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JFK's thesis
Why ____ slept |
England
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Only in my dreams singer
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Deborah gibson
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Bloody Mary mix with a it of mollusk broth in the recipe
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Clamato
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Chambered molusk
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Nautilus
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5.54 carat orange diamond acquired by the house of Winston the day before halloween
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Pumpkin diamond
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Pope Benedict xvi is the first pope of this nationality in nearly 1000 years
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German
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His 34- day reign in 1978 was one of the shortest in papal history
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John Paul I
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Body that elects the pope
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College of cardinals
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12 popes with this name last from 1939-58
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Pious
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Clement vii was bone into this family and raised by uncle Lorenzo the magnificent
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De Medici
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Helen reddy feminist anthem
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I am woman
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"charged" walt Whitman poem with 5 word title
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I sing the body electric
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State with sen Claire mccaskill
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Missouri
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Who said " I never met a man I didn't like"
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Will rogers
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He said" to leave this stream uncrossed will breed manifold distress for me; to cross it, for all mankind"
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Julius Caesar ( regarding crossing the rubicon)
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Instrument almost identical to coronet
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Trumpet
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His violin has Maltese cross and initials a.s. Enclosed in double circle
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Stratovarius
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Metal strips on guitar neck
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Frets
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Similar to xylophone and national instrument in some central American countries
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Marimba
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Starred as Sophie in sophies choice
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Meryl Streep
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Starred as Jake lamotta
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Deniro
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Starred as bad blake
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Jeff bridges
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Starred as teen Brandon and Brandon teen in 1999
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Hilary swank
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Fabric whose name is French for caterpillar
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Chenille
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Peoples court judge 1981-93
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Walpner
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1997-99 NYC mayor as peoples court mayor
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Koch
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Super freak singer
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Rick james
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Young hero of treasure island
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Jim hawkins
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The lion in narnia
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Aslan
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Rikki tikki tavi is this animal
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Mongoose
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Mr Jeremy fisher is this animal in a Beatrix potter novel
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Frog
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President of France in 1968
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Degaulle
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At end of 100 years war France had pushed England off the mainland except for this port
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Callais
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French legislative assembly from 1302 to 1789 when it was replaced with the national assembly
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The estates general
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1598 French edict
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Edict of nantes
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Kneiper is this part of the crab
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Claw
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Winter set Iowa is birthplace of this actor "pilgrim"
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John wayne
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Native Iowan painter who has many works in cedar rapids museum of art
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Grant wood
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French pair of explorers in Iowa region in 1673
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Marquette and Joliet
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President (John Adams) that said " I dread a division of the republic into two great parties" was the only president to represent this party
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Federalist party
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who killed lee harvey oswald
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jack ruby
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byzantine capital
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constantinople
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proto punk anthem by the proggs
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wild thing
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brass is alloy of copper and this
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zinc
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sumatran ape
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orangutan
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oxytocin is one of these
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hormone
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russian for majority..
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bolshevik
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man nixon called the most dangerous man in america
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timothy leary
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southernmost greek island and 5th largest in mediterranean
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crete
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where rockettes perform
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radio city music hall
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the bell center is in this canadian city
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montreal
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colorful slang term for 1930s german stormtroopers
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brownshirts
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rank just above colonel in us. army
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brigadier general
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the dana owens album, and all hail the queen are releases by her
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queen latifah
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jim beam state
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kentucky
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barry goldwater was a senator from this state
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arizona
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eudora welty state
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mississippi
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wife of martin luther king jr
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corretta scott king
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bwi was renamed for this late supreme court justice
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thurgood marshall
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first black woman to serve in congress from a southern state (tx 1973-79)
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barbara jordan
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william blake wrote a grim poem about this capital city
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london
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northwest french cathedral written about by edith wharton
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cathedral of chartres
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this is the forest primeval...is the beginning of this 19th cent poem
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evangeline
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laura linney show on showtime about cancer
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the big c
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borders honduras and costa rica
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nicaragua
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vp in 1812 who shot a guy
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aaron burr
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mckinley's 2nd vp
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teddy roosevelt
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vp that led the democratic-republican attacks against 1798s alien & sedition acts
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thomas jefferson
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wild goat of the himalayas that ends in x
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ibex
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the number 10 to the 10 to the 100
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googleplex
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rear part of the ship
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stern
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7 letter word for all ropes & chains used to support & work masts, booms & sails
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rigging
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triangular blade at the end of the anchor
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fluke
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mountains in peru
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andes
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country that borders iran and india
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pakistan
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earhart was first women to fly over it solo
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atlantic ocean
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married to warren beatty
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annette benning
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javier bardem is married to
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penelope cruz
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french call this geographical feature "la manche" which means the sleeve
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the english channel
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a bridge an airport are named in earhart's birth state
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kansas
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earhart was the first woman to win the DFC arward..what is dfc
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distinguished flying cross
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sugar ray frontman mark...
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mcgrath
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2009 film about bomb defusers in iraq
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the hurt locker
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whip it new wave band
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divo
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2nd biggest penguins
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king penguins
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car worker union
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united auto workers
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union for teachers
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nea
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nfl union
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nfl players association
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william tell opera composer
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rossini
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composers whose last work was parsifal
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wagner
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1751 he composed his last all new composition - jephtha
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handel
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hungarian composer died in 1945 in nyc close to finishing piano concert no 3
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bela bartok
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his last symphony no 104 in d major is called "the london"
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franz joseph haydn
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in this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the pythagorean theorem and gets it wrong
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wizard of oz
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First line...Call me Ishmael
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Moby Dick
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First line...It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
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pride and prejudice
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first line... A screaming comes across the sky
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gravity's rainbow - by thomas lynchon
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budapest river
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danube
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lisbon river
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tagus
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11th president inaugurated in 1845
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polk
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sewing machine inventor elias
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howe
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garp creator
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john irving
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eat pray love author
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gilbert
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patron saint of music
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st cecilia
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largest portion of the brain
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cerebrum
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the great storm is a dark spot on this planet
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neptune
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second largest part of the brain
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cerebellum
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bachelor president
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buchanan
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no 5 president
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monroe
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president oldest to be inaugurated
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reagan
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pres who had been president of columbia university
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dwight d eisenhower
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this groups ship the rainbow warrior was sunk by france
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green peace
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ex alabama gov opposed to integration
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george wallace
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nepal capital
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katmandu
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easter island associated with what country
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chile
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fossilized resin
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amber
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priest's immediate boss
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bishop
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abstract expressionist
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jackson pollock
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dutch master - delft 1662-63 & 1670-71
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vermeer
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jd salinger other book
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nine stories
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surrealist
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salvador dali
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american female impressionist
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mary cassat
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ali saleh president of?
