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June 10th Flashcards

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“father of pneumatics”

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CTESIBIUS

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Ancient water clock

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CLEPSYDRA

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area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country

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BIR TAWIL

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Born Alessandro Farnese, who was Pope 1534 to 1549?

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PAUL iii

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5
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6 day war. Which six days?

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5th to 10th June 1967

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Israel PM 1963 TO 1969

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Levi ESHKOL

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Oscar nominated for his portyrayal of Colonel Saito in Bridge on the River Kwai, which male actor was one of the leading sex symbols of early Hollywood?

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Sessue HAYAKAWA

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Which 5ft 3 cyclist won the 1947 TDF?

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Jean ROBIC

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In 1965 which was the first jazz record to win the Grammy for Album of the Year ?

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Getz/Gilberto

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“Father of the Bossa Nova”

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Jao GILBEERTO

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Which Manila born lead guitarist cofounded the Pixies

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Joey SANTIAGO

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an American textile chemist who was based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for his role in the structural development of Spandex, a thermoplastic elastomer, in the 1950s, while employed at DuPont.[1]

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Joseph SHIVERS

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Launched in August 2018, this American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service markets itself as a free speech-focused and unbiased alternative to mainstream social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Which social networking website went offline earlier in January 2021 when Amazon Web Services canceled its hosting services after its users were implicated in the coordination of the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol?

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PARLER

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Originally a lake fed by the Kunene River, which large endorheic salt pan of northern Namibia, that forms part of the Kalahari Basin, is at the centre of a namesake National Park that is home to a wide variety of wildlife?

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ETOSHA

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Appearing as a miser in Pushkin’s Ruslán i Lyudmíla and as the principle villain in Stravinsky’s L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), which malevolent character from Russian folklore is said to be immortal and capable of hiding his soul inside a variety of objects?

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KOSCHEI

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Named after the Italian circus acrobat who performed the trick around 1881, which aerial manouevre consists of a front flip and a 180 degree turn? The trick is performed in gymnastics, trampolining, and freerunning among other sports and activities.

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BARANI FLIP

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an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport and recreation.[2]

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George NISSEN

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Three titles in NK Jemison’s Broken Earth series?

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The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky

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This music genre in 6/8 time originated among the slave populations of Mauritius and later spread to Réunion and the Seychelles. Its traditional Mauritian form appearing on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, this is which style of music

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sega

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20
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Film director won prix goncourt 2023

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Dennis Andrea

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The three domain man, who introduced archaea

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carl woese

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Now serving as the national symbol of Peru, what is the name of the ceremonial knife, distinctly characterized by a semi-circular blade and made of either bronze, copper, gold-alloy, wood, or silver alloy, that was used by the Moche, Chimú, and Inca during sacrificial rituals?

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TUMI

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Nana Buluku is the supreme being, and her twin siblings Lisa and Mawu the creator spirits, in the religion of which African ethnic group, who founded the Dahomey Kingdom and who, today, are the largest ethnic group in Benin?

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FON

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One of the most productive and best-known yé-yé artists, which Bulgarian-born French singer released J’ai un problème in 1973, a duet with her then husband, Johnny Hallyday?

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Sylvie VARTAN

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Sometimes known as tablemounts, what name, after a Swiss-American geologist, is more commonly given to an undersea mountain with a flat top? The Great Meteor Seamount in the North Atlantic is among the best-known.

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GUYOT

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What is the name of the indigenous people of the Lake Sebu area on the island of Mindanao who attracted widespread media attention when they were ‘discovered’ in 1971, and claimed to be a stone-age tribe living in isolation from the rest of Philippine society? It was later claimed that their ‘discovery’ was a hoax, although more recent research appears to support the claim that these people were, indeed, isolated until 1971 and lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers.

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TASADAY

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15 October 1921 – 21 February 2006) was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, the most successful female table tennis player in the history of the sport[citation needed], winning the women’s world singles title 6 years in succession

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Angelica ROZEANU

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Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine was the subtitle of which 1948 book by the American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener? The titular concept can be thought of as the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems.

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Norbert WIENER

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What name has been given to the diplomatic episode of 1850 when Greeks rioted after being asked not to burn an effigy of Judas Iscariot at the time of a visit from James de Rothschild?

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DON PACIFICO AFFAIR

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The Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch coined which word for the branch of economics concerned with the use of statistical methods in describing economic systems?

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Econometrics

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Coming in a graceful twin-dove crystal bottle designed by René Lalique, L’Air du Temps, created in 1949, is the most famous perfume from which fashion house?

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Nina RICCI

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Associated with Chet Baker, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck, which post-War style of modern jazz was characterized by its relaxed tempos and lighter tone, in contrast to the bebop style that preceded it? This new style often incorporated elements of classical music.

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COOL JAZZ

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The world’s longest bridge to have only one pylon, Most SNP is a bridge sometimes called the UFO Bridge because of the flying saucer-shaped structure (housing a restaurant and observation deck) that rises above it. The bridge crosses the Danube in which capital city?

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BRATISLAVA

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Hemingway years

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1899 to 1961

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Hemingway 4 wives

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Hadley Richardson
Pauline Pfeiffer
Martha Gellhorn
Mary welsh

37
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Hemingway first novella

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Torrents of Spring

38
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Wrote queenie

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Candice carty williams

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Lyrics month

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Late april

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Perseids month

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Mid august

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Orionids month

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Late october

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Leonids month

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Mid november

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Geninids month

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Mid december

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Hagis son

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Ianis

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Joint Romanian top scorers

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Hagi
Mutu

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Pushkin great grandfather

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Gannibal

47
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First f members garrick club

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Dench
Phillipe

48
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Which second husband of Hadley Richardson was the first winner of pullitzer prize for correspondence

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Paul mowrer

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