February 2021 Flashcards
(126 cards)
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Name this highly pessimistic school of philosophy that sought to promote harmony via implementing laws and public security. only reason ‘a minister does not murder his ruler’ is due to insufficient preparations. This school was advocated for by Shang Yang and Han Fei.
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Legalism
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Florence Nightingale developed a namesake “rose diagram” while working at the Selimiye Barracks during this war. This war’s Siege of Sevastopol included the Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Colin Campbell and his “Thin Red Line” held off a cavalry charge
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Crimean War
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A thought experiment named for this man involves a Geiger counter’s detection of an alpha particle causing poison to be released, so the central animal is simultaneously alive and dead. His 1944 book What is Life?, Namesake equation finds the allowed energy levels of quantum systems.
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Erwin Schrodinger
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After its death, its killer rededicated a series of games held in memory of Opheltes to Zeus, its killer attempted to use arrows, a sword, and a club to kill it, but finally succeeded when Athena suggested using its own claws. The son of Molorchus was killed by this creature, and its slayer convinced Molorchus to wait 30 days to sacrifice a bull.
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Nemean Lion
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The music of the titular god is represented by the French Horn emulating the sound of conch shells. That section foreshadows the arrival of Neptune to Trevi, after which the sun sets at the Villa Medici. Name this Ottorino Resphigi work
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Fountains of Rome
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German city whose firebombing by the Allies was condemned as an atrocity during World War II, Winston Churchill called a “mere act of terror.” An alchemist from this city, Johann Friedrich Bottger, became the first European to perfect hard-paste porcelain
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Dresden
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This term refers to Australian Aboriginal youths who were forcibly taken from their families to be given away to foster parents. Many of them were abused, and they were the subject of the report Bringing Them Home.
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Stolen Generations
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This prime minister of Australia, who served before and after the term of Julia Gillard, officially issued an apology to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia for the Stolen Generations.
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Kevin Rudd
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name this reforming pope, the former Hildebrand of Sovana, who launched the Investiture Controversy against Henry IV, forced Henry to beg for forgiveness in the snow outside Canossa.
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Gregory VII
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This city’s mayor Patricia de Lille has warned about an upcoming Day Zero (A prolonged 2014 El Niño has led to a once-in-a-century drought leading to a water shortage), home to Robben Island
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Cape Town
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This goddess releases a series of plagues onto earth after she was raped in her sleep by Shukaletuda and is later aided in her quest for justice by Enki, name this Sumerian goddess of fertility and war, goddess of love and sex, An intersex creature is created to revive this deity, who is cursed with sixty diseases. this goddess had to take off an article of clothing for each gate that she passed through, and she sent the Bull of Heaven to attack Gilgamesh after he refused to be her lover.
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Ishtar
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Carbon forms its strongest single covalent bond with this element. Non-stick coatings often have a polymer with carbon and this element known as PTFE, it’s responsible for the hydrophobicity of Teflon
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Fluorine
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During his reign, this man created a secret police called the Special Corps of Gendarmes. He appointed Alexander Benckendorff to lead the Third Section secret police. reign began with the Decembrist Revolt, in which secret societies called for him to be replaced by his brother Constantine. tsar of Russia at the start of the Crimean War
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Nicholas I
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Famous 2005 revolution in Kyrgyzstan
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Tulip Revolution
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This empire was founded by Shivaji and ruled most of India after the decline of the Mughals. Name this empire primarily ruled by a peshwa. This empire’s first chhatrapati established its first capital at Raigad. fought three namesake wars with the British East India Company.
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Maratha Empire
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Wrote “Three Comrades”, “The Night in Lisbon”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” (the schoolteacher Kantorek is forced to serve with the students he sent off to war. It is narrated by Paul Bäumer, who loses his resourceful friend Kat to shrapnel), “The Black Obelisk” (about the tombstone company manager Ludwig, set in Germany during the 1920s)
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Erich Maria Remarque
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This event was the subject of the Supreme Court case Luther v. Borden, and agitators in this event argued that their rights under the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause had been violated. The organizers of this event were persecuted by the Algerine law. holed up in Chepachet trying to “reconvene the People’s Convention.”
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Dorr’s Rebellion
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Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first person to illustrate this theorem, which requires that its inputs be relatively prime, using a system of modular congruences. first stated by Sunzi and often illustrated using groupings of soldiers.
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Chinese Remainder Theorem
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During his time as a royal consultant, Anton Raphael Mengs commissioned the first of 63 of these works, Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to make a set of what full-size drawings meant to be reproduced as tapestries?
