Massachusetts First To Legalize Same Sex Marriage Flashcards

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American inventor widely considered to have created first commercially successful steamboat in 1807

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Robert Fulton

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Sydney locTed in this state

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New South Wales

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Credited with inventing first submarine

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Robert Fulton
Had a snorkel

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The Miller squire and summoner all 1 of 24 stories in this 14th century work of literature

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The Canterbury tales

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Movie musical With songs come alive and tightrope

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The greatest showman

Least pop songs ?

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Subtitle of sister act 2

Rhymes with

Children’s book gifted to Kathy by chandler
On behalf of Joey on friends

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Back in the habit
Lauryn hill solos

Thr Velveteen rabbit
season 4

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Nantucket sleigh ride refers to

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Boat being pulled by a whale

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First element of periodic table

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Hydrogen
1 proton in nucleus
Atomic number 1

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Us state with neither income or sales tax

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Alaska

New Hampshire close tax income on dividends

9 no income 7 no sales

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Grinch stole
Christmas thr grinxh is as cuddly as this and as charming as this

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Cuddly cactus
Charming eel
Sing by thurl ravenscroft in 66
He was also voice of tony thr tiger

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Only game which chips can exceed 1.55 inches in diameter

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Baccarat

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Jackson 5

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Michael - 10 when hit it big
Jermaine
Tito
Marlon
Jackie

Not Janet

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Mission that have gone to thr moon

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Apollo
11
12
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15
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17
12 people total

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When kotaro isakas high speed thriller wqs trwnslated into English it got this title
E sock uh

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Bullet train

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In 1602 Bartholomew gosnold didn’t just find the obvious at this cape but also herring and mackerel

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Cape cod

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The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called echigo- jishi is used in act 1 of this opera
G she
Eh chi go

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Madame butterfly
Muh dom uh butterfly

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This novel opens on a rather bleak note mother died today or maybe it was yesterday I don’t know

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The stranger
Cah muh

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Large groups like the soul rebels and rebirth are this type of band named for an instrument family

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Brass band

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In 09 Bruce said his deepest friendships are with members of this band

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E street

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Membership in this band has shifted over the years but currently includes quest love black and tuba gooding jr black thought

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the roots

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Ska band from Boston with a mighty number of members had a hit with the impression that I get

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Mighty mighty bosstones

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Mothership connection between parliament funkadelic and the p funk allstars is this man dr funk in stein himself

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George Clinton

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Toss off thr cough with one of this medicinal tablets

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Lozenge

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The animated bee movie didn’t precede this 73 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscar’s

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Galen was learning medicine in Greece about thr time this Egyptian astronomer wqs writing his Almagest Gay lin All muh gest
Ptolemy Thall uh me
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Boat captainEd by JFK sunk by a destroyer from this country in 43
PT 109 By Japanese Destroyer Patrol torpedo
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Prisoners would be taken by boat through the traitors gate to enter this multipurpose building
Tower of London Bunch of different things including prison now houses Crown Jewels
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Monday’s child is fair of face Tuesday’s child is full of grace Wednesday’s child is this
Full of woe Wednesday character name inspiration
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Wednesday island is small country in this strait which separates these 2 countries
Torres Strait Australia and pop uh wuh New Guinea New Zealand again ?? What’s the deal ??
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1975 man Friday is a retelling of this story Also starring these 2 one of who is sometimes called first black action hero
Robinson Caruso by babies dafoe Peter otoole Richard roundtree
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85 dystopian film with a country as its title wqs not a prequel to this 78 film with Gregory peck as Josef mengele Meng uh luh
The boys from Brazil 85 film Brazil
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Sounds plausible but this 58!Hitchcock film set in San Fran is not the sequel to wuthering heights
Vertigo
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Through the titles imply causality knives outs didn’t cause this 07 film about turn of the century prospecting
there will be blood
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Mainly Chinese tourists in this East Asian capital can see the peoples republic of culture and the revolutionary mArtyrs cemetery
Ppp yhang yong North Korea
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Behind the Tomb of Muhammad 5 is the huh san tower in this North African capital
Rabat ruh not Morocco
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After a trip to this city’s kocatepe mosque which can hold 24K people maybe stop at the Byzantine citadel Co juh tep A
Ankara turkey Awn cuh ruh
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Karpman drama triangle describes a dysfunctional trio of roles ; mean persecutor noble rescuer and helpless this one
Victim
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In 63 it was said that this phenomenon sets girls screaming and impels boys to cultivate mushroom style hair 11 letters
Beatlemania
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From Latin for strengthened it means to back up another person’s account of events 11 letters
corroborate
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Carl jrs burgers have been this cooked on a rack at high heat and maybe even burned a little
Char broiled or grilled
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An idealized life story particularly of a saint 11 letters
Hag e og ruh fee Hagiography
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Word for a spineless person comes from the last name of Caspar in the comic the timid soul 11 letters
Milquetoast
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Stoey goes Southwest Airlines began when Roland king grabbed a napkin and drew a triangle of these cities
Dallas Houston San Antonio
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Numbers in any direction total the same number in thr arrangement called this
Magic square or triangle
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Running side by side in thr neck are the internal jugular vein and this artery
Car uh tid ? Carotid
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Fatty sheath that surrounds the axons of some nerves enables the rapid transmission of impulses
Myelin sheath
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From thr latin word for wool it’s a layer of fine hair that covers a fetus and some newborns
Lanugo Luh new go
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Historian huh rot uh tis is thought to have met this ann tig uh knee author in Athens
Sof uh clees
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Rabbinical Judaism scholar akiva ben Yosef wqs born just a few years after this Jewish historian but outlived him by 35
Joe see phis
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Legend says when this mighty ruler offered to grant any request Diogenes reply was basically you’re blocking my light
Alexander the Great
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This governor of Jude’s is said to have killer himself at the order of his new emperor Caligula
Pilot
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Plaza day Mayo and casa rosada presidential palace located
Buenos Aires
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Chris t awns borg palace in this capital Monarchs have ruled from for years
Copenhagen
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Now part of nestle this pet food brwnd is headquartered at checkerboard square in St. Louis on a campus with 3 dog parks
Purina
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Below diaphragm is this organ that filters out worn red blood cells and is largest single mass of lymphatic tissue in the body
spleen
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Renal pyramids sections of tissues found in these organs
Kidney
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Film of raisin in thr sun sounds like it could be a sequel to this 40 film starring Henry Fonda
Grapes of wrath
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Literature In one story he is enslaved by the old man of the sea and uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad
Sinbad 1001 nights Seven voyages Aladdin from dame work
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On December 14 1825 the Decembrist revolt in this port city sought to end serfdom; harshly forcefully serfdom did not end
St. Petersburg