Trinity Code Name Los Alamos Oppenhimer Flashcards

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This was the name of the inn and rendezvous point in lord of the rings trilogy

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Prancing pony

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Term that refers to highly selective liberal arts colleges in northeast US that are historically women colleges

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Seven sisters - created as alternative to Ivy League
Mount holt oak
Smith
Wells lee?
Bryn mar
Bernard college
Ratcliffe
Vassar

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What is a lazy daisy

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Type of stitch used in embroidery

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Hiding in plain sight thr international spy museum is located here

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Washington DC

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We don’t need another hero wqs a hit by her featured on soundtrack of this 85 dystopian action film

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Tina turner - queen of rock and roll
Mad max beyond thunder dome -3?
TT wqs also in the movie

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Highest MLB payrolls as of 10 2020

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Yankees
Dodgers
Red Sox
Astros
Phillies

Spottrack.com

Mets moved into top 5 in 21 ?

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Last 5 MCU movies released in theaters as of Jan 2020

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Spider-Man far from home
End game
Captain marvel
Ant man and thr wasp
Infinity war

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Top 5 South American countries by population

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Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
Peru
Venezuela

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Officer rankings in US army lowest to highest

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1st lieutenant
Captain
Major
Lieutenant colonel
Colonel

2nd lieutenant - lower than 1st

Haha no R In colonel
Left ten it - British pronounce

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Last 7 British monarchs
Starting with most Recent

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Current - Charles III - well not any more update ?!
Elizabeth II -
George 6
Edward 8
George 5
Edward 7
Queen Victoria

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first number one song on Billboard magazine’s then-newly created Hot 100 chart.

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Poor little fool
He placed 54 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and its predecessors between 1957 and 1973, including “Poor Little Fool” in 1958, which was the first number one song on Billboard magazine’s then-newly created Hot 100 chart.

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the most-bloody, one-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties

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ANTIETAM

The first major battle to take place on northern soil during the Civil War was at Antietam Creek in Maryland

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MD-to-be’s exam

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MCAT
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

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Insecure” creator/star :

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ISSA RAE
“Insecure” is a comedy-drama TV show that premiered in 2016. It is co-written by and stars Issa Rae, who also created the comedy web series “Awkward Black Girl” on which “Insecure” is based.

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New law student

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ONE L
“One L” is a name used in general for first-year law students, especially those attending Harvard.

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A drowned valley might be called this or this , and both are formed as sea levels rise.

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a ria or a fjord

A ria is a drowned valley created by river erosion, and a fjord is a drowned valley created by glaciation.

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Out of Africa” writer

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Isak : DINESEN
“Isak Dinesen” was the pen name of the Danish author Baroness Karen Blixen. Blixen’s most famous title by far is “Out of Africa”, her account of the time she spent living in Kenya.

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plays Perry Mason
Original and reboot

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Welsh actor Matthew Rhys got his break playing Kevin Walker on the TV drama “Brothers & Sisters” from 2006 to 2011. He gained even further recognition playing the co-lead role of Philip Jennings in the excellent spy drama series “The Americans” that ran from 2013 to 2018. Rhys started a relationship with his co-star in “The Americans”, Keri Russell, in 2014. The couple had a child together in 2016, and refer to each other as husband and wife.

“Perry Mason” is a TV series based on the character created by author Erle Stanley Gardner. Premiering in 2020, the show stars Matthew Rhys in the title role. It is set in the 1930s, and presents the backstory to the celebrated lawyer depicted in the books and the original TV show from the fifties and sixties starring Raymond Burr.

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This equestrian sport involves demonstration of how well a horse responds to training. “French word meaning “training”.

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dressage

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This is the study of all aspects of aging, including its biology, psychology and sociology.

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Gerontology

Geriatrics is the study of diseases encountered in older adults.

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She is the youngest daughter of Claire and Phil on the sitcom “Modern Family”.

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Alex Dunphy is played by the talented young actress Ariel Winter.

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SCOTUS member from 1993 to 2020

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RBG
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) served on the US Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg was the second woman to join the Court, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999 and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. During that time she did not miss one day on the bench. In 2009 Justice Ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer, and was back to work 12 days later. She had left-lung lobectomy to remove cancerous nodules in 2018, which forced Justice Ginsburg to miss oral argument in January 2019, for the first time since joining the court 25 years earlier. She finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2020. Much of Ginsburg’s life is recounted in the excellent 2018 movie “On the Basis of Sex”.

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In 91 this toy wqs banned from thr NSA in fear of repeating national security secrets

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Ferby

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Leonard Howell is credited with creating this religious and political movement
That began in 1930s
Combines Protestant Christian mysticism and even pan African political consciousness
Monotheistic belief with gods referred to as Jah (John?)

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Rastafarianism
High lee suh Las e 1930 the second coming of Christ Ethiopia emperor named after pre coronation name

The term “Rastafari” derives from “Ras Tafari Makonnen”, the pre-regnal title of Haile Selassie, the former Ethiopian emperor who occupies a central role in Rasta belief.

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Referenced in the Bible as part of a promise god made with Noah
Newton began experimenting with them
Believed to foretell war or roads taken by the dead
Aristotle proposed not material
Also what degrees are important

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Rainbows
40-42 degrees is the slope

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Quakers also know as

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Religious society of friends
Nixon only president

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I must admit that I don’t really know much about this . I do know that Bob Marley, is a follower of the movement. Some say that it is a religion, some not. I also know that it involves the worship of this Emperor

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Rastafarianism

“Rasta”, such

Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.

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This is the national game of England. The term “” apparently comes from the Old French word “” meaning “goalpost, stick

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Cricket

criquet

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This is a sheet of ice that has separated from an ice field and is floating freely on the surface of the ocean.

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An ice floe

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PSY” is the stage name of South Korean rapper Park Jae-sang. PSY became an international star when this 2012 music video “went viral on YouTube. That video had over 1 billion views on YouTube in about six months, making it the most viewed YouTube video clip of all time.

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Gangnam Style”

The title of the song refers to a lifestyle experienced in the Gangnam District of Seoul.

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is a Mediterranean island located almost 100 miles off the Spanish coast. It is a very popular tourist destination, largely for its legendary nightlife.

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Ibiza

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__ owl: bird with white feathers :

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SNOWY
The snowy owl (also “snow owl”) is such a beautiful-looking creature. Itl has plumage that is thick and white, making it well-adapted for life in its native habitat in the Arctic north.

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Saudi Arabia’s capital :

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RIYADH
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia, and is located near the center of the country. The name “Riyadh” translates from Arabic as “the gardens”.

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:this ” serves as a prequel to the 2016 film “Rogue One”, which itself is a prequel to the first “Stars Wars” movie, released in 1977.

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Andor

The title character is Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna.

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” is based on the animated movie the same studio released in 1991. In turn, 1991’s was an adaptation of the 18th-century version of the fairy tale “La Belle et la Bête” written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

Also who played belle

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Disney’s 2017 romantic fantasy film “Beauty and the Beast

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens play the title roles in the 2017 film, with both performances garnering critical acclaim.