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This scientist earned teaching degree in Zurich in 1900

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Albert Einstein

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Science popularizer wqs a scientist at Cornell for most of his career
Astronomer

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Carl Saigon say ghin
misquoted didn’t say billions and billions just said a hundred Billion but stressed the B - Carson impersonated

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Stephen hawking was the 17th this professor of mathematics at this university
Also who was the 2nd appointed in 1669

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Lou cay ghin at Cambridge
Sir Isaac Newton

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Created medical research institutes in pAris and Warsaw in early 20th century that offer PhD programs

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Marie curie
Pierre passed away ?
Marie polish but did most of work in Paris

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Song lyrics
Oh yeah stop
That screaming
Teacher needs to see me after school

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Hot for teacher
Van halen
David lee Roth original
Sammy Haggar replaced

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Song lyrics
You behind the bike stand stand still

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Another brick in the wall part 2
Pink Floyd
We don’t need no education we don’t need no thought control

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Song lyrics
Put your arms out front lean side to side
Hit that dance like thunder

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Teach me how to dougie
Cali swag district
About dougie fresh of get fresh crew who created the dwnce
Hit 28

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Song lyrics
You who are on the road must have a code
Past is just a goodbye

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Teach your children
CSNY
Deja vu album
Elephant show vibe ?

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Founded thr para puh tet ick school
At the lye c um
335 BCE

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Aristotle
Walk around while thinking great thoughts

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Famously tutored Alexander the Great when just Alexander thr teenager

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Aristotle
Haha Alexander thr sullen

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His school of thought promoted persist of pleasure and avoidance of pain
Not hedonism but Absence of pain in the Body and trouble in mind

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Ep uh cure is

Epicurean

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This philosopher promoted concept
Of abstract objects which existed outside
Physical world and consciousness

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Plato - plutonic ideal or solids/shapes
Allegory of thr cave

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Sting real name

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Gordon matthew sumner
Primary school
Teacher and soccer coach in England
17 Grammys over 4 decades

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This inventor wqs also a teacher to the deaf including tutor to Helen Keller

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Alexander Graham bell
Mother and wife also deaf
Experiments with telephones trying to help them hear

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This actor specific set of skills included boxing which he used on a student while in training to become a teacher which effectively ended his teaching career

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Liam knee son

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This American poet taught at Pinkerton academy in dairy New Hampshire in early 1900s

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Robert frost
Only to win 4 Pulitzer Prizes for poetry

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Book quotes
Even the couple of nice
Teachers on the faculty were phonies too
Mr Spencer hot chocolate

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Catcher in the rye
JD Salinger

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Book quotes
Don’t worry scout gem comforted me

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To kill a mockingbird
Harper Lee

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Book quotes
These 3 had elaborated old majors teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave thr name animalism

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Animal farm
Orwell?

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Book quotes
You couldn’t shut up that guy he always had to get his two bits worth in hence his name ; even teachers forgot his real name was Keith

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The outsiders
Halls and nash
Emilio estevez character 2 but

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1900s college football coach invented the single wing formation precursor to shotgun 3 point stance and body blocking

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Glen scobe Pop
Warner
Helped found a youth sports organization that still eats his name

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Entire 38 year coaching career at university of Tennessee
Basketball
8 championships
Retired in 12

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Spent 39 years coaching Florida baseball team before retiring in 19 with a record 2029 wins

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Coached last undefeated mens NCAA basketball championship team
Bonus year

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Bobby knight
76

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Comedy about a tough policeman going undercover as a teacher to catch a drug dealer but struggles with antics of young students
Kindergarten cop Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Musical comedy with a struggling rock musician posing as a substitute teacher who turns his talented class into a kick ass rock Band
School of rock Jack black
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A poignant drama about a English teacher who inspires at a conservative boys prep School to embrace poetry and seize the day but faces resistance from School administration
Dead poets society Robin Williams
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Paradise lost and the Aeneid are divided into this many books
12
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Sonny whalberg and Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood and now we gotta show them the ropes
New kids on the block
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A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood ; I wonder if Nathan Morris and Shawn stockman had one
Boyz 2 men
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Disturbances in Dijon in 1768 were early signals of this event that really got going in 1789
French Revolution
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Tiny ants named for burning sting can form A tiny life raft with waxy waterproof bodies
Fire ants
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Is it this abbreviation for people filming people or a k pop band with jin and suga Shug uh
BTS Behind the scenes
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Orchid bees vists Namesake flower to collect scent the orchid briefly traps the bee and tags it with sacks of this
Pawn
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In 39 artem mikoyan and Mikhal gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes
MiGs - combining names
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Last name of British Major Henry who in the late 1700s invented a shell that burst into deadly little fragments
Shrapnel
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The ruger brand started in 49 with a pistol of this caliber used for plinking
22
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Popular with gangsters and soldiers alike the sub machine gun nicknamed this wqs invented by John t Thompson
Tommy gun
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An Arkansas newspaper credited Jim black as the creator of this knife named for another JB 1841
Bowie knife
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Opened in 1908 AD the empress hotel is a landmark in this BC capital
Victoria
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This hill in Ottawa is the site of canadas House of Commons
Parliament hill
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This provincial capital sits about 60 miles north of Minnesota
Winnipeg Manitoba
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The diefenbaker Canada center in Saskatoon is named for canadas 13th this
Prime minister
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Dickens called this walled city the Gibraltar of North America
Quebec City
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Books by subtitle A true story of men against the sea ( the north Atlantic’s Grand Banks )
The Perfect storm
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Books by subtitle From lost to found on the pacific crest trail ( about a 1.1K mile solo hike )
Wild
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Books by subtitle A memoir of a family and culture in crisis (helped make JD Vance a U.S. senator)
Hillbilly elegy
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European scientists On the 2022 bicentennial of his birth the body of this man was exhumed and dna used to determine his genetic afflictions
Mendel Father of heredity Celebrate by looking at his genes