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Tapestry Cartoons
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Priests of this figure traditionally dress with red and white necklaces in patterns of four and six beads. This former Oyo king is the figure most commonly worshiped using an asymmetrical hourglass drum called Batá. A double-headed axe symbolizes what most popular Orisha, who represents thunder and lightning?
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Shango
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conducted by Mary Tudor under Wendell Johnson’s supervision to understand the origin of stuttering. This experiment’s 22 participants were divided into those who received “positive therapy” and those who received negative treatment, all of whom were brought to the University of Iowa from the “Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans Home.”
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Monster Study
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Wrote “The Shipping News” and “Brokeback Mountain”
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Annie Proulx
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The Lorenz attractor is one of these shapes, as is the Julia set. name these self-similar shapes exemplified by the Koch (cock) snowflake and the Mandelbrot set. One can be found by coloring odd numbers on Pascal’s triangle; that one is named for Sierpinski.
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Fractals
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This object’s largest crater is Stickney Crater, name this innermost moon of Mars, which is usually contrasted with Deimos. This body is home to the Gulliver’s Travels-inspired Laputa Regio.
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Phobos
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Political parties in his country have declared the "Pact of Forgetting" regarding his government, This leader's country underwent an economic "miracle" keyed by making the SEAT 600 car. There is suspicion that he engineered the plane crash that killed rival Emilio Mola, Fascist leader of Spain
Francisco Franco Bahamonde
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In the aftermath of this event, Joseph Medill was elected mayor, and the need for architects led many designers, such as Louis Sullivan, to move in permanently. a theory involving a comet is supported by a similar event occurring the same day in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. apocryphally caused by Catherine O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern.
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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author of The Devil’s Dictionary and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” (Peyton Farquhar hallucinates his escape from being hanged from the title structure) also wrote Moxon's Master
Ambrose Bierce
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The rapid growth of Baha'i can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of this great grandson of Baha'u'llah, who authored the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf as Guardian of the faith from 1921 to 1957. only Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
Shoghi Effendi
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The end of this practice is marked by commemoration of Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac. When not performed during Dhu al-Hijjah, this event is known as an Umrah. During this event, people drink from the Well of Zamzam, perform the stoning of the devil, and walk around the Ka'aba seven times. pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
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ATP synthesis is driven by the proton gradient formed by what series of redox reactions at the end of cellular respiration? negative charge is shuttled across the inner mitochondrial membrane, followed by lots of ATP production.
Electron Transport Chain
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Bacterial fuel cells would pass electrons to external anodes through these proteins that have heme cofactor groups. One of them shuttles electrons between Complexes III [“three”] and IV [“four”] in the electron transport chain. The P450 proteins of this type increase the polarity of xenobiotics through a mono-oxygenase reaction.
Cytochromes
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the merengue was made the national dance by Rafael Trujillo, provides the setting of Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. annexation was advocated by Ulysses S. Grant after it became independent from Spain and Haiti. president ordered the Parsley Massacre.
Dominican Republic
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This name given to Mendel's second law states that the passing on of one gene does not affect the passing on of a different gene.
Law of Independent Assortment
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name this compound that makes up the cell walls of fungi and the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects.
Chitins
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Cholesterol levels are more commonly lowered by this class of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. Lipitor is part of this class of lipid-lowering drugs.
Statins
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Supreme Court case that upheld the supremacy of the federal government over state governments, case about the legality of the Bank of the United States,
McCulloch v Maryland
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name this longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic who composed the music for West Side Story (rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets), He composed the music for the songs "Glitter and Be Gay" and "Make Our Garden Grow" for his operetta Candide
Leonard Bernstein
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This building contains 13 bathrooms, 13 drain holes in each sink, 13 coat hooks in each séance room, and 13 stairs in each staircase. This building was constructed for many years without an architect, leading to oddities such as doors and stairs leading to nowhere and a window that opens into a wall.
Winchester Mystery House
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earthquake that notably interrupted a pre-game broadcast of the 1989 World Series. occurred on California's Central Coast
Loma Prieta Earthquake
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name this Japanese winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize and designer of the Cardboard Cathedral. This man's own summer house on Lake Yamanaka was one of the first to use paper for a building material; he subsequently used paper for his series of refugee houses following the Kobe earthquake.
