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148 Cards in this Set
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Vishnu
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blue, four arms, avatars
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Geb
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god of the earth (egypt)
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Nut
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Goddess of the sky (egypt)
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Dos Passos
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Mr Wilson's War, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer, USA trilogy
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Mt Marcy
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the highest peak in NY
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Chekhov
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studied medicine, Sea Gulls
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Harvey
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physician for the stuart monarchs, first to correctly describe blood flow
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Battle of the Nile
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the Culloden ran aground, the French chained their ships together, french led by D'Aigalliers
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Bena
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president of Czechoslovakia during Appeasement
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Foucault
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wrote "The Order of Things" about the painting Las Meninas
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Doestoefsky
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The Idiot (with Prince Mishkin) and Crime and Punishment
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Neruda
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Canto Generale, his pen Twenty Love Poems and a Song of despair name, Chilean
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Franz Ferdinand
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The Inspector General of all Habsburg lands
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Catharine of Aragon
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(bloody) mary I was the only daughter she gave
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Jane Seymour
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gave heir Edward VI, but died in childbirth
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Catharine Howard
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adultery, beheaded (the 2nd to have been so)
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Catharine Parr
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last wife, had four husbands in all
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Gaudi
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catalan architect of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
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Hamilton Fish
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Secretary of State under Grant, preceded under grant by Washburne
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Bridge of Sighs
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connects doge's questioning room with prisons
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Ponte Vecchio
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the bridge over the Aron in Florence
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Shaw
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John Bowl's Other Island
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Julia
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the daughter of Octavian, married Agrippa and Tiberius
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Garibaldi
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(Uruguay) won battles of Cerro and San Antonio del Santo, member of Carbonari
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Garibaldi
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in brazil he fought battles of Imbituba and Laguna in the war of tatters, sacked the uruguayan city of Gualeguaychú
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Game theory
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the Peretto efficiency concept is part of it
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Vauban
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a general of Louis XIV, made many fortications, such as Besancon, and advised Louis to make borders more defensible
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janjaweed
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the military groups in Darfur
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Goree Island
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an island in the city of Dakar, Senegal; slave trade destination
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Clermont
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the town from which Urban II called for the first crusade
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Anderson
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Danish, the snow queen, the ugly duckling
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Chopin
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had affair with George Sand, who was a feminist
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Arhat
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realizes goal of nirvana and actually dies when they die
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Set
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had the mistress Istarte
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annapolis convention
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1786 meeting that called for a constitution, only northern states came
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Tolstoy
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Sevastopol Sketches, Letter to a Hindu
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statinius
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the manager of lend lease
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Farouk
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the free officers movement revolted against him
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Santa Anna
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overthrew Bustamante, The Victor of Tampico, fought in battle of medina
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caprizio del dongo
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main character from the charterhouse of parma
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Vatican II
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treaty that did the Latin Mass, it was organized by John 23rd
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Chartres
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cathedral west of Paris, it has three windows
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Muybridge
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did the pictures of moving horses and animals
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price discrimination
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charging different prices to different people
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Liszt
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Hungarian Rhapsodies
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Zupruder film
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the shooting of JFK
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1) josephine 2) Marie Louise
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Napoleon's first and second wives
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Mies van der Rohe
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the seagram building, farnsworth house, IBM plaza, barcelona pavilion
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Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge
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obligation of contracts
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Quakers
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the Wilmorites are a branch of them
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Mendlesohn
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The Scotland symphony
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Rachmaninoff
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Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
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Guofan
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the general that defeated the Taiping Rebellion
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Taliesinn
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Wright's building in Wisconsin
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Heimdall
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retrieved Brisingamen
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Freemen
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criticized Mead
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eigen values
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lambda, doesn't change direction (just magnitude)
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Idi Amin
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a cook for the king's royal riflemen
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tort
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similar to vandalism except its defined as negligence
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Chaumont
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treaty that preceded the congress of Vienna
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Bramante
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architect of St Peter's basilica
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Dysnomia
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moon of Eris
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Veblen
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Higher Learning in America, the theory of the business enterprise,
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Paphos
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son of Pygmalion
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Eakins
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The Grosse Clinic
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sikhism
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the adi granth is the text, gobind singh was the last guru
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Missouri
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"The big muddy"
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MEtis
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the mother of Athena
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Lutetium
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the ancient name for Paris
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La Pieta
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damaged by a visitor with an axe
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Wagner Act
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established the National Labor Relations Board
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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Isak Harris and Max Blanche were the owners
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Mellon
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Harding's secretary of the treasury and industrialist
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Spenser
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Epithalamion, Amoretti, The Shepheardes Calendar
