Crosswords Flashcards
(130 cards)
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Snorri Sturluson
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Icelandic poet/historian/leader
1179-1241AD (assassinated)
Wrote down most Norse mythology
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Lionel Messi
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Argentine Footballer
most decorated player in the history of professional football
Barcelona club ball and Argentina national ball (2003-2024)
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The Stars and Stripes Forever
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patriotic American march written and composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896
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Orrin Hatch
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Long time Utah senator
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Eduardo Saverin
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Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur and angel investor
Cofounder of Facebook
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David Ho
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AIDS researcher, pioneered combination therapy which made HIV chronic (not termina)
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ici
(french)
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Here
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Absalom
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Biblical. Third son of King David. Killed his half brother Ambon (David’s eldest). Attempted coup against his father at Hebron and was killed in the ensuing battle.
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Lon Kruger
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Famous basketball coach (mostly college) 40+ year career.
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Tartuga
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Small island off of Haiti. Famous for Caribbean piracy.
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Sara Bareilles
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Singer/ songwriter
Grammy/Emmy/Tony winner
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Bell Lap
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The final lap of a multi-lap race
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Kirov
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originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world’s leading ballet companies. St. Petersburg.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Author-
Garden of earthly delights (wonderland quartet)
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Hoda Kotb
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NBC news anchor on Today show
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Stanislav Petrov
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Saved the world by doing nothing.
On 26 September 1983, was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to four more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm.
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Sofia (city)
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Capital of Bulgaria
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Sofia (city)
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Capital of Bulgaria
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Sunisa “Suni” Lee
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American artistic gymnast.
Bronze in uneven bars. Bronze overall.
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Édith Piaf
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French entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret
1915-1963
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Kir royal
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French cocktail, a variation on the Kir. It consists of crème de cassis topped with champagne, rather than the white wine used in traditional Kir.
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NTSB
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National Transportation Safety Board
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Teasel
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Thistle like perineal plant. 3-9ft tall
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Taos
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City/county in New Mexico.
Home of the Rio Grand Gorge Bridge
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Callaloo
Caribbean vegetable stew
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Cocido
Iberian stew
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Hipster
Style of panties with wide straps at hip
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Hanger steak
Cut of beef from the plate (upper belly)
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Accidental (music)
Alteration of a given pitch
(Sharp, flat, neutral)
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Wrote “Little Shop of Horrors” lyrics
Howard Ashman
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Echo Park
Neighborhood in Los Angeles
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Ungulate
A hooved animal
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Lamar Jackson
Quarter back for Baltimore Ravens
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Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York
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Iona University
Iona University (/aɪˈoʊnə/) is a private Roman Catholic university with a main campus in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded in 1940.
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Gaels
Sports team of Iona University
(Gaelic- fighting Irish)
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Gillette Atra
was introduced in 1977 and was the first razor to feature a pivoting head.
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Seth
Third son of Adam and Eve
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Enos
First son of Seth.
Grandson of Adam and Eve
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Asti commune (municipality)
Wine region in Italy
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Asti wine
Sparkling white Italian wine.
aka spumante
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Sahib
Sahib is an Arabic title meaning 'companion'. It was historically used for the first caliph Abu Bakr in the Quran.
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Iga Świątek
Iga Świątek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA, having held the position for a total of 125 weeks and placing her 7th on the all-time list for number of weeks spent as No. 1
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John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known as "Cactus Jack", was an American politician and lawyer who served as vice president of the United States from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into China, and by investing in real estate in or around New York City. He founded Astoria Oregon as a fur trading outpost.He was the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
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Rafael Nadal
World champion tennis player from Spain
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Sheila Bromberg
Sheila Bromberg (1928–2021) was a British harpist who performed in both classical and popular settings. She is best known for playing on the Beatles’ song "She's Leaving Home" on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Macau
(Macao)
Chinese Provence similar to Hong Kong, but Portuguese.
“Las Vegas of the east”
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Anna Quindlen
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.
Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
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Doha
Capital of Quatar in Persian gulf.
