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Christinas World Andrew Wyeth Flashcards

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Assassinated at Broadway and west 165th street
1965
Also name of building

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Malcolm X
Audubon ballroom

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Largest borough in terms of area

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Queens

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Only X rated film to win AA for best picture

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Midnight cowboy - Dustin Hoffman
Story of survival in NYC
69
Jigilo
Prostitution homosexuality

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight) and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as “Ratso”.

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Least populated NYC borough

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Staten Island

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Built metal framework for Statue of Liberty

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Gustav Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame
French dude

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In 79 movie thr warriors this was the warriors home turf

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Coney Island

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Who sang about Empire State of mind on this 09 album

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Jay z ft Alicia keys a day
Empire State of mind

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Words always printed top left front page of NYT

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All the news that’s fit to print

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Who sang about their New York State of mind on 76 album turnstiles

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Billy Joel

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10
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Smallest UN state

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Monaco- like a street
European Micro state
Smaller than central park which is only 5th largest in NYC

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A 12 Norwegian historical Drama about a boat trip wqs nominated for an AA for best historical foreign language film
A Norwegian documentary with this same name and subject won thr Oscar for best documentary in 51
Also name the adventurer based on

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High der doll
Khan tiki

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In pride and prejudice thr misters name
And yes both first and last

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Fitz William Darcy

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Soap operas
General hospital on air April 1 63
13 daytime Emmy’s
How many episodes as of jul 19

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14.3K

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Shakespeare
In this play the antagonist convinces his wife to steal treasures item from protagonist wife

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Othello
Hanker chiefs with strawberries
Iago convinces his wife Emilia to steal
Desdemona to cause othello to doubt desdemona faithfulness

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Greek mythology
Messenger of Gods almost always wears these type of sandals with this defining feature

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Her meees
Tuh lare e Uh - winged sandals

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MCU
Shared universe across tv and film
This character has had the most screen time by a very large margin

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Agent Clark Greg portraying agent Colson
Over 100 episodes agents of shield 5 films

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NFL
In 18 season leading passer runner and receiver by yards

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Ben Roth less berger 5129
Ezekiel Elliot 1434
Julio Jones 1677 Hopkins 2

18
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Members of the Religious Society of Friends are known as
Also who founded

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Friends or Quakers. The Christian sect started in England in the 1640s, led by George Fox. The principal tenet at that point was that Christians could have direct experience of Jesus Christ without the mediation of clergy, a reflection of the increasing dissatisfaction with the established church at that time. The term “Quaker” is thought to have been used earlier in reference to foreign religious sects whose followers were given to fits of shaking during religious fervor. Somehow that term became used for members of the Religious Society of Friends.

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The dramatic tango dance originated in the late 1800s in this area area

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along the border between Argentina and Uruguay. Dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires in particular traveled to Europe and beyond in the early twentieth century and brought the tango with them. The tango craze first struck Europe in Paris in the 1910s, and from there spread to London and Berlin, crossing the Atlantic to New York in 1913

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The color is a grayish, yellowish brown. The word “” comes from French and means “raw, unbleached”. “

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ecru

Ecru” has the same roots as our word “crude”.

Our word “beige” comes from the Old French “bege”, a term that applied to the natural color of wool and cotton that was not dyed.

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He received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was also Vermont’s first Poet Laureate, a position that he held from 1961 until his death in 1963.

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The wonderful poet Robert Frost was a native of San Francisco, but lived most of life in New England. He also spent a few years in England, just before WWI. Frost was well recognized for his work during his lifetime

Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be titled “The Road Less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road Not Taken”. Quite interesting …

22
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8th amendment

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Protects 3 things to US constitution
excessive bail shall not be required
Nor Cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
Nor excessive fines imposed

23
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Episode 8 of this miniseries is third in top 100 of most viewed non sports tv episodes

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Roots
Last episode

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These 2 universities have a long running boating competition on the tems between open weight 8s - which refers to this

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Oxford and Cambridge
8 - Number of rowers or oarsmen per boat
9 with Coxsin

25
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Imperial unit equals 1/8 of a mile

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Furlong
Old English term - length a team of oxen can plow before Rest

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Measuring instrument got its name because its shapes consists of 1/6 of a circle

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Sextant - primarily used for celestial navigation

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Zurich and Geneva are cities in

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Switzerland

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First female to have a sole directing credit on a billion dollar film
23

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Greta gerwig with Barbie

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IN track and field 7 events

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Heptathlon

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Sean clown cran aka number 6 is only remaining founding member of this heavy metal band and known for wearing individual masks and matching jump suits

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Slipknot

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Nemonic for 6 most common elements in living matter
% of average human is made up of these by mass

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Chnops
Carbon
hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Phosphorus
Sulfur

98%

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Wives of Henry 8
Also name of musical comedy

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Katherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of cleaves
Katherine Howard
Katherine parr

Six

33
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Only cast members to be in all seasons of in living color

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Jim Carey
David Allen Greer
Tuh key uh crystal key muh
Tommy Davidson
Not Kelly co field

5 seasons
None way ins

34
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Actor rose to pop idol
Status as officer Tom Hanson on 21 jump street
Original

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Johnny depp
Not Richard gree co - great value version

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Theodore guy zull said about this book I am the proudest because it has something to do with the death of dick and Jane prim ers

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The cat in the hat

36
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This character wqs shelved for about 15 years after creator Paul Rubens was arrested in 92

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P wee Herman

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