Edward Albee Who Is Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe Flashcards

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This scientist earned teaching degree in Zurich in 1900

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Albert Einstein

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Science popularizer wqs a scientist at Cornell for most of his career
Astronomer

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Carl Saigon say ghin
misquoted didn’t say billions and billions just said a hundred Billion but stressed the B - Carson impersonated

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Stephen hawking was the 17th this professor of mathematics at this university
Also who was the 2nd appointed in 1669

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Lou cay ghin at Cambridge
Sir Isaac Newton

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Created medical research institutes in pAris and Warsaw in early 20th century that offer PhD programs

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Marie curie
Pierre passed away ?
Marie polish but did most of work in Paris

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5
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Song lyrics
Oh yeah stop
That screaming
Teacher needs to see me after school

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Hot for teacher
Van halen
David lee Roth original
Sammy Haggar replaced

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Song lyrics
You behind the bike stand stand still

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Another brick in the wall part 2
Pink Floyd
We don’t need no education we don’t need no thought control

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Song lyrics
Put your arms out front lean side to side
Hit that dance like thunder

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Teach me how to dougie
Cali swag district
About dougie fresh of get fresh crew who created the dwnce
Hit 28

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8
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Song lyrics
You who are on the road must have a code
Past is just a goodbye

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Teach your children
CSNY
Deja vu album
Elephant show vibe ?

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9
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Founded thr para puh tet ick school
At the lye c um
335 BCE

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Aristotle
Walk around while thinking great thoughts

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Famously tutored Alexander the Great when just Alexander thr teenager

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Aristotle
Haha Alexander thr sullen

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11
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His school of thought promoted persist of pleasure and avoidance of pain
Not hedonism but Absence of pain in the Body and trouble in mind

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Ep uh cure is

Epicurean

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This philosopher promoted concept
Of abstract objects which existed outside
Physical world and consciousness

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Plato - plutonic ideal or solids/shapes
Allegory of thr cave

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13
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Sting real name

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Gordon matthew sumner
Primary school
Teacher and soccer coach in England
17 Grammys over 4 decades

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14
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This inventor wqs also a teacher to the deaf including tutor to Helen Keller

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Alexander Graham bell
Mother and wife also deaf
Experiments with telephones trying to help them hear

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This actor specific set of skills included boxing which he used on a student while in training to become a teacher which effectively ended his teaching career

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Liam knee son

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This American poet taught at Pinkerton academy in dairy New Hampshire in early 1900s

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Robert frost
Only to win 4 Pulitzer Prizes for poetry

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17
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Book quotes
Even the couple of nice
Teachers on the faculty were phonies too
Mr Spencer hot chocolate

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Catcher in the rye
JD Salinger

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Book quotes
Don’t worry scout gem comforted me

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To kill a mockingbird
Harper Lee

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Book quotes
These 3 had elaborated old majors teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave thr name animalism

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Animal farm
Orwell?

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20
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Book quotes
You couldn’t shut up that guy he always had to get his two bits worth in hence his name ; even teachers forgot his real name was Keith

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The outsiders
Halls and nash
Emilio estevez character 2 but

21
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1900s college football coach invented the single wing formation precursor to shotgun 3 point stance and body blocking

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Glen scobe Pop
Warner
Helped found a youth sports organization that still eats his name

22
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Entire 38 year coaching career at university of Tennessee
Basketball
8 championships
Retired in 12

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Pat summit

23
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Spent 39 years coaching Florida baseball team before retiring in 19 with a record 2029 wins

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Mike Martin

24
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Coached last undefeated mens NCAA basketball championship team
Bonus year

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Bobby knight
76

25
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Comedy about a tough policeman going undercover as a teacher to catch a drug dealer but struggles with antics of young students

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Kindergarten cop
Arnold
Schwarzenegger

26
Q

Musical comedy with a struggling rock musician posing as a substitute teacher who turns his talented class into a kick ass rock
Band

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School of rock
Jack black

27
Q

A poignant drama about a English teacher who inspires at a conservative boys prep
School to embrace poetry and seize the day but faces resistance from
School administration

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Dead poets society
Robin Williams

28
Q

Paradise lost and the Aeneid are divided into this many books

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12

29
Q

Sonny whalberg and Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood and now we gotta show them the ropes

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New kids on the block

30
Q

A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood ; I wonder if Nathan Morris and Shawn stockman had one

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Boyz 2 men

31
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Disturbances in Dijon in 1768 were early signals of this event that really got going in 1789

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French Revolution

32
Q

Tiny ants named for burning sting can form
A tiny life raft with waxy waterproof bodies

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Fire ants

33
Q

Is it this abbreviation for people filming people or a k pop band with jin and suga
Shug uh

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BTS
Behind the scenes

34
Q

Orchid bees vists Namesake flower to collect scent the orchid briefly traps the bee and tags it with sacks of this

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Pawn

35
Q

In 39 artem mikoyan and Mikhal gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes

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MiGs - combining names

36
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Last name of British Major Henry who in the late 1700s invented a shell that burst into deadly little fragments

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Shrapnel

37
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The ruger brand started in 49 with a pistol of this caliber used for plinking

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22

38
Q

Popular with gangsters and soldiers alike the sub machine gun nicknamed this wqs invented by John t Thompson

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Tommy gun

39
Q

An Arkansas newspaper credited Jim black as the creator of this knife named for another JB
1841

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Bowie knife

40
Q

Opened in 1908 AD the empress hotel is a landmark in this BC capital

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Victoria

41
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This hill in Ottawa is the site of canadas House of Commons

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Parliament hill

42
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This provincial capital sits about 60 miles north of Minnesota

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Winnipeg
Manitoba

43
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The diefenbaker Canada center in Saskatoon is named for canadas 13th this

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Prime minister

44
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Dickens called this walled city the Gibraltar of North America

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Quebec City

45
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Books by subtitle
A true story of men against the sea ( the north Atlantic’s Grand Banks )

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The Perfect storm

46
Q

Books by subtitle
From lost to found on the pacific crest trail ( about a 1.1K mile solo hike )

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Wild

47
Q

Books by subtitle
A memoir of a family and culture in crisis (helped make JD Vance a U.S. senator)

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Hillbilly elegy

48
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European scientists
On the 2022 bicentennial of his birth the body of this man was exhumed and dna used to determine his genetic afflictions

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Mendel
Father of heredity
Celebrate by looking at his genes