Meteroite Hit The Ground Like Earth Flashcards

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State mottos
The star of thr north
English translation from the French

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Minnesota
Known for its many waters

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State mottos
Equal rights

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Wyoming
First suffrage women

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State mottos
Crossroads of aMerica

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Indiana

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State mottos
State sovereignty national Union

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Illinois

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State mottos
North to the future

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Alaska

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State mottos
Eureka

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California
An important find wqs discovered here

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At bood uh khan are included in titles of live albums of bob Dylan Sheryl crow ozzy Osborne and most famously this band
Also bood uh khan wqs originally intended for

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Cheap trick
Indoor sports arena built for Olympic judo competitions in Japan 64

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This is a Type of heavy covered wagon used primarily in eastern US in 18 and 19th century
Named for a river and thought to have been developed by German settlers in this state

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Conestoga
Pennsylvania

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Joseph Grimaldi Is generally considered to be first one of these performers
Examples include a Chicago tv show from 49-01
And Tim Curry in a 90 miniseries

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Clown
Bozo Chicago show

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This was the Mission of atlas and neo wise
In a way Let people of earth know if we need to recreate the events of a 98 sci-fi blockbuster that won 99 MTV movie award for best song and razzie for worst actor

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Earth impactor asteroids
Armageddon
Don’t wanna miss a thing

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This country known as the land of volcanoes may become more well known for its bit coin beach as it is first country to accept as legal Tender

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El Salvador

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This tool is now available in a number of sizes from 18-54 inches
Used by firefighters to pry open doors
First available in Boston
Then NY bought after initially relenting (conflict of interest as developed by NY firefighter )

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Hal uh gin bar

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Rumor has it that summer 21 this 02 show that takes place in the upper east side of Manhattan is getting a reboot with Kristen bell reprising her original role

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Gossip girl
Voice over

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In track and field this is the name of thr competiton in which athletes run down a track and make a hop then A step and finally jump into a sandpit to achieve the farthest possible distance

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Triple jump

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In March 22 goldbelly teamed up with this rapper to launch the H-town hottie pie

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Megan thee stallion

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Turbo boy prankbro and mibro are examples of this remote controlled electronic toy which can perform pranks move small items and record and deliver messages

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Really rad robots

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the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia

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Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain, after the capital Madrid. It is also the largest European city that sits on the Mediterranean coast

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largest and most southerly county in Ireland.

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Cork

The county is named for the city of Cork, which is the second largest in the country. It is sometimes referred to as “the Rebel County”, which alludes to the region’s resistance to British rule. Tourists flock to Cork for several reasons, not least as it is home to the famous Blarney Stone as well as Cobh, the port from which so many Irish emigrants left for countries like Australia, Canada and the United States

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discovered that DNA had a double-helix, chain-like structure, and published their results in Cambridge in 1953.

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Francis Crick and James Watson

To this day the discovery is mired in controversy, as some crucial results collected by fellow researcher Rosalind Franklin were used without her permission or even knowledge. In 1962, along with molecular biologist Maurice Wilkins, Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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The codeword eventually became the overt name for the weapon

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Tank

During WWI, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill formed the Landship Committee to oversee development of armored fighting vehicles. The vehicles in development were referred to using the codeword “tank” for secrecy. Within a few months, the committee was renamed to the “Tank Supply Committee”.

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Juárez water :

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AGUA
The Mexican city sitting across the border from El Paso is more correctly called Ciudad Juárez. Juárez used to be called El Paso del Norte (the North Pass). It was to be the younger settlement on the northern side of the Rio Grande which would retain the “El Paso” name.

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It’s thought that “this word ” comes from a Czech word meaning “little half”, reflecting the little half-steps included in the basic dance.

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polka

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The Idlewild Golf Course was taken over by the city of New York in 1943 and construction started on this

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JFK intl airport

a new airport to serve the metropolis and relieve congestion at LaGuardia. The Idlewild name still persists, even though the airport was named after Major General Alexander E. Anderson from the first days of the project. When the facility started operating in 1948 it was known as New York International Airport, Anderson Field. It was renamed to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in 1963, one month after the President was assassinated.

