Other Stuff 2 Flashcards by Andrew Yuan

Meant to replace bullets with money, name this financial intervention strategy used by William Howard Taft, This foreign policy was mostly the brainchild of Philander C. Knox

Dollar Diplomacy

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Country whose cities include Lagos

Nigeria

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name this protein that forms microfilaments and facilitates muscle contraction with myosin, this protein transitions from its monomeric G form to a polymeric F form by hydrolyzing ATP, Treadmilling occurs when molecules are added to polymers of this protein at the same rate that they are removed

Actin

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name this Italian political faction that supported the pope and opposed the Ghibellines, who supported the emperor.

Guelphs

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African terrorist group based in Nigeria

Boko Haram

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The Second Defenestration of Prague ignited what war? It ended with Peace of Westphalia, the Count of Tilly win an early victory at the Battle of White Mountain against Bohemian Protestants, One decisive battle of this war, the Battle of Lutzen, also saw the death of the victorious King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus

Thirty Year’s War

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name this civil rights organization, founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. this organization played a key role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington

SCLC

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name this movement whose English exemplars included the primary author of Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth, as well as Thomas De Quincey

Romanticism

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name this process in which plants directionally grow or turn in response to a stimulus such as light

Tropism, or phototropism

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This genus of plant is frequently used as a model organism, since it has its entire genome mapped.

Arabidopsis

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These structures are classified as single-walled or multi-walled, and can align themselves into “ropes.” essentially rolled up graphene, shaped like cylinders, sp2 hybridization gives them a lot of strength

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)

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This award is known as the “Nobel prize for mathematics”, given to mathematicians under 40

Fields Medal

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Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira are the three cones of this stratovolcano, first scaled by Ludwig Purtscheller and Hans Meyer, its summit is known as Uhuru peak.

Mount Kilimanjaro

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Yale social psychologist who conducted a famous obedience experiment to examine the extents to which people would follow the command to administer increasingly powerful shocks to actors. featured four “prods” like “It is absolutely essential that you continue,” and featured “teachers” that delivered 15 to 450 volts in shocks to “learners.” Name this experiment

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment

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name this lipid that maintains fluidity in cell membranes and is transported by LDL and HDL proteins, This molecule’s buildup on the walls of arteries can cause atherosclerosis.

Cholesterol

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The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke, is considered the “father of” this philosophical ideology, A book titled “Conscience of [a person with this ideology]” was written by Barry Goldwater.

Conservatism

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the “energy currency” of the cell. This compound can be hydrolyzed to a phosphate ion and ADP. The electron transport chain produces a proton gradient which is used to generate this molecule when hydrogen ions pass through its namesake synthase.

ATP

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brother of Moses and first high priest of Israel

Aaron

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second son of Adam and Eve–killed by older brother Cain

Abel

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ancestor of Israel; called by God from Ur to Canaan being promised land and descendants. Children: Ishmael and Isaac. Commanded to sacrifice Isaac in order to test his faithfulness.

Abraham

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ten commandments received by Moses that were written on two stone tablets

Decalogue

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son of Isaac, ticks his father into obtaining his blessing; his twelve sons formed the twelve tribes of Israel; father of Joseph

Jacob

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prophet of God who was sent to Nineveh to preach but when disobeyed God was swallowed by a whale

Jonah

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main writer of the Epistles

St. Paul

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This law relates the magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current in the loop. One of the four laws in Maxwell's Equations, Maxwell added a displacement current term to this law. This law states that the path integral of the B field around a closed path equals the permeability times the current enclosed in the path.

Ampere Circuital Law

name this Shinto god of the sea and storms, a brother of Amaterasu. This god once shot an arrow into the middle of a field, which he set on fire after sending his future son-in-law in after the arrow. Later, that son-in-law tied this deity's hair to the rafters while escaping his palace with his daughter. One story tells how this god created five other deities from the chewed-up fragments of a necklace. This god rescued the eighth daughter of a pair of earth deities by turning her into a comb, This god filled rooms with scorpions, snakes, and centipedes and made his daughter's suitor spend a night in each.

Susano'o

This molecule inverts billions of times per second through quantum tunnelling in a process called “umbrella inversion.” This compound is produced with an iron catalyst and high pressures in a process that artificially hydrogenates nitrogen. That process is the Haber–Bosch process. this substance is oxidized to produce nitric acid in the Ostwald process

Ammonia

this Millenium Prize problem which asks whether a problem must also be be solvable in polynomial time if its solution can be verified in polynomial time.

P vs NP

This vitamin is a precursor to the coenzymes NAD and NADP. deficiency is called pellagra

Niacin

name this fusion reaction which produces carbon from three helium nuclei, This process drives the rapid burning of helium known as the "helium flash" in lower-mass giants, eryllium-8 is generated as an intermediate, and its final product can continue to fuse into oxygen-16

Triple Alpha process

this country’s Rum Rebellion, The last words of a man from this country before being hanged were “such is life” after losing a shootout to the police while wearing a full suit of bulletproof armor; that man is Ned Kelly. This country’s Lake Hillier and Hutt Lagoon are both bright pink, this country's longest river is the Darling, An instrument from this country is made by adding a wax mouthpiece after letting termites eat out the center of a eucalyptus tree.

