Giraffes can’t swim Flashcards

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This kind of reaction is sudden and not carefully considered

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Knee jerk

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Lepus symbolizes a hare likely angry as he seen by some as the prey of these two Latin name constellations, Orion hounds

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Canis major
Canis Minor

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Similar to a portamento it’s the glide between Notes

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Gluh sahn dough

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4
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Regarding a piece of music, this is the end from the Latin for tail
my friend

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Coda

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This woodwind is not only a double read instrument, but it’s also got two sets of double letters

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Bassoon

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Just follow your nose to Belize to discover the keel Bill type of this tropical bird a nee national symbol

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Toucan

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Leading exports from Honduras include these fruits hysterically called green gold from their color when shipped

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Bananas

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Mild dynamic music instruction symbolized by a lowercase F

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Forte

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The general drift of the clue is that it’s the next to lowest voice part in a four part harmony

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Tenor

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Anyone worth their salt should know the 12th earl of Derby created the oaks , a race run on this British track since 1779

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Epsom downS

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It’s what the bread call underwear and yes, you can say it on TV

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Knickers

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Most of the equestrian events of the 1984 Summer Olympics were held at this 320 acre track

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Santa Anita in Arcadia California

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Certainly some bunnies had a hare trigger after this country installed rabbit proof fences in the early 1900s

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Australia

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In 1886 siblings James Edward and Robert began this company that hit it big with Band-Aid in 1921

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Johnson& Johnson

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One of their fledgling companies that had begun in 1910 in Dayton was teetering in 1911 after several employee deaths

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Right brothers

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16
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Kentucky track known for its iconic twin spired grandstand was designated national historic landmark in 1986

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Churchill Downs home of the Kentucky Derby

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Currently the only woman to anchor a nightly network news broadcast on one of the big three networks September 2024

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O’Donnell

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18
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Before vast novelized histories of Hawaii and the MidEast, he put his Doylestown youth into the fires of spring

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James Mitchner

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Seven syllables
It’s the branch of medicine concerned with the distribution and control of diseases

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Epidemiology 

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Seven syllable words

Marijuana advocates have long push for this removal of serious penalties in 2024 The Biden administration moved to grant their wish.

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Decriminalization

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21
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Before she was appointed US Attorney General, she received the medal of honor from the Florida Bar Association

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Janette Reno

22
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Per time magazine on the seventh day he cobbled together the worldwide webs first, but not the last browser

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Tim Berners Lee inventor of the web

23
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Almost 4000 of these bombers nicknamed the super fortress were produced in the 1940s but only two still fly today

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This lethal combat helicopter with a native American name is loaded with hellfire missiles 70 mm rockets and a 30 mm canon

25
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September 30, 1787
The ship for which a Pacific Northwest River is named set off on the first round of the world voyage by US vessel

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The Columbia

26
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A two-time Oscar nominee she plays Athena Grant on 911

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Angela Bassett

27
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September 30, 1991 this ex priest who came after Duval A era is forced from office as Hades present

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Jean bertrand Aristide
R is steed

28
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His first four novels, including rabbit run all depict a fictional version of Berks County where he grew up

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John Updyke

29
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This playwright child at home in the historically black Hill district of Pittsburgh has become an art center

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August Wilson

30
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A short story by wyalusing, born Philip Van Buren was a basis for the beloved Jimmy Stewart Holiday movie

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It’s a wonderful life

31
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Golda rah shh vel plays her on Bridgerton ; India r muh t fee o plays a younger version on a Bridgerton offshoot

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Queen Charlotte

32
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7 syllable words
It’s a practice of living on fruits nuts and other plants maybe some eggs and dairy, but definitely no meat

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Vegetarianism

33
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After reading the cosmic connection, Isaac Asimov told him you are smarter than I am. I hate that.

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Carl Sagan

34
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Once thought to have crashed back onto the moon surface, the I ascent stage of this lunar module from Apollo 11 may still be an orbit

35
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In 2021 Zara Rutherford use her gap year after high school to become the youngest woman to do the solo

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Circumnavigate the globe
A.k.a. fly around the world

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September 30, 1968 this widebody Boeing airliner is shown to the public for the first time

37
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Seven syllable words
A nondisclosure agreement is also known as this kind

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Confidentiality

38
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In 2010 he became the first chef to receive Spain’s orders of arts and letters medallion

39
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Adjective describing a first person account of a life story

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Autobiographical

40
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She want amnesty, internationals, ambassador of conscious award and woman of the year in Sweden in 2019

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Greta Van Thunberg

41
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Vincenzo Lunardi used this gas, not hot air when he made the first balloon flight over England in 1784

42
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September 30, 1935 this source of electricity astride Nevada Arizona border is officially dedicated

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Hoover dam

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September 30, 2005 provoking an angry reaction. Cartoons of this religious figure are published in a danish newspaper.

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Funny ladies on season 49 of this show included Chloe fineman , Sarah Sherman and ego nwodim

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Saturday Night Live

45
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She rose to fame playing wonder woman in the 1970s

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Linda Carter

46
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If you read Lisa Scottoline bestsellers, it makes sense She graduated from the school at Penn and has taught there.

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Law school

47
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Biblical places
The name of this actually not about very tall hill became a symbol of Jewish national aspiration, and was used in spirituals and reggae

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Mount Zion you’ll hear it in Bob Marley songs and many other places

48
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Don’t draw premature conclusions is the meaning of one of these birds does not make a summer attributed to Aristotle

49
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Song lyrics
Driving down your freeways midnight Ally‘s roam, cops and cars the topless bars never saw a woman so alone LA woman

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Jim Morrison doors song 

50
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Nearly 30% of the moons nearside is made of this igneous rock; it’s holes were formed by gas bubbles captured as lava cooled