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First introduced in 1912, the modern pentathlon consists of:

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pistol shooting
épée fencing
200m freestyle swimming
show jumping
3km cross-country running

The original pentathlon of the ancient Olympic games consisted of a foot race, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus.

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Thr geographic center of South America is located in this country

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Brazil

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Starting in thr 1880s the first artificial Christmas trees in Germany used this specific material to simulate the needle branches

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Feathers

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Dynamite sculptor that used dynamite to create this national memorial

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Mount Rushmore
Gutzon borglum gutz in bore gloom

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Replaced Dan rather when he stepped down as cbs news anchor after 25 years from 06-11

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Katie couric

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Scottish cap :

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TAM
A tam o’shanter is a man’s cap worn traditionally by Scotsmen. “Tams” were originally all blue (and called “blue bonnets”) but as more dyes became readily available they became more colorful. The name of the cap comes from the title character of the Robert Burns poem “Tam o’ Shanter”. A pom-pom adorning a tam is known as a toorie.

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Mexican state on the Gulf of California :

lying just south of the borders with Arizona and New Mexico

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SONORA
Sonora is the state in Mexico lying just south of the borders with Arizona and New Mexico. The Sonoran Desert actually straddles the US-Mexico border, covering 120,000 square miles in parts of the states of Sonora, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Arizona and California.

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is a 2019 comedy thriller film starring Adam Sandler as a gambling addict. As well as gambling, Sandler’s character works as a jeweler in the Diamond District of New York, so one can perhaps imagine the gist of the storyline. The critics really liked this one …

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Uncut Gems”

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Umbrella” singer, to fans

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: RIRI
“Umbrella” is a 2007 song released by Rihanna as the lead single from the album “Good Girl Gone Bad”. It features rap artist Jay-Z, who also co-wrote the song. The song was a huge hit, and topped charts all over the world. While “Umbrella” was at number-one in the UK, the nation was pounded with unseasonal rain storms and flooding. One British newspaper dubbed the event the “Rihanna Curse”. The “Curse” moved around the planet, with the number-one spot coinciding with storms in New Zealand and Romania.

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the only NFL city that has never hosted nor sent a team to the Super Bowl.

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Browns

And, the Browns are the only NFL team without a logo on their helmets.

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Lunar New Year in Vietnam :

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TET
The full name for the New Year holiday in Vietnam is “Tet Nguyen Dan” meaning “Feast of the First Morning”, with the reference being to the arrival of the season of spring. Tet usually falls on the same day as Chinese New Year.

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was born in Brooklyn as Margarita Carmen Cansino. Her father was a flamenco dancer from Spain and so his daughter fell naturally into dancing. The family moved to Hollywood where her father set up a dance studio, and there worked with the likes of James Cagney and Jean Harlow. had a slow start in movies, finding herself typecast because of her Mediterranean features. When she underwent extensive electrolysis to change her forehead and dyed her hair red, she started to get more work (how sad is that?). In 1941 she posed for that famous pin-up picture which accompanied GIs all over the world.

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Rita Hayworth

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In the 2013 animated film “Frozen”,he is a happy-go-lucky snowman who provides a lot of comic relief in the movie.

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Olaf

He is voiced by actor and comedian Josh Gad.

Josh Gad is an actor and comedian who was born in Hollywood, although that would be Hollywood, Florida. Gads big break came on the stage, when he originated the role of Elder Cunningham in “The Book of Mormon”. On the big screen Gad played Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak in “Jobs” and Hector McQueen in the 2017 adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express”. Gad also voiced Olaf in the “Frozen” films.

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Hieroglyph critter :

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SCARAB
Scarabs were amulets in ancient Egypt. They were modeled on the dung beetle, as it was viewed as a symbol of the cycle of life

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This is a small rocky or metallic body traveling through space.

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A meteoroid

Once in the atmosphere, the meteoroid is referred to as a “meteor” or “shooting star”. Almost all meteoroids burn up, but if one is large enough to survive and reach the ground then we call it a meteorite. The word “meteor” comes from the Greek “meteōros” meaning “high in the air”.