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yemen
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latitude of south pole
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90 degree south
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juba is capital of
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south sudan
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Gulf of tonkin & gulf of thailand are in this sea
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south china sea
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sumerian king (with great flood)
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gilgamesh
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behistun inscription translates this mesopotamia writing
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cuneiform
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easy rider star
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dennis hopper
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new mexico nuclear research lab
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los alamos
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treaty that ended the mexican war
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treaty of guadelupe hidalgo
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russian composer born 1840
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tchaikovsky
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official march of the marine corps written by john philip sousa
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semper fidelis
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country with 2011 uprising against assad regime
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syria
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Current Venezualan president
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Hugo Chavez
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longfellow wrote "the wreck of" this ship
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the hesparus
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western author who once wrote on traffic island in sunset blvd
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louis lamour
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biblical unit of measure. whose hebrew name means elbow
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cubit
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Georgia's Colonial Founder
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James Oglethorpe
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Truman is from this state
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Missouri
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osha is part of this cabinet dept
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labor
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`11th pope of this name in the 1930s
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Pius
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scottish capital
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edinburgh
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one legged anti-hero of "treasure island"
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long john silver
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dr jekyll and mr hyde author
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robert louis stevenson
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treasure island author
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robert louis stevenson
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kidnapped author
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robert louis stevenson
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where robert louis stevenson died
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samoa
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diana ross, cindy birdsong & mary wilson were members of this motown group
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the supremes
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billionaire who's grandson was kidnapped 1973
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john paul getty
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writer married to fellow poet ted hughes
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sylvia plath
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oft elected governor of plymouth colony
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william bradford
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finnish-american architect
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saarinen
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polio vaccine creator
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jonas salk
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penicillin discoverer
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sir alexander fleming
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first sitting president to cross atlantic in 1918
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woodrow wilson
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pw botha was president of this character
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south africa
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literary character spent 28 years marooned on a desert island
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robinson crusoe
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author of robinson crusoe
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daniel defoe
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"the naked and the dead" author
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norman mailer
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the executioner's song author
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norman mailer
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dancer who lived in france died by a scarf
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isadora duncan
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nobel prize categories
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medicine, peace, chemistry, physics, literature, economics
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queen lead singer
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freddie mercury
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canadian city with 2003 sars outbreak
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toronto
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john iii sobieski ruled this country 1674 to 1696
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poland
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umberto I ruled here 1878 to 1900
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italy
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canute iv (& later the holy) 1080 to 1086
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denmark
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notorious german flying ace
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the red baron
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hispanic american farm worker, labor leader & civil rights activist
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cesar chavez
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husband of rosemary clooney who was first hispanic american to win best actor oscar
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jose ferrer
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first hispanic secretary of transportation & secretary of energy in the 1990s
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federico pena
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civil disobedience author
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henry david thoreau
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transcendetalist writer
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henry david thoreau
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atacama desert is in this country
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chile
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metal used to make semiconductors was discovered by clemens winkler & was named for his homeland
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germanium
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in the early 1800s these british textile workers destroyed labor-saving machinery in protest over unemployment
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luddites (social movement in 19th c england artisan textile works who objected to the industrial revolution changing their way of life)
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suction cups on octopus arms are called these
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suckers
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Aeroflot is the largest airline for this country
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russia
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where did prince william and Kate marry?
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westminster abbey
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Playwright of "angels in america" ( a play in 2 parts that won tonys for best play 1993 & 1994)
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Tony Kushner
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when he sacked thebes in 335 bc he ordered that the house in which pindar the poet once lived be saved
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alexander the great
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Helots were the unfree peasants of this militaristic city-state
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sparta
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the odeon of pericles - was one of the first of these to have a permanent roof
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theater
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ancient greek town on the slopes of mount parnassus
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delphi
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despite the peace of nicias in 421 bc, this war picked up again & continued for another 11 years
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Peloponnesian war
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you eat tortillas: 1494's treaty of this set a line of demarcation between spain & portugal's overseas empires
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Tordesillas
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a shekel is a monetary unit; a seckel is this type of fruit
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pear
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William & Kate are duke and duchess of this
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Cambridge
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What admiral's column is in trafalgar square
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Admiral Horatio Nelson
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was the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830.
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Dauphin of France
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middle name of abolitionist william garrison
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Lloyd - he was editor of abolitionist newspaper Liberator
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an eft is the juvenile terrestrial stage of this amphibian
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newt
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prior to becoming the new england patriots, the boston patriots played their home games at this ballpark
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fenway park
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Joe frazier beat Ali in 1971 at this venue
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madison square garden
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In ancient timmes on yom kippur, a priest laid the sins of the people upon an animal,, leading to this term
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scapegoat
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teruah, meant to sound like sobbing is one type of blast on this, a ram's horn
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shofar
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language of jesus
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aramaic
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Olympia stadium nicknamed the big red barn is in this us city
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detroit
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polonius is in what shakespeare play
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hamlet
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ariel is in this shakespeare play
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the tempest
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goneril in what shakespeare play
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king lear
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cassio in what shakespeare play
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othello
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this "comp"any gave the first e-mail capability for pc users
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compuserve
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reference to yom kippur in leviticus calls for a day of "this"
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atonement
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branch of science specializing in kidney
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nephrology
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ode to this bird by keats
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Nightingale
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"N-H-L" 11 letter synonym for hell
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Netherworld
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"N-H-L" this soft white cheese with a french name is similar to cream cheese
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neufchatel
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this ballet choreographed by agnes de mille is subtitled "the courting at burnt ranch"
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Rodeo
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adolphe adam's masterpiece is the music for this 1841 ballet in which the title girl emerges from her grave to dance
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giselle
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nijinsky's choreography & stravinsky's score caused a riot at the 1913 premiere of this ballet
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the rite of spring
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single named singer -girl from barbados
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rihanna
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princess aurora's christening is in the prologue of this ballet
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sleeping beauty
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afro-cuban based dancing, i specialize in solos called "shines"
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salsa
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a cri-cri is a one seat type of this 13 ft long
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airplane
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he gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor
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don quixote
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1932 film "island of lost souls" was based on this 1896 novel by HG wells
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The island of dr. moreau
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in 2010 we learned this word for bank workers who john hancocked 1000s of unread foreclosure papers
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robo-signers
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max brooks left us wanting more braaaains with "world war z" an oral history of the war versus them
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zombies
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on oct 2 1187 this muslim leaders' forces recaptured jerusalem from the crusaders, who'd held it for 88 years
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Saladin - first sultan of egypt and syria - was a sunni muslam known for being chivalrous & noble
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lucy loves him in peanuts
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schroeder
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lucy pevensie is a character in the books & movies set in this fictional land
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narnia
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born in argentina - he aided castro in cuba's revolution before being killed in bolivia
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che guevera
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he escaped exile twice in siberia then was forced to seek asylum in mexico in 1936
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trotsky
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Ideology promoted by the leader of this south american country has become known as "chavismo"
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Venezuela
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asian leader claims to have been born in 1942 on sacred paektu mountain under a double rainbow
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kim jong il
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the 21st century doctrine named for this man allows the us to wage preventive war if an attack on us is coming
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George w bush
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Political philosophy of "Minimum government, maximum freedom", or a party whose motto is just that
