2][3] it is second only to the City of London in area and population, though not part of a larger metropolitan conurbation like Greater London.
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Wells
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Liverpool hull motorway
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M62
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Oak leaf county
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Derry
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Caledonian cabal ends, constructed by
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Inverness fort William, Thomas Telford
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Derby river
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Derwent
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a headland on the east coast of England. It is on the coast of Essex just north of Blackwater and projects into the North Sea. This area is south of the double estuary of the River Stour and River Orwell at Harwich
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The naze
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Biggin hill borough
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Bromley
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has two architectural features that are unique among England's medieval cathedrals—a free–standing medieval bell tower (or campanile) and double aisles.
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Chichester cathedral
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Exact ends of channel tunnel
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Cheriton, Folkestone and coquelles, pas de Calais
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series of glens in Scotland running for 62 miles (100 km) from Inverness on the edge of Moray Firth, to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe.
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Great glen
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Designed Houses of Parliament
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Charles Barry, helped by Augustus pugin
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Edinburgh airport
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Turnhouse
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1 lime street
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Lloyds of London
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highest inn in the British Isles at 1,732 feet (528 m) above sea level
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Tan hill
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The second highest pub in the UK
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Cat and fiddle, Peak District
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a bay located two miles north of Newquay on the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the village of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It faces the Atlantic Ocean. The two mile long, sandy beach and exposed north westerly location is a popular location for water sports, kite flying, and sand art. In May, 2007, it played host to the English Nationals Surfing Championships
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Watergate bay
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Ulster symbol
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Red hand
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prominent coastal headland on the north–west tip of the island of Anglesey.
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Carmel head
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What collective name is given to the legendary triplets who fought duels with the Curiatii to settle a war with Ancient Rome’s neighbour, Alba?
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Horatii
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Who wrote what is known as 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil), a compendium of poems on Satanism, lesbianism, sex, death and revolt that led to a prosecution for blasphemy after its 1857 publication?
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Baudelaire
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Which volcano in the Philippines erupted in 1991 injecting vast amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere?
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Pinatubo
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Carolina NFL
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Panthers
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Florence church
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Basilica di santo Croce
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Lampedusa was in the international news recently as it is often the target European landing spot for desperate African refugees. The island is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento but of which island group is it the largest island
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Pelagie
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What is the name of the islands, part of the Venetian Lagoon, that are internationally recognized for the manufacture of glass objects? The industry has flourished since the Venetian Republic ordered its relocation from Venice itself in 1291 as a result of a fear of Venice being destroyed by fire spreading through its wooden buildings.
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Murano
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The Verona Arena, completed in 30AD, is the venue for a series of musical concerts each summer. In which square in Verona can the Arena be found?
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Piazza bra
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First Verdi opera
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Correct answer:
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio |
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Last Italian royal family
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Savoy
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Which heavyweight boxer, nicknamed ‘the Ambling Alp’, was born in Sequals in October 1906 and died there in June 1967? He was World Champion briefly from June 1933 to June 1934.
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Primo carnera
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Mary ii relation to James ii
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Daughter
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1723–1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier fought in indus
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Hannah snell
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1300–1359), nicknamed the "Lioness of Brittany", was a privateer who plied the English Channel sinking French ships from 1343 to 1356.