Shigeru Ban
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A New York Times article about this event was titled “Anarchy’s Red Hand”, Samuel Fielden spoke just before this event, which began when a bomb was thrown at police during a demonstration for eight-hour work days, newspaper’s editor, August Spies, was executed for his actions during it
Haymarket Square Riot
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He worked with Max Weismann to found the Center for the Study of Great Ideas, having long promoted the Great Books movement. name this author of How to Read a Book
Mortimer Jerome Adler
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This man took the title of “Prince-President” and enlarged the role of the Catholic church in public education as part of the Falloux Law. This man named Maximilian I emperor of Mexico, and he entered into the Franco-Prussian War after the Ems Dispatch, eventually being captured at the battle of Sedan. This ruler ordered Baron Haussmann to redesign Paris
Napoleon III
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painter of "The Calling of Saint Matthew" (A shaft of light illuminates a group of tax collectors in a painting by this artist in which Jesus extends his finger towards the title saint)
Caravaggio
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The disease SMA is caused by a lack of these cells, Long-term potentiation contributes to the “plasticity” of these cells. cells with dendrites and axons,
Neurons
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name this legendary Roman hero who swam across the Tiber in armor after single-handedly defending Rome from the Etruscans while the bridge he stood on was disassembled. Later awarded as much land as he could plough around in one day
Horatius Cocles
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The Hanseatic League’s “capital” was at this Germanic port in Schleswig-Holstein. Willy Brandt was born in this city
Lubeck
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A national park near the Everglades that contains the northernmost of the Florida Keys is named for this bay that separates Miami from Miami Beach.
Biscayne Bay
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This governor of Florida is best known for his attempts to drain the Everglades. He also names the county directly north of Miami-Dade whose seat is Fort Lauderdale.
Napolean Bonaparte Broward
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this composer’s song “I Got Rhythm.” One of this composer’s songs describes how “the livin’ is easy, the fish are jumpin’” on Catfish Row. wrote "Rhapsody in Blue", composer of Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
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This organization created outposts called kontors, and its capital was at Lübeck, This organization built a trading center onthe Thames called the Steelyard, name this trade confederation which consisted of towns along the Baltic and North seas
Hanseatic League
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Viewers are invited to look through two peepholes at a nude woman in another work by this artist of Boite en Valise. an upturned Bicycle Wheel, and a snow shovel titled Prelude to a Broken Arm in some of his exhibitions. This artist’s most famous work is an upside-down urinal signed R. Mutt. 50 cc of Paris Air
Marcel Duchamps
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Meals on this holiday begin with the blessing of the lechem mishneh, two loaves of bread that symbolize a double portion of manna. People usually refrain from work during this holiday. people uphold 39 injunctions called melakhot, and it concludes when a braided candle is dipped in wine at the Havdalah ceremony.
Shabbat
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ended his career futilely attempting to complete a massive depiction of Belshazzar's Feast, which now hangs unfinished in the Boston Athenaeum. His paintings include Spalatro's Vision of the Bloody Hand and Uriel in the Sun.
Washington Allston
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Learning of this doctrine supposedly led Vladimir I to convert his domain to Christianity. Abu Hanifa held that the action targeted by this doctrine was fine in moderation.
Muslim Ban on alcohol
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This character assumes his current form after his king kicks him and splits him into two pieces as punishment for killing a royal ram and lying about it. In one story, this character convinces a hundred villagers to offer themselves to a god after a complicated series of events beginning with a single corncob. In one story, this figure captures a fairy by baiting her with a doll filled with paste. He makes a deal with his father, the sky-god Nyame, to bring back a python, a leopard, and a swarm of hornets in exchange for being the god of stories.
Kwaku Anansi
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the first line of "Ozymandias" describes meeting what sort of person "from an antique land, The Renaud family tries to claim the amnesiac Gaston as their son in a play by Jean Anouilh titled for one of these "without Luggage."
Travelers
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name this statue by Lysippos that shows an athlete removing dirt and oil from his body, the public was outraged when Tiberius grew so fond of this statue that he removed it from the Warm Bathhouse and placed it in his bedchamber.
The Scraper
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This family includes the different types of neutrinos and their associated particles, including the tau and the muon. Identify this family of six particles that includes the electron. unaffected by the strong force, When they have no charge, they are called neutrinos.
Leptons
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late Renaissance artistic movement known for its exaggerated and elongated figures? Madonna with the Long Neck, artists included Bronzino and Parmagianino
Mannerism
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This place's namesake "special" refers to the myth that it forced people to change their names. Name this island that processed 12 million newcomers when it housed an immigration station. This island is about a mile north of the Statue of Liberty.
