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Springsteen Freehold Flashcards

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A best seller for over a year crying in H mart is her memoir- lead singer of this band

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Michelle zauner - zawn er she is Korean
Japanese breakfast
Blends something American with something exotic Japanese e

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His firefly trilogy features characters named Otis b driftwood
Captain spalding
Hugo z hackenbush and
Rufus t firefly as an homage to this comedian and tv star

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Rob zombie
Groucho Marx - used by this actor in thr 30s
Spading from animal
Crackers

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This Greek composer won Oscar for best original score for chariots of fire

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Van gel is

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Playing with fire is a 19 movie described by one critic as incinerated by the catastrophic inferno of its own existence
Starring this person

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John cena
Rapper wrestler - platinum recording artist ; his one album sold over 1 M units

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In this 74 Oscar winning movie this athlete starred as the chief of security of the tower

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The towering inferno
OJ Simpson - convicted of a felony in 08
The juice
Hall on for best original song best film editing and best cinematography

Fred Astaire Oscar nominated in the movie for best supporting
Nominated for best picture
Steve McQueen last movie
Faye doneaway and Paul Newman William holding all in

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This gas used in some types of welding can achieve flames of up to 6K degrees Fahrenheit or 3300 Celsius
Also largely replaced by this in recent decades

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Uh set uh lean
Replaced by ark welding - just electricity
Think of welding think of Uh set uh lean torches

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This device wqs invented in 1813 and consisted in part of potassium carbonate contained within compressed air

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Fire extinguisher
First portable pressurized

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I’m the phrase fire and brimstone, brimstone is this element

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Sulfur
Oh you mean that stupid table
Oh one of the greatest discoveries of all time

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This process named after the Roman god of fire is used to harden rubber

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Vulcanization

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Some claim the great fire of London in this year helped to end this event which killed up to 80K people the previous year

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1666
The bubonic plague
Debate because fire didn’t take out slums where rats were living

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Most deadly US fire occurred in this year

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2001
World Trade center - killed over 3K

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A fire at this garment company in NYC killing 146 people prompted greater factory laws and unionization

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Triangle shirtwaist factory
Made a blouse called the shirtwaist
Common practice for owners to lock doors to prevent people from stealing ; also too many cigarette breaks - girl wqs sneaking a cigarette on the factory floor ; mixed with cotton waste and oil a Molotov cocktail
So all doors were locked

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This president was ironically afraid of fire

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FDR delanor Roosevelt

Incident with aunts nightclothese catching on fire
More afraid than assassination
Ironic - fireside chats

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This tv show has featured a perpetually burning tire fire since it’s premiere in 89

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The Simpsons

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Only character on the Mary Tyler more show that wasn’t fired on the last episode

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Ted Baxter - ironically who was the only non competent one
Played by Ted knight
Spin-off Lou grant show went on to become a newspaper editor

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In 17 the 13th season of this medical show ended with a fire in the hospital

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Greys anatomy

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Come fire walk with me is the feature film prequel to this early 90s tv show

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Twin peaks

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Fireworks 💥 is a 2010 song by this rapper which is in part about his relationship with this singer

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Drake’s relationship with Rihanna who is Bajan bah jhan by birth
Nickname for people from Barbados

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This singer’s biggest hit was great balls of fire
Bonus name his famous cousins and cousin he married

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Jerry lee Lewis
Cousins Jimmy swagert - televangelist and Mickey gil e
Married ?

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Official name of the song chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Bonus most famously sung by

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The Christmas song - most famously sung by nat king cole

21
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set fire to the rain was a no 1 hit in 12 for this singer

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Adele

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This is the name of this continent southern tip named so by Magellan because he thought he saw many fires of natives who he thought were waiting to ambush him

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Tierra del Fuego in South America

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The environmental movement was given a big boost in 69 when this river in this city caught fire for the 13th time

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Ki uh hoe guh in Cleveland
So polluted

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NASA calls this continent the fire continent due to having 70% of worlds wildfires

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Africa !
Has a lot of grassland - actually good for environment
And it’s big

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This country is home to the most volcanos in the world
Also name famous ones

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Indonesia
Mt Tam bore uh and crack uh toe uh

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He is the noble golden lion who epitomizes the goodness and justice of Narnia

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Aslan

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Trick-taking card game

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Spades

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According to FEMA these are the top 10 causes of house fires in US

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Smoking
Equipment malfunction
Appliances
Other heat
Intentional - arson
Open flame
Electrical malfunction
Unintentional/careless
Heating 9%
Cooking 51%

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According to Islamic tradition how many Virgins will be rewarded to a believing man after his death

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72

30
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Signed in 1955 this created an Eastern European military alliance that was to be controlled by this nation

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Warsaw Pact
Controlled by Soviet Union

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When he revealed that 2022 would be his last season this MLB player was famously closing fin on his 700th home run

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Albert pujols

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Sunniest city on earth with over 4000 hours of sunlight

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Yuma Arizona
91% of daylight hours

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Rose bowl was moved here in this year because

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42 to Durham NC due to fears on attack by Japanese on west coast after Pearl Harbor

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