February 2021 Flashcards
Name this highly pessimistic school of philosophy that sought to promote harmony via implementing laws and public security. only reason ‘a minister does not murder his ruler’ is due to insufficient preparations. This school was advocated for by Shang Yang and Han Fei.
Legalism
Florence Nightingale developed a namesake “rose diagram” while working at the Selimiye Barracks during this war. This war’s Siege of Sevastopol included the Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Colin Campbell and his “Thin Red Line” held off a cavalry charge
Crimean War
A thought experiment named for this man involves a Geiger counter’s detection of an alpha particle causing poison to be released, so the central animal is simultaneously alive and dead. His 1944 book What is Life?, Namesake equation finds the allowed energy levels of quantum systems.
Erwin Schrodinger
After its death, its killer rededicated a series of games held in memory of Opheltes to Zeus, its killer attempted to use arrows, a sword, and a club to kill it, but finally succeeded when Athena suggested using its own claws. The son of Molorchus was killed by this creature, and its slayer convinced Molorchus to wait 30 days to sacrifice a bull.
Nemean Lion
The music of the titular god is represented by the French Horn emulating the sound of conch shells. That section foreshadows the arrival of Neptune to Trevi, after which the sun sets at the Villa Medici. Name this Ottorino Resphigi work
Fountains of Rome
German city whose firebombing by the Allies was condemned as an atrocity during World War II, Winston Churchill called a “mere act of terror.” An alchemist from this city, Johann Friedrich Bottger, became the first European to perfect hard-paste porcelain
Dresden
This term refers to Australian Aboriginal youths who were forcibly taken from their families to be given away to foster parents. Many of them were abused, and they were the subject of the report Bringing Them Home.
Stolen Generations
This prime minister of Australia, who served before and after the term of Julia Gillard, officially issued an apology to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia for the Stolen Generations.
Kevin Rudd
name this reforming pope, the former Hildebrand of Sovana, who launched the Investiture Controversy against Henry IV, forced Henry to beg for forgiveness in the snow outside Canossa.
Gregory VII
This city’s mayor Patricia de Lille has warned about an upcoming Day Zero (A prolonged 2014 El Niño has led to a once-in-a-century drought leading to a water shortage), home to Robben Island
Cape Town
This goddess releases a series of plagues onto earth after she was raped in her sleep by Shukaletuda and is later aided in her quest for justice by Enki, name this Sumerian goddess of fertility and war, goddess of love and sex, An intersex creature is created to revive this deity, who is cursed with sixty diseases. this goddess had to take off an article of clothing for each gate that she passed through, and she sent the Bull of Heaven to attack Gilgamesh after he refused to be her lover.
Ishtar
Carbon forms its strongest single covalent bond with this element. Non-stick coatings often have a polymer with carbon and this element known as PTFE, it’s responsible for the hydrophobicity of Teflon
Fluorine
During his reign, this man created a secret police called the Special Corps of Gendarmes. He appointed Alexander Benckendorff to lead the Third Section secret police. reign began with the Decembrist Revolt, in which secret societies called for him to be replaced by his brother Constantine. tsar of Russia at the start of the Crimean War
Nicholas I
Famous 2005 revolution in Kyrgyzstan
Tulip Revolution
This empire was founded by Shivaji and ruled most of India after the decline of the Mughals. Name this empire primarily ruled by a peshwa. This empire’s first chhatrapati established its first capital at Raigad. fought three namesake wars with the British East India Company.
Maratha Empire
Wrote “Three Comrades”, “The Night in Lisbon”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” (the schoolteacher Kantorek is forced to serve with the students he sent off to war. It is narrated by Paul Bäumer, who loses his resourceful friend Kat to shrapnel), “The Black Obelisk” (about the tombstone company manager Ludwig, set in Germany during the 1920s)
Erich Maria Remarque
This event was the subject of the Supreme Court case Luther v. Borden, and agitators in this event argued that their rights under the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause had been violated. The organizers of this event were persecuted by the Algerine law. holed up in Chepachet trying to “reconvene the People’s Convention.”
Dorr’s Rebellion
Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first person to illustrate this theorem, which requires that its inputs be relatively prime, using a system of modular congruences. first stated by Sunzi and often illustrated using groupings of soldiers.
Chinese Remainder Theorem
During his time as a royal consultant, Anton Raphael Mengs commissioned the first of 63 of these works, Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to make a set of what full-size drawings meant to be reproduced as tapestries?
Tapestry Cartoons
Priests of this figure traditionally dress with red and white necklaces in patterns of four and six beads. This former Oyo king is the figure most commonly worshiped using an asymmetrical hourglass drum called Batá. A double-headed axe symbolizes what most popular Orisha, who represents thunder and lightning?
Shango
conducted by Mary Tudor under Wendell Johnson’s supervision to understand the origin of stuttering. This experiment’s 22 participants were divided into those who received “positive therapy” and those who received negative treatment, all of whom were brought to the University of Iowa from the “Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans Home.”
Monster Study
Wrote “The Shipping News” and “Brokeback Mountain”
Annie Proulx
The Lorenz attractor is one of these shapes, as is the Julia set. name these self-similar shapes exemplified by the Koch (cock) snowflake and the Mandelbrot set. One can be found by coloring odd numbers on Pascal’s triangle; that one is named for Sierpinski.