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libertarian
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"How philosophy can save your life says this greek suggested, "opt for the good life" & "thrive on... simple pleasures"
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Epicurus
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Kant's moral law, act according to principles you wish would be univerwsally used, is called the categorical this
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imperative
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Who is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor
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Dr. Mary Walker
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Indian ocean storm season
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Monsoon
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name the broadway musical with characters Ariel, Rev. Moore, Ren
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Footloose
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he escaped exile twice in siberia then was forced to seek asylum in mexico in 1936
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trotsky
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Ideology promoted by the leader of this south american country has become known as "chavismo"
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Venezuela
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asian leader claims to have been born in 1942 on sacred paektu mountain under a double rainbow
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kim jong il
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the 21st century doctrine named for this man allows the us to wage preventive war if an attack on us is coming
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George w bush
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Political philosophy of "Minimum government, maximum freedom", or a party whose motto is just that
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libertarian
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"How philosophy can save your life says this greek suggested, "opt for the good life" & "thrive on... simple pleasures"
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Epicurus
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Kant's moral law, act according to principles you wish would be univerwsally used, is called the categorical this
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imperative
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Who is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor
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Dr. Mary Walker
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Indian ocean storm season
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Monsoon
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name the broadway musical with characters Ariel, Rev. Moore, Ren
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Footloose
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Broadway musical with characters Deena Jones, Effie White, james "Thunder" Early
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Dreamgirls
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Broadway musical with characters Tony manero, Stephanie, Bobby C
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Saturday Night Fever
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Medal given by the NAACP named for a former chairman of its board
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Spingarn
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Medal for children's illustrator
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Caldecott
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Harvard Theatrical Society
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Hasty Pudding
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First united under Casimir I in 1047
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Poland
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Before the euro, it used the punt
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ireland
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These greek female divinities punished crimes at the instigation of the victims
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The Furies
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1653: This Izaak Walton ode to piscatory endeavors splashes ashore
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The Complete Angler
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Currency of Iran
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Rial
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"Big Daddy" is a character in this Tennessee Williams play
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennesse Williams first success was this play about the Wingfield Family that premiered in 1944
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The Glass Menagerie
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Main character of Streetcar named desire
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Stanley Kowalski
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1950 Tennessee Williams play, A dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chest
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The Rose Tattoo
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Bloomsbury group author
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Virginia Woolfe
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Ann & Nancy wilson are this group
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Heart
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last name of sisters loretta & linda, us rep from california
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sanchez
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Benedict Arnold Accomplice, hanged 1780. Eventually buried in Westminster Abbey
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John Andre
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will rogers, then with 96 members, "opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation"
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the senate
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Mr Darcy is in this book by her
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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the birkin bag named for actress jane birkin is a status symbol from this french company
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hermes
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historic "trail" in Boston
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the Freedom Trail
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Old Ironsides aka
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USS Constitution
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war that USS Consititution is most famous for
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War of 1812
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Treaty of Ghent ended this war
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War of 1812
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Joshua chamberlain held little round top during this civil war battle
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Gettysburg
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vulpine nickname given to patriot francis marion by the brits
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the swamp fox
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This is the highest peak in the lower 48 states
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Mt. Whitney
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Mt Whitney Mountain range
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sierra nevada
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denver quarterback to win super bowls
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john elway
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ponzi schemer
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bernard madoff
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highest peak in the cascade range of the northwest
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mt rainier
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mountains west of the hudson take their name from the dutch for "wildcat creek"
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Catskills
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the highest peak in the atlas mountains in the western part of the range, is mount toubkal in this monarchy
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Morocco
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in about 5 billion years, the sun will expand & become a red this; outer layers may reach 2 or even 3 planets
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Giant
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the temperature of this area of the sun, also a term for the central part of a fleshy fruit, is close to 27 million degrees
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core
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J.D. is this type of degree
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Law Degree
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Buchanan is the only president from this state
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PA
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"camptown races" composer 19th c
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stephen foster
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"father of american music"
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Stephen Foster
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19th c composer of:
"Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "Hard Times Come Again No More", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", and "Beautiful Dreamer" |
Stephen Foster
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buchanan became a jacksonian democrat after this party that he belonged to dissolved
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The federalist party
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youngest V.P. ever was VP for Buchanan
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John C Breckenridge
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named for benjamin franklin, this businessman opened the akron rubber works in march 1871
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b.f.goodrich
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"Good" person cbs sunday morning newscaster
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charles osgood
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1995 she won a pulitzer prize for history for "no ordinary time: franklin and eleanor roosevelt" ("good" people)
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doris kearns goodwin
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geometric term for a concave mirror that focuses light or an antenna that focuses signals
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parabola
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shakespeare play
with imogene, posthumous, & cloten |
Cymbeline
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play where kings daughter wants to marry a commoner - disguises herself as a boy and hires herself out as a page to the Roman army
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Cymbeline
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shakespeare play with:
Helena, Bertram, Countess & Diana |
All's well that ends well
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play where husband says he won't be a good husband unless wife gets his family ring from his finger and gets pregnant with his child- after she does every one is happy
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all's well that ends well
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shakespeare play with
All the world's a stage" |
As you like it
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shakespeare play with :
oliver, orlando, rosalind/ganymede, celia, duke senior & duke frederick |
All the world's a stage
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Play where duke senior has ousted duke frederick from his power. Duke senior is living in Forest of Ardenne with some exiled noblemen
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All the world's a stage
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shakespeare play set in ephesus (rival city of syracuse) with two sets of twins
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The Comedy of Errors
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shakespeare play:
Antipholus of Syracuse anitpholus of Ephesus dromio of Syracuse/ephesus Adriana & Luciana Emilia & Edreon |
The Comedy of Errors
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shakespeare-
man is looking for his other twin son and wife who was split from him during a shipwreck 25 years ago |
The Comedy of Errors
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shakespeare play about brother and sister separated after a shipwreck off the coast of illyria
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twelfth night
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shakespeare with petruchio
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the taming of the shrew
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the peace garden state
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north dakota
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fashionable neighborhood in san francisco
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nob hill
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highest peak in north america
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mT Mckinley/denali
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winnipeg's capital of this candaian province
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manitoba
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active volcano on island of sicily
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etna
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largest of spiders
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tarantula
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river in paRIS
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seine
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president w/home town oyster by long island
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theodore roosevelt
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quotes:
"get they to a nunnery" (to ophelia) "neither a borrower or a lender be" - polonius "the lady doth protest to much" - gertrude "frailty thy name is woman" - main char |
hamlet
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chaste son of lancelot found the holy grail
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galahad
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tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet w/spindle
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sleeping beauty
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former state in north central germany declared independence from poland in 18th century known for unswerving obedience of army
was divided among e & w germany, russia, poland after WWII |
prussia
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satires of NYC society fem author 19-20th c
"the house of mirth" "the age of innocence" |
Edith wharton
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the nutcracker composer
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tchaikovsky
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hitchcock film with scenes at the base of and on top of mount rushmore
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North by Northwest
(also the crop duster plane scene) |
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Hitchcock film with Roger Thornhill, Eve, Vandamm
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North by Northwest
roger thornhill is -cary grant eve is eva marie saint |
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trojan phropetess whose predictions where true but ignored
(given gift of prophecy by apollo) |
cassandra
she was so beautiful he gave her the gift of prophecy - when she didn't love him back - he cursed her with no one would believe her |
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only sitting us pres to visit the country of cuba
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coolidge
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burkeno faso capital
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ouagadougou
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use of small chisel vs acid to make design
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difference between engraving vs etching
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main character of around the world in eighty days
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phileas fogg
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king that built the temple in jerusalem that housed ark of the covenant (which conatained original 10 commandments)
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solomon
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fagin is leader of pickpockets in this book by who
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oliver twist by charles dickens
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claudia alta taylor was aka this first lady
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"lady bird" johnson
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italy capital
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rome
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dalai lama is leader of this religion
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buddhism
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dirty harry last name
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callahan
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1st signer of the dec of independence
