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Kellog Created Cornflakes In 1894 Flashcards

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Sport de gas famous for painting

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Horse racing

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Small Chinese dog breed created by the union of a lion and marmoset

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Peek uh knees

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Entertainment
What big budget Hollywood director got his start directing commercials, including the infamous got milk commercials featuring these 2 historical figures
Bonus what is his highest rated movie on rotten tomatoes

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Michael bay - the rock
Burr and Hamilton

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Literature tribonds
2 time Pulitzer Prize winning author and meal of freedom winner wrote the following:

Truman
1776
The Jonestown flood

Bonus who awarded medal of freedom
Bonus what did he win the Pulitzer for

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McCullough
Mmm cull uh
Medal of freedom awarded by W bush
John adams other famous work
Truman and John adams Pulitzer Prizes both adapted into HBO miniseries

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Sports
FSU heisman trophy winner drafted by 3 different professional teams including Yankees and brewers
Played for knicks and made an all star team

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Charlie ward

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Rosemarys baby 3 main stars
And Oscar
And director

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Mia farrow
John cassavetes
Ruth gordon - best supporting
Roman Polanski- director

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What southern liquor company gives away a free bottle to its employees on the last Friday of every month
Master taste jokes no one misses that day of work

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Jack Daniels

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Like the tails of certain monkeys a giraffe tongue is said to be this adapted for seizing and grasping

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Prehensile

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Latin word for pipe or flute gave us the name for this long fromtnbone of the shine

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Tibia

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The chief city-state they whipped Athens in the Peloponnesian war

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Sparta

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Tradition says that Rome was founded by twins whose ancestors fled the Greek horseplay that destroyed this city

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Troy

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2 calendar months need for caesars

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July and august

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Menes is credited with unifying the upper and lower sections of this kingdom around the 3rd millennium BC

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Egypt

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His biography of Alexander Hamilton (2004) served as the inspiration for the popular Hamilton musical

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Chernow

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Since 54 sports illustrated has annually given the sports person of the year award to the person or the team
That bests embodies the spirit of sportsmanship that year
Who has won twice

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Tiger woods 96 00
Lebron 12 16

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As well as part of a Disney theme park it’s a 2015 George Clooney movie about our bright techie future

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Tomorrowland

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With partner Kurt Schneider he’s racked up 500 m YouTube views with his cover and original songs

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Sam tsui

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Famous buildings
Completed in 1943 this city within a city has Outer walls over 900 feet long

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In this novels final letter celle thanks god for bringing my sister nettie and our children home

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The color purple

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Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel set during the civil war from a line by John Donne

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For whom the bell tolls

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He began a 1854 work: when I wrote the following pages…I lived alone in the woods

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Thoreau

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Guilt fear photos and a diary are among the title possessions in this book by Tim O’Brien about the Vietnam war

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The things they carried

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Only State east of the Mississippi that up until 2013 did not have a national park monument historic site or any other unit that fell under the purview of the national park service

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Delaware

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Actress and model that took a famous photograph in 60 as a result of growing tired of the intrusive paparazzi and decided to confront them while wielding a bow and arrow
Bonus she would have fit right in battling thanos
Double bonus most famous film also debuted this year

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Anita eckberg Ekberg
La dulche vita
Sweden

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Arawak Indians inhabited this island when Europeans landed there in 1492

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Cuba

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About 1/4 of this Central American country land has been set aside as protected area for the nations diverse wildlife

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Costa Rica

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This welsh capital was once known as the coal metropolis of the world

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Cardiff

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A gold dance called the kolo is popular in this former Yugoslav republic

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Croatia

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It’s a small New Hampshire town as well as an ancient name for palenstine

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Canaan
Cane in

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This English playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare wrote the following plays

The devils law case
The Dutchess of mal fee
The white devil
Also named dropped in the opening song in the musical something rotten

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John Webster

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