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Main character in “Life of Pi”
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel
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Deb Haaland
US Secretary of the Interior under Biden.
a Native American, is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe
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Squeeze Play
Sacrifice bunt with a runner on third.
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Eid Mubarak
Eid Mubarak is an Arabic phrase that means "blessed feast or festival".
The term is used by Muslims as a greeting to celebrate Eid al-Fitr (which marks the end of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (which is in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah).
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Thole
A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
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Naomi Osaka
Japanese world champion women’s tennis player
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Río de la Plata
(lit. 'River of Silver'), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and forms a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America.
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Super League
Top soccer league in the united kingdom.
aka ESL or English Super League
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Lowis Lowry
Author “The Giver”
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Enol
In organic chemistry, enols are a type of Functional group or intermediate in organic chemistry containing a group with the formula C=C(OH)
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Acadians
The Acadians; are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia (Quebec) during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Medgar Evers
was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation
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Miguel de Cervantes
29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS)[6] was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps
is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s author
Truman Capote
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Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed in 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age. The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's most important early works. The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne, as written in Ovid's Metamorphoses, wherein the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. One of the pioneers of modern architecture.
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Nolo contendere
Nolo contendere is a type of legal plea. It is also referred to as a plea of no contest A no-contest plea means that defendants refuse to admit guilt but accept punishment as if guilty, and is often offered as a part of a plea bargain.
The Latin phrase for "I do not wish to contend"
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Issa Rae
Black actress/producer
HBOs “Insecure”
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Ned Beatty
(1937–2021)
Supporting Actor:
Deliverance, Network,
Superman (Lex’s sidekick)
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Chappell Roan
Pop singer:
Hot to Go / My kink is Karma / Pink Pony Club
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Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer.
Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it more common to film indoors.
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She has performed on stage and screen in a career spanning over eight decades. Moreno is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
West side story
EGOT winner
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Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove. Another defining characteristic of the style is the use of unconventional chords in some cases with complex progressions and "ambiguous" harmonies.
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Aldo Gucci
Aldo Gucci (26 May 1905 – 19 January 1990) was an Italian personality and the chairman of Gucci from 1953 to 1986. Opened first store out of Florence and took brand international. He was the eldest biological son of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company bearing the family name in 1921.
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Madvillain
Madvillain was an American hip hop supergroup consisting of rapper MF Doom and producer Madlib. Their only album, Madvillainy (2004), earned critical acclaim and cult popularity.
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Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep was an American hip hop duo from Queens, New York formed in 1991. Consisting of rappers/songwriters/record producers Prodigy and Havoc, they are considered to be among the principal progenitors of hardcore East Coast hip hop. Mobb Deep became one of the most successful rap duos of all time, having sold over three million records.
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ING Group
The ING Group (Dutch: ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services. With total assets over $950 billion, it is one of the biggest banks in the world.
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Ayer
Spanish: Yesterday
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Will Greer
1902-1977
Actor- grandpa on The Walton’s
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Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983)
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Sue Bird
Best WNBA player.
Played for Seattle Storm from 2002-2022
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Naya Rivera
Actress- Glee
Drowned in 2020 at 33
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The Thin Man
Comedy/Mystery movie series in the 30s.
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Sonoran Desert
The desert overlapping the Mexico/US boarder.
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Saguaro
Species of tree-like cactus native to the Arizona/Mexico boarder
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Genoa
Port city in Italy
Type of salami
Type of cake
Type of sail
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Dio
God (Italian)
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Utz Site
The Utz Site is a major Native American archaeological site in Saline County, Missouri, it is the site of one of the largest early Contact Native villages in the region, which was occupied by the Missouri tribe from c. 15th to the late 18th centuries, and was probably their principal village area during their first contact with Europeans.
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Pome
Class of fruit with apple like features.
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Olio
A heavily spiced stew of meat, vegetables, and chickpeas.
A mixture or medley; a hodgepodge.
A collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces; a miscellany.
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OBE
Most excellent Order of the British Empire
When you get knighted for non military stuff this is probably it.