Ellis Island
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Name this city, home to a famous mausoleum which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Memnon of Rhodes lost this city to Alexander in a 334 B.C. siege. This city was once ruled by Artemisia, a female tyrant who commanded part of the Persian navy during its defeat at the battle of Salamis.
Halicarnassus
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was built as a mausoleum for Hadrian. Later, this building was used as a Papal prison for people like Benvenuto Cellini, who famously escaped.name this cylindrical fortress in Rome located just outside the Vatican.
Castel Sant' Angelo
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With Samuel Warren, this pioneer of the Erie doctrine authored an article on “The Right to Privacy” and later condemned wiretapping in his dissent in Olmstead. name this first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. an article he wrote for the Harvard Law Review literally titled "The Right to Privacy." The upholding of a law restricting women's working hours in the case of Muller v. Oregon relied heavily on this man's namesake brief.
Louis Brandeis
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Just over a quarter of this location's area is covered by "playas," which are periodically filled with rain water, allowing nomadic bedouins to graze livestock in remote areas like the Moghra Oasis, located within this location. vast, low-lying basin in the Western Desert of Egypt
Qattara Depression
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The Wagner Murals were taken from this city, where theories proposing the worship of a “great goddess” have been based on murals discovered in this city’s Tepantitla compound. Jorge Acosta rediscovered the Quetzalpapálotl palace, which lies near this city’s Pyramid of the Moon. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican city whose Pyramid of the Sun lies on the Avenue of the Dead.
Teotihuacan
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In 1974, this territory became the 30th of Mexico's states. Cancun is located in what Caribbean coastal state of Mexico, south and east of the state of Yucatan?
Quintana Roo
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A city in this nation blocks off its major thoroughfares to cars on Sundays and holidays in a practice called ciclovía. Since the abandonment of a private zoo in this country, four hippos released into the wild here have become an invasive species along its Magdalena River, led to a civil war called La Violencia, president, Juan Manuel Santos, was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace deal with the rebel group FARC
Colombia
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Mass violence following the 30th of September movement in this country led to the New Order Administration taking control. Mohammad Hatta and Sukarno fought for the independence of this country from the Netherlands after World War II. The last member of Homo to become extinct, the “hobbit,” lived in this country. the largest Muslim country in the world.
Indonesia
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This country’s islands of Santa Cruz and Isabela, which are home to giant tortoises and Darwin’s finches, are part of a wildlife-rich island group in this country. its Mount Chimborazo is the farthest point on Earth’s surface from its center.
Ecuador
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sixth of ten books includes the allegory of the cave, its second book introduces an invisibility-granting ring discovered by Gyges of Lydia. Advancing the philosopher-king as the greatest of rulers, name this Platonic dialogue about the ideal form of government.
the Republic
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This particle acts as the messenger particle of the strong force. name this elementary particle which holds atomic nuclei together. Along with photons, these particles have zero mass. There are eight different types of these gauge bosons, which mediate the strong force.
Gluons
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During beta decay, one of the neutron’s down quarks becomes an up quark by emitting one of these particles, which then decays into an electron and an antineutrino. This particle and its counterpart comprise the weak charged current.
W- Boson
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The group Operation Forty was designed to seize control after this event. This event’s failure led Allen Dulles to be forced to resign. a group of exiles nicknamed Brigade 2506 were defeated by government forces.
Bay of Pigs invasion
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The line “willow of crystal, a poplar of water” opens this author’s 584-line poem inspired by the Aztec calendar. name this Mexican author of “Sunstone” and The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Octavio Paz
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The formula theta equals 1.22 times lambda over capital D estimates the angular resolution of this phenomenon; that is the Rayleigh criterion. The Airy disc is created from this phenomenon. When this process is performed in a periodic structure such as a crystal, it is described by the formula “2 d sine theta equals n lambda,” or Bragg’s law.
