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Dec 27 Flashcards

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1816 novel by Benjamin constant

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Adoplphe

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2
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First Italian pm

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Count cavour

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1929 debut novel by Alberto moravia

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The time of indifference

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1947 anti fascist novel Alberto moravia

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The conformist

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5
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Gramsci coined which term

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Hegemony

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wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier. It was very influential in 16th-century European court circles.

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Baldassare CASTAGLIONE

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famous for briefly taking over the city of Fiume after World War I, ruling it as an unrecognized “Duce” from 1919-1920. This incident means he is often cited as a forerunner of Italian fascism.

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

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Which Italian dry white wine from the Veneto region from the garganega grape?

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SOAVE

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Thought to be composed of neutrons of high temperature and density, what four-letter term is given to the primordial hypothetical substance that filled the Universe in the first instant of the Big Bang?

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YLEM

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10
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Thomas Vinterberg Oscar winning film

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Another Round

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11
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With its HQ in Ontario, California, what brand of anodized aluminium flashlights with variable-focus beams was founded in 1979? Whilst they have become standard issue in the US Police, they have drawn controversy through their use as alleged baton-substitutes, such that smaller, lighter models have now been issued..

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MAGLITE

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12
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What name is given to the structures within chloroplasts and cyanobacteria that are the sites of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis?

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THYLAKOID

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14
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Star of titane

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Agathe rousselle

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15
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Andie macdowell daughter

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Margaret qualley

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16
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Kelce podcast

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New heights

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17
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Kylie Kelce podcast

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Not gonna lie

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18
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Jameela jamil podcast

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I weigh

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19
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Mary j blige debut album

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What’s the 411

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20
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Susan Hayward played who in I want to live

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Barbara Graham

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21
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real name of Susan Hayward

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Edyth Marenner

22
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Folk figure associated with Windsor Great Park

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Herne the Hunter

23
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Wrote the non fiction 1996 graphic novel Palestine?

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Joe SACCO

24
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It is displayed at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway.[1] It is the largest preserved Viking ship in Norway.[2][3][4]

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GOKSTAD Ship

25
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Old Town of Stockholm

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GAMLA STAN

26
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Swedish parliament

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RIKSDAG

27
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Swedish PM since 2033

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uLF kristerssson

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on 27 July 1880, was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Under the leadership of Ayub Khan, the Afghan forces defeated a much smaller British force consisting of two brigades of British and Indian troops under Brigadier-General George Burrows, albeit at a high price: between 2,050 and 2,750 Afghan warriors were killed, and probably about 1,500 wounded.[3] British and Indian forces suffered 1,200 dead.

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MAIWAND

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Capital of tahiti

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Pape’ete

30
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a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.[5] It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008.

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MURRAY EDWARDS

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a form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty in England and Wales at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century. The law was an amendment to the Elizabethan Poor Law (the Poor Relief Act 1601). It was created as an indirect result of Britain’s involvements in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815).

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SPEENHAMLAND

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With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake[1][2] and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the “most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country”.

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RICHARD WILSON

33
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Aboriginal of Borneo or Sarawak

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DYAK

34
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Made a field marshal by hitler on the day he surrenedered at stalingrad

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Friedrich Paulus

35
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international womens day

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march 8

36
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main womens day advocate

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clara zetkin

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38
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Romanization of japa ese

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Hepburn

39
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Sumo loincloth

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Mawashi

40
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First non Japanese yokozuna

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Chad rowan/akebono

41
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Thomas and paul brothers and founders of ra

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Sandby

42
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Kate greenaway breakthrough book

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Under the window

43
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Second city slovakia

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Kosice

44
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Kosice o which river

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Hornad

45
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Darth vaser wife

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Padme amidala

46
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Padme amidala queen of

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Naboo

47
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Hollywood sign canyon

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Beachwood

48
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Bridge with shops erfurt

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Merchants bridge

49
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Erdurt is capital of

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Thuringia

50
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Capital of mecklenberg vorpommern

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Schwerin

51
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Capital of saxony anhalt

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Magdeburg

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