Higher And Higher Rita Coolidge (your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Flashcards

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For more then 250 years the Spanish conducted trans-pacific trade with multi m-mast ships known as

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The Manila galleons
Gall e uns

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Humans are the only animals on earth to posses this facial bone protrusion

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Chin

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Considered the father of modern political theory and wrote that it is much safer to be feared then loved

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Machiavelli

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Numeric song in thr soumd of music
Bonus setting wqs this open air octagonal structure

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Sixteen going on seventeen
Gazebo

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At the time of its release in 1927 this fritz Lang sci-fi film was the most expensive movie ever made

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Metropolis

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Song lyrics
I pull up like
How you pull up baby
How you pull up
How you pull up
I pull up woot Seth in the kitchen
2020

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Rockstar da baby
North Carolina

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In December MLB made a decision which will add over 3K players to it’s official record

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Recognized Negro leagues as Major league
1920-40 something

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Primatologist who wrote “The Chimpanzees of Gombe” :

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JANE GOODALL
Jane Goodall is a British anthropologist famous for studying wild chimpanzees in Africa for 45 years. Working at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Goodall made many discoveries. She was the first to see chimps constructing and using tools, an activity thought to be limited to the human species. She also found out that chimpanzees are vegetarians.

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She is an American photographer who works out of New York, Berlin and Paris. She is known for her work featuring LGBT models, and for images highlighting the HIV crisis and the opioid epidemic.

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Nan Goldin

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This is the second largest city in Brazil (after this city ). “

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro” translates as “January River”. The name reflects the discovery of the bay on which the city sits, on New Year’s Day in 1502.

São Paulo number 1

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He is a Taiwanese-born filmmaker who has directed several critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies. He has worked in a variety of genres, including romantic comedies (“Sense and Sensibility”), dramas (“Brokeback Mountain”), and superhero movies (“Hulk”).

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Ang Lee

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is an American movie actress who was quite famous during the 1950s. Among her screen credits was playing the female lead in 1959’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, alongside James Mason and Pat Boone.

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Arlene Dahl

son is Lorenzo Lamas

Lorenzo Lamas is an actor from Santa Monica, California who is best known perhaps for playing the character Hector Ramirez on the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful”. Lamas-Craig’s stepmother was Esther Williams, who married his father when Lorenzo was eleven years old.

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13
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Moroccan cap :

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FEZ

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Company that produced the first mechanical electric slot machine
1963
Called money honey
Bonus better known for producing this

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Bailey - also created an early video game console called asteocade
Pinball machines - name included in lyrics of who’s the pinball wizard
I thought I was the Bailey table king

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15
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Movie tribonds
Ray Romano
John leg uh zam o
Dennis Leary

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Ice age

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16
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2 words added to the pledge of allegiance in 54

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Under god

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The boy is mine song

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Brandy/Monica 98
The girl is mine MJ ft Paul McCartney

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I’ll be missing you song
97

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Puff daddy/faith evans /112

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This punctuation mark is a favorite phrase and album title of thr rap duo city girls

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Period

20
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Created by Jacques guerlain shalimar is a brand of this
Gare lan
Shal e mar

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Perfume

21
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Chicken McNuggets come in these 4 shapes

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Bone
Ball
boot
Bell

22
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Allows members of congress to mail letters for free

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The franking privilege

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Movie tribonds
Dennis quaid
C low ward
Jake gill en hall

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The day after tomorrow

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Movie tribonds
Tom hardy
Zoe kravitz
Charlize ther in

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Mad max fury road
Not thunder road

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Coldest game in MLB history

April 23 2013

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Coors field
Rockies braves

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Ice bowl
Coaches and teams and game
67

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NFL championship game
Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry
Dallas at Green bay - lam bow
Green Bay 21-17

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Coldest game in NHL history
And what did it lead to ?

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Outdoor game in Alberta Edmonton called the heritage classic with temps
-18 C
Success led to the creation of the New Year’s Day winter classic
Non rom Canada as of 21

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Coldest college football game wqs played in 10 degree weather at this stadium between these 2 teams ranked as greatest rivalry by ESPN
1950

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Michigan and Ohio state

Played at Ohio state nicknamed the shoe

29
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Meaning moms friends son this Korean term is used to describe a person who is this

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Umchina um shhh nah
Better at everything than you

30
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Reddish brown skin dye

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Artists
On October 26 1886 he said the dream of my life is accomplished….I see the symbol of unity & friendship between 2 nations

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Bartholdi - bar told e
Frederic oh goo st
Statue of Liberty

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Regulate song
94

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Nate dogg/Warren g

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is a code of honor in southern Italian society. The term has been adopted by the Mafia to mean a code of silence designed to prevent a Mafioso from becoming an informer. For example, the famous Joe Valachi was someone who broke the code of silence in 1963, informing on the New York Mafia. Valachi’s story was told in the movie “The Valachi Papers”, with Charles Bronson playing the lead.

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Omertà

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1984 mermaid movie directed by Ron Howard, and starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah

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SPLASH
“Splash” is a 1984 comedy movie directed by Ron Howard, and starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah. Hanks plays a guy who falls for a mysterious woman (Hannah), who turns out to be a mermaid. One thing notable about “Splash” is that it was the first film to be released under Walt Disney’s “Touchstone Pictures” label.

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Watering hole in TV’s “MAS*H” :

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ROSIE’S
“MAS*H” has only three stars (three asterisks, that is). These asterisks first appeared on the poster for the 1970 movie, but they were omitted in the opening titles. The TV series went on to use the asterisks from the poster.

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The Latin for “work” is “

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opus”, with the plural being “opera”. We sometimes use the plural “opuses” in English, but that’s just to annoy me …

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Eurythmics lead singer

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Lennox : ANNIE
Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer who rose to fame as half of the duo Eurythmics, with David A. Stewart, in the 1980s. Lennox went solo in 1992, and has been riding high ever since.

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Underwater plant with gas-filled bladders :

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KELP
Kelps are large seaweeds that grow in kelp forests underwater. Kelps can grow to over 250 feet in length, and do so very quickly. Some kelps can grow at the rate of 1-2 feet per day.

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Mean Girls” writer

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Fey : TINA
“Mean Girls” is a teen comedy movie released in 2004 starring Lindsay Lohan. Tina Fey also puts in an appearance, which really isn’t surprising as Fey wrote the screenplay.