Myanmar Burma Flashcards

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It has the most eccentric orbit of any planet bearing between 29,000,000 43,000,000 miles

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Mercury

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It’s got the strongest gravity of any planet, nearly 2 1/2 times ours

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Jupiter

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Formed and 43 BC the second Roman triumvirate was made up of

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Mark Anthony Marcus Lepidus
Lep uh dis
(Caesar )Augustus future emperor AKA Octavian

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As Lennon faded from power, this man formed a troika with zinoviev and kamenev and you’ll never guess what he later did to Zen and Cam
Kham uh nev
Zin no v Ev

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Stalin

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The clergy and nobility and the people France’s three of these representative divisions before the revolution

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EStates

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Now use to reply the same this five letter word once came before a machine that made copies

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Ditto

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Known to vodka drinkers this word, meaning fine view in Italian refers to a building that gazes out on lovely scenery

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Belvedere

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Medieval astrologers thought this caused by mutating viral strains was connected to the effect of the stars

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Influenza
Because of the influence of the stars

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Need for a mythological youth, they are colorful and vibrant flowers

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Hyacinth

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Robert Giddings bio makes much of this return of the native authors relations with tryphena Sparks, a good heroine name
Try pheen uh

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Thomas Hardy

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His greatest work is about a 60 or so mile trek to Canterbury, but him: a European life sees him in France, Italy, and Spain

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Chaucer

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Her affair with a niece of Napoleon the third is one of the secrets of the flesh in a bio of this French author, who went by one name

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Colette

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2024 Coachella headliner is young and beautiful
appeared on the soundtrack for the great Gatsby

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Lana Del Rey

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Billy Joel said that this song of his wasn’t so much anti-Catholic as pro lust

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Only the good die young

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New person, same old mistakes by this music project that’s basically just Kevin Parker was covered by Rihanna

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Tame Impala

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At the 1969 Harlem culture festival Nina Simone performed the song titled to be young and these two things

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Gifted and black

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The lyric I hope I die before I get old is from their song my generation

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This house worship in Venice was built in ninth century to house the remains of its namesake

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Saint Marks

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Boston’s oldest surviving house of worship Christchurch was built in 1723 and is also called this

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Old North Church

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Moscow Cathedral commissioned by Ivan terrible to celebrate the victories over Kazan and Astrakhan

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Saint Basil

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Term for an elaborate Melody, sung solo means air in Italian

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When the pope dies this cardinal treasure of the Holy See overseas the election of the new pope

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Camerlengo
Kam er lengo

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Three countries involved in the 1879 to 83 war of the Pacific.
Also, this nation lost its access to that ocean as a result.

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Bolivia now landlocked

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Partly by the effort of a memorably named cardinal sin, Manila Cathedral is elevated to Basilica of this doctrine of Mary’s purity

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Immaculate conception

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Built during Charlemagne‘s reign the Palatine chapel of this German cities Cathedral was completed in time for his 814 burial
Aachen Ack in
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Divine invasions is a good title for the bio of this man if not quite up to his own classic titles like flow, my tears, the policeman said
Philip K dick
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Kenny Redfield Jamison focuses on this disorder in her book on Robert Lowell who said I write my best poetry when I’m manic
Bipolar disorder
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On Columbus, first transatlantic voyage, this ship in the fleet of three made it to the New World, but not back to the old
Santa Maria
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“What American airline has been the largest in terms of passengers carried since 2015?”
American
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“1992, America voted on what would become the what would become the best selling commemorative stamp ever. Seventy five percent of respondents, including Bill Clinton, voted for the winner.”
Elvis Presley
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“new commemorative stamps in 2023 include Chief Standing Bear Ruth Ginsburg and an icon known for his civil rights activism, including the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Who is it? That's civil rights icon.”
John Lewis
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“Stamps were created in 1847 to allow the average person to mail a letter. Who was on the five cent stamp. Who was on the ten cent stamp?”
Ben Franklin was 5 George 10
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“ad created by William Russell stated, Wanted young, skinny, wiry fellows, not over 18. Must be expert writers willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. What was the job?”
Pony express “So William Russell couldn't get the post office to to agree to do an express service between the states and California. So he started his own. You know how long the Pony Express lasted? Lasted Andy. Not long. It was less than two years. Yeah, it was because the railroad and telegraph came right behind it. And technology taking jobs from everyday hardworking orphans. Under 18. Under 18. Orphan children.”
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“How is the mail delivered to the remote village of Supai, Arizona?”
Mule Grand Canyon