Benson Boone Beautiful Things Flashcards

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State flag features thr frigate Raleigh built in Portsmouth in 76 and the first ship to fly the US flag in a sea batttle

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New Hampshire

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State flag bears the words battle born referring to it becoming a state during the civil war

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Nevada

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USSRIP
Of thr 15 countries formed
By the collapse of thr Soviet Union in 91 this one is alphabetically last

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Uzbekistan
Not Ukraine

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The most common tye of nuclear reactor creates a reaction in north which these type of atoms are split into krypton and barium atoms

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Uranium

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This type of reactor uses a reaction in which d ewd re um and tri t um made helium

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Fusion - put atoms together ; currently takes
More energy to create energy then what comes out ; stars do it
Fission - split atoms apart

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Europes oldest continuously functioning capital

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Athens
Since Neolithic period 5K years ago

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Both parents with green eyes children can not have this color

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Brown
25 % blue
75 green

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First musician to win Nobel prize in literature

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Bob Dylan

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Garbage term originally part of a trademarked business name

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Dumpsters dumpsters in Tennessee

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Abbot and Costello infield

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Who’s on first
What’s on second
I don’t know 3B
SS I don’t give a darn

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In June bonfires are lit on the eve of summer Christmas celebrating north of this man who lit the way for Jesus’s

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John the Baptist

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Johannesburg first black Anglican bishop
1985

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Desmond tutu

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Freedoms Eve in 1862 found enslaved and free black Americans staying up late waiting for thr signing of this the following day

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Emancipation proclamation

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On the Eve of this Jewish holdiay thr last crumbs of sandwich bread and cheerios are hunted down and eliminated

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Passover

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Midsummer’s eve festivities might include a jaunty dance around one of these

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Maypole

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Floridas sunshine skyway bridge links this city and terra see uh

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St. Petersburg

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Ferromagnetism can occur when constitutent atoms in magnetites an oxide of this element align properly

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Iron

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Fermium atomic number

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100 means 100 protons

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Book thr pirates wife is the remarkable true story of Sarah who outlived this captain by 43 years dying in 1744

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Captain Kidd

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We’ll take a cup of kindedness yet for this song that makes New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve

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Old lang ziiine

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Etymologically disheveled describes messy or unkempt this

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Hair
Something your coiffeur may be able to help with
Qua four

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Last name
Of Blanche who did some time but outlived her husband buck and his crotchet Clyde by 5 decades

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Clyde barrow of Bonnie and Clyde

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By 49 years Georgiana yoke outlived her husband - Americas first of these serial killers

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HH Holmes
Devil in the white city

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8th circuit found Farmington Missouri schools could ban this flag after blaxk students were targeted with violence

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Confederate flag

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In 99 after 442 years Portugal gave up control Of this special administrative region on the Pearl river estuary
Muh cow
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Before gaining independence in 71 following a civil war And an invasion by india this country wqs known by this directional name
Bangladesh was east Pakistan
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Baby don’t hurt me by David guetta with an Ed Sheeran writing crew has been called a modern reimagining of what is love by him
Had uh way 1993
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EdM song scary monsters and nice sprites
Skrillex
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In 1500 BC Louisiana poverty point wqs he Not just to hunter gatherers but to hunter these gatherers getting their omega 3s
Fisher
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In dettmer v Landon a clue of appeals recognized this neo-pagan faith as a religion but said no to using candales and incense in jail
Wicca
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Am internet aesthetic focus on these spaces- eerie transitional places like empty hotel Hallways
Liminal spaces Lim in ewl
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I’m gonna make a 4 A to the fridge flop on the couch and be this adjective for lazy or without enthusiasm
Lackadaisical
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Ace to five and deuce to 7 are types of this 5 card draw poker game
Lowball
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She tells the backstory of Coriolanus snow in her 20 hunger games prequel the ballad of these 2 animals
Suzanne Collins Songbirds and snakes
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A book with famous sequels begins in a hole in the ground there lived one of these
Hobbit
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The infernal devices is a prequel trilogy to this Cassandra Clare series that includes city of bones and city of ashes
The mortal instruments
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The national park system is in charge of the Martinez California home of this father of thr national park service
John muir Muh yore
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A recipe in 200 Years of new orlewns cooking says to be this with the seasoning Starts and ends with L
Liberal
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Cofounder of major laser and producer on MIAs paper planes and Beyoncé’s hold up are a few of his credits
Diplo
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It precedes sea strait and the name of a national Preserve in Alaska
Bering (land bridge )
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This ex frenxh president lost an appeal in 23 against a corruption conviction and a 3 year prison sentence
Sarkozy
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Following 86 ouster of this longtime dictator she became the first elected woman president in Asia
Corazon Aquino Marcos ousted Philippines
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The Geneva agreements of 54 partitioned this country into north and south entities at this parallel
Vietnam 17th parallel
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After signing a 79 peace treaty with Egypt isreal withdrew from This 23 K square mile territory linking africa and Asia
Sinai Sigh nigh
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Daniel Defoe published thr farther adventures of him in 1719 the same years as his first adventures
Robinson Crusoe
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In 23 more then 30 years after the firm he brought back lawyer Mitch mcdeere for a sequel Called the exchange
Grisham
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As a verb it’s to help a baby go to sleep As a noun it’s a pause of any kind
Lull
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In 51 thr 5th circuit found stste colleges can’t expel students without at least minimal this judicial requirement
Due process
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A group of 5 legal appeals this case challenged this 3 word basis for racial segregation in public schools
Separate but equal brown v board of education
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Reptilian DJ behind hits like turn down doe ehat and taki taki
DJ snake
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An LCD sound system bop from 05 is titled this helmeted duo is playing at my house
Daft punk
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You can see fossils of this tucked behemoth still in the ground at a national monument named for it located here
Mammoth In Waco
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Sen to this state as a boy with a digestive illness enos mills became the father of its Rocky Mountain national park
Colorado
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This longtime fBI director notoriously abused his power to harass MLK Charlie Chaplin and this chairman of the Chicago bLack panther party
J Edgar hoover Fred Hampton - trial of Chicago 7 Judas and the black messiah - Daniel cuh loo yuh Oscar for portrayal
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This muckracking photographer and journalist scandalized the world and kicked start the progressive with 1890 expose how the other half lives
Jacob reese
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At least 3 best actress Oscars
Frances Mcdormand-3 Katherine Hepburn -4 Meryl Streep -3 but 1 best supporting Kramer V KRAMER Sophie’s choice Iron Lady - 2best