Diffraction
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The rough endoplasmic reticulum transports molecules to this organelle for post-translational modification. This organelle's cis face receives vesicles while its trans face secretes them, organelle that packages and modifies proteins before secretion
Golgi Apparatus
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This man stressed his participation in twelve combat missions by running for office with the slogan "Congress needs a tail- gunner." claimed to have a list of 205 suspect individuals. Joseph Welch famously asked this man if he had “no sense of decency.” started Second Red Scare
Joseph McCarthy
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This country attempted to solve its systemic coffee shortage by financing the Vietnamese coffee industry in the 1980s, Many young Olympic athletes in this country were unwittingly given performance-enhancing drugs as part of a state-sponsored doping program. This country was ruled by the SED government, The secret police in this country were known as the Stasi
East Germany
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he expelled the Knights Hospitaller from Rhodes. After revising his country’s kanun, this ruler was nicknamed “the lawgiver”. he won a battle where Louis II of Hungary died (Battle of Mohacs) His wife was a Ukrainian Christian woman named Roxelana
Suleiman the Magnificent
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name this imperialist British author of Kim and “Gunga Din,” who wrote about Mowgli in The Jungle Book. wrote "The White Man's Burden", Another poem by this author advises “If you can keep your head when all about you / are losing theirs …. You’ll be a Man, my son!” (Poem called "If") famous poem ends with the famous line, “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
Rudyard Kipling
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Wrote Principia Mathematica, On Denoting, Why I Am Not A Christian
Bertrand Russell
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The speaker of this poem famously asks for, “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Thou” in one of its many quatrains. A notable stanza in this work states “The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on.” nother commands, “Awake!” Five translations of it were completed by Edward Fitzgerald.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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This thinker proposed the “manifest content” is a censored version of the much more sexual and violent “latent content” in his work The Interpretation of Dreams. he claimed that technology causes people to become “unhappy gods with prosthetic limbs.” That work is Civilization and Its Discontents.
Sigmund Freud
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"Vinegar Hill" served as a password during this conflict, Physical force became necessary in this conflict after the demands of the Ballarat Reform League were rejected. this conflict centered on dissatisfaction with increased fees for miners' licenses.
Eureka Stockade Rebellion
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Fall River Legend is probably the best known work by this American choreographer, who also worked on 110 Degrees in the Shade and Goldilocks.
Agnes de Mille
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This woman committed the Fall River Axe Murders and contrary to popular belief, it was her stepfather that she killed, not her father.
Lizzie Borden
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is laughed at for saying "puppy biscuit." A "pocketa–pocketa–pocketa" noise is made by three machines in this work. James Thurber story about a daydreaming title character.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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At the end of this work, the protagonist feels the Milky Way flow inside him after Yoko dies during a cocoon-warehouse fire. the music-teacher’s son is revealed to be dying of tuberculosis, becomes an expert on Western ballet without ever seeing on
Snow Country
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The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of this country
Belize
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Koschei the Immortal performs the “Infernal Dance” under the influence of the title avian in a ballet by this composer. name this Russian composer of The Firebird. Russian composer of The Rite of Spring and Petrushka, wrote a Symphony of Psalms
Igor Stravinsky
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This experiment gave a value for gravitational redshift that was close to values predicted by Einstein's theory. experiment conducted at Harvard’s Jefferson Laboratory. This experiment place a helium-filled Mylar bag between two samples of Iron-57, one in a loudspeaker cone and one several floors below to detect the presence of gravitational redshift.
Pound-Rebka Experiment
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Henry Cavendish used this device to measure the Earth’s density and thus the big-G gravitational constant. Name this device used to measure very weak forces, which often consists of two masses on a rod suspended from a string.
Torsion Balance
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proclaimed that “we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own,” referring to his country’s development of nuclear weapons. This prime minister was overthrown in Operation Fair Play. name this founder of the Pakistan People’s Party
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was deposed and eventually hanged after a military coup led by this general. This man made the “Islamization” of Pakistan a primary political goal
Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq
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A series by this artist includes paintings such as Vampire, Ashes, and Death in the Sickroom. painted Love and Pain, Frieze of Life series, Scream
Edvard Munch
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In this disease, mutations in collagen make patients' joins hypermobile and skin easily bruised and hyperelastic. A vascular version of this disease causes blood vessel walls to easily rupture.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
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he radically increased the sale of indulgences to raise funds for a new St. Peter's Basilica. name this pope who objected to Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses. This pope issued a bull declaring equal treatment of the cagots, which locals ignored or protested. His other declarations include Exsurge Domine, which condemned the heresy of at least 41 points from a longer list.
Leo X
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he Romans broke their ranks and blasted trumpets to frighten this man’s war elephants at the Battle of Zama, This man fought against the “delaying” strategy of Fabius Maximus and ambushed Gaius Flaminius at Lake Trasimene. Famously crossed the Alps
Hannibal Barca
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this operator is applied to the wave function in the time-independent Schrödinger equation, This operator is the Legendre transform of the Lagrangian, returns the total energy of a system
Hamiltonian Operator
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This point marks the end of the gas-liquid coexistence line. Density fluctuations at this point lead to cloudiness known as "opalescence." name this point on a phase diagram above which vapor and liquid phases are no longer distinguishable. The a term in the van der Waals equation is exactly equal to three, times the squared volume at this point, times the pressure at this point.
