Galvani Frog Experiments Flashcards

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Memelik a son of Solomon is said to have brought this lost artifact to Aksum in Ethiopia; tradition maintains still there

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Ark of the covenant

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Prison 15 miles north of San Francisco

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San Quentin

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1980s fads
A November 29 83 NY times article used “near riot” “adoptable” waiting for 8 hours and my life (is) in danger

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Cabbage patch kids

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Virginia Woolf used steam of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsay family vacationing on the isle of skye

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To the lighthouse

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Car whose interior “looks like Darth Vader’s bathroom,” per Michael Knight :

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KITT
The 1982 crime television show called “Knight Rider” famously starred David Hasselhoff as well as a very cool, artificially intelligent car called KITT. KITT (which stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand) is a heavily modified Pontiac Trans Am.

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About a Boy” is a 2002 film adaptation of a 1988 novel of the same name by him

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Nick Hornby (who also wrote “High Fidelity” and “Fever Pitch”, which were also turned into successful movies). “About a Boy” stars Hugh Grant and Toni Collette, with Nicholas Hoult playing the title character. Hornby’s novel has now been adapted for the small screen, and a TV series of the same name premiered on NBC in 2014.

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She is an actress who first came to public attention for playing one of the leads in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”. She then took a starring role in the 2007 movie “Gossip Girl”. She met her future husband Ryan Reynolds while working with him on the 2011 film “Green Lantern”.

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Blake Lively

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” is an oil on canvas that Georgia O’Keefe painted in 1932. When Walmart heiress Alice Walton purchased the work in 2014, she paid over $44 million dollars, the highest ever price paid at auction for a painting by a female artist

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Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1

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She is an actress from New Zealand. She might be best known to American audiences for playing the lead in the supernatural crime drama TV series “iZombie” starting in 2015. She also headed the cast in three “A Christmas Prince” movies from 2017 to 2019.
Also ghosts

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Rose McIver

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The iconic sandwich was introduced nationally in 1967. It was the creation of a Pittsburgh franchisee who offered it on the menu as a response to the very similar “Big Boy” sandwich offered by the competing Big Boy restaurant chain.

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Big Mac

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was the man in the corner of the ring for Muhammad Ali throughout his career. He also trained actor Russell Crowe for his role in the 2005 movie “Cinderella Man”, and even made a cameo appearance in the film.

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Angelo Dundee

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is a 2023 album released by Pink. The two most successful singles from the album are the title track and “Never Gonna Not Dance Again”

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Trustfall”

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Land between the Atlantic and the Pyrenees :

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IBERIA
The Iberian Peninsula in Europe is largely made up of Spain and Portugal. However, also included is the Principality of Andorra in the Pyrénées, a small part of the south of France, and the British Territory of Gibraltar. Iberia takes its name from the Ebro, the longest river in Spain, which the Romans named the “Iber”.

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Greek and Roman goddess of love

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Aphrodite- Greek - Venus de Milo
Venus - Roman

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15
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See Russia from this state

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Alaska Islands in Bering sea

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Big 5 academy awards

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Director
Actor actress screenplay
Picture
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Silence of the lambs
It happened one night

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17
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Sightseeing tour at Niagara Falls

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Maid of the mist

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According to popular legend he did this as Rome burned
64AD

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Nero played a fiddle
But they didnt exist for another 1K years

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19
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Golf 3 under par

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Albatross
Double eagle

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20
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Hard knock life song samples this musical

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Annie
Ghetto anthem subtitle
Jay z

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A nameless talking cricket is not only introduced to this title character in chapter 4 but also killed by him with a hammer

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Pinocchio

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Peter and Judy find a box containing this a jungle adventure game that truly brings the jungle home to its players

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Jumanji

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23
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Jill munroe on Charlie’s angles

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Farah faw set

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24
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Change from female to male

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Hermaphridite

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A convoy of cars perhaps escorting the president and a sauce made with mayo and capers used on po boys

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Motorcade
REM uh lahd

26
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3 So called reconstruction amendments

27
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Amala debut album
Ahm uh la

28
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Garfield wife and nickname

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Crete
Lucretia

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1970 film in which Jack Nicholson in order to get toast requests a chicken salad sandwich hold the chicken

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Five easy pieces

30
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Highest Rank in army

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Brigadier General

31
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Wisdom teeth are this kind of teeth

32
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Tv show west wing pioneered a kind of conversation known as

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Walk and talk

33
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Triceratops stegosaurus and brachiosaurus have this in common

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Vegetarian

34
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Spying agencies in Great Britain

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MI 5 and 6

35
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Tolberone featured this mountain on its wrapper

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Matterhorn
Until 23

36
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Chris named peoples sexiest man alive

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Hemsworth 14
Evans 22

37
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Crowned Hungary’s first king circa 1000 Ad also country’s patron saint

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Turkmenistan academy of sciences in this capital is home to an institute for studying these that cover over 80% of the country

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Ahsh guh bhat
Deserts

39
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In a 08 adaptation of this Jules Verne novel set way way down under a Dino chases after Brendan Fraser

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Journey to the center of the earth

40
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At a recent summit Turkmen desires to build a pipeline under this vast inland sea were opposed by several regional nations

41
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A traditional men’s hat thr telpek is made from the domesticated breast

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It’s a mixture or blend of mercury with another metal

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Amalgam
Which is a type of alloy?

43
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The Dutch moved into the Caribbean to mine salt used to pack and preserve this fish. They love the maatjes type.
Ma chuhs

44
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In 1633 when new Netherland occupied part of New York State ancestors of this 19 century US president settled in Rensselaer County

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Yup, Martin Van Buren throw up those eight

45
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The Dutch seized fort Willoughby from the British in this future capital or Suriname and renamed it fort Zeelandia
Zay land e ah

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Paramaribo

46
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On May 30, 1431, the English threw her ashes into the seine river
Sen

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John of Ark

47
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This Nobel prize winner reached the ranks of the Blessed in the churches, then shortest time and was canonized in 2016

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Mother Teresa

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Tradition says that Saint Priscilla allowed this new Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome

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The six station on the cross its this saint wiped the face of Jesus. Tradition says she used her veil

50
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Italian born patron state of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants

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Mother Cabrini

51
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French for half world this term, describe the class of women who lost status due to indiscreet behavior

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Demimonde
Demi monde

52
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German art move from romanticism to this other R ism as in Adolf Menzel’s the iron rolling mill

53
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Thomas Wilson’s exhausted work the treasures of terp sick uh ree cataloged popular English country these

54
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Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java resembled a Dutchtown with canals ; three centuries later it was renamed this

55
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The Netherlands, colonial empire was mainly spread between these two directional trading companies

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The Dutch East and west India companies

56
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Detective authors
For much of the 1920s he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco‘s tenderloin district

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Dashell Hammett
The Maltese falcon set in San Fran

57
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More common name for the segmented parasite known as a cestode

58
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In Greek mythology this hero entered the labyrinth and killed this beast

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Thesus thee c is
Killed thr minotaur body of man head of bull

59
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Incandescent and halogen light bulbs have filaments made from this elements

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Tungsten W also known as wolfram
From the Swedish for heavy stone
One of the highest melting points
Non metallic great for coping with high temps