Created in 1917 by King George the V.
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Las Posadas
(The Inn) 9 day festival of the nativity in Latin America right before Christmas
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Doner Kebab
Turkish spiced meat stacked in a cone on a vertical rotisserie.
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Blanquette de veau
French veal stew
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Torso of Adele
Statue in terracotta by Auguste Rodin in 1885.
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Brittney Griner
Brittney Yvette Griner (born October 18, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. women's national basketball team and a six-time WNBA All-Star.
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Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines.
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Iman Vellani
Iman Vellani (b. 2002) is a Canadian actress of Pakistani origin. She is known for portraying Kamala Khan, the protagonist of the Disney+ miniseries Ms. Marvel
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Blini
blin (singular) are an Eastern European pancake made from various kinds of flour of buckwheat, wheat, etc. They may be served with smetana, cottage cheese, caviar and other garnishes, or simply smeared with butter. They are a traditional Slavic dish.
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Otoe
Historically, the Otoe tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on the Central Plains along the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri. They lived in elm-bark lodges while they farmed, and used tipis while traveling, like many other Plains tribes. They often left their villages to hunt buffalo.
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Briana Scurry
born 1971, is an American retired soccer goalkeeper. Scurry was the starting goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team at the 1995 World Cup (3rd place), 1996 Summer Olympics (gold medal), 1999 World Cup (champions), 2003 World Cup (3rd place), and the 2004 Summer Olympic Games (gold medal). She played in the semi-final and playoff for third place in the 2007 Women's World Cup (3rd place).
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Mel Ott
Melvin Ott (1909 – 1958), nicknamed "Master Melvin", was an American professional baseball right fielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants, from 1926 through 1947.
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Jalen Rose
Jalen Anthony Rose (born, 1973) is an American sports analyst and former professional basketball player.
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Aqaba
Aqaba is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba.
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Miss Scarlet and The Duke is a British-American period television crime drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as the title characters, two Victorian era detectives.
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Gâteau
French for cake.
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Taos
New Mexico county home to Wheeler peak and Taos valley ski resort.
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Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr (b 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the “Light We Cannot See”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana.
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H Mart
H Mart is an American chain of Asian supermarkets operated by the Hanahreum Group, headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States.
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Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir is a 2021 memoir by Michelle Zauner, singer and guitarist of the musical project Japanese Breakfast.
Story about growing up in America as a 2nd generation Korean immigrant.
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Chet Baker
(1929 – 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool"
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Estes Park
Estes Park is a statutory town in Colorado. Population 5,904. Estes Park is near Fort Collins. A popular summer resort and the location of the headquarters for Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park lies along the Big Thompson River.
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Tết
short for Tết Nguyên Đán ('Festival of the first day'), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually has the date in January or February
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Atom Ant
Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show on Saturday mornings.
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Secret Squirrel
Secret Squirrel is a cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera for The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, which debuted in 1965 on Saturday mornings.
Squirrel was also known as "Agent 000" a parody of the spy genre, and most of the shorts parodied elements of the James Bond films.
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Pied-à-terre
(French for "foot on the ground") is a small living unit, e.g., apartment or condominium, often located in a large city and not used as an individual's primary residence. The term implies use of the property as a temporary second residence, but not a vacation home.
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Eclat
Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause.
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Abbot Elementary
Mockumentary around a group of dedicated teachers - and an oblivious principal - in a Philadelphia public school.
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Ilse Crawford
Ilse Catherine Crawford CBE RDI (born 1962) is a British interior and furniture designer.
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Jalali calendar
Persian solar calendar based on when the sun enters different zodiac constellations. Months varied between 29-33 days and weren’t consistent from year to year.
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Trattoria
Italian casual/ family style eating establishment.
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Gnocchi
Potato dough based Italian dumplings
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Cleopatra and the asp
Oil painting by Guido Reni (1630)
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Arroz
Spanish for Rice
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Spanish for Rice
Arroz
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Paella
Traditional rice dish from Valencia, Spain
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Egregore
(from Ancient Greek for wakeful) is a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals.
