Shackleton Endurance Flashcards
The hand of god film is about this
World Cup 86
Hand assisted goal by Diego mar uh Donna for Argentina against UK
Seen as revenge for humiliating loss 4 years earlier (not soccer related )
Embarrassing Kicked out of Falkland Islands wqs the lost after 10 weeks
Nicknamed big ditch in 14 this modern wonder celebrated its 100 anniversary
Panama Canal
Purple rain song
Prince
In hP Remus lupin Peter petti grew Sirius black and James potter were 4 students who formed this group
Bonus house
Marauders
Gryffindor house
Tinnitus docs :
ENTS
Ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT)
This 1991 film called “is a Martin Scorsese remake of a 1962 movie of the same name. The 1991 version stars Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte, and there are also cameo appearances by Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck who starred in the 1962 original
Cape Fear”
Daniel Deronda” novelist :
ELIOT
“Daniel Deronda” was the last novel penned by English author George Eliot. It was originally published in eight installments, in 1876. The novel starts with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth. Early on in the tale, the two separate. The remainder of the novel is in two parts: one following the history of Gendolen, and the other the history of Daniel.
is a city-port on the northeastern coast of Italy that is almost completely surrounded by the country of Slovenia.
Trieste
Trieste was home for many years to Irish author James Joyce.
This is an ancient Jewish text that is traditionally read aloud at the Passover seder.
(“telling” in Hebrew) it acts as a guide to the seder ritual, which commemorates the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt.
Haggadah
The former Soviet Union decided to divert the two rivers feeding this Sea in order to irrigate food and cotton crops. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the it began to shrink dramatically in the 1960s due to the loss of water.
Aral
Today, the Aral Sea is no more. Instead, there are two relatively small bodies of water labeled as the North Aral Sea and the South Aral Sea.
Chemical Elements
Isolated in 45 during fission research it was named for an ancient deity to suggest humans gaining a new power
Promethium 61 pm
Nuclear energy like bringing down fire thr heavens
was an American painter from Pennsylvania who moved to France at the young age of 22 years, in 1866. By which time she was already studying to become a professional artist. She became friends with Edgar Degas, who invited her to exhibit with the group called “the Impressionists”, who were garnering a great deal of attention at the time. Her reputation as a great artist is perhaps built on an extensive series of paintings of mothers with a child.
The Pink Sash
Mary Cassatt
George W. Bush, wife and brother
Jeb Bush is the son of President George H. W. Bush, and the brother of President George W. Bush. I always thought that Jeb was an American nickname for James or Joseph but I must be wrong, because George and Barbara’s son John Ellis Bush is called “Jeb”. A kind blog reader has suggested the name “Jeb” may have been chosen as JEB are the initials of John Ellis Bush.
Despicable me main character
Despicable Me 3” is a 2017 animated movie in the “Despicable Me” series. Despite the title, the film is really the fourth film of the franchise, as the spinoff prequel “Minions” came out in 2015.The main character in the movie is Felonious Gru, voiced by Steve Carell. Carell also plays Gru’s twin brother Dru Gru. Gru and Dru’s mother is voiced by the great Julie Andrews.
” is a fascinating sculpture that sits on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The work contains four encrypted messages that were created by the sculptor Jim Sanborn and Ed Scheidt, then Chairman of the CIA Cryptographic Center. What’s interesting is that only three of the messages have been decoded to date.
Kryptos
The poker hand called this is the highest-ranking hand possible. It consists of a run of 10, jack, queen, king and ace, with all in the same suit.
royal flush
Weather map line :
ISOBAR
An isobar is a line on a weather map connecting points of equal barometric pressure.
The oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans is the this which is also called the “Vieux Carré (French for “Old Square”).
French Quarter,
After being founded by the French in 1718 as “La Nouvelle-Orléans”, the city developed around this central square.
French Quarter city, familiarly : NOLA
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a huge limestone statue of a mythical creature with the body of this and the head of this . It is the largest monolithic statue in the world. Famously, the Great Sphinx is missing its nose and beard.
Body lion head human
There is an alternative to the annoying QWERTY keyboard layout.
Dr. August Dvorak came up with a much simpler and more efficient layout in 1936. The Dvorak layout is supposed to allow faster typing rates and to reduce repetitive strain injuries.
The Taj Mahal material and builder
Marble
Shah Jahan
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India is a magnificent marble mausoleum. It was built in the mid-17th century by the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died while giving birth to her 14th child in 1631. When Shah Jahan himself died in 1666, he was buried in the Taj Mahal, alongside his wife.
Singer and actor was of Caribbean descent, from Jamaica through his mother’s heritage and from Martinique through his father. Born in New York City, he came to be known as the “King of Calypso”. His most famous recording is 1956’s “The Banana Boat Song”, and I suspect that his most famous movie performance is in Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones”.
Harry Belafonte
54 no 1 hit song
Give him a lonely heart like pale e lach e and lots of wavy hair like Liberace
Mr sandman by the Cordettes
Bum bum bum
One of Liberace tradeMark was this prop which he added on stage to refine his act ; also title of book written by his former liver that wqs turned into a 14 film
Candle ahb ruh
Book behind thr Candle ahb ruh
Movie Michael
Douglas as Liberace; Matt Damon lover