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Jeanne de clisson
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Father of the house 1987–92
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Bernard Braine
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Gandhi born where
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Porgandar
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Victoria cross made from
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Crimean war gun metal
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was the part of Ireland that was directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast stretching from Dalkey, south of Dublin, to the garrison town of Dundalk
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The pale
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Duke of Kent
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Prince Edward
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Bisexual son of George v
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George duke of Kent
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They lived in the tropical lowlands of south–central Mexico, in the present–day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
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Olmec
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Madrid gate
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Alcala
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Roosevelt four freedoms, which artist
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship Freedom from want Freedom from fear Norman Rockwell |
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£5 notes in order
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Wellington, George Stephenson, Elizabeth fry, Churchill
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£10
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Nightingale, dickens, Darwin, Austen
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£20
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Shakespeare, faraday, Elgar, smith
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£50
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Wren, houblon, Boulton/watt
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Old £1 note
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Isaac Newton
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Tesco headquarter
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Cheshunt
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the town is known for "Wade's Bridge", built in 1733 and designed by architect William Adam, father of the more famous Robert Adam. General Wade considered this bridge to be his greatest accomplishment
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Aberfeldy
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1692 Scottish massacre
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Glencoe
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Viking protection money
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Danegeld
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Winter of discontent years
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78–79
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34–35 survey about war in uk
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Peace ballot
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Moved observatory to Greenwich
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Charles ii
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Samoan transgender
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Fa'afafine
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King of Swaziland
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Mswati
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Mysterious road messages
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Toynbee tiles
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By election Tory Ukip
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Douglas carswell, clacton
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Album prism
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Katy perry
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Journalist beheaded by isis
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James Foley
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Us defence secretary
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Chuck hagel
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Daily record based wheee
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Glasgow
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Wildly optimistic Voltaire character
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Pangloss
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Naples mafia
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Camorra
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Latest Icelandic Volcano
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Bardarbunga
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France pm
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Manuel valls
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Erdogan party
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Akp
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American teenager shot caused riot August
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Michael brown
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Building Lennon killed outside
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Dakota building
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Misrata where
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Libya
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Old Thai pm
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Yingluck shinawatra
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New Thai pm
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Prayuth chan ocha
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Former Ireland pm died
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Albert Reynolds
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Magaluf where
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Mallorca
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an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony. It includes the smaller Chappaquiddick Island, which until 2007 was part of the same land mass before becoming detached by a storm.
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Martha's Vineyard
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Brit male 50m breast stroke world record
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Adam peaty
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Tiger woods former coach
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Sean foley
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New Howard Jacobson novel
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J
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Annie Oakley frank butler characters in, and who by
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Annie get your gun by Irving Berlin
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Guys and dolls by
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Frank loesser
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Luc besson Scarlett johansson film
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Lucy
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Radcliffe played Ginsberg in
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Kill your darlings
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Daniel Radcliffe new film , costar
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What if. Zoe Kazan
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A little learning by
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Evelyn Waugh
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Worlds biggest advertising group
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Wpp
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Purged and New France economy minister
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Arnaud montebourg, Emmanuel macron
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Uber founder
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Travis kalanick
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Rationing ended what year
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1954
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18 pregnancies one son queen of England
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Anne
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the threatened attack in September 1922 by Turkish troops on British and French troops to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone. The handling of the crisis by the British cabinet was a major contributor to the downfall of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. In addition, it was the occasion of the Canadian government's first assertion of diplomatic independence from the United Kingdom. The crisis was a major factor in the creation of the Statute of Westminster 1931, which determined that the Dominions of the British Commonwealth would have independence in foreign policy.
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Chanak crisis
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Minister for women
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Nicky Morgan
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Eu used to be called
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European economic community
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Britain joined eu date
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1973
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–worth means
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Enclosure
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Big river in essex
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Crouch
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Essex Island military base
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Foulness
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Bhopal gas
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Methyl isocyanate
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Largest town on sheppey
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Sheerness
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Eurostar stops where in kent
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Ashford
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Supposedly dating from about 1386, it is claimed to be the oldest working clock in the world,[1] although a similar claim is made of the clock in the cathedral of Beauvais in France (said to date from 1305)
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Salisbury cathedral clock
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was the largest non carbonado and largest gem–quality diamond ever found, at 3106.75 carat (621.35 g, 1.37 lb) rough weight
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Cullinan
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achieved some spectacular successes, notably the sinking of one and damaging two battleships of the Regia Marina (the Italian Navy) in the Battle of Taranto and the famous crippling of the Bismarck. Nicknamed stringbag
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Fairey swordfish
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Europes longest medieval church
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Winchester
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King in 1000
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Ethelred the unready
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was a British police officer fatally shot during a protest outside the Libyan embassy at St. James's Square, London, in 1984
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Yvonne fletcher
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Omar sharif born where
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Iran
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Joanna Lumley born
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Srinagar India
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Ursula andress born
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Switzerland
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Beat tostig then lost to hardrada at fulford
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Edwin and morcar
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a popular tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams–Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust.
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Portmeirion
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is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal
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Falkirk wheel
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Us steptoe
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Sanford and son
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Warhol New York studio
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Andy Warhol
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James Herriot real name
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James wight
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Tom cruise first wife
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Mimi rogers
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Eva peron maiden name
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Duarte |