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john hancock
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skiing turn named for a region of norway
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telemark
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bellerophan tamed this mythological beast w/bridle given to him by athena
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pegasus
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the three musketeers author
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alexander dumas
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radio therapist
"sexually speaking" program began in 1980s |
Dr ruth westheimer
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silent film star 1920's
"america's sweetheart" |
mary pickford
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first day of lent for most christians
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ash wednesday
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nick nolte is a heroic colonel in this africa set 2004 film
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hotel rwanda
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pakistan capital
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islamabad
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iraq capital
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baghdad
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nepal capital
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katmandu
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thailand capital
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bangkok
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caduceus - the traditional symbol of physicians comes from this god
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the wand of Hermes (mercury)
wings at the top and serpents twined about the staff |
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"feat of strength" now refers to display of tech skill by artist
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tour de force
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repealed prohibition amendment
1933 |
21
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silent movie star
"son of the shiek" |
rudoloph valentino
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city in western germany on rhine river
a commercial center |
cologne
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the edge is guitar player for who
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u2
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honduras capital
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tegucigulpa
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harare is capital of
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zimbabwe
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UK capital
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london
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djibouti capital
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djibouti
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uruguay capital
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montevideo
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senegal capital
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dakar
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saudi arabia capital
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riyadh
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paraguay capital
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asuncion
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the south seas are part of what ocean
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pacific
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john foster dulles
martin van buren george shultz what cabinet dept |
state
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president who helped found march of dimes
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fdr
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2 liquors from agave plant
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tequila & mescal
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"many islands" group in pacific including hawaii, tahiti & samoa
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polynesia
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2nd largest city in russia located at hed of gulf of finland and on both banks of the neva river
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St petersburg
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body of water between ireland & great britain
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irish sea
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triangular glands on top of kidneys produce epinephrine
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adrenal
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arab monarchy in middle east ruled by king hussein 1953-2000
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jordan
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1810: marries archduchess marie louise of austria
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bonaparte
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belize capital
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belmopan
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iceland capital
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reykjavik
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macedonia capital
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skopje
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luxembourg capital
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luxembourg
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libya capital
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tripoli
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taiwan capital
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tai pei
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castries is capital of
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st lucia
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denmark capital
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copenhagen
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north star state
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minnesota
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red sea parted to allow who to escape who
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moses & israelites to avoid egyptian army
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small dagger -an italian dimunitive
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stilletto
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witmaack-ekbom syndrome aka
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restless leg syndrome
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o'keefe folk art & frito pies city
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santa fe
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boyfriend of mary jane watson
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spider man
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russian ballet company
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bolshoi
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slaughterhouse five author
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vonnegut
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billionaire recluse 1972
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howard hughes
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Along with the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg, this is recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in Russia.
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bolshoi
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today's Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg was previous known by this regal name
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Imperial Russian Ballet
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enter a higher state
-tourism slogan |
colorado
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lloyd bentsen, george shultz
alexander hamilton cabinet dept |
treasury
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leader of palestine liberation organization
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yasir arafat
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in 1989 He issued a fatwa on Salman Rushdie for his Satanic verses.
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Ayatollah Khomieni
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he led the 1979 revolution in Iran to overthrow the Shah
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Ayatollah Khomieni
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He was in power in Iran prior to 1979
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the shah
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"king of kings" what is the title of Persian kings
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Shah
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skull & crossbones pirate flag name
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Jolly roger
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now defunct (since 1924) muslim leader title
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caliph
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clock that strikes ont he quarter-hour with the westminster chimes
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big ben
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locatin of mt rushmore in SW south dakato & NE Wyoming
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black hills
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sea - main trade route for ancient crete, greece, rome & persia arm of med between greece & turkey
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aegean sea
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the opposite of sacred meaning not concerned with religion or religious matters
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secular
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capital and largest city in wales
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cardiff
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landlocked country in south america reputed to be a nazi sanctuary
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paraguay
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country led by muammar qaddafi
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libya
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mainly muslim area of northern india source of conflicts between india & pakistan
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kashmir
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medieval trade associations
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guilds
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serbian president tried on human-rights abuses
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slobodan milosevic
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kenneth grahame children's classic w/ mr.toad mole rat & badger
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wind in the willows
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virginia's nickname
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the old dominion state
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most important baroque composer
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bach
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what islands did jfk boat sink in
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solomon islands
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river in northern israel flows south through sea of galilee to dead sea
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jordan
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It is now the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy
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Luxembourg - b/c it's ruled by a grand duke
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what was co-capital w/hartford connecticut 1701-1875
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New Haven
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My Generation
singer |
the who
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famous sermon delivered in a mountainside in galilee
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Sermon on the Mount
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1930's was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression
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Hooverville's
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river in NW oregon that passes through Portland, OR
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Willamette
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Attorney general in 2004
|
ashcroft
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the greatest of the knights at the round table
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lancelot
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tennessee trial 1925 involving Bryan
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Sept 13, 1901
president assassinated in buffalo |
Mckinley
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line from battle hymn of the republic -book by john steinbeck
the joads - main characters during depression about dust bowl family migrating to california |
The Grapes of wrath
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mischievous fairy puck is in what play
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A midsummer night's dream
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lowest point of dry land on earth is the shore of this lake between israel & jordan (1300 ft below sea level)
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dead sea
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location of venus de milo & whistler's mother
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Louvre
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19th c polish romantic composer
spent most of career in france known for expressive piano pieces almost exclusive to piano |
frederic chopin
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l 19th - e 20th c eng author
wrote "the war of the worlds" "the time machine" "outline of History" |
h.g. wells
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previous name of dept of Health and Human Services (renamed in 1979)
|
dept of Health, Education & welfare
renamed in 1979 when new cabinet dept _> united states dept of education was created and took the education functions |
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mythical bird that burned istelf to death then emerged new from the ashes. every 500 yers only 1 lived at a time
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phoenix
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Greek god of the sea
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poseidon
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right to bear arms amendment
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2nd
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a titan famous for his strength condemned to carry the earth on his shoulders by zeus
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atlas
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a hand - horse measurement is approximately this many inches
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4 inches
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dueling banjos movie
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deliverance
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english 20th c actor known for shakespeare acting won academy award for playing hamlet in 1940s
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laurence olivier
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dickens novel with pip
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great expectations
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curved sword that is french for "knife"
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cutlass
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priestly class
the highest class in hinduism |
brahmans
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19th century amer auth
the scarlett letter the house of the seven gables |
nathaniel hawthorne
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main character of The scarlet Letter
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Hester Prynne
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currently running at the majestic theater it's
longest running broadway musical |
phantom of the opera
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Ken Hill adapted a version of this before andrew lloyd webber did
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Phantom of the Opera
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musical direction used to indicate increasing loudness
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crescendo
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painted vatican fresco "the school of athens"
using da Vinci likeness as Plato |
Raphael
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"the last judgement" on the sistine chapel ceiling is by him
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michelangelo
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the sistine chapel aka "apostolic palace" is the official residence of him
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pope
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nickname of The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in florence (the basilica of saint mary of the flower)
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The duomo
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an area of northern spain
where separatists want their own state |
basque
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pointe du bout
& fort-de france carribeean island |
martinique
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who is lady chatterly's lover?
