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mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, spanspek |
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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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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Bay watch filmed where
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Venice beach
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New noël fielding show
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Luxury comedy
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Liberia president
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Ellen Johnson sirleaf
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Noah actor
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Russell Crowe
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Noah and black swan director
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Darren aronofsky
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Noah antagonist
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Ray win stone
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Men Olympic triple jump champ
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Christian Taylor
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400m hurdles 2010 commonwealth champ
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Dai Greene
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Commonwealth male squash champ 2010–14
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Nick matthew
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Mercedes drivers
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Hamilton rosberg
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Toe of itaky
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Calabria
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Nibali team
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Astana
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Streetcar named desire playwright
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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
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Glenn mulcaire
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Who had affair with Kimberley quinn
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David blunkett
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Sun gossip column
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Bizarre
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former editor of the Daily Mirror who had become a professor of journalism at City University, London
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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.
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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
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Moshe ya'alon
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First newspaper crossword
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Arthur wynne New York Times
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P/e in economics
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Price/earnings ratio
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Jailed russian oil magnate
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Mikhail khordokovsky
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Chinese eBay
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Alibaba
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Chinese google
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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
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2038
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Italy allies ww2 armistice
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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
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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
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R j Reynolds
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Ex military dictator of panama
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Manuel Noriega
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Panama dictator in what video game
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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
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Wiggins, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, and Andy Tennant
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Dell olio last boyfriend
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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
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Andy serkis
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Aldi founder dies
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Karl Albrecht
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Last caliph 1924
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Abdulmecid ii
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Isis leader
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Abu bakr al baghdadi
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Mohammed death year
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632
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First 4 caliphs after Mohammed
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Rashidun
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Caliphate before ottoman
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Umayyad, Abbasid
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Declared seat of isis
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Raqqa, Syria
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Mohammed's Meccan tribe
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Quraysh
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Wheeled suitcase inventor
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Bernard sadow then Robert Plath
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German finance minisuer
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Wolfgang schauble
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Prince George middle names
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Alexander louis
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Supreme Court justice???
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Clarence Thomas
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Egypt pm
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Ibrahim mahlab
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Golf career grand slam winners
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Ben hogan, gene Sarazen, player Nicklaus woods
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Elly Jackson and ben langmaid which band?
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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
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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
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Persepolis
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Iran city 'half of the world'
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Isfahan
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Standing stones on outer hebrides
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Callanish
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Bret maverick star
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James garner
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Rockford files star
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James garner
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Ladies who lunch singer married to john bay
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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'
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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
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Time warner
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Tesco old and new ceo
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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
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Haaretz
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Sean bean latest us series
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Legends
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Italy pm
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Matteo renzi
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Chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff
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Martin Dempsey
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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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Measure of economic equality from 0 to 1
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Gini co efficient
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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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Smoke on the water by
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Deep purple
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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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Soviets shot down plane in 1983
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Korean air lines flight 007
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Derogatory Arab word for Christian
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Nazarene
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Paris jewish suburb
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Sarcelles
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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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primary British main battle tank of the post–World War II period
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Centurion
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Chilean Marxist president 70–73
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Salvador Allende
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Shakespeare in love scripted by
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Tom Stoppard
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Shakespeare in love with
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Violet de Lesseps
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Jason's lover commits infanticide play
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Medea by Euripides
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In court of Charles ii, abducted Elizabeth mallett, dandy libertine subject of 'blazing star'
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John wilmot earl of Rochester
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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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Winter holiday book by
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Arthur ransome
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Barefoot in the park play by
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Neil Simon
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The good companions book by
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JB Priestley
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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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Japanese after work red lantern sake bars
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Izakaya
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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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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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3 Soviet leaders between Brezhnev and Gorbachev
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Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, andrei Gromyko
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Czech male decathlete won 2004 gold
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Roman sebrle
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Assassinated by Cassius chaerea
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Caligula
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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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Satirical german political party, who runs it
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Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
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X
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Tacoma wgeee
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Near Seattle, Washington
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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
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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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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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