Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1 1863 Lincoln Central Act Of Administration Flashcards
2012 Grammy winner for channel orange
Frank ocean
Separator of Ukraine and Turkey
Black Sea
19 # 1 hit without me
Halsey
Quickly in music
Allegro
Orangutan or gorilla
Ape
Arizona tribe
Hopi
Pen name on Nancy drew books
Carolyn Keene
Oman capital
Muscat
Move ya body song
Nina sky ft jabba
Fast paced hasbro board game in which player have to fit all 25 shapes into matching holes before time runs out
Perfection
Considered one of the greatest technological achievements of thr 19th century this 1860s construction crossed the nation from thr Atlantic to thr pacific
Transcontinental railroad
Triangle has a base of 6 and height of 4 area is
12
In the lion the witch and the wardrobe this is the name of the youngest child who first travels here
Lucy pevensie puh ven see
To narnia
Rio grande runs through these states
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
Ounces abbreviation
Oz
The agricultural technique chinampas wqs developed by this ancient civilization
Chi nahm pas
Aztecs
Present day central and southern Mexico
Tibetan monk : LAMA
“Lama” is a Tibetan word meaning “chief, high priest”.
On the ___ (fleeing) :
LAM
To be on the lam is to be in flight, to have escaped from prison. “On the lam” is American slang that originated at the end of the 19th century. The word “lam” also means “beat” or “thrash”, as in “lambaste”. So “on the lam” might derive from the phrase “to beat it, scram”
Lady Bird” is a 2017 coming-of-age movie starring her in the title role, a high school senior who has a strained relationship with her mother (played by Laurie Metcalf).
Saoirse Ronan
Roman and Metcalf earned themselves Oscar nominations for their performances.
Saoirse Ronan is an Irish-American actress, having been born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Carlow and Dublin in Ireland. Ronan’s big break came when she was cast in the 2007 film “Atonement” at 12 years of age, a role for which she was nominated for that season’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar. “Saoirse” is the Irish word for “freedom”.
The word is used in Italy to mean “goddess” or “fine lady”, and especially is applied to this in an opera
Diva
prima donna in an opera
The term “diva” comes to us from Latin via Italian. It is the feminine form of “divus” meaning “divine one”.
We often use the term to describe a singer with a big ego
First pope using pope mobile
The popemobile is actually a whole series of vehicles used since the days of Pope John Paul II. The popemobiles used on foreign visits are often manufactured locally and then stay in the country after the visit has been concluded. The British-built popemobile used for a 2006 visit to the UK was ultimately sold for over $70,000 at auction.
Hungary top 2 composers
Béla Bartók was a composer and a pianist. After Liszt, Bartók is considered by many to have been Hungary’s greatest composer.
is a banjo player who performed with the bands New Grass Revival and another band. That’s quite a name to live up to, but by all accounts he is one of the most technically proficient banjo players the world has ever known.
Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He was born in New York City and was given the name Béla Anton Leoš Fleck. He was named after Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, Austrian composer Anton Webern, and Czech composer Leoš Janáček.
Uberfan, in modern lingo :
STAN
“Stan” is a song by rapper Eminem (featuring Dido) that was recorded in 2000. The title refers to a fictional Eminem fan named “Stan” who becomes obsessed with the rapper, and who grows irate when his letters to his idol go unanswered. Stan’s final act is to make a voice recording as he drives into a river, with his pregnant girlfriend locked in the trunk. One of the legacies of the song is that “stan” is now used as a slang term for an obsessed and maniacal fan.