Australia

name this compound involved in the inflammatory response that is often released in allergic reactions.

Histamine

Cromolyn is a "stabilizer" of these cells that secrete histamine to cause inflammation

Mast Cells

A plan to cross this body of water was called Operation Sea Lion, name this action conducted by William the Conqueror shortly before the Battle of Hastings, Hitler and Napolean failed to cross this body of water

English Channel

name this period of rare earth metals with atomic numbers fifty-seven to seventy-one, which lies above the actinides

Lanthanides

name this iron-containing protein that transports oxygen in red blood cells, Sickle cell anemia occurs due to a mutation in this protein. This protein’s obstructed function in acidic conditions is called the Bohr Effect.

Hemoglobin

This process occurs after chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell. Chromosomes separate during what stage of cellular division between metaphase and telophase?

Anaphase

This process was first proposed by Harry Hess, and is evidenced by magnetic stripes, proposed by the Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis in 1963. is caused by convection currents in the asthenosphere

Seafloor Spreading

Euler’s formula express these numbers as “r times e to the i theta.” Exponentiating these numbers is simplified by de Moivre’s theorem, Argand diagrams are used to visually represent elements of this set.

Complex numbers

South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung implemented this policy towards North Korea in 1998, which allowed for three families separated by the Korean War to reunite.

Sunshine Policy

name this war that resulted in the burning of Washington D.C. by British troops, Isaac Brock captured Fort Detroit with help from Tecumseh, war between Britain and US, a freak storm prevented Washington DC from burning to the ground. included William Hull's failed expedition to British-controlled Canada

War of 1812

Largest branch of Islam, making up 90% of Muslims

Sunni Islam

this sect of mystical Islam whose followers are often known as "Dervishes" for their whirling, Its members, the whirling dervishes, often enter a trance-like state through spinning.

Sufi Islam

Members of this offshoot of Shi’a Islam celebrate Christian holidays such as Christmas and Easter in conjunction with Islamic holidays, The al-Assad family in Syria are members of this sect.

Alawites

name this 230 foot long cloth that illustrates the Battle of Hastings and commemorates the Norman conquest of England. includes a famous depiction of Halley's Comet "the people marvel at the star", shows Harold Godwinson taking an arrow to the eye.

Bayeux Tapestry

Identify this theory, which explains how the massive amounts of energy released in earthquakes can be stored in the rocks along a fault line.

Elastic Rebound Theory

This ruling party of Nicaragua was opposed by the Contras

Sandinista National Liberation Front

Name this compound that can sequester ions like calcium and iron, often used in conjunction with a dye to create a pH indicator for complexometric titrations. This chelating agent contains four acetic acid groups.

EDTA

The lotus is often a symbol of this concept because it simultaneously carries seeds while it blooms. This concept affects when one can escape samsara, or the cycle of rebirth. In Jainism, this concept is seen as something exclusively negative, often referred to as "dirt"

Karma

This term in Scientology refers to immortal beings that inhabit human bodies and willed the universe into existence.

Thetans

The winning side in this battle lost its general Barnard Bee, who inspired Thomas Jackson’s famous nickname by pointing to him during this battle and yelling “There stands Jackson like a stone wall!” first major engagement of the Civil War. Retreat from this battle was hampered by chaotic hordes of civilians, who had come to picnic and watch the fighting.

First Battle of Bull Run

The first experiment studying this process used it to make dogs salivate at the ring of a bell. psychological phenomenon, wherein a previously neutral stimulus is paired with a potent stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

In this study conducted by Watson and Harvey Carr, rats that were trained to run down a long alley smashed into the wall when the alley was shortened, producing a namesake sound.

Kerplunk Experiment

Chiral carbons are notated R or S in accordance with this set of rules for assigning priority to substituents. this set of rules, used to unambiguously assign a name to a stereoisomer.

CIP Priority Rules

This organ can become inflamed by an impacted Hartmann's pouch. Organ that stores bile, One of the main causes of jaundice is the creation of a certain "stone" in this organ.

Gallbladder

Reagan-era scandal concerning the use of Middle Eastern arms sales to fund a Nicaraguan insurgency, Fawn Hall was ordered to destroy documents during this event, and later testified about this event as a witness against figures such as John Poindexter and her supervisor, Oliver North. resulted from a violation of the Boland Amendment

Iran-Contra Affair

legislation devised by Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay, which only managed to avoid Civil War for a decade. one of its components upheld so-called “Bloodhound Laws.” This legislation simultaneously strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act and allowed California to enter as a free state.

Compromise of 1850

term for organisms like amphibians, fish, and reptiles that get most of their heat energy from their surroundings.

