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What are forage fish?

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Also called prey fish or bait fish, they are small pelagic fish that are preyed on by larger predators for food.

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Who was Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell?

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Surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia

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What is the largest ethnic group in Liberia?

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The Kpelle

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Founded in 1869, this university is New Zealand’s oldest, and most prestigious

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The University of Otago

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This man (1932-2002) is the founder of Wendy’s

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Rex David Thomas

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This man, who resigned in 2017 to become the United States Ambassador to China is the longest-serving governor of all time

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Terry Branstad of Iowa

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Hungry Jack’s is the Australian franchise of

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Burger King, home of the 1957 Whopper

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Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising are known for founding

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The Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios.

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This man, known as the “Father of Haiti” was born a slave on the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now known as Haiti.

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Toussaint Louverture

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During his time as czar (1682 until his death in 1725), he implemented a variety of reforms

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Peter The First/Peter the Great

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This is a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid “Red Centre”

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Uluru, or Ayers Rock

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Born in 1765 this American inventor is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin and for developing the concept of mass production of interchangeable parts.

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Eli Whitney

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It is the longest river in Virginia, beginning in the Appalachian Mountains and flowsing to Chesapeake Bay.

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The James River

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This a major mountain range extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades.

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The Cascade Range

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This rocky promontory at the southern end of Cape Peninsula, Western Cape province, South Africa was first sighted by Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 on his return voyage to Portugal after ascertaining the southern limits of Africa

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Cape of Good Hope

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The largest estuary in the United States, primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula with its mouth of the Bay at the south end located between Cape Henry and Cape Charles.

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The Chesapeake Bay

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Bleach + ammonia

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chloramine gas

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This is former President Nixon’s middle name

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Richard MILHOUS Nixon

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These heads of the states are the only 3 Jewish leaders worldwide

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Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine), Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel), Egils Levits (Latvia)

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This Polish lawyer of Jewish descent is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention

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Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959)

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11-time NBA All-Star, All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA’s (MVP) in 2001. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
Payed for Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, Memphis Grizzlies, before ending his NBA career with the 76ers during the 2009–10 season. He finished his career in Turkey with Beşiktaş in 2011.

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Allen Ezail “the Answer”/”AI” Iverson

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Author of 31 books, including the best seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, and Kosher Jesus. For two seasons he hosted the prime time television series Shalom in the Home, which was one of TLC’s highest-rated shows.

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Shmuley Boteach

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This fictional paper and office supply sales company is

featured in the American television series The Office

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Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc

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The Anchorman (2004) series is a series of three American comedy films – The films were produced by Judd Apatow, directed by Adam McKay, and written by McKay and Will Ferrell.

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie,
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

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She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986) and to date is the only deaf performer to have won an Academy Award. Having won the award at the age of 21, she is also the youngest winner in the category.

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Marlee Beth Matlin (1965)

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Bart Howard composed this famous jazz standard, originally called “In Other Words”

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“Fly Me to the Moon”

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She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup and in 1973, at age 29, she won the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs

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Billie Jean King

An American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women’s doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles

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A revolutionary in the creation of modern television, he is best known for his role as the witty Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred with his then-wife Lucille Ball. This Cuban and Ball are generally credited as the innovators of the syndicated rerun, which they pioneered with the I Love Lucy series

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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha II, better known as Desi Arnaz

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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is best known for his work in animation and comedy, notably:

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Family Guy (1999–present)
The Orville (2017–present),
Co-creator of the television series American Dad! (2005–present) and The Cleveland Show (2009–2013).
Wrote, directed, and starred in the films Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).

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His painting entitled Daniel in the Lions’ Den was accepted into the 1896 Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim

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Jack Gleeson played this king, one of the most hated characters in Game of Thrones which was a compliment to his incredible acting.

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King Joffrey I Baratheon, the eighteenth king to rule from the Iron Throne.

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55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016

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Bobby Jindal

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This lake is the source of the Hudson River.

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Lake Tear of the Clouds

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Cajuns are also known as this

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Acadians

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The first African American to become governor of a U.S. state

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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Louisiana)

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Current senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (2013).
Welby is the 105th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to Augustine of Canterbury, the “Apostle to the English”, sent from Rome in the year 597.

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Governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from the year 26/27 to 36/37 AD, best known today for being the official who presided over the trial of Jesus and later ordered his crucifixion.

