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Holds the record for bordering the most countries
And name countries that it borders

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China 14 with Russia second @13

Afghanistan
Bhutan
India
Kazakhstan
Ker guh stan
Laos
Mongolia
Me ann mar
Nepal
North Korea
Pakistan
Russia
Tuh jeek uh stan
Vietnam

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Column to the left of noble gases and also to their left

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Halogens
Chal suh gins? Containing
Oxygen sulfur
tell uh re um
selenium
polonium
Liver More e um

Alkalines all the way to the left

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Fast growing sports
Beginning its 1st season in 2018 in partnership with private investors the MLR entered its 3rd season in 2020 with 13 Rita teams including the Seattle Seawolves Austin elite and New Orleans gold in this fast growing sport North America sport

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Major league rugby

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Hidden brand logos
Home to the Matterhorn mountain and known as the city of bears this city is home to this chocolate company that hides an image of a bear inside a mountain on its triangular packaging

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Toblerone
Bern Switzerland

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Teen drama television
Featuring a vibrant ensemble cast featuring zendaya and transgender mode turned actress hunter Schaffer this teen drama series and adaptation of the original series with the same name from here is a no holds barred look at drugs trauma and gender identity in thr teenage community

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Euphoria
Israeli

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Capital punishment
State capitals that share the same first letter with state name

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Dover Delaware
Honolulu Hawaii
Indianapolis indiana
Oklahoma City Oklahoma

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A 3 acre area in the Everglades known as this was once a settlement of this native people

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lost city
Seminole

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Originally consisting of 158 verses thr national anthem of Cyprus is shared with this other country

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Greece

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Often heard at yoga this Sanskrit phrase literally means I bow to you

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Namaste

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The publishing of this important scientific work was delayed by years because the author had more important projects to finish, specifically writing several books about different species of barnacles

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On the origin of species
Darwin
Are a sample of almost every animal he found
Neil - thr dollup podcast recommend

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This sci-fi author popularized rah e concept of geo synchronous orbits in a 1945 paper

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Arther c Clarke

geo synchronous orbits - Satellite that’s in orbit that causes it to be stationary in relation to the planet

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A clock tower in this city supposedly inspired Einstein to conceive of the special theory of this in 1905

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Bern Switzerland when he was a patent clerk
Special theory of relativity
Time is relative
Our vision is light rays bouncing off of things ; if on a trolley going away from the clock tower at the speed of light it would appear that the hands on clock weren’t moving meaning time had slowed down for him but his watch still going at the same speed

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This scientist was active in the SETI ininstitute and developed the plaque and record that were launched with these 2 spacecrafts and won a Hugo award posthumously in 98 for best dramatic performance in this movie

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Carl Saigon
Pioneer and voyager spacecrafts
Search for extra terrestrial intelligence
Movie was Hugo

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The art of this center named for an oilman is housed in a LA hilltop complex designed by Richard Meier

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Thr Getty a center

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From 1887 to 93 he was chief draftsman foe the Chicago form of Adler & Sullivan

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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In thr 70s this Chinese American designed thr aluminum clad skyscraper at 88 pine street in NYC

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I M pei

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In. 1657 he was appointed professor of astronomy at London’s Gresham college

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Christopher wren

18
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His designs are sewn in the film triumph of the will after he spent 20 years in spandau prison

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Albert Speer

19
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Thr 35thr anniversary warrants this which is also the orangy color of the material seen here

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Coral

20
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Thr 17th and 18th century Jacobite rebellions attempted to return this royal house to the British throne

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House of Stuart

21
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Maoists known as the shining path have attempted to overthrow this South American country government

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Peru

22
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Discovered in the early 20th century these 2 particles 1 with a positive charge the other a packet of energy differ by 1 letter

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Proton
Photon

23
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This musical instrument with strings attached across a soundboard

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Zither

24
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For 2 decades Nobel prize winner aung suu kyi has been thr focal point of resistance to this country’s ruling regime

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Burma

25
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This composers enigma variations contain cryptic references to his friends that he never revealed

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Sir Edward Elgar

26
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Liszt Borodin and rimsky- korsakov all wrote variations of this simple waltz

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Chopsticks

27
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Dr Constantine is the coroner on the train who helps poirot gather evidence in this novel

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Murder on the orient express

28
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Where did I coach
Phong Allen 1920-56

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Kansas

29
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All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds claims dr pangloss in this French novel

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Candide

30
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This plants name may have come from its use by Italian Renaissance women to dilate pupils which they felt augmented beauty

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Belladonna