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a gamekeeper
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30th president of US 1923-29
republican from Vermont was massachusetts governor only president to be born on 4th of july graduated from amherst v.p is charles g dawes |
john "Calvin" Coolidge
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Who built the wailing wall?
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king herod (was part of retaining wall around the 2nd temple)
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existential of being & nothingness
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Jean Paul Sartre
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Tennessee politician and frontiersman died at the alamo
1786-1836 |
Davy Crockett
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US frontiersman famous for his exploration of kentucky
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Daniel Boone
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aka "king of the wild frontier"
|
davy crockett
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the battle at the alamo were fought between these two belligerents
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Mexico vs Republic of Texas
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american pioneer , born in KY, grew up in Louisiana, fought in Texas Revolution known for his prowess with a knife and died in Alamo
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James "Jim" Bowie
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a 1846-1848 armed conflict that established this river as a national border
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Rio Grande - from the Mexican-American war
aka the first american intervention |
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Democratic candidates
Adlai Stevenson, former governor of Illinois Estes Kefauver, U.S. senator from Tennessee were the candidates for this us presidential election year against eisenhower |
1956
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A quotation attributed to David Farragut, referring to an order given at the Battle of Mobile Bay
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Damn the Torpedoes
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is a syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin influenced by Roman Catholic Christianity
|
Santeria
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Two main gods of hindu
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Vishnu & Shiva
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is a former left-handed baseball pitcher who played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1955–66
won 63 world series agains yankees |
Sandy Koufax
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THis pitcher He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, the youngest former player to receive that honor.
|
Sandy Koufax
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Thomas Hart Benton was an artist mostly known for this type of art
(1889-1975) |
Murals
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pome "the gift outright"
first line the land was ours before we were the land's |
robert frost
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be my baby
singers |
The Ronettes
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century of cook's pacific exploration on the HMS Endeavor
|
18th century
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Century of Drake's circumnavigation of the world on Pelican/Golden hind
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16th century (1577-1580)
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author 20th c brit of
the screwtape letters |
c.s. lewis
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playwright neil labute
greg's tight knit circle are thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face & girlfriend's lack there of get back to the girlfriend |
reasons to be pretty
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one "hit" of italian composer
tomaso albinoni that was modified by remo giazotto in 20th c |
adagio for strings and organ
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composer whose most famous choral work is gloria in D rv 589
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Antonio Vivaldi
baroque |
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god only knows
singer |
the beach boys
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country where christians and muslims live peacebly until 1970s israel invaded in 1978 to challenge PLO's influence
was the scene of fighting between plo, syria & israeli forces in 1980s |
lebanon
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venetian artist
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titian
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a 1993 raid in mogadishu that left 18 american soldiers dead is chronicled in this book by journalist mark bowden
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black hawk down
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(bird) book by richard bach 1970
|
Jonathan livingston seagull
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the seagull is a play by this russian
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chekov
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1968 dart gts was by this car maker
|
dodge
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alabama speedway
|
talladega
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"jazz age " society author
|
F scott fitzgerald
|
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man may work from sun to sun...
|
but woman's work is never done
|
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1897 newspaper editorial by francis pharcellus church said
"Yes, Virginia..." |
there is a santa claus
|
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2 sons of J. S . Bach to become graet composers
|
carl philipp emanuel bach (eldest)
johann christian bach |
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once an island in the atlantic ocean - swallowed up by an earthquake and is now covered by sea
|
atlantis
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roman god of war
|
mars
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26th president 1901-1909
wife edith vp charles w fairbanks |
teddy roosevelt
|
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2 great russian authors of 19th century
|
dostoyevsky
tolstoy |
|
|
writing in which socrates is shown outlining an ideal state ruled by philosopher-kings
|
The republic by plato
|
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|
plato, socrates, aristotle
who taught whom? |
socrates taught plato
plato taught aristotle socrates (469-399 bc) plato (424/3-348/47 bc) aristotle( 384-322 bc) |
|
|
founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
|
Plato
|
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Xephonon was also a student of this Classic Athenian philospher
|
Socrates
|
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comic playwright of ancient greece
|
Aristophanes
|
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|
some of his plays:
The Acharnians 425 BC The Knights 424 BC The Clouds 423 BC The Wasps 422 BC Peace 421 BC The Birds 414 BC Lysistrata 411BC Thesmophoriazusae 411 BC The Frogs 405 BC Ecclesiazusae c.392 BC Wealth II 388 BC |
aristophanes
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author of "the republic"
is this socrates student |
plato
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the first record of utopia is int his ancient greek work
|
Republic by Plato
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Borrowed from greek he wrote about Utopia as fictional island in the atlantic ocean in 1516
|
Sir Thomas More
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thomas cromwell fell from favor after arranging Henry VIII's marriage to this German princess
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Anne of Cleves
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Greek Goddess Married to Zeus
who protected marriage - known for jealousy |
hera
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2nd in command of starship Enterprise
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Mr. Spock
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peg-legged pirate w/parrot named captain Flint
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Long John Silver
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robert louis stevenson novel with the ship the Hispaniola
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Treasure Island
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Long John Silver & Jim Hawkins are in this novel by him
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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what is a fumarole
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a hole near a volcano
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1st homeland security secretary and was governor of Pennsylvania
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tom Ridge
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Green acres pig
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arnold
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hooterville was the fictional town that was the setting for both Petticoat Junction & this sit com
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Green Acres
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fourth THursday in november
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Thanksgiving
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in this city -
take the "sound of music" tour or visit the hagenauer house, once home ot the mozart family |
salzburg,austria
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city-
arriving at the train station build for the 1992 world's fair, check out the alcazar palace & biennial of flamenco art |
seville
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william thornton originally designed this building in WDC
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the capitol
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chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight
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photsynthesis
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it's the modern form of the metric system - created in 1960 - using meter-kilogram-second - it's the world's most widely used system of measurements
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system international (SI Units)
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drug from foxglove plant used to treat heart disease
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digitalis (or digoxin)
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the mosquito indians are a majority population of this coastal region of honduras & nicaragua
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the mosquito coast (stupid answers)
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john c freemont's exploration of the west earned him this nickname
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pathfinder
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earl grey tea gets its flavor from this citrus fruit, sort of an acidic orange
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bergamot
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this strong tea is named for a place in the foothills of the himalyas whose name means "land of the thunderbolt"
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darjeeling
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he wrote tarzan
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edgar rice burroughs
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a patriot with but one life: 1755-1776
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nathan hale
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he spied on the british in NYC during the revolution and was hung by them. Famous speech before he died
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Nathan Hale
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a german emperor (remember the II)
1859-1941 |
Willhelm the II
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a last place 2006 NL central finish insured a 98th straight year without a world series title for this team
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Chicago cubs
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in 2005 montreal expos moved here and renamed to this
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Washington Nationals
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Florida Marlins were renamed this in 2011
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Miami marlins
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at the 1862 battle of hampton roads, these 2 vessels fought the first engagement between two ironclad warships
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monitor and the merrimack
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Charge!