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Pontius Pilate

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99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945, this man is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history.

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia

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These mountains form a massif in northeastern Upstate New York and are home to countless summits and more than 200 lakes including Lake George, Lake Placid, and Lake Tear of the Clouds

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The Adirondack Mountains

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“Big Five” publishing houses:

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Penguin Random House (Bertelsmann), Hachette (Lagardère), HarperCollins (News Corp), Simon & Schuster (Bertelsmann) and Macmillan (Holtzbrinck).

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This craftsperson builds and repairs string instruments that have a neck and a sound box.

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Luthier

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She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant

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Josephine Baker

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Writers of pulp westerns

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[Ned] Buntline (1886), [Bret] Harte (1902, short fiction), and [Mark] Twain

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Wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. She was also a maternal great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
A granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth became famous in Russian society for her beauty and charitable works among the poor.

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Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

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A revolution in 1919 led to the United Kingdom’s later recognition of this country’s independence in 1922

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Egyptian Revolution of 1919

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First woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress

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Patsy Mink (1964)

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First woman to hold federal office in the United States

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1916, 1940)

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Famous 20th century New York City nightclubs

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El Morocco, Stork Cluba, Copacabana

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American restaurant chain which offers an all-you-can-eat buffet and grill.

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Golden Corral

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Third in population in Louisiana after Baton Rouge and New Orleans, center of the Ark-La-Tex region, where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet.

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Shreveport

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One of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is Île de la Cité; the Île aux Cygnes is artificial).

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Île Saint-Louis

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The field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.

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Obstetrics

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Historic Cairo palace, official residence and the principal workplace of the President of Egypt, located above Qasr el-Nil Street in eastern Downtown Cairo, Egypt.

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Abdeen Palace

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This island is known for being the place former South African president Nelson Mandela was jailed for 18 of his 27 years, but the Island was the home of prisoners from outside South Africa, notably Namibia.

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Robben Island

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The Pickpocket King, infamous for stealing Winston Churchill’s pocket watch

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King Farouk of Egypt

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Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia

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Bacteria

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Trichomonas

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Parasite

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Herpes, HIV, hepatitis

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Viruses

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Lycos, Dogpile, AskJeeves

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Search engines

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1998 Australian Open: The Williams sisters famously lost to this man, who at the time was ranked 203rd in mens tennis

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Karsten Braasch

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Popularly known as Minnesota Fats or New York Fats

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Rudolf Walter Wanderone (1913 – 1996)

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Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship an unmatched fifteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards”.

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William Joseph Mosconi (1913 – 1993)

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Composers

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Germany, Beethoven, 
France, Ravel, 
Poland, Chopin, 
Italy, Verdi; 
America has Irving Berlin.
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Laser

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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

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This is the condition of having a first metatarsal which is short in relation to the second metatarsal

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Morton’s toe

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Jackson Five

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Tito, Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael

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There is evidence that this Italian industrialist and geologist from Vicenza may have been the first person to derive the energy–mass-equivalence, generally attributed to Albert Einstein

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Olinto De Pretto

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Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, this poet is best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

69
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Iced tea + lemonade

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Arnold Palmer

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This American professional golfer from Pennsylvania is regarded as one of the greatest players history. Dating back to 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed “the King”

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Arnold Daniel Palmer

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An LAPD detective created and portrayed by Jack Webb as the lead for his series Dragnet.

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Joe Friday

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Doja Cat

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Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini

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One of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south, it is the largest province by area and one of the world’s largest opium-producing regions

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Helmand

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American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One.

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Charles Lincoln Van Doren

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This retired television game show host is known for hosting CBS’s The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history.

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Robert William Barker

Also known for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975

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First woman to fly to space

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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova

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Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Dhondup

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14th Dalai Lama

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Marius Ivanovich Petipa

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French ballet dancer (1818 – 1910), pedagogue and choreographer. One of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history.

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This American television host, comedian, writer, and producer received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academy’s 1980 Governor’s Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

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John William Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)

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The official anthem of Puerto Rico.

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“La Borinqueña”

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Another name for the Yellowstone Supervolcano

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The Yellowstone Caldera

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.

A Tale of a Tub (1704)
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
A Modest Proposal (1729).
He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously.

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Jonathan Swift (1667– 1745)

83
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The two styles of satire

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Horatian and Juvenalian styles.