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Suetonius
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Lives of the Caesars
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Tacitus
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Annals, Histories, Germania, Agricola
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mondrian
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De Stijl movement, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition in Red, Yellow and Black
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confucianism
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concepts of Jin and Li
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Sisyphus
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considered the father of Laertes, rolls boulder up a hill
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Racine
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wrote Phaedra (about Theseus), Esther, Andromache, Alexander the great
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Corneille
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Le Cid, la place Royale
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Carpinteria
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northern Australian Gulf
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Muller v Oregon
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established maximum work hours for women
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Babbage
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originated concept of programmable computer in his difference engine
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Turing
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bombe to decode enigma, father of computers
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Herrick
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“Hesperides”, “to the virgins to make much of time”
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MArlowe
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the massacre at paris, Edward II
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MArlowe
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the Jew of Malta, Dr Faustus
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MArlowe
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The Passionate Shepherd to his love, Hero and Leander
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Jonson
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Tale of a Tub, Volpone, Oberon The Fairy Prince
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Jonson
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The Poetaster, The Alchemist, The Coronation Triumph
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Jonson
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The Masque of Augurs, Lovers made Men, Bartholomew Fair
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Charles II
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issued the declaration of Breda and made the secret treaty of Dover
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Either/Or
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published under psuedonym Victor Eramita
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Pontiac
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signed the treaty of Oswego
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Honduras
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connected to the Pacific by the Gulf of Fonseca
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Chisholm v Georgia
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1793 with Farquhar, the state refuses to show up, and the supreme court took away state’s sovereign immunity, overturned by 11th amendment
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Dryden
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Absalom and Acitophel, Marriage a la Mode, Amphitryon
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Amys
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Lucky Jim
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Zwingli
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debated Luther at Marburg, Boulanger was his successor
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Garm
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the dog of Norse Myth that guards the underworld
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Grimm's law
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describes the language shift from proto-indoeuropean to Proto-Germanic
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Pinchot
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conservationist
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Ballinger
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preservationist
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Borges
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The Library of Babel, argentine, ficciones, Atlas
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Garvey
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“The Watchman” was his newspaper
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Lombard, peter
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Four Books of Sentences, Italian scholasticist, Magister Sententiarum
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Aquinas
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Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis, Doctor Communis
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Aquinas
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Summa contra gentiles, Catena Aurea
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Aquinas
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The Principles of Nature, on Being and Essence
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William of Ockham
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Dr Invincibilus, Summa Logicae
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Abelard
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loved Heloise, Ethics or Know Yourself, The Story of My Misfortunes (Historia Calamitum)
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Abelard
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Dialectica, Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian
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Caravaggio
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The Calling of St Matthew, Death of a Virgin
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Vichy
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Laval was the Vice president, Sigmaringen was the second capitol
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Millice
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Darnand was its head
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Fugard
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South African playwright of Master Harold and the Boys, Blood Knot
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Machiavelli
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The Mandrake, The Art of War, Golden Ass, Belfagor arcidiavolo
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Fletcher and Millikan
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conducted the oil drop experiment
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Sekigahara
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the toyotomi clan is defeated
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Wahabi
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conservative sect of Sunnism in Saudi Arabia
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Mcarthur
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“Old Soldiers never die they just fade away”
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Said
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palestinean author of “Orientalism”
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Tlaxcala
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allies of Cortes against the Aztecs
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Cheif Joseph
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surrendered to Nelson Miles under Howard, called Red Napoleon
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Damascus
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the tomb of Saladin and seat of Ummayads
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The Clouds
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about Pheidippades and includes scenes from the Thinkery
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Pamplona
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location of the Running of the Bulls
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Falklands war
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HMS Sheffield was sunk during it
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Tetzel
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sold indulgences
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Blackmun
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wrote the majority opinion for Roe v Wade
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Planned Parenthood v Casey
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also dealt with abortion
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Madame Bovary
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Léon Dupuis, Homais, Rodolphe Boulanger, Lhereux
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DAvide
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Intervention of the Sabine Women
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Poussin
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the rape of the Sabine Women, Tancred and Erminia, les bergers d’arcadie
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Bartolome de las Casas
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monk that cared for Amerindians, bishop of Chiapas
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Bannachre
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black man from Washington city
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Naipaul
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Trinidad author of A Bend in the River, A House for Mr Biswas
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Boccionni
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unique forms of continuity in space (a guy walking)
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Ajax the lesser
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raped Cassandra, was fast
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Strindberg
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Miss Julie, Master Olaf, The Red Room
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Strindberg
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The Dance of Death, A Dream Play, The Father
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Socrates
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was known as the gadfly of Athens, Phaedo was about his life
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Hart Crane
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The Bridge, White Buildings, committed suicide on a boat
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Paraguay
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flag has different things on each side
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Kitchener
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WWI commander of the British
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Giotto
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arena chapel, from siena, the kiss of Judas
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Ivanhoe
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loved Rowena, written by Sir Walter Scott
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