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Steppe-folk who fought for Ukraine and Russia (often mounted) in exchange for special privileges

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Who are the cossacks?

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Founding father and first president of Republic of Turkey until death (1923-1938)

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Who is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?

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“Father of Medicine,” circa 460-370 BC

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Who is Hippocrates?

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Paul Revere would put one in the tower if by land, two if by sea

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What are lanterns?

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Nixon, 1969 - “For years, politicians have promised the ______. I’m the first one to be able to deliver it.”

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What is the moon?

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Politician who ran ads in the 1920s promising “A chicken for every pot”

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Who is Herbert Hoover?

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Republican candidate in 1964 that promised to end the draft, “The military forces need trained volunteers.”

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Who is Barry Goldwater?

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Political party that lasted from 1848 to 1854 promising “free speech, free labor, and free men”

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What is the free-soil party?

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Man who delivered Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, and the youngest person in U.S. history to receive an electoral vote for president

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Who is William Jennings Bryan?

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This number didn’t make its trip to Europe until 1200 or so

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What is zero?

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Device used by romans for calculations

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What is an abacus?

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House of Representatives (R) 1959-1967, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Washington State 1989-1997, and inventor of pickleball in 1965

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Who is Joel Pritchard?

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Used by the ancient egyptians during mummification to store viscera for their deceased owner

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What are canopic jars?

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Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, key figure of Rastafari, claimed lineage to King Solomon

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Who is Haile Selassie?

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Street in Middle Ages Rome used for horse racing

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What is Via del Corso?

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Country where 33 workers were trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine in 2010

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What is Chile?

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In legend, he’s the Norseman that settled in Novgorod in 862 and founded Russia

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Who is Rurik?

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Part of the medieval procedure of trial by ordeal, now trial by ordeal just means anything painful endured…talk about soft

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What is trial by fire and by water?

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The lieutenant of the 1096 monk Peter the Hermit in the People’s Crusade…he was actually far from poor

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Who is Walter the Penniless?

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“Unsinkable” American socialite and philanthropist aboard lifeboat no.6 in 1912

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Who is Margaret Brown?

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This talented musician was born in Barnwell, South Carolina in 1933 and died December 25, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia

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Who is James Brown?

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This war 1537 war in Poland was a rebellion against Sigismund I the Old…fowl casualties occurred

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What is Wojna kokosza (Chicken War)?

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The Three Sisters, which benefit from companion planting, that served as the main agricultural crops of various Indigenous North Americans

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What are beans, corn, and squash?

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Estimates of the deaths of this incident which occurred December, 1928 in Colombia range from 47 to 2000

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What is the Banana Massacre?

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Bloodiest day in American History

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What is the Battle of Antietam? (September 17, 1862)

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Military leader of Panama 1968 until death in 1981, he was never the President, but did hold titles such as “Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution”

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Who is Omar Torrijos?

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Treaties signed in 1977 that ended U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1999, which it had held since 1903

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What are the Torrijos-Carter treaties?

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American TV crime drama series created and written by David Simon, with writing help from Ed Burns, set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland

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What is The Wire?

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11th Century Persian polymath and poet born in Nishapur under the Seljuk Empire, 1048

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Who is Omar Khayyam?

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First European to reach India by sea May 20, 1498

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Who is Vasco da Gama?

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The official who presided over the trial of Jesus and ordered his crucifixion

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Who is Pontius Pilate?

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“The Hanging Judge” that became notable under the reign of King James II as Lord Chancellor 1685-1688, he died in the Tower of London during the Glorious Revolution

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Who is George Jeffreys?

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American outlaw queen born February 5, 1848 in Carthage, Missouri whose 1889 murder in Indian Territory remains unsolved

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Who is Belle Star?

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Commissioned in 1631 by Emperor Shah Jahan to house his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, believed to be completed in 1653

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What is the Taj Mahal?

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The first Holy Roman Emperor, he became King of the Franks Following his father’s death in 768

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Who is Charlemagne?

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The 2 wonders of the world that were statues

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What are the Colossus of Rhodes or the Statue of Zeus at Olympia?

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These ancient manuscript fragments were discovered 1947 in the Qumran caves

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What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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River where James W. Marshall discovered gold in 1848, resulting in the 49er rush that helped California become a state, it’s Sacramento’s main source of drinking water today

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What is the American river?

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He served as Cuba’s minister of defense from 1959-2008 and served as President 2006-2018

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Who is Raul Castro?

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He served as President of Venezuela from 2002 to death in 2013

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Who is Hugo Chavez?

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Argentina’s president from 1946-1955 when he was overthrown, and then again from 1973-1974

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Who is Juan Peron?

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Argentinian woman known for being a political activist and philanthropist that served as the first lady of Argentina from June 1946 to her death in 1952 from cervical cancer

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Who is Eva Peron (Evita)?

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Battle fought 18 June 1815, the French (under Napolean) were defeated by Wellington’s Army and Prussian Field Marshal Blucher

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What is Waterloo?

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Holds the record for longest tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives (17 years)

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Who is Sam Rayburn?

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