84
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George Raymond Richard Martin aka GRRM

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Author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (1892 – 1973)

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English writer, poet, philologist, and academic

After Tolkien’s death, his son published a series of works based on his father’s extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales about a fantasy world called Arda and, within it, Middle-earth

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A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and served 2 terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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The Stolen Child (1886), written when this poet was only 21 is the most famous poem of his first published poetry collection The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poem.

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Yeats had great interest in Irish mythology and the poem is based on Irish legends.

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The poetically titled plays of this American playwright were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish August Strindberg.

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Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888–1953)

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This playwright’s tragedy Long Day’s Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

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Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888–1953)

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Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden), recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938.

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Romansh

It is sometimes grouped by linguists with Ladin and Friulian as the Rhaeto-Romance languages, though this is disputed.

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Before the publication of his magnum opus, this writer published several short stories in Story magazine and served in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work.

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Jerome David Salinger (1919–2010)

American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

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Protagonist of J.D Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”

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Holden Morrisey Caulfield

93
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First and second wives of John Winston Ono Lennon

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1/ Cynthia Powell Lennon (mother of Julian Lennon)

2/ Yoko Ono

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Best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in “one of the first celebrity trials”, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.

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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900)

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He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963)

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A pacifist, this writer interested in philosophical mysticism and universalism is known for works such as

The Perennial Philosophy (1945)—which illustrates commonalities between Western/Eastern mysticism
The Doors of Perception (1954)—which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline.
Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963)

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The daily newspaper of Vatican City State which reports on the activities of the Holy See and events taking place in the Church and the world.

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L’Osservatore Romano

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Latin for “Acts of the Apostolic See”, often cited as AAS, is the official gazette of the Holy See, appearing about twelve times a year. It was established by Pope Pius X on 29 September 1908 with the decree Promulgandi Pontificias Constitutiones, and publication began in January 1909.

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Acta Apostolicae Sedis

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American television sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty as four older women who share friendship and a home in Miami.

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The Golden Girls

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The Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1829, he was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, “Timbuktu”.
He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830 which included “Claribel” and “Mariana”, some of his most celebrated poems.

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (1809-1892)

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American schoolgirl, peace activist, and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous for writing a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov

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Samantha Reed Smith (1972–1985)

102
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Naproxen, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), help prevent your body from making prostaglandins.

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Advil, also known as ibuprofen, and Aleve

103
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is the longest major poem by this English poet, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

104
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1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson)

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

105
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Perfluorocarbon, also called Liquivent or Perflubron.

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The liquid has some unique properties: you can breathe it

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The practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.

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Tonsure

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The principle in which Christians who belong to different Christian denominations work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity.

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Ecumenism

108
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These figures were two 6th-century monumental statues demolished by the Taliban in 2001

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Buddhas of Bamiyan

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The largest governorate in Iraq by area. Important cities include Fallujah and Ramadi.

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Al Anbar

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Summer residence and vacation retreat for the pope, the leader of the Catholic Church.

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The Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo

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Fictional mariner described as hailing from Baghdad. In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.

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Sinbad the Sailor

112
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Covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews by Israel

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Operation Moses (1984)
Operation Joshua (1985)
Operation Solomon (1991)
113
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American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first and only Jewish Miss America

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Bess Myerson (1924 – 2014)

114
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Elzie Crisler Segar, known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of this character, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar’s comic strip Thimble Theatre.

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Popeye

Olive Oyl

115
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German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. Known for the uncertainty principle (1927). Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of quantum mechanics”.
Important contributions to hydrodynamics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear weapons program during World War II. He was also instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957.

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Werner Karl Heisenberg

116
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American actress and activist known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), and her role in the films Sex and the City. as well as her 2018 campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Andrew Cuomo.

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Cynthia Ellen Nixon

117
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Principal owner and managing partner of MLB’s Yankees from 1973 until his death in July 2010, the longest in club history. The Yankees earned seven World Series titles and 11 pennants.

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George Michael Steinbrenner III (1930– 2010)

118
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It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb used in cooking and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe.

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Fennel

119
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A West End theatre in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.

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The Savoy Theatre (1881)

120
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C12H22O11

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Granulated sugar

121
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The Bourse of this city, originally built in 1531 and re-built in 1872, was the world’s first purpose-built commodity exchange. It was founded before stocks and shares existed, so was not strictly a stock exchange.

