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50 Cards in this Set
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The Dirty war (country) |
Argentina |
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Invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982 |
Argentina |
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First isolated from urine |
Phosphorus |
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Fought the battle of Jericho |
Joshua |
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Occurs naturally in apatites |
Phosphorus |
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Crossed in 1488 by Bartolomeu Diaz |
Cape of Good Hope |
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Crossed the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 |
Bartolomeu Diaz |
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Moses was succeeded by |
Joshua |
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Location where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet |
Cape of Good Hope |
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Solomons temple |
Jewish holy temple in Jerusalem |
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Committed mass suicide at Masada |
Jews (specifically the Sicarii rebel group) |
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Bar Kokhba Revolt |
Revolt of Jews against Romans during the Jewish-Roman wars |
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Mammoth Cave National Park |
Kentucky |
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1798 resolution written by Thomas Jefferson |
Kentucky resolution (allowed states to consider laws unconstitutional) |
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1798 resolution written by James Madison |
Virginia resolution (allowed states to consider laws unconstitutional) |
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Authored the “Rudolphine Tables” |
Johannes Kepler |
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Elliptical orbits |
Kepler |
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Great Basin National Park |
Nevada |
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Pyramid Lake |
Nevada |
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Wrote “The Gallic Wars” |
Julius Caesar |
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“All of Gaul is divided into 3 parts” |
The Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar |
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Town of Greece v. Galloway |
Permitted praying during legislative sessions |
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Freedom of Religion event held by Barack Obama |
2015 National Prayer Breakfast |
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Author of “The Dead” |
James Joyce |
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Phototherapy is used to treat this condition |
Jaundice |
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Dennis Haysbert |
The Allstate guy |
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Can be a symptom of hepatitis |
Jaundice |
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Caused by a bilirubin build up in the blood |
Jaundice |
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A smoking mirror represents this empires trickster god (Tezcatlipoca [tays-caught-lee-poe-kah]) |
Aztec |
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Dissapeared on a raft of snakes |
Quetzalcoatl |
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Warned of “permanent alliances” in his farewell address |
George Washington |
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Put down the Whiskey Rebellion |
George Washington |
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His first symphony, imitating Haydn’s style, is nicknamed the “Classical” |
Sergei Prokofiev |
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Composed the “Lieutenant Kijé Suite” |
Sergei Prokofiev |
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Al-Shabaab |
Main Somalian terrorist group |
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Leader of Al-Shabaab |
Ahmed Abdi Godane |
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Calcite deposits around some lakes protect them from this |
Acid rain |
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Forms when water reacts with nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide |
Acid rain |
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Jays treaty |
Designed by Alexander H. And approved by George W. that facilitated peaceful trade between the U.S and Britain for the next ten years |
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Jays treaty |
Treaty designed by Alexander H. And approved by George W. that facilitated peaceful trade between the U.S and Britain for the next ten years |
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Leopold Bloom, Buck Mulligan, Blazes Boylan |
Ulysses, James Joyce |
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Leopold Bloom, Buck Mulligan, Blazes Boylan |
Ulysses, James Joyce |
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Led in New York City by 5 “families” |
Mafia |
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Protagonist attends St. Olaf’s College for two weeks before dropping out and returning to the shores of lake superior |
The Great Gatsby |
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The protagonist hits Myrtle Wilson with his “big yellow car” |
The Great Gatsby |
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Unequal pressures over an objects surface produces this force |
Buoyancy |
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Predicted that the great European war would come out of “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” |
Otto von Bismarck |
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Iron Chancellor of Germany |
Otto von Bismarck |
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Equals the weight of displaced fluid per Archimedes principle |
Buoyant force |
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1946 Havana Conference |
Mafia |
