Myanmar Burma Flashcards

1
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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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5
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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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7
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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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9
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Need for a mythological youth, they are colorful and vibrant flowers

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Hyacinth

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10
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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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12
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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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14
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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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15
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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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16
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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

17
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The lyric I hope I die before I get old is from their song my generation

A

The Who

18
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This house worship in Venice was built in ninth century to house the remains of its namesake

A

Saint Marks

19
Q

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

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Old North Church

20
Q

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

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Saint Basil

21
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Term for an elaborate Melody, sung solo means air in Italian

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Aria

22
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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

23
Q

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

24
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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

25
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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

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Aachen
Ack in

26
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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

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Philip K dick

27
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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

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Bipolar disorder

28
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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

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Santa Maria