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His sayings begin : thr master said to learn and then do is not that a pleasure?

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Confucius

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When this state joined the union in 1812 it was the only one with a non English speaking majority

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Louisiana
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Notable American women
In her autobiography she tells of a rather singular coincidence that one of her Swiss ancestors was a teacher of the deaf

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Helen Keller

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4
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Rhyme time
A fat free monarch

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Lean queen

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Rhyme time
A merciless academy

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Cruel school

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Rhyme time
A violin conundrum

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Fiddle riddle

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Rhyme time
Kayak inspection

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Canoe review

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Rhyme time
Someone more rapid of movement when he begins fly fishing

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Faster caster

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Caitlin carver played Nancy Kerrigan when Margot Robbie starred as this rival in a 17 film

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Tonya Harding

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In thr 40s this country’s Magyar nemzeti bank printed the million billion pengo note to fight inflation
Nem zet e

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Hungary

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An excerpt from the master of disguise and the article escape from Tehran were the basis for the screenplay of this 12 film

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Argo

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Jack O’Connell played Olympic runner and ww2 pow Louis zamp er ini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller

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Unbroken

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Mark rylance won an Oscar for playing spy rudolf Abel in this Spielberg film

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Bridge of spies

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In gunfight at the ok Coral Kirk Douglas played him
And Burt Lancaster played this lawman

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Doc holiday KD
Lawman Wyatt Earp BL

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15
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In 06 president teddy Roosevelt was off doe the ditch to visit this country

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Panama

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In 1989 winfried freudenberg was the last person who died while trying to escape over this in a balloon

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Berlin Wall

17
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75 fall of the city then known as this

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Saigon
Now ho che min city

18
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Now this fossil fuels giant began in 09 as the Anglo Persian oil company

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BP
British petroleum

19
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At the end of this Hemingway tale the title character former helper manolin agrees to go fishing with him again
Mahn oh lin

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The old man and the sea

20
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Truman capote said of this girl in this novella of his that she wqs not a call girl but an American geisha
Gay shhh

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Holly golightly
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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This 1902 novella tells the story of a man assigned by an ivory company to take command of a damaged boat

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Heart of darkness

22
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In Berlin stories Christopher Isherwood wrote a novella about her a nightclub singer in the Weimar Republic
Vie Mar

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Sally Bowles

23
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French: say that life en francais s’il vew play; it’s also a bewitched song

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Say lah v

24
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History; this congressional committee created in 38 became the internal security committee in 69 and wqs dissolved in 75

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House of un American activities
HUAC

25
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In 66 a stuck thruster and an uncontrollable spin nearly killed Neil Armstrong on mission 8 in this Apollo precursor program

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Gemini

26
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Phys Ed: hit the field of track and see if you can throw this a little over 323 feet like Jan zelezny

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Javelin

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Anatomy: there are both false and true vocal cords in this hollow tubular structure also called the voice box

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Larynx
Lar inx

28
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English: amidst and into are amidst and into this part of speech

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Preposition

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Richard wright wrote a series of novellas titled this Harriet Beecher Stowe characters “children “

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Uncle Tom

30
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Per the Wall Street Journal Sam bankman- fried uses this fish as clink currency they call em Mack’s in the joint

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Mackerel
No smoking in Prison