German Chocolate Cake Invented By Samuel German, Who Was Not German Flashcards

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Expedia, made an ad using this group’s I’ll be your mirror; we await I’m waiting for the man and Venus and furs.

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Velvet Underground

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Pat Benatar sang do this this title fire away and her challenge has been used to advertise Applebee’s loaded fajitas

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Hit me with your best shot

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The world’s first adhesive postage stamp it was issued on May 6, 1840 but it’s not rare over 68 million were printed and 1 million survive

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penny black

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This musical drama was first produced in Germany in 1928 “ die dreigroschenoper”

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The three Patty opera

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This artist 1899 painting blue dancers is a prime example of his pastels

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Day gah
Degas

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This Director was the one time daughter-in-law of Carl Reiner

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Penny Marshall

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The Lincoln navigator driven on earth was advertised as a version of this band 1979 walking on the moon

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The police

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Around 620 BC this Greek introduced his code of laws with penalty so severe it was said the laws were written in blood

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Draco

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Edward the confessor was the son of this king the unready

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Ethelred

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He completed the conquest begun by his grandfather, and became the first Mongol to rule over all of China

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Kublai khan
Coo blay

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1831 Pedro the first Emperor of Brazil gave up the throne and return home to this country

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Portugal

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Sometime in the mid 1400s this man from mainz (minettzz) had the idea for printing from movable type

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Gutenberg

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With a name, perhaps meeting man of the javelin this son of Enoch lived almost 1000 years
E knock

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Methuselah
Oldest guy in the Bible

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This prophet, whose name became a word for an angry rant ; they proceeded from evil to evil, and they know not me saith the lord

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Jeremiah

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This leader of the fo vists , began painting when he was recovering from appendicitis

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Matisse
Muh teese

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In 1838 Eugene del uh quah painted a double portrait of Chopin at the piano while this lover sat to his right
Show pan

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George Sand

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Publius the leader on this Mediterranean island was kind to Paul, who was shipwrecked there after Paul helped Publius father

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Malta

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This king gave his daughter Michal as a wife to David, but later married her off to another

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Saul

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In 1887 before heading to Tahiti, this Frenchman was in Central America working briefly on a French attempt to build the Panama Canal

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Paul go ghan

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This noun means the relegation of someone to an unimportant position within a society or group(or piece of lined paper)

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Marginalization
Mar gin uh lie zation

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In this legal situation, a person or institution is designated to take over and protect the interests of one deemed unfit

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Conservatorship

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I’m going to a hardware shop. It might be useful to know that these are usually sold in penny lengths.

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A 2024 Volkswagen Super Bowl ad was set to this man’s song I am I said

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Neil Diamond

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You’re the one that I want from this musical sells nexguard flea treatment

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To the British, this fear mongering fowl in children’s literature is known as Henny Penny

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Chicken little

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George Brocks paintings made in the summer of 1908 including houses at luh stack are among the first of this ism

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Beginning of Cubism

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He refused to believe his follow apostles after missing an important visitation

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Didymus or the twin
Did uh miss
A.k.a. Doubting Thomas

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The NASA pathfinder was sent to what planet
Also a lunar lander named for this person and a rover named for this person made up the Pathfinder

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Mars
A lander name for Carl Sagan, and a Rover name for sojourner truth
So jern er
1997

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Introduced in the early 1980s, this rhyming brand of Stouffer‘s frozen meals were marketed as under 300 cal

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Lean cuisine
Had to ration them initially

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Played in 40 countries with nearly 600 teams the real life sport of Quidditch rebranded itself as what

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This imaginary line of longitude since roughly opposite the prime meridian at 180°

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International dateline
Samoa went back-and-forth, not exactly a straight line squiggly make room for some countries

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World flags
The 12 stars on its flag symbolize perfection not geographic or political units

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The European Union
Not a nation of the world
12 stars in a circle

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The northernmost of Japan 4 main islands. It’s also the second largest in area.

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Hokkaido
Ho kia dough

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Turin and Ferrara are cities on this river

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This Saudi capital is located at the junction of two wadis , hanifa and al-batha

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Re ahd
Riyadh

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Southern California area of canyons passes and great views Bob Seger rhyme them with diamonds and frills

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Hollywood Hills

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The idea that a certain animal can clean out an egg without breaking it may have led to this phrase for evasive language

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Weasel words in honor of the cunning weasel

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Around since at least the Vietnam war era, this attack is meant to suggest the precision of a medical procedure

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Surgical strike

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TV coupling
Finn And Rachel,
A match made in high school

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TV coupling
Sookie and Bill avoiding the daylight

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True blood

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TV coupling
Sheldon and Amy, pure genius

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The Big Bang Theory

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TV coupling
Morticia and Gomez getting ooky

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The Addams family

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A popular translation of a work by this Persian astronomer poet has lines like take the cash and let the credit go

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Omar kia ammhhh
Similar to cayenne

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This Castilian military man flipped sides and joined the Moores in the 1080s but flipped again and captured Morris Valencia in 1094

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Little is known of a 10th century Spanish woman known as ende the illuminator except she was a very good this

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The name of this peak that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is Pao de acucar in Portuguese
Pow duh ahhh su car

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Sugarloaf Mountain

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All belonging to Noble Venetian families, the 41 where the group of electors who chose this leader

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Doge
Dough zuh

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is known as the treasure state for immense mineral wealth

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The 41st state. Montana.