Ectotherms

this protein typically assumes a compact, triple helical structure. name this fibrous protein that composes most of the ECM and many connective tissues. This most abundant protein in the human body can be hydrolyzed to make gelatin.

Collagen

This essay claims that power can only be rightfully exercised against members of “civilized communities” against their will in order to “prevent harm to others.” Essay by John Stuart Mill, this treatise popularized the phrase “tyranny of the majority.”

On Liberty

includes Spruce Tree House, Balcony House, Cliff House and other well-preserved Anasazi dwellings. identify this southwest Colorado national park, The Wetherill family is credited with the discovery of this location

Mesa Verde National Park

name these southwestern Native American communal residences that were made of adobe

Pueblo

chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Kochel Catalogue

King John I was the first member of this dynasty that received its name from a monastic order of which John I had been Grand Master. Other members include John I’s son, Henry the Navigator, It preceded the House of Braganza

House of Aviz

The Serbian nationalists who assassinated the Archduke were all members of this terrorist organization. Their leader, Apis, organized the coup against King Alexander and Queen Draga of Yugoslavia.

Black Hand

identify this oldest Hindu sacred text, the earliest of the four Vedas.

Rigveda

Name this highest of the four Hindu castes, contains priests

Brahmins

droning gourd-shaped Hindustani instrument, played by Ravi Shankar

Sitar

fictional therapy method in A Clockwork Orange

the Ludovico technique

This war started in Swansea after the alleged murderers of John Sassamon were executed. This war’s namesake was killed by John Alderman, a Christian convert who was a soldier under Benjamin Church, who fought for the Plymouth colony. In a popular memoir, Mary Rowlandson recounted meeting this leader during her captivity

King Philip's War or Metacomet's Rebellion

five tercets and a concluding quatrain comprise what nineteen-line poetic form, exemplified by Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night?”

Villanelles

Charles the Bold was the last great duke of this polity. state ruled by people like Charles the Rash and John the Fearless, whose patronage of art spurred the development of the International Gothic style. saw the capture of Joan of Arc during this polity's alliance with England in the Hundred Years' War.

Duchy of Burgundy

This war, which broke out shortly after the issuance of a Royal Proclamation forbidding settlements west of the Appalachians, included Jeffrey Amherst's strategy of infesting blankets with smallpox and consisted largely of a siege of Fort Detroit. Anger at inadequate British defenses during this event led to the massacre of Conestogas by the Paxton Boys. Battle of Bloody Run

Pontiac's Rebellion

The victors of this battle remarkably won without a cavalry. name this 732 battle in modern-day France won by Frankish king Charles "The Hammer" Martel. The losers of this battle were led by Abd el-Rahman, who died during it.

Battle of Tours

The Annapolis Convention was intended to revise this document. Name this precursor to the Constitution, an agreement between the former colonies regarding government. Difficulties in recruiting troops to put down Shays' Rebellion helped point out weaknesses in this document, which also mandated that only individual states, and not the central government, could levy taxes. This document specified that Canada could choose at any time to join the United States.

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

A proponent of this cause slashed Diego Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and another supporter of this cause stepped in front of the king's horse at the Epsom Derby. The NUWSS was formed by Millicent Fawcett, another supporter of this cause. the Cat and Mouse Act attempted to combat hunger striking supporters of it.

Women's Suffrage

A ruler of this kingdom built a besieging machine called the Helepolis, or “Taker of Cities,” which failed to capture Rhodes. formed a federation of Greek cities called the League of Corinth after it defeated Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea. Using soldiers armed with long sarissa pikes, That ruler of this empire conquered the Persian empire after the battles of Gaugamela and Issus.

Macedonia

After taking a city in this conflict, William Hodson shot three men dead outside what became known as the “Bloody Gate”. was sparked by rumors that the cartridges of Enfield rifles contained fat derived from beef and pork. Bahadur Shah II was reinstated as the last Mughal emperor during this event, name this 1857 revolt against the East India Company

Sepoy Mutiny

All 56 inhabitants of this British Overseas Territory in the Pacific live in its capital Adamstown. These islands are almost entirely inhabited by descendants from participants in the mutiny on the Bounty. Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea was settled by people from this much more remote Pacific island, home to the descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. In 2004 its culturally normalized underaged sex landed half its male population on trial for abuse.

Pitcairn Islands

A practice in this religion involves writing prayers or wishes on small wooden plaques. This religion's emphasis on purification is why its places of worship all have a basin for washing the mouth and hands. This religion's shrines feature gates called torii. The sun deity of this myth system hid in a cave after her brother threw a flayed horse at her, Bells are dipped into a pot of boiling water in one of this religion's dance rituals. Kami are worshiped in what Japanese religion

Shintoism

Over 90 percent of the losing country’s male population died during this war, which was started by the invasion of Mato Grosso by dictator Francisco Solano López. name this war that saw a coalition of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay defeat Paraguay. After the Battle of Cerro Cora, the losing side’s president was executed in front of his mistress Eliza Lynch.

War of the Triple Alliance