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FINAL WEEK SEP > JAN - JUN 2023 > Flashcards

JAN - JUN 2023 Flashcards

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Leader Cuba

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Diaz-Canel

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2
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First King of Carolingians

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Pepin the Short (715)

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3
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Explored Gulf of St Lawrence

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Cartier

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4
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Treaty that ended war of Spanish Succession

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Peace of Utrecht

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5
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The Lass That Loved a Sailor

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HMS Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera)

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Porgy and Bess composer

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Gershwin

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7
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Wagner Jewish friend

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Mendelson

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8
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Tchaikovsky opera based on Pushkin novel

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“Eugen Onegin”

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9
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Greek God of night

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Nyx

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10
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Marry Poppins author

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Travers

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11
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Painter of the Revolution

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John Trumbull

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12
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Greek god of death

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Thanatos

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13
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Portrait Madame X

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John Singer Sargent

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14
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Fauvist painter, still lifes

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Matisse (invented Fauvism with Picasso)

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14
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British born French landscape painter

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Sisley

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15
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Dancers painter

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Degas

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16
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Spanish deaf painter guys against wall getting shot, creature eating child

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Goya

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17
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Longest serving SecState

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Hull

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18
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Seabiscuit athor

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Hillenbrand

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19
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The Betrayal playwright, UK

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Pinter

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20
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The Road author

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Cormac McCarthy

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21
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Goodbye Columbus author

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Phillip Roth

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22
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Confederacy of Dunces author

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John Kennedy Toole

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23
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First World Series

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Boston Americans def Pittsburgh Pirates (1905)

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24
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Discovered Uranus

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HERschel

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25
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Gadsden Purchase Pres

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Pierce (he pierced AZ to get it)

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26
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Last Pres born in 18th c

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Buchanan

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27
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President who promoted meritocracy, from Cincinnati

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RB Hayes

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28
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Coke inventor

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Pemberton

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29
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Amonute, Matoaka, Rebecca

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Pochahontas

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30
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Wrote How Do I Love Thee?

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Elizabeth Barret Browning

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31
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Snort and chuckle, from Lewis Carrol

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chortle

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32
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Mandates certain financial reporting from corporations

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Sarbanes Oxley Act

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33
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Polish nobility

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Zlatcha

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34
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Not a Pilgrim, but their military leader

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Myles Standish

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35
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Holds records for wins, as well as innings pitched and lost

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Cy Young

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36
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Named calculus

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Leibniz

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37
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Fourth Article of Constitution deals with

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relations between the states

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38
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Invention of liberties beyond procedural due process

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Substantive due process

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39
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Speedy public trial amendment

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Sixth (six = speedy)

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40
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DC electoral vote amendment

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23

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41
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First empire

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Akkadian (Sargon the Great founded)

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42
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Founder Achaemenian (Persian) Empire

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Cyrus the Great (Cy Started)

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43
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Ruled Persia at peak, lost at Marathon but dominated

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Darius the Great (Dar Dominated)

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44
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Ruled Persia, lost in Greece at Salamis

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Xerxes (X’d by the Greeks)

45
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Wrote Valperga, historical fiction of 12th c

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Mary Shelley

46
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Wrote Tender Buttons

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Gertrude Stein

47
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Pioneer woman blogger/chef/writer

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Ree Drummond

48
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Diary of Wimpy Kid author

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Jeff Kinney (kid is named Greg Heffley)

49
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Captain Underpants writer

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Dav Pilkey

50
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Only one president has had two VPs die under him

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Madison

51
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TX city named after VP

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Dallas

52
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Four great inventions China

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paper, gunpowder, compass, printing

53
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Second largest city of UA

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Kharkiv

54
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City next to Hong Kong is

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Shenzhen

55
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Cape Australia

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Cape Leeuwin

56
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Largest sea in world

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Philippine Sea

57
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Two Antarctic seas

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Ross and Wedell

58
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West Coast of India sea

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Arabian Sea

59
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First Plantagenet monarch

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Henry II (killed Thomas Beckett at Canterbury)

60
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Napoleon second wife

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Marie Louise

61
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Last emperor China

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Puyi

62
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Henry VIII wives beheaded

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Boleyn and Howard

63
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King executed in English Civil War

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Charles I

64
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lowest type of flat cloud

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Stratus

65
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Hungarian dances

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BraHams

66
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Tuesdays with Morrie writer

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Mitch Albom

67
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First female monarch

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Mary I

68
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Last Douglas Adams book with Arthur Dent

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Mostly Harmless

69
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Genghis Khan century

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1162-1227

70
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Italian, inventor of first electric battery, lends name to unit

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Volta

71
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Grandson of Genghis Khan

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Kublai Khan (invaded Europe with Golden Horde)

72
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Scottish, inventor of the steam engine (not to be confused with Robert Fulton, who was American and more focused on steamboat engines)

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Watt

73
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Napoleon of the West

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Santa Ana

74
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A garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

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Gethsemane

75
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late 16th c Italian sculptor with David in the Vatican

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Bernini

76
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wrote the Tarzan books

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

77
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With his wife Sophie was killed in Sarajevo

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Franz Ferdinand

78
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friend of Emperor Vespasian, military commander, natural philosopher (wrote Natural History– first encyclopedia)

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Pliny the Elder

79
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Scotland and England were unified by

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James VI

80
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Faces in the Crowd author

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Valeria Luiselli

81
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Moses successor

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Joshua

82
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Lightest planet

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Saturn

83
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Second largest satellite in solar system

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Titan

84
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Closest part of atmosphere

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(troposphere– most distant is exosphere)

85
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Telescope inventor

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Lipperhey

86
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Zodiac Nov 22-Dec21

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Sagittarius (Archer)

86
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Whooping cough

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pertussis

87
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Sagittarius is associated with the centaur Chiron, who mentored

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Achilles

88
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Wrote Babbitt

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Sinclair Lewis

89
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Roman who wrote The Great Mathematician and an early atlas, Cartography

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Ptolemy— Roman mathematician is always Ptolemy unless it’s KILLED by Roman then it’s Archimedes (Greek)

90
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femal who helped invent vaccine for whooping cough

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Leila Denmark

91
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Glass House architect

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Philip Johnson

92
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Daughter of Helios (God of Sun)

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Circe

93
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Flower goddess

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GR– Chloris, RO– Flora

94
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Danish-American muckraker who was the father of flash photography

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Jacob Riis

95
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Norwegian composer

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Grieg

96
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American orator of suffragette movement

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Lucy Stone

97
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National flower France

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iris

98
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Abstract square painters

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Rothko (color field), Malevich (all black), Kandinsky (Bahaus, lines and dots)

99
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speculative fiction, white woman

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Guinn

100
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The Cremation of Sam McGee poet

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Robert Service (CA)

101
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Pacific maantee

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Dugong

102
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Leaves at top column

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Corinthian

103
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Highest summit Western Europe

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Mt Blanc

104
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Highest mountain Andes

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Mount Aconcagua

105
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Highest mountain Antarctica

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Vinson Massif

106
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Last 7 Ancient Wonders to fall

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

107
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Longest occupied palace in Europe

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Windsor

108
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Pip Longstocking author

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Lindgren

109
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