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This philosopher called labor added to natural resources the basis for property. He noted that the state of nature is more or less free and equal, in contrast to the pessimist Hobbes.
John Locke
The Curie brothers discovered that an oxide of this element exhibits piezoelectricity, lending to its usefulness in resonators and clocks.
Silicon
The Jameson Raid preceded this conflict, in which the Transvaal and Orange Free State allied against British troops.
The Second Boer War
Another character in this novel claims God is “a shout in the street” after being kicked out of Martello Tower by Buck Mulligan.
Ulysses
where was the continental congress held?
Pennsylvania
ethnic group of this name comprised the Scorpions unit under Ratko Mladić (RAT-koh m’LAD-itch), which was responsible for the Srebrenica (s’REB-en-EETS-yuh) massacre.
Serbs
This man delivered the “Lectures on Rhetoric and belles Lettres” and said an important question of moral philosophy is “Wherein does virtue consist?”
Adam Smith
This scientist argued against Franciscus Linus by running an experiment with a J shaped tube.
Robert William Boyle
This process can make use of a Perkin triangle or a Kugelrohr apparatus in its vacuum form.
Distillation
The last king of a country known by this ethnic group’s name, Peter I the Liberator, rose to power after the murder of Alexander I in 1903.
Serbs (Serbians)
This city’s 2013 comptroller elections were contested by a former governor and a madam involved in his prostitution scandal.
New York City
and was husband of Sarpanit and father of Numa has his most famous act depicted in the Enuma Elish.
Marduk
name this creator of Jean Valjean who wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Victor-Marie Hugo
who is this poet, who asked about a rough beast slouching back to Bethlehem to be born in “The Second Coming”?
William Butler Yeats
name this Russian composer of The Firebird.
Igor Stravinsky
This Asian man was supported by a right-wing Blue Shirts Society. Under his rule, an uprising was suppressed in the 228 Incident.
Chiang Kai-Shek
this man said individuals’ self-interest would benefit society through an “invisible hand”.
Adam Smith
Euler angles describe this transformation.
rotation
this man’s opera Rinaldo.
George Frideric Handel
In another novel by this author, two characters who look nearly identical are named Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay.
Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
It is isoelectronic with the cyanide ion, as its stablest form has a triple bond.
Carbon Monoxide
In this country, the “Big Hole” is a 705-foot-deep former diamond mine.
South Africa
name this novel which follows Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom’s journeys in Dublin, a novel by James Joyce.
Ulysses
Another well-known aria by this composer asks that the title Persian king’s dear plane tree be safe from storms, and is titled “Ombra mai fu” but often performed as “Largo from Xerxes.”
Handel
In January 2023, representatives voted until the 15th ballot to elect this person, whose district includes Bakersfield.
Kevin McCarthy
This thinker used 7 plus 5 equals 12 as an example of a synthetic a priori truth. In their Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, this thinker stated that one should act in accordance to laws as if they were universal, a formulation called the categorical imperative.
Immanuel Kant
When a charged particle exceeds this quantity while in a medium, it produces Cherenkov radiation.
The speed of light
Native Americans living in this territory were forced to sign the Treaty of Payne’s Landing in 1832. A dispute over this territory’s northern border was settled by Thomas Pinckney, who set it at the 31st parallel.
Florida
This scientist believed that it was possible to change metals, and he wrote an account about the degradation of gold.
Robert William Boyle
name this territory that shares its name with the state home to a majority of members of the Mormon church.
Utah
name this composer whose fifth symphony opens with a famous “short-short-short-long”
Ludwig van Beethoven
He wrote the opera Rusalka, and deviated from sonata form in one of his chamber pieces, the Dumky trio.
Antonin Dvorak
This man succeeded Sun Yat-sen as leader of the Kuomintang nationalists.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Name this play in which Vladimir and Estragon wait for a friend, by Samuel Beckett.
Waiting for Godot
This type of dance caused a craze when it was first introduced to Vienna. A dog chasing its tail inspired a “Minute,” or small, one of these.
Waltz
Materials composed of this element may be made n-type or p-type depending on whether they are doped by either a group 15 or group 13 element, respectively.
Silicon
Name this Czech composer of the New World Symphony.
Antonin Dvorak
Outside of India, this country’s city of Durban has the highest Indian population of any city.
South Africa
Millicent Fawcett led a commission investigating Herbert Kitchener’s use of concentration camps during this conflict.
The Second Boer War
This thinker opened one book by declaring, “everything degenerates in the hands of man”.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
name this former Republican Speaker of the House from California.
Kevin McCarthy
Eroica, was this man’s third symphony.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Another work by him sees the gypsy Esmeralda saved from execution by the deformed Quasimodo.
Victor-Marie Hugo
In one account, this deity demonstrated his power by making either a cloth or a constellation disappear.
Marduk
An asymmetric rigid body has six degrees of freedom: three from translation and three from this transformation.
rotation
This quantity is in the numerator in the formula for the index of refraction.
The speed of light
The term “khaki election” was first used to describe a parliamentary election during this conflict.
The Second Boer war
“Buchanan’s Blunder” was the nickname of an 1857 “war” named for this state.
Utah
This play’s protagonists consider suicide and do meet Pozzo and Lucky.
Waiting for Godot
Irish uprising in another poem. This author of “Easter 1916” inspired Achebe with his line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
William Butler Yeats
Over 1 million people were displaced by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on this river, which is connected to another river to its north by the Grand Canal.
Yangtze River
A species of fish native to this river’s basin known as Dabry’s sturgeon was recently declared extinct in the wild.
Yangtze River
An early ballet by this composer depicts 13 princesses playing with golden apples before dancing a khorovod.
Igor Stravinsky
This composer of an “American” string quartet was inspired by a visit to America to write his ninth symphony.
Antonin Dvorak
The “King” of this type of musical piece wrote ones titled Roses in the South and Tales from the woods of the city where this type of music originated.
Waltz
Like nitric oxide, it is a gaseous neurotransmitter in the body, formed from the breakdown of hemoglobin.
Carbon monoxide
Glass beads are often added during this process to increase its speed by providing nucleation points, especially in its fractional form.
Distillation
A plan to retaliate against this politician’s negotiation of a continuing resolution using the motion to vacate was put forth successfully by Matt Gaetz.
Kevin McCarthy
Name this German philosopher, who wrote the Critique of Pure Reason.
Immanuel Kant
