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1
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Scientific classification

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Kingdom (Animalia)
Phylum
Class (Mammalia)
Order (Primates)
Family (Hominid/great apes)
Genus (Homo)
Species (H. sapiens)
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Tierra del Fuego

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Land of Fire

Archipelago at the tip of South America, split between Chile and Argentina

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Chile

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Santiago

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Guyana

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Georgetown

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Peru

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Lima

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Uruguay

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Montevideo

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Paraguay

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Asunción

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Suriname

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Paramaribo

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sea cow

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manatee

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Barbados

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Bridgetown

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Burkina Faso

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Ouagadougou

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Solomon Islands

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Honiara

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Tajikistan

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Dushanbe

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Montenegro

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Podgorica

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Moldova

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Chisinau

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Mauritius

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Port Louis (named after Louis XV)

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Angola

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Luanda

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Zambia

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Lusaka

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19
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Solomon

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King of Israel (c.970-931 BC)

Son of David

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Hellenistic period

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From death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) to emergence of Roman Empire (Battle of Actium 31 BC)
From Ancient Greek “Hellas” meaning Greece.

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The only Prime Minister to have been murdered. (1809-1812)

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Spencer Perceval

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Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg

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Co-founders of the Spartacist League and German Communist Party

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Appian Way

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Strategically important road that connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy.
Construction began in 312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus.

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The Trimurti

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Hindu trinity of Gods

Brahma - the creator
Vishnu - the preserver
Shiva - the destroyer

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25
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Hoover Dam

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Built on Colorado river on border between Nevada and Arizona

Constructed between 1931-1936

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hajj

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Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca

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traditional religion of Japan

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Shinto

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Ganymede

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Moon orbiting Jupiter.

Largest moon in the solar system

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Galilean moons

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Four largest moons orbiting Jupiter:
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto

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30
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quinine

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Medication used to treat malaria.

Also an ingredient in tonic water.

Pronounced: QUIN-een

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31
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Pentateuch (Torah)

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Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

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32
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Hebrew Bible

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Tanakh

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33
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IQ

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Intelligence Quotient

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34
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Abstract expressionism

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Post-world war II art movement developed in New York in the 1940s.
Emphasis on spontaneous, automatic, or subconscious creation.
E.g. Jackson Pollock

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35
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Author of Dracula

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Bram Stoker (1897)

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36
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Southern capital of China

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Nanjing

Beijing - Northern capital

37
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World’s deepest lake

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Lake Baikal

Also largest freshwater lake by volume

38
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Four largest islands of Japan

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Honshu
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku

39
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Israeli national intelligence agency

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Mossad

40
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banana republic

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A politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, such as bananas or minerals.

Coined by American writer O. Henry in 1901 when referring to Honduras.

41
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Angel of the North

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Sculpture designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
Completed in 1998.

42
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Origin of word “History”

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From Greek “historia” meaning: inquiry or knowledge acquired by investigation.

43
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The Father of History

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Herodotus - 5th-century Greek historian

His book “historia” details the origin of the Greco-Persian Wars

44
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Mario Puzo

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Wrote the novel ‘The Godfather’ in 1969.

Later won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the film in 1972.

45
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Indus River

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Long river which flows through Pakistan and into the Arabian Sea.
Indus Valley Civilisation which existed c. 2000 BC

46
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Molasses

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American English for black treacle.

Syrupy substance made by refining sugarcane

47
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Zaire

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1971-1997
Ruled by Mobutu Sese Seko. Currently the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pronounced: zye-eer

48
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Hippopotamus

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Name comes from the Ancient Greek for “river horse”

49
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Author of War and Peace

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

50
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Longest river in Asia

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Yangtze.
Flows through Nanjing and Shanghai.
Third longest river in the world

51
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American overseas territories (permanently inhabited)

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American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico 
US Virgin Islands
52
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Major inland Asian sea almost entirely dried up

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Aral Sea.

On border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

53
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Moa

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Nine species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand.

Hunted to extinction by the Maori.

54
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The Golden Hind

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English galleon captained by Sir Francis Drake.
Circumnavigated the globe 1577-1580.
Hind = female red deer

55
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Shangri-La

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Fictional place described in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon (1933).
An earthly paradise, exotic, mythical Himalayan utopia.

56
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Appalachian Mountains

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Mountain range in North America stretching from Quebec and Maine in the north to Georgia and Alabama in the south.

Pronounced: app-ah-LAY-shun

57
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Mason-Dixon Line

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Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland in the US.

In the pre-Civil War period it was regarded as the dividing line between slave states and free-soil states (along with Ohio River).

58
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Caledonia

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Latin name given to the land north of Brittania, roughly corresponding to modern-day Scotland.
Romantic or poetic name for Scotland.

59
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Calabria

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Region in Southern Italy.

The toe of Italy

60
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Female equivalent of bar mitzvah

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Bat mitzvah

61
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shogun

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Military dictators of Japan during most of the period 1185-1868. Nominally appointed by the emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country.

62
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caribou

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Large North American reindeer

63
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The thinker

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Bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).

Le Penseur (French)

64
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Painter of “The Scream”

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Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. (pronounced “munk”)

Expressionism

65
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Composer of Canon in D

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Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)

Baroque composer
Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

66
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“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Austrian philosopher

67
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Aswan Dam

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Built on the river Nile between 1960 and 1970 in Aswan, Egypt.

68
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Largest asteroid in the solar system

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Ceres (pronounces “series”)

Lies in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

69
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What city is situated on the Golden Horn?

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Istanbul

Also on the inlet of the Bosphorous. Strait which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara

70
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Sahel

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A vast semi-arid region of North Africa, to the south of the Sahara, that forms a transitional zone at the south of the desert and comprises the northern part of the region known as Sudan.

71
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Most expensive painting ever sold at auction

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Salvator Mundi (Latin for Saviour of the World)

By Leonardo DaVinci

Sold in 2017 for $450.3 million

72
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Motto for the Olympic Games

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“Citius, Altius, Fortius.”

Latin for “faster, higher, stronger”.

73
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LCD

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Light-Crystal Display

74
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Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

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Promoted the idea of sterile surgery. Disinfected his instruments in carbolic acid (now known as phenol).
Known as the “father of modern surgery”.

75
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First to climb Everest

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Edmund Hillary (New Zealand)
Tenzing Norgay (Nepali Sherpa)

1953

76
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First deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor in Arts degree

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Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Teacher: Anne Sullivan

77
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Jewish skullcap

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Kippah or Yarmulke

78
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Author who created James Bond

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Ian Fleming

79
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Major river delta located in southern Vietnam

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Mekong

Pronounced: mee-kong

80
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Corpse used for medical or scientific research

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cadaver

81
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Observation tower in Seattle

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The Space Needle

Completed in 1962

82
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Richard Owen

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Palaeontologist who coined the word “dinosaur” (terrible lizard) in 1842.

83
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Darwin’s Bulldog

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Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

Coined the term “agnostic” in 1869. “It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe”.

84
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”

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Nathan Hale - American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Captured by the British and executed in 1776.

85
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Short traditional Japanese poem

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Haiku

86
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Cerberus

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Greek mythology - the three-headed dog that guards the Underworld. Referred to as the hound of Hades.

87
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Plant used to make tequila

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Blue agave (pronounced “a-GAV-ay”)

88
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OEM

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Original Equipment Manufacturer

89
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MOU

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Memorandum of Understanding

A document that describes the broad outlines of an agreement that two or more parties have reached. MOUs communicate the mutually accepted expectations of all of the parties involved in a negotiation.

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