composed of lesser nobles who could afford horses, weapons & armor, it first appeared around 1000 bc |
cavalry
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a mexican bandit/revolutionary/folk hero
1878-1923 |
pancho villa
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a "mad monk"
c. 1872-1916 |
rasputin
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a monk who was mad for peas:
1822-1884 |
mendel
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He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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a fan asking what may have happened to jesus' garments after the crucifixion inspired lloyd douglas to write this novel
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the robe
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the 1940 invasion of norway saw the first combat use of these troops, the german fallshirmjager
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paratroops
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after living in honduras o. henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export
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banana republic
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this group saw the writing on the wall in 1975 with "physical graffiti"
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led zeppelin
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nigerian-born woman returned in 2010 with "soldier of love" which topped the billboard album chart
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sade
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"ol' man river" song is from this musical
by jerome Kern & oscar hammerstein II |
showboat
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ornamental band that runs around a building often done in bas-relief
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frieze
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"the fall of the house of user" author
(2 family members die & house splits & falls in lake) |
poe
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islands in the stream
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hemingway (bimini & cuba - are parts of this novel)
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award for illustrates
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caldecott medal
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1681-1767 german composer wrote an estimated 2000 works more than bach & handel together.
very popular in his time |
georg philipp telemann
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the mishna & the gemara are two parts of what
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the Talmud - a central text of mainstream Judaism
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1901-1903 future president who was the first civilian
governor-general of Phillipines |
Taft
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The "shrew" in taming of the shrew
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katherina
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Quote
"that ...hard hearted wench, that rosaline torments him so, that he will sure run mad" |
Romeo and Juliet
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spanish painter under king carlos IV
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Goya - he was a court painter - and
painted the nude maja & the clothed maja |
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husband & wife
julius & ethel rosenberg were |
russian spys
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This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history.[2]
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Ethel & julius rosenberg
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plot to kill him was named:
valkyrie |
Hitler
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late night talk show host who is a silent partner in auto racing
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David Letterman
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spanish painter under king carlos IV
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Goya - he was a court painter - and
painted the nude maja & the clothed maja |
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husband & wife
julius & ethel rosenberg were |
russian spys
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This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history.[2]
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Ethel & julius rosenberg
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plot to kill him was named:
valkyrie |
Hitler
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late night talk show host who is a silent partner in auto racing
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David Letterman
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Nicknamed “the prehistoric Sistine Chapel”,
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Lascaux Caves
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Lascaux caves has this large "animal" cave paintings
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The Great Hall of the Bulls
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maximum security prison about 30 miles north of NYC on the hudson
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Sing Sing
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NYC's main prison complex in East River between Bronx & Queens
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Riker's Island
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it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge and spans the east river
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Brooklyn Bridge
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furthest north of NYC burroughs
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bronx
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burrough with both of NYC airports
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Queens
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Furthest south NY Burrough
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Staten island
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Broadway musical with "tonight", "somewhere", "something's coming"
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west side story
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orchestra written by 20th c russian compser sergei prokofiev -each character in story is represented by a different instrument
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Peter and the Wolf
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20th c american film comedien
"my little chickadee" "the bank dick" "never give a sucker an even break" |
w.c. fields
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2003 space shuttle exploded upon reentry
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columbia
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2005 space shuttle
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discovery
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redefines how president & vp are chosen by electoral college - 2 postitions are cooperative rather than first & 2nd vote getters. VP has to have eligibility of Pres.position
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12 amendment
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painter of "the birth of venus"
"primaver" & "pallas and the centaur" |
sandro boticelli
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shroud of turn image
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jesus
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two face roman god
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Janus
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montauk is on this island
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long island
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once part of yugosloavia, this country consists of a muslim-croat federation & a serbian-led republic
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Bosnia-Herzegovinia
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john stuart mill wrote the book on this philosophy that says an action is right if it promotes happiness
|
utilitarianism
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august 2010 supreme court justice
|
elena kagan
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Friday is from this television show
just the facts |
dragnet
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before "twilight" & "buffy the vampire slayer" there was this gothic series & its 1991 remake about barnabas collins
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Dark shadows
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two word french term (often found in contracts) meaning superior force
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force majeure
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epstein barr virus causes this disease
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mononucleosis
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country where "walloon" is spoken
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belgium
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this "super mex" was struck by lightining at the 1975 western open but recovered & won the 1984 pga championship
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lee trevino
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yucatan ancient civilization
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mayan
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1902 german archaeologist unearted the fabled ishtar gate in the ruins of this ancient city
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babylon
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largest british broadcaster
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BskyB
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Composer of Firebird
rite of spring petrushka |
Igor Stravinsky
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Stravinsky ballet who's premiere was rumored to have caused a riot
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Rite of Spring
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"proud mary" singer
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CCR
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chagas' disease aka
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Sleeping sickness
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biting flies of mid africa who are known to cause human sleeping sickness
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Tse-tse fly
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19th c russian composer who later became a naturalized french citizen(1934) and naturalized american citizen (1945)
|
Igor Stravinsky
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botanophobia
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fear of plants
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100 yr old s.c. senator
|
strom thurman
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Ruth Ann Minner was the first female governor of this state
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Delaware
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2005 democratic convention head
vermont governor |
Howard Dean
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this author of "herding cats: a life in politics" resigned the Senate Republican leader position after a statement at Strom Thurmond's birthday party regarding his 1948 dixiecrat run for president
|
Trent Lott
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US Senator from mississippi
89-2007 |
Trent Lott
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Democratic US Senator from Mississippi
1947-89 |
John Stennis
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Dick king smith wrote this animal book
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Babe
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canadian province named after duke of Kent - queen victoria's dad
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Prince Edward Island
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Queen Victoria was son of Prince Edward and grandson of this George king
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George III
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1984 unification church leader sent to jail for tax evasion
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sun yung moon
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country containing
"the great rift valley" site of major archeaological discoveries - incl. remains of earliest known humans |
kenya
GRV runs northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa |
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this hominid was found in 1974 at Hadar in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
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Lucy
is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago |
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this hominid was found in 1992
and is estimated to be 4.4 million years ago. but discovery wasnt published until 2009 |
Ardi
an early human-like species 4.4 million years old. It is the most complete early hominid specimen, with most of the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and feet. |
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Discovered in the late 19th century, the Altamira Cave was the first cave in which prehistoric paintings were discovered.
