Battle Of The Bulge also known as the Ardennes Offensive Flashcards
“Bennie and the JETS song
And album
“
Elton John’s
Bennie and the Jets” was a big hit for Elton John in 1974 and was first released the year before on his famous “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album. “Benny” or “Bennie”, that is the question! The spelling “Bennie” was used on the label of the 1973 album’s vinyl disk, but “Benny” was used on the album’s track listing and on the sleeve of the single released the following year.
“Bennie and the JETS song
And album
“
Elton John’s
Bennie and the Jets” was a big hit for Elton John in 1974 and was first released the year before on his famous “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album. “Benny” or “Bennie”, that is the question! The spelling “Bennie” was used on the label of the 1973 album’s vinyl disk, but “Benny” was used on the album’s track listing and on the sleeve of the single released the following year.
The fur of this is exceptionally thick. It is the densest fur in the whole animal kingdom.
sea otter
Today, we tend to use this word” to mean “anathema, a source of persistent annoyance” but A few centuries ago, it was a cause of harm or death, perhaps a deadly poison.
bane
thing Compares 2 U” singer
Sinéad : O’CONNOR
Sinéad O’Connor was a singer-songwriter from Dublin, and a somewhat outspoken and controversial character. My sister-in-law was in the same class as her in high school, and she tells me that Sinéad stood out among her peers even back then.
The city of Saint-Étienne is the capital of this department in France. The city is home to the extremely successful soccer team AS Saint-Étienne.
Loire
The Crown” is a historical drama produced for Netflix that covers the life of her and him .
Also who plays
British Queen Elizabeth II from her marriage to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
For the first two seasons, Elizabeth is played by Claire Foy and Philip by Matt Smith. For the next two seasons, Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies take over as Elizabeth and Philip. The show finishes up with Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce in the roles.
Egyptian peninsula :
SINAI
The Sinai Peninsula is in the eastern part of Egypt, and is a triangular landform bounded by the Mediterranean to the north and the Red Sea to the south. It is the only part of Egypt that lies in Asia as opposed to Africa. The eastern land border of the peninsula is shared with Israel, and Israel occupied the Sinai during the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War of 1967
Bar soom e in is a language created by him for this series
Edgar rice brrr ooohs
John carter mars novels
This Latin American genre with an oxymoronic name involves the extraordinary seeming ordinary
Magical realism
In poetry it’s a king narrative often about heroic deeds; there’s also a mock type
Epic
Some of Carson McCullers works fall into southern this genre also an old architectural style
Gothic
On September 25 19 searches on this 3 word Latin term increased by 5K%
Quid pro quo
Great Brit’s
From 1689 to 90and 1701-02 he served as a member of parliament representing the constituency of Cambridge university
Isaac Newton
Professor at Cambridge and member of parliament at same time
This herb gets its name from
Belief that it will lengthen life and increase wisdom
Sage
This Oscar winning 15 film planned on filming in Canada but after snow melted due to production delays had to movie to Argentina where still snow
Rev uh nint
Leo
Chemistry
Top 2 comedian duos making films together
Abbot and Costello 39
Adam Sandler and rob shh nider18 - starting in 98 ; one usually small part
You can do it
History
His father wqs captured by Japanese while building an airstrip on wake island during ww2 and
his mother wqs a gow chur girl from
Nearby gow chur college
What were most intelligent of gow chur girls contracted to do for uS Gov during ww2
Billy nye the science guy
Codebreaking
Batman could have used help fighting Edward nig muh
Reading
a book named rabbit by this Pulitzer Prize winning author from
Reading
John Updike
Writing
Former basketball great has an IQ of 131
Autobiography giant steps
Awarded presidential medal of freedom
Kuh ream Abdul juh bar
Lqst season of Veronica mars writing staff
Insists name is roger Murdoch and he’s the copilot
Simple math album 2011
Atlanta indie rock band
Honda Civic tour with blink 182 and my chemical romance in 11
Name a misnomer no more than 5 members
Manchester orchestra
How will they fit a whole orchestra on the stage ?
Human beings typically have 46 of these in most of cells
Chromosomes
23 pairs but 46 total
He found that strength of this depends on 2 things mass and distance
Isaac Newton
Gravity
Colorless odorless tasteless harmless inert gas mono tom ick gas and first in noble gas group
Helium
An observer on this planet would see only 1 day every 2 years
1 rotation every 2 or it’s around the sun
Mercury
Purchased in 1867 for 7.2 M
Alaska
First African slaves in British North America landed near this settlement in 1619
Jamestown
Aboard ship white lion when docking for repairs
This slavery apologist and avid segregationist won nobel peace prize in 1919
Woodrow Wilson
Liberal view shit down imperialism try to end war League of Nations civil rights took giant steps backwards
Lost cause theory
Old Virginian
Piece of trash
North of a nation - movie based on thr klansman - he viewed at White House
Everyone in America saw it super popular
He and his family were mhan u mitted after losing his Court case in 1857
Dread Scott
Set free by new family
A chuh latta is a mix of this alcoholic beverage and cluh motto
Beer
Made of plums in thr balkans slee voe vitz is a type of this spirit
Brandy
Originally developed as medicinal liquor this is now found in cocktails such as Negroni and Tom Collins
Gin
Official tire brwnd of nascar
Goodyear
This r monk New York company has had most annual US patents for 28 consecutive years
IBM
Alphabetical America
Until Alabama became this number state this other state was first alphabetically
Connecticut - 7th alphabetically
5th state
Despite popular myths this monk did not invent champagne
Dom per in yown
Dom is a title meaning brother or friar
First Publicly traded company first to be valued at 3B
Apple
First to 1 and 2 B as well
2 years to go from 2 to 3 and they were pandemic
1980 film in which Goldie hawn joins the army and serves as British PM from 1874-80
Private Benjamin diss rail E
Charlie browns Tom Boy friend kidnapped by the SLA in 1974
Peppermint patty hearst
Part 2of this novel was published separately in thr UK as good wives
Little women
Louisa may Alcott
Lowe wood school
Featured in this novel wqs based on real life school attended by the author as a child
Jane eyre
Charlotte bronte
Other nations presidents
First 8 presidents were all US born ; first local born president came in 1884 37 years after independence
Liberia
Americana
John and Priscilla all din lie in thr US oldest maintained cemetery which like a poem about the couple is named
For this person
Miles Standish
Words from thr comics
Used to describe secrecy during WW2 this 2 word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles
Schultz
Security blanket
Old west
In October 27 1881 this town’s local newspaper reported on “a day when blood flowed as water”
Tombstone Arizona
World geography
Australias 4th largest city it’s at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean drive
Perth
