Bordello Brothel Italian Flashcards

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. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era.

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The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago

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What’s love got to do with it song

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Tina turner

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SJW is a pejorative term and internet meme mostly used for an individual who promotes socially progressive, left-wing or liberal views, including feminism, civil rights, gay and transgender rights, and multiculturalism

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Social Justice warrior

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Novel first lines
It was the best of times it wqs the worst of times
it was thr age of wisdom it wqs the age of foolishness
It was the epoch of the leaf
It was the epoch of incredulity

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Tale of 2 cities
Dickens

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Novel first lines
Somewhere in La Mancha in a place whose name I do not care to remember a gentleman lived not long ago

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Don Quixote
Cervantes

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Novel first lines
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the gulf sea and had gone 84 days now without taking a fish

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The old man and the sea
Hemingway

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Novel first lines
It was a pleasure to burn

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Fahrenheit 451
Bradberry

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Novel first lines

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea

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Hitchhikers guide to thr galaxy
Douglas adams

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Novel first lines

Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

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Harry Potter and the sorcers stone
Philosopher
JK Rowling

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Novel first lines

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth

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The catcher in the rye
JD Salinger

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Novel first lines

Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.

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The Godfather
Mario Puzo

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Novel first lines

You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter.

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Huckleberry Finn

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Novel first lines
Call me Ishmael

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Moby dick

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5 subdivisions of NYC
Also called this

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Boroughs
Brooklyn
Queens
Manhattan
Bronx
Staten Island

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Famous tiktok beat boxer rwised in Manhattan describes himself as thr mouth music man

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Spencer X

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Childrens books
A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms and a location guide

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The secret garden
Frances hodgson Burnett hodge son
Got all the horticulture

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US national anthem

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The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key. The song was adopted as the US national anthem in 1931, although it had been used officially by the US Navy since 1889, played when raising the flag.

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The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire is located in West Africa on this gulf

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Gulf of Guinea

The country is often referred to in English as “the Ivory Coast”, the direct translation from the French. The official language of the country is French, as for many years it was a French colony.

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” is a coming-of-age film released in 1988. Included in the cast are Annabeth Gish and Julia Roberts. If you watch closely, you’ll also see Matt Damon speaking his first line in a movie. The title refers to the name of a restaurant located in

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Mystic Pizza

located in Mystic Connecticut

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The Winter Olympic Games were held there in 1968.

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Grenoble

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This city in France is the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, after Paris, and is located just to the north of the confluence of the Rhône and Saône Rivers.

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Lyon

sometimes known as “Lyons” in English.

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” is a 1987 movie starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt playing three characters working in television news. It’s described as a romantic comedy-drama. Joan Cusack, John Cusack and Jack Nicholson also make appearances.

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Broadcast News

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Disturbia and even stevens actor ___

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LaBeouf : SHIA

Shia LaBeouf is an actor who started out in the Disney television series “Even Stevens”. Adult audiences might be more familiar with his leading role in the 2003 film “Holes”.

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Band on the Run” band :

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WINGS

“Band on the Run” is a marvelous 1973 album released by Paul McCartney and Wings. McCartney decided to record the album in an exotic locale, and opted for Lagos, Nigeria. He lost the original demo tapes when he was robbed at knife-point in Lagos, and so had to re-record the tracks from memory. Compounding the difficulties in producing the album, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough had quit the band just prior to Lagos recording sessions. As a result, McCartney provided the lead guitar and drum tracks himself, in addition to lead vocals and bass guitar.

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“is a legal term that translates from Latin as “I do not wish to contend”. It’s the plea of no contest, and is an alternative to guilty and not guilty, meaning that one doesn’t admit guilt but nor does one dispute the charge.

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Nolo contendere” (sometimes shortened to “nolo”)

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1968 horror film set in a New York City apartment :

also is a novel by Ira Levin. It is a horror story, and was made into a very creepy 1968 film of the same name starring Mia Farrow.

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ROSEMARY’S BABY

“Rosemary’s Baby”

Levin published a sequel in 1997 titled “Son of Rosemary”, and dedicated that sequel to Mia Farrow.

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Frozen waffles since the 1950s :
Bonus company

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EGGOS

Eggo is a brand of frozen waffles that was introduced by Kellogg in 1953. The brand experienced a surge in popularity in the 1980s due to a successful ad campaign featuring a family sitting down to breakfast together and enjoying Eggo waffles. The tagline of the commercials, “Leggo my Eggo”, is still recognized today.

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1972 thriller set in the backwoods of Georgia …

“” is a 1972 film based on a 1970 novel of the same name. It’s all about four guys from the city who get themselves into all kinds of trouble on a canoe trip in a remote part of Georgia. The four city boys were played by Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with Beatty and Cox making their film debuts. Famously, the soundtrack features the marvelous instrumental “Dueling Banjos”, although in the movie it was actually “dueling guitar and banjo”.

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DELIVERANCE

Deliverance

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Moll Flanders” author

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Daniel Defoe is most famous today as the author of the novels “Robinson Crusoe” and “Moll Flanders”. He was also a trader … and a spy for King William III!

When Daniel Defoe wrote his marvelous 1719 novel called “Robinson Crusoe”, he was likely thinking of real-life Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk. Selkirk was marooned and lived alone on the Pacific Island called “Mas a Tierra” off the coast of Chile, for four years. The island was officially renamed in 1966, and is now called Robinson Crusoe Island.

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is an underwear brand. Most garments are designed to make the wearer appear thinner. It is a privately held company that was founded by entrepreneur Sara Blakely in 2000. Despite the success of the product line, there is some controversy.

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Spanx

Spanx have been referred to as the corset of the modern era