it is in the northern part of this country |
Spain
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leader of norway in wwii now means "traitor"
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quisling -after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself
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amendment
shifted the choosing of senators from the state legislatures to the people of the states (1913) |
17th
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edward of woodstock
knight of the garter & heir to the british throne was AKA |
Black prince
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16 popes named this
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gregory
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number of popes named gregory
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16
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number of popes named Leo
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13
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13 popes where named this
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Leo
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name of hunchback of ND
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quasimoto
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author of hunchback of notre dame
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victor hugo
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author of "the giving tree"
"where the sidewalk ends" "now here's my plan" |
shel silverstein
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Yaounde is capital of
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cameroon
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greek god of love - son of aphrodite
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Eros
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most popes were named this
|
John
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Number of popes named John
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23
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Urban VII - has this distinction as pope
|
Shortest reign - died before coronation - 1590
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Pope John Paul II - was the second longest reigning pope behind this one in the 1800s
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Pius IX
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Predecessor to John Paul II
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John Paul I (august-dec 1978) 33 days
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First pope to use 2 names
and first pope to use I in his name |
John Paul I
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First German Pope since adrian VI
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Benedict XVI
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1st polish pope
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John Paul II
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Current Pope
|
Benedict XVI
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tashkent agreement ended a 17-day war between these 2 asian countries
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india & pakistan
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Indian Prime Minister Shastri died of a sudden heart attack the day after this 1966 pact between India & Pakistan
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Tashkent Declaration
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1453 mehmed II sieges this city
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constantinople - he was sultan of the ottoman empire and brought and end to the byzantine empire by capturing constantinople
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Mehmed II essentially brought an end to this empire by capturing constantinople in 1453
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Byzantine Empire
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this was a Turkish empire which lasted from 27 January 1299[8] to 29 October 1923.[9]
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Ottoman Empire
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Mehmed VI - was the last this (leader) of the ottoman empire 1918-22
|
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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whole lotta love
singer |
led zeppelin
|
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capital of nova scotia
|
Halifax
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this empire is also called the eastern roman empire and
is today distinguished from ancient Rome proper insofar as it was oriented towards Greek culture, characterised by Christianity rather than Roman paganism and was predominantly Greek-speaking rather than Latin-speaking |
Byzantine Empire
maybe established when constantine moved capital to Byzantium - then changed name to constantinople |
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the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey
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Asia Minor or Anatolia
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the part of Turkey not on asia minor
|
East Thrace/Eastern Thrace/Turkish Thrace
-in europe |
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the devil can cite scripture for his purpose
play |
the merchant of venice
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hindu one universal unchanging spirit
|
brahman
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sputnik launch -month & year
|
oct 1957
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prince of troy & the bravest of the trojan warriors - killed by achilles who dragged his body behind a chariot
|
Hector
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advised the romanov's
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rasputin
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president during Great depression not re-elected in 1932
due to failure to end economic downturn & popular oppisition to prohibition |
hoover
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1st afr amer QB to start & win a super bowl in 1988
|
doug williams w/redskins
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33rd president -
democrat vp alben w barkley wife bess from missour 45-53 |
truman
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soft french cheese
de meaux or de melun |
brie
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indian born 20th c british writer of novels
"midnight's children" "shame" "the satanic verses" |
Salmon Rushdie
|
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baroque composer
"giant fugue" |
J.S. Bach
|
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"I wanna rock and roll all night & party every day"
|
Kiss
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the largest self-identified ethnic group in the province of Nova Scotia after Canadian
|
Scottish
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former name of Volgograd a city in Southern Russia amid the Lower Volga & Don Rivers from 1925-1961
|
Stalingrad
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Peter Paul Rubens was a master of this art style
|
Baroque
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War between Russia vs britain, france, turkey & sardinia in 1850s - scene of the battle described in
"the charge of the light brigade" |
Crimean War
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ancient greek historian & general
fought & documented pelopenisian wars w/causes and effects |
thucydides
|
|
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female marine biologist
|
Rachel Carson
|
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Rachel carson wrote this book regarding pesticides. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement
|
Silent Spring
|
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last dynasty in (1911 overthrown) 2,000 yr old imperial system in china
|
Qing dynasty
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founder of christian science
|
Mary Baker Eddy
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20th c afr amer actress, dancer, singer &civil rights activist
after wwii was decorated by french government for her work in the Resistance |
Josephine Baker
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type of music for two of more instruments in which only one musician plays each part. vs. orchestra where group of violins play a part - example is a string quartet
|
chamber music
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Exit the King
playwright |
Eugene Ionesco
|
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baroque elegant composer
1653-1713 worked for carindal ottobori buried in pantheon of rome Christmas concerto was his most popular |
arcangelo corelli
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i want to know what love is
|
foreigner
|
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19th c german composer & performer
composed "elija" an oratorio & symphonies, overtures, concertos he was a contemporary of Liszt & Wagner |
felix mendelssohn
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German romantic composer who founded The Leipzig Conservatoire
|
Felix Mendelssohn
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south florida paper
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
|
|
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south africa capital
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Pretoria (admin)
Bloemfontaine (justice) capetown (legislative) |
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story where gregor samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a giant insect
|
the metamorphosis by franz kafka
|
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literature & fine arets movement beginning in early 19th c stressed person emotion, free play of imagination, freeedom from rules of form
|
romanticism
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5th wife of henry VIII - "trophy" wife - much younger
|
Katherine Howard - beheaded
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belief that God has created the univers but remains apart from it and permits his creation to administer itself through natural lawS
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deism
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orpheus goes through hell to get this woman back from Hades
|
Eurydice
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who told the tales "arabian nights"
|
scheherezzade
to her husband the sultan |
|
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capital of ancient hebrew kingdom under David & Solomon
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Jerusalem
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English Buccaneer ravaged Cuba in 1670 - 1674 lt. governor of Jamaica
was knighted |
Sir Henry Morgan
|
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repealed prohibition
|
21st amendment
|
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highest mountain in the world
|
mt everest
|
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longest river in western hemisphere flow to flow into pacific ocean
|
Yukon river
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North atlantic island country
with rugged coastline, hot springs, geysers & volcanoes |
Iceland
|
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the poorest nation in the western hemisphere
(Caribbean) |
Haiti
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cause of the mexican-american war in the 1840s
|
us annexation of texas
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american naval officer who persuaded japan to reopen trade with west in 1850s
|
matthew c perry
|
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wuthering heights
author |
emily bronte
|
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1962 crisis as a result of a soviet buildup of medium-range missiles in cuba
|
cuban missile crisis
|
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|
gap is a pass through mountains between VA & KY
mtns are southwestern division of appalachians |
Cumberland Gap & Mtns
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|
book ->> film
book - vengeance: the true story of an israeli counter-terrorist team |
munich
|
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every breath you take
|
the police
|
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year of first earth day
|
1970
|
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the water cube is in this city
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beijing
|
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pickfair is first celebrity owned mansion here
|
beverly hills
|
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first president "constitutionally forced" from office after 2 terms based on 22nd amendment
|
eisenhower
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principal landmark of athens
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acropolis
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main religion of northern ireland
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protestant
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who told the tales "arabian nights"
|
Scherezade
|
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mozambique gained independence from this coutnry in 1975
|
portugal
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russian chemist in st petersburg
|
mendeleev
|
|
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brit comic cross-dresser
|
eddie izzard
|
|
|
12 popes named this
|
pius
|
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danish physicist
|
neils bohr
|
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danish physicist who won the nobel prize in 1922 - his son won nobel prize in 1975
|
Bohr - Son aage bohr
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In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."
