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Ah Sense E Own Paraguay Flashcards

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This Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of separate but equal

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Plessy v Ferguson
Homer plessy had one aa grandparent (which meant had to be segregated)and looked white
Made clear he was black and showed absurdity of segregation

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Toni Morrisonn famous novels

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Beloved

thr bluest eye
Song of Solomon

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1 steamed standup special on Netflix as of 2020

Bonus #2

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Dave chapelle
Kevin heart -2

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He played this many characters in coming to America

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4 Eddie Murphy
Prince Hakeem
Clarence the barber
Jewish gentlemen in barbershop
Randy Watson

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Solomon northup norththup is the autobiographical author of this brutal story turned into a modern day film

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12 years a slave

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This writer -among other titles - was born margarite Annie Johnson in St. Louis Mo in 1928

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Maya Angelou

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This is the name for the 1920 literary movement that was an early manifestation of blaxk consciousness

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Harlem Renaissance
More than just literature
Prob not right to classify as literary movement

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Body positive activist and model and Star of DNCE music video for toothbrush

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Ashley Graham

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Experienced single parenthood on both cw/Netflix and nbc

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Lauren Graham

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Fictional catholic school supper star and nervous sniffer

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Mary Katherine Gallagher
Molly Shannon

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Sparred in the courtroom with Spencer Tracy in adams rib

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Katherine Hepburn

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the first American to orbit the Earth

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John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7.

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RSVP” is an initialism of the French phrase,

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“répondez s’il vous plaît.

Re pon day Sil vew play

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Milla of the “Resident Evil” films

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Jovovich

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It must have been love song
90

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Roxette

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Pig on green acres

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Arnold Ziffel was the porcine character featured in Green Acres, an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971.

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Orange County airport

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What is John Wayne Airport called now? John Wayne Airport (SNA) is also known as the “Santa Ana Airport” or “Orange County Airport” for its location in Santa Ana, California.

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Daddy don’t you walk so fast

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Wayne Newton

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Lesson Before Dying novel

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A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines’ eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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How many pairs of parallel sides does a trapezoid have

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1

21
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A structure off the coast of Cornwall England was rhe inspiration for this Virginia woolfe novel

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To the lighthouse

22
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In homers epic poem this hero is tied to the mast of his ship to avoid being lured to his death by sirens

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Odysseus
O dis e is

23
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You can compare the heat of various chili peppers by consulting this scale

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Sco ville scale

24
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In George Clooney’s oceans trilogy this is the tote of all the numbers in thr titles

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36
11+12+13

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Tech mogul Larry Ellison purchased more than 90% of this Hawaiian island in 12

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Lanai
Pineapple island

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This brand of foam
Balls debuted with the tagline you can’t hurt babies or old people

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Nerf

27
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Hinged at the bottom this v shaped barbecue tool is used for picking up food

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Tongs

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EPA - full name of the gov agency

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Environmental protection agency

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Referring to a complex problem this metaphor wqs literally slices in half by Alexander the Great in 333 BC

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Gordian knot
Gore d in

30
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This river runs through the heart of soul

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Han

31
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were the first team to retire a uniform number,

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The Yankees

doing so on July 4, 1939. That day they retired the number 4 in honor of Lou Gehrig.

32
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is an actor who might be best known for playing Maeby Fünke on the sitcom “Arrested Development”. She is best friends with fellow actor Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page), whom she met while filming the 2009 movie “Whip It”.

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Alia Shawkat

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Tennis great who won 18 Grand Slam singles championships :
is a former professional tennis player from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Chris Evert

She has the best winning percentage in professional tennis, man or woman worldwide, losing fewer than 10% of all her matches. Evert was also the first female athlete to host “Saturday Night Live”, doing so in 1994 just after she had retired from professional tennis.

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” is a TV drama created by Ava DuVernay that is based on a 2014 novel of the same name by Natalie Baszile. It’s all about three estranged siblings who reunite to save their family’s failing sugarcane farm in Louisiana.

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Queen Sugar

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