Critical Temperature
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To create a nuclear explosion, you’ll need to get enough uranium in a small space to exceed this minimum amount of fissile material needed to for a nuclear reaction.
Critical Mass
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identify these emissaries of Olodumare that are revered in Santeria. chief of these was the creator god Olurun, lightning god Shango
Orisha
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Name these people who originated the worship of orishas
Yoruba
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Yoruba practices and deities have made their way into many Afro-Caribbean religions described by this adjective, which refers to the fusion of two older belief systems
Syncretic
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Name this religion that draws heavily from Yoruba tradition. A 1993 Supreme Court case upheld this church’s right to conduct animal sacrifice ceremonies.
Santeria
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This hero saves a princess named Sabra, Aia, or Cleodolinda, though she is anonymous in the Golden Legend. This patron saint of England slays the dragon when the inhabitants of Silene promise to convert and be baptized.
Saint George
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a relation between the coefficient of reflection and the conductivity for materials that are good conductors.
Hagen-Rubens Relation
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This angle is the angle of incidence at which polarized light can travel through surfaces without there being any reflection. Unpolarized light incident on a surface at this angle is polarized perfectly.
Brewster's Angle
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Name this property of an electromagnetic wave, in which the wave has been forced to oscillate in only one direction.
Polarization
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For a wave that has been polarized and is subsequently re-polarized, this quantity for the new wave can be found via Malus's law.
Intensity
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Name this contemporary Anglican theologian who depicted Jesus as just another first-century Apocalyptic Jewish prophet in Jesus and the Victory of God, the second volume of his massive Christian Origins and the Question of God.
N.T. Wright
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Henderson the Rain King is by this 20th-century American author of The Adventures of Augie March and Humboldt's Gift.
Saul Bellow
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He was first anointed, then rebuked, by the prophet Samuel. name this ruler who was succeeded by David after becoming the first king of the Israelites.
King Saul
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gave the title of “Empress of India” to Queen Victoria. Lionel de Rothschild gave this man money to buy almost half of the Suez Canal Company shares, rival of William Gladstone, the first and so far only British Prime Minister to be born a Jew. climbed the "greasy pole"
Benjamin Disraeli
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Name this Liberal Prime Minister who introduced secret voting but failed to pass Irish Home Rule. This man attacked his rival in the “Midlothian Campaign.”
William Gladstone
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This man resigned as Prime Minister due to his mishandling of the Suez Crisis. This man previously resigned as Foreign Secretary to protest Neville Chamberlain’s policies of appeasement.
Anthony Eden
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Benjamin Disraeli opposed the reintroduction of these laws, which placed tariffs on the namesake crop. Their repeal was prompted by famines in Ireland.
Corn Laws
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Benjamin Disraeli held this position during the two ministries of Lord Derby. The holder of this office gives the Mansion House speech every June, and their official residence is 11 Downing Street.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Several years before this man targeted the Ottomans in the Night Attack, his brother Radu the Handsome converted to Islam at the Ottoman court. This man outraged Mehmed II by nailing Ottoman envoys' turbans to their heads.
Vlad the Impaler
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This specific matrix is composed of the first-order partial derivatives of a vector-valued function. This matrix is often used in transforming polar and spherical coordinates into their Cartesian counterparts.
Jacobian Matrix
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After twenty years, this novel's narrator returns to Black Hawk to visit the eldest Shimerda daughter, who is now married to Anton Cuzak. narrated by Jim Burden and set in Nebraska, written by Willa Cather, avoids being raped by Wick Cutter
My Antonia
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Wrote My Antonia, My Mortal Enemy, One of Ours, "Prairie Trilogy" - O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia
Willa Cather
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A character in this play explains a plan to use bellows to pump air through a ship and onto cut onions in order to test sailors for plague. With the help of his servant Mosca, this play's main character pretends to be ill in order to get gifts from Corbaccio, Corvino, and Voltore, characters include Celia and Sir Politick Would-Be
Volpone
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Playwright that wrote Volpone, other works include Every Man in His Humour, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair.
Ben Jonson
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an apology delivered by Joelle van Dyne in a film known as "the Entertainment" because it obsesses anyone who views it. set largely at the Enfield Tennis Academy. Hugh Steeply is a cross-dressing agent who meets with a member of the Wheelchair Assassins and attempts to locate the titular "Entertainment."
Infinite Jest