beginning of quantam mechanics |
Neils bohr
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danish physicist worked on the manhattan project
|
Neils bohr
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it was while working with Bohr in Copenhagen that he developed his "uncertainty principle"
|
heisenberg (he worked on the german nuclear energy project)
|
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laboratory where Manhatten Project was worked on
|
Los Alamos, NM
|
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his model of the atom, the theory that electrons travel in discrete orbits around the atom's nucleus.
|
Neils Bohr
|
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Danish Christian existentialist philosopher,
1813-1855 |
Soren Kierkegaard
|
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how many sides to a nonagon
|
nine
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Satisfaction
singer |
The Rolling Stones
|
|
|
13th c italian priest & philosopher tried to reconcile aristotle's philosophy w/christianity
|
Thomas aquinas
|
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greek playwright of "antigone"
|
sophocles
|
|
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german born 20th c swiss writer known for "siddharta" or "steppenwolf"
|
Herman Hesse
won 1946 nobel prize for literature |
|
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female spirits who lived in forests, bodies of water & other outdoor places
|
nymphs
|
|
|
a teacher or spiritual of Hinduism
|
Guru
|
|
|
Greek poet of the Iliad & the Odyssey
|
Homer
|
|
|
roman author of the Aeniad 70-21 bc
|
Virgil
|
|
|
patron saint of travelers
|
christopher
|
|
|
head of the christian church in england
|
the king or queen
|
|
|
he is the patron saint of travelers because he served Christ by helping people cross a river they were not able to do (because he was big)
|
St. Christopher
|
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|
hero of 12c spanish epic who fought both for and against the muslim moors who ruled spain
|
el cid
|
|
|
spanish fighting legend buried in Burgos Cathedral.
|
El Cid
|
|
|
french chilled soup
|
vichysoisse
|
|
|
late 19th c afr amer poet - premier poet before langston hughes
wrote a poem with the line "i know why the caged bird sings" |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
|
|
|
son of zeus - strongest man on earth
completed seeming impossible tasks |
hercules
|
|
|
in classical mythology where souls of the good go - peaceful & beautiful region full of meadows, groves, sunlight & fresh air
|
elysian fields
|
|
|
3 types of waves from earthquakes
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P waves -primary flow like sound waves - little damage move fast
S waves - slow waves travel transversely displacing walls & fencing L waves - most dangerous -ground moves up and down like ocean |
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s.korea capital
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seoul
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india capital
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new delhi
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Abu Dhabi is the capital of
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United Arab Emirates
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small island state (it's a kingdom since 2002) in the persain gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family
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Bahrain
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process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific
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deduction
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leo tolstoy novel where title character enters a tragic adulterous affair and commits suicide throwing herself in front of a train
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anna karenina
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1st book of little house on the praire
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little house in the big woods
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author of little house on the prairie
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Greek Messenger God (a son of zeus)
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Hermes
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"hopping" desert animal never drinks water directly
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kangaroo rat
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lawn where pres is picked up by helicopter
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south lawn
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hendrix song lyric "scuse me while I kiss the sky"
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purple haze
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roman god of the underworld
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pluto
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tennyson poem "in" -----
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memoriam
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this requiem for Tennyson's friend was a favorite poem of Queen Victoria's
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In Memoriam A.H.H (AHH is the initials of his friend)
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who has been heir apparent to the throne of Britain the longest?
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Prince Charles (edward VII has been prince of wales the longest)
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imagine singer
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john lennon
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respect singer
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aretha franklin
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good vibrations singer
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beach boys
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smells like teen spirit
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nirvana
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somalia capital
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mogadishu
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work on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Emile
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candide makes fun of this philopher using character dr. pangloss
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gottfried wilhelm leibnitz
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the promised "anointed one" the savior
in christianity and judaism |
Messiah
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2 elements discovered by curies in pitchblende
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radium & polonium
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abolished slavery in the entire US 1865
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13th
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he plays horatio caine in csi miami
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David Caruso
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sympathy for the devil
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the rolling stones
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his 1st paper proposed that light was made up of small packets of energy called energy quanta (today called photons) won the nobel prize for this
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Einstein
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who's jeff bezos?
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Amazon ceo/founder
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David Filo & Jerry Yang started this web site
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Yahoo!
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it was originally called:
"Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" |
Yahoo!
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Pierre Morad Omidyar founded this website
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ebay
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largest penguin species
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Emperor Penguin
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2nd Largest penguin species
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King Penguin
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country of the galapagos islands
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ecuador
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darwin's ship when studying the galapagos
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Beagle
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Pinta Island tortoise from the galapagos - he has been labeled the rarest creature in the world - estimated to be about 100 years old
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Lonesome George
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broadway play
family patriarch goes missing, the highly troubled members of the weston clan must reunite at his OK home -plays like a soap opera playwrigth tracy letts |
August: osage county
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broadway play -
comedy about a novelist haunted by his dead first wife starred angela lansbury & rupert everettt noel coward's 1941 play |
Blithe Spirit
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this flamboyant (and not publicly acknowledge gay) playwright wrote
as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen as well |
Noel Coward
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mystery train
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elvis presley
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central character of Les miserables and archenemy
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jean val jean
inspector jalvert |
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iroquis nation
6 letters w/"o" |
oneida
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The original Iroquois League was often known as this numerical name
it included as it was composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations |
Five Nations
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x rays are sometimes called these rays after their 'discover'
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rontgen rays
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen won the first nobel prize in physics in 1901 for work with these
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xrays
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nobel prize winner for discovery of artificial radioactivity
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Irene curie and her husband frederic joliot-curie
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rolling in the years
singer |
steely dan
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of human bondage
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somerset maughm
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apple of discord was given to her in a beauty contest judged by Paris
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aphrodite
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the idea that it's prudent to believe in God's existence, as little can be lost if there is no God, and eternal happiness can be gained, if there is one
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Pascal's Wager
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last part of the Divine Comedy describing Heaven
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Paradiso
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demeter's daughter taken to Underworld by Hades
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Persephone
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