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Antwerp (Flemish)

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A city along the Meuse River in Belgium. Its old town is filled with landmarks dating to the medieval era, including the Romanesque Church of St. Bartholomew. The Grand Curtius museum houses archaeological treasures and art within a 17th-century mansion, while Opéra Royal de Wallonie has staged operas since 1820.

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Liège (Wallonia)

123
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Norwegian military officer, politician, and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling The word “quisling” became a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages

124
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Akershus Fortress is a medieval castle in this European capital that was built to protect and provide a royal residence for the city.

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Oslo

125
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Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). e was the first known European explorer to reach New Zealand and the islands of Fiji and Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania).

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Abel Janszoon Tasman. H

126
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Three economic sectors of the three-sector theory

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Primary sector (raw materials), secondary sector (manufacturing), tertiary sector (services) + quaternary sector (information)

127
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She wrote the sonnet “The New Colossus” in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving Berlin as the song “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor” for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song “The Lady of the Harbor” written in 1985 as part of his song cycle “Three Women”.

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Emma Lazarus

128
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Czech statesman and writer who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs such as The Garden Party and The Memorandum, where he used an absurdist style to criticize communism

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Václav Havel (1936– 2011)

129
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Non-violent transition of power in Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989.

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The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution

130
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

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Midnight’s Children (1981) - won Booker Prize The Satanic Verses (1988)

131
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Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (1812– 1870)

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1843 novella A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are frequently adapted
1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris)

132
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This Victorian author’s literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (1812– 1870)

133
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Pperiod of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact members invaded the country to suppress the reforms.

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The Prague Spring

134
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Operation Danube, also known as this, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968. Romania and Albania refusing to participate.

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The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

135
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Foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the 60s

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Brezhnev Doctrine

136
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Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin

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Sir Alexander Fleming

137
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Most prestigious Italian literary award

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The Strega Prize

138
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1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco

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The Name of the Rose
It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327

139
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Uncle Shelby

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Sheldon Allan Silverstein

140
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The Order of Preachers, whose members are known as this is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally carry the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning of the Order of Preachers.

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Dominicans

141
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The founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. He was succeeded by his son, Cambyses II, who managed to conquer Egypt, Nubia, and Cyrenaica during his short rule.

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Cyrus II of Persia (c. 600 – 530 BC) commonly known as Cyrus the Great

142
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The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) set in Gilead, New England and featuring a woman named Offred.

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Canadian author Margaret Atwood

143
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2019 sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

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The Testaments

144
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Robert Zimmerman (Hebrew name Shabtai Zisel)

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Bob Dylan

145
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French newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968

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Libération

146
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Generally considered as one of the greatest rulers of Iranian history and the Safavid dynasty.

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Abbas the Great or Abbas I of Persia

147
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Dry anise-flavoured aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece

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Ouzo

148
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Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976 at the age of 14, she was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games

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Nadia Comăneci

149
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Hitchens’s razor

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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence

150
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Wide variety of conditions that result in the partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing pale coloration of the skin, hair, feathers.. but not the eyes.

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Leucism

151
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In academia, it’s a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime.

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a Festschrift

152
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Former American football fullback, sports analyst and actor. He played for the Cleveland Browns from 1957 through 1965. He is considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history.

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James Nathaniel Brown

153
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Written by Eric Carle, first published in 1969.

154
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In biology, it’s a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations.

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An atavism

155
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Drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, includes some of the largest lakes in the world, such as the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water.

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An endorheic basin

156
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Chambers of UK Parliament

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House of Lords

House of Commons

157
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Copernicus 
Brahe 
Kepler 
Huygens 
Galileo
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Polish
Danish
German
Dutch
Italian
158
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2 of three vehicular crossings between Manhattan and New Jersey

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The Holland Tunnel
The Lincoln Tunnel
The George Washington Bridge

159
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The first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. Wikipedia

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The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News

160
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Brand of vintage Champagne produced by the Champagne house of Moët & Chandon named after a Benedictine monk

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Dom Pérignon

161
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He is the second and most recent vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

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Spiro Theodore Agnew

162
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American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.

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Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel

163
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Presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin

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Satoshi Nakamoto

164
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American television personality and film actor known as the hostess of Wheel of Fortune since 1982.

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Vanna Marie White

165
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From 1915 through 1975, it was the largest grocery retailer in the United States

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A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company)

166
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Assassinated Swedish prime minister

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Olof Palme

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