Fractals
This object’s largest crater is Stickney Crater, name this innermost moon of Mars, which is usually contrasted with Deimos. This body is home to the Gulliver’s Travels-inspired Laputa Regio.
Phobos
Political parties in his country have declared the “Pact of Forgetting” regarding his government, This leader’s country underwent an economic “miracle” keyed by making the SEAT 600 car. There is suspicion that he engineered the plane crash that killed rival Emilio Mola, Fascist leader of Spain
Francisco Franco Bahamonde
In the aftermath of this event, Joseph Medill was elected mayor, and the need for architects led many designers, such as Louis Sullivan, to move in permanently. a theory involving a comet is supported by a similar event occurring the same day in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. apocryphally caused by Catherine O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern.
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
author of The Devil’s Dictionary and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” (Peyton Farquhar hallucinates his escape from being hanged from the title structure) also wrote Moxon’s Master
Ambrose Bierce
The rapid growth of Baha’i can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of this great grandson of Baha’u’llah, who authored the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf as Guardian of the faith from 1921 to 1957. only Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
Shoghi Effendi
The end of this practice is marked by commemoration of Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac. When not performed during Dhu al-Hijjah, this event is known as an Umrah. During this event, people drink from the Well of Zamzam, perform the stoning of the devil, and walk around the Ka’aba seven times. pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
ATP synthesis is driven by the proton gradient formed by what series of redox reactions at the end of cellular respiration? negative charge is shuttled across the inner mitochondrial membrane, followed by lots of ATP production.
Electron Transport Chain
Bacterial fuel cells would pass electrons to external anodes through these proteins that have heme cofactor groups. One of them shuttles electrons between Complexes III [“three”] and IV [“four”] in the electron transport chain. The P450 proteins of this type increase the polarity of xenobiotics through a mono-oxygenase reaction.
Cytochromes
the merengue was made the national dance by Rafael Trujillo, provides the setting of Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. annexation was advocated by Ulysses S. Grant after it became independent from Spain and Haiti. president ordered the Parsley Massacre.
Dominican Republic
This name given to Mendel’s second law states that the passing on of one gene does not affect the passing on of a different gene.
Law of Independent Assortment
name this compound that makes up the cell walls of fungi and the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects.
Chitins
Cholesterol levels are more commonly lowered by this class of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. Lipitor is part of this class of lipid-lowering drugs.
Statins
Supreme Court case that upheld the supremacy of the federal government over state governments, case about the legality of the Bank of the United States,
McCulloch v Maryland
name this longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic who composed the music for West Side Story (rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets), He composed the music for the songs “Glitter and Be Gay” and “Make Our Garden Grow” for his operetta Candide
Leonard Bernstein
This building contains 13 bathrooms, 13 drain holes in each sink, 13 coat hooks in each séance room, and 13 stairs in each staircase. This building was constructed for many years without an architect, leading to oddities such as doors and stairs leading to nowhere and a window that opens into a wall.
Winchester Mystery House
earthquake that notably interrupted a pre-game broadcast of the 1989 World Series. occurred on California’s Central Coast
Loma Prieta Earthquake
name this Japanese winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize and designer of the Cardboard Cathedral. This man’s own summer house on Lake Yamanaka was one of the first to use paper for a building material; he subsequently used paper for his series of refugee houses following the Kobe earthquake.
Shigeru Ban
A New York Times article about this event was titled “Anarchy’s Red Hand”, Samuel Fielden spoke just before this event, which began when a bomb was thrown at police during a demonstration for eight-hour work days, newspaper’s editor, August Spies, was executed for his actions during it
Haymarket Square Riot
He worked with Max Weismann to found the Center for the Study of Great Ideas, having long promoted the Great Books movement. name this author of How to Read a Book
Mortimer Jerome Adler
This man took the title of “Prince-President” and enlarged the role of the Catholic church in public education as part of the Falloux Law. This man named Maximilian I emperor of Mexico, and he entered into the Franco-Prussian War after the Ems Dispatch, eventually being captured at the battle of Sedan. This ruler ordered Baron Haussmann to redesign Paris
Napoleon III
painter of “The Calling of Saint Matthew” (A shaft of light illuminates a group of tax collectors in a painting by this artist in which Jesus extends his finger towards the title saint)
Caravaggio
The disease SMA is caused by a lack of these cells, Long-term potentiation contributes to the “plasticity” of these cells. cells with dendrites and axons,
Neurons
name this legendary Roman hero who swam across the Tiber in armor after single-handedly defending Rome from the Etruscans while the bridge he stood on was disassembled. Later awarded as much land as he could plough around in one day
Horatius Cocles
The Hanseatic League’s “capital” was at this Germanic port in Schleswig-Holstein. Willy Brandt was born in this city
Lubeck
A national park near the Everglades that contains the northernmost of the Florida Keys is named for this bay that separates Miami from Miami Beach.
Biscayne Bay
This governor of Florida is best known for his attempts to drain the Everglades. He also names the county directly north of Miami-Dade whose seat is Fort Lauderdale.
Napolean Bonaparte Broward
this composer’s song “I Got Rhythm.” One of this composer’s songs describes how “the livin’ is easy, the fish are jumpin’” on Catfish Row. wrote “Rhapsody in Blue”, composer of Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
