Tropical Cyclones Southern Hemisphere Clockwise Flashcards

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This African American Muslim minister and human rights activist travelled extensively throughout Africa; after speaking at Nigerian university of ib uh dong was bestowed honorary name translating to the sun that has come home
Called most treasured honor

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Malcolm X

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First ghost to visit him in a Christmas carol

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Jacob Marley visits ebenezer Scrooge
On Christmas Eve night

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Song playing during the famous pottery wheel scene in This movie
Peaked at 4 in 65

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Unchained melody by the righteous bros
Who are not actually bros ? - song actually about person in jail looking to be back in regular world
Ghost
Swayze

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Diver who hit head against springboard at these Olympics

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Greg lou gain is - controversy bled had aids
88 Seoul
Won 2 gold medals

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Many members of this nation live on a reservation that is actually located within the much larger Navajo reservation in Arizona.

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Hopi

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New York City’s Radio City Music Hall is located in this building

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Rockefeller Center

opened for business in 1932. Originally to be named International Music Hall, the current name was chosen in honor of the Radio Corporation of America, which was one of Rockefeller Center’s first tenants.

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Top 2 rental car companies

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Avis has been around since 1946, and is the second largest car rental agency after Hertz. Avis has the distinction of being the first car rental company to locate a branch at an airport.

The Hertz car rental company was started in 1918 by Walter L. Jacobs in Chicago. He began with just twelve model T Ford cars available for rent. In 1923, the car rental operation was bought out by John D. Hertz who incorporated it into his truck and coach manufacturing company.

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The Devil Wears Prada” is a 2003 novel by her that is set in the fashion industry. One of the main characters in the story is her , the tyrannical editor-in-chief of the fictional fashion magazine “Runway”. It has been suggested that the character was inspired by Anna Wintour, the real life editor-in-chief of “this magazine ”.

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Lauren Weisberger

Miranda Priestly

Vogue

Weisberger’s book was adapted into a very successful film with the same title that was released in 2006, with Meryl Streep playing Priestly.

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is a fruity drink that is sold in powdered form. The sales “took off” when John Glenn took Tang on his Mercury flight. However, it is a common misconception that it was invented for the space program. That’s not true, although it was included in the payload of many missions.

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Tang

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was a giant telecom company that suffered a similar fate to Enron, and around about the same time.

stock price fell in 2000 and, in maneuvers designed to protect the price, the company committed illegal acts. MCI’s larger-than-life CEO Bernie Ebbers (formerly of WorldCom) served 13 years of a 25-year sentence, before being released due to a decline in health.

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MCI

MCI was formed with the merger of MCI Communications and WorldCom in 1997, and eventually became the second-largest, long-distance provider in the US. MCI’s He died one month later.

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The telecommunications company that we know today as this was founded in 1983 as Bell Atlantic, and was one of the “Baby Bells” that were formed after the breakup of AT&T. Bell Atlantic merged with fellow Baby Bell NYNEX in 1997, and then merged with GTE in 2000 to form the company .

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Verizon

The new company name is a portmanteau of “veritas” (“truth” in Latin) and “horizon”.

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In 14 British artist uh neesh cuh pour bought exclusivity rights for use of this paint which wqs developed by suh ree muh row sis ?

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Vanta black ?

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The song that doesn’t end

Wqs used as end credit song for popular childrens tv show featuring Sherry Lewis a beloved puppeteer and host of her animal
Friends
Named
After her most famous puppet

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Lamb chop
Ear worm

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United Nations charter wqs drafted and ratified in this city in this year

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1945
San Francisco

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Home on the range
Wild West outlaw partners Robert luh roy Parker and Harry long uh bow were better known by

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
Sundance film
Festival - No word if Harry knew his name would pack a big punch in film industry

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Where has my little dog gone
Iconic comic strip character was born at the daisy hill puppy farm

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Snoopy

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Generally placed across center of a canoe this is name of rounded piece of plastic or wood designed to help carry it

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Yoke - classic computer game fans might remember having to purchase in independence Missouri for oxen
Oxen come 2 to a yoke

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Among my favorite appearances of his, although he would call them trivial I am sure, was as host of a great reality game show called “The Mole” that aired in 2001.
Also his mother was this fashion designer.

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Anderson Cooper - He is a respected news personality on CNN and on various shows around the dial.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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This is the fifth astrological sign of the Zodiac.

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Leo
People born from July 23 to August 22 are Leos.

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This term “” has entered many languages, including English, as a generic term for petroleum jelly.

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vaseline

Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly owned by Unilever.

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PSAT stands for

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Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test

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Typically, this is a military unit comprising about a thousand soldiers, subdivided into several companies.

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battalion

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This compelling story of Martians invading Earth has been adapted many times into radio dramas, a television series and several movies.
Penned in 1895-97

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The War of the Worlds” is a science fiction classic penned by H. G. Wells

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This Caribbean island nation has a population of less than 200,000. Remarkably, it has produced two Nobel Laureates: economist Arthur Lewis and poet Derek Walcott.

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Saint Lucia

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In December 23 this internet illusionist broke the world record for most viewed video on you tube with a clip of himself flying on a broomstick without touching the ground

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Zach king

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In Cinderella this object is official changed into a carriage by the fairy godmother

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Pumpkin

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Organism taxonomic classification
Also name each one for modern human taxonomic classification

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Kingdom - ahn uh male e uh
Phylum - core dot uh
Class - muh male yuh
Order - primates
Family - great apes or hominids
Genus - homo
species - sapiens

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Players that have won both defensive player of year and MVP in Same year

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89 - Hakeem Olajuwon
94 - MJ
20-Anthony Davis

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” is an excellent 2016 film based on a book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Both book and film tell the story of female African-American mathematicians who worked for NASA during the Mercury and Apollo programs in the 1960s.

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Hidden Figures
Jim parsons also in

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) made up of these

Also became known as these states
2 largest also

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Abu Dhabi is one of the seven Emirates that make up the federation known as the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The two largest members of the UAE (geographically) are Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the only two of the seven members that have veto power over UAE policy. Before 1971, the UAE was a British Protectorate, a collection of sheikdoms. The sheikdoms entered into a maritime truce with Britain in 1835, after which they became known as the Trucial States, derived from the word “truce”.

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Term for any area in space where gravity is don strong nothing not even light can escape

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Black hole

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A living magica stsr falls from the sky to help Young asha confront king magnifico in this 23 movie

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Wish - Disney film

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Main asteroid belt which separates the inner rocky planets from the outer gas giants in our solar system
Also located between the orbit of these planets

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Kieper belt
Mars and Jupiter

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Song lyrics
The universe must have devined this is a lyric from 22 song

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Dove cameron - boyfriend