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Trivia 14 Flashcards

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Who does that overused song “oh yeah” with the bowm bowm chicka chicka song?

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Yello

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What’s the maximum score one can get while bowling?

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300 is a perfect game - all strikes

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Which President was in office for the shortest amount of time and how long was it?

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William Henry Harrison
31 days
He died

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6-10 President of the United States?

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After James Monroe
John Quincy Adams 6
Andrew Jackson 7 (Indian Removal guy)
Martin Van Buren 8
William Henry Harrison 9 (31 day president
John Tyler 10

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What is iron’s atomic number?

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36

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What is a Buddhist place of worship called?

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A temple. Also Vihara meaning monastery

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A Hindu place of worship is called…?

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Mandir. Each temple is dedicated to a specific god or godess

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The Nest in Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon is actually…?

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Mont-Saint-Michel, an abbey atop a tidal island in Normandy

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What famous food was invented at Mont-Saint-Michel?

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Omelette
Invented by Anne Boutiaut (La Mère Poalard) in the 1800s

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What is neuro aesthetics?

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A new field in which the brain’s neurological response to art is studied

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A study in neuroaesthetics showed?

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Looking at art could stimulate the reward centers of the brain releasing dopamine serotonin & oxytocin

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Explain the mating of cactus bees

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In the spring when cacti bloom, as soon as a female emerges from the nest where she was born, male bees descend upon her forming a bee ball. She’ll get pregnant & fly off & go into suspended animation for a year.. next spring , she’ll make a nest, leave pollenspit paste for babies to eat, lay the eggs and die. Cactus bees are solitary except for mating

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What indigenous tribe lived on the Channel Islands?

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Chumash , remains found are over 1300 years old!

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When did Buddhism start?

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5th century 500s BC

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Why was Mont-Saint-Michel built?

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In the 8th century, Archangel Michael appeared to Bishop Aubert in a dream and told him to build at abbey on the inhospitable rock. Took 2 more appearances before he decided to do it

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What makes Mont-Saint-Michel so secure,

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Even at low when you can walk across, anything heavy would just sink in the sand, strong ramparts are built facing the land. England in all its wars with France never took this fortress . Has the strongest & fastest tides in Europe

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The difference between high and low tides on mont-Saint-michel

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50 feet

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Mont-Saint-Michel is shared by what two French states?

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Normandy and Brittany

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How many IUs of Vitamin D should people take each day?

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Between 5,000-8,000

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How much Vitamin D3 did the guy who overdosed on it take?

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150,000 IU more than 30 times the daily dosage . He’s not dead

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Approximately how many people live on Mont-Saint-Michel?

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25-40 has more businesses than residents. Most visited place outside Paris

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What is stoichiometry?

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the determination of the proportions in which elements or compounds react with one another.

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23
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How do you say full & empty in Spanish ?

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Full: Llena/lleno & empty: vacia/vacio

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Who did the original Shake Sugaree song?

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Elizabeth Cotten wrote it.
Her 12 year old great granddaughter Brenda Evans

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What does “Shake Sugaree” mean?

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It means having a good time. Comes from practice of throwing sugar in the floor and then dancing in it to produce a percussive sound

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What are the food called Canoas

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Plantains stuffed with stuff . Puerto Rican food

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What is the most extensive animal made structure in Europe?

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The hole filled rock like things found around Mont-Saint-Michel made by honeycomb worms, covers 100 hectares

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What are the 3 color charges of quarks as opposed to the color charges of antiquarks?

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Quarks : red, green, and blue, together make white
Antiquarks: cyan, yellow & magenta together make black

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Why are gluons exchanged between quarks? Why is the strong force so strong

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Universe mandates that quarks must be color neutral. That’s the underlying drive/tendency of the particles

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30
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What’s the difference between the federal designations of national parks, national forests and wilderness areas?

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National parks are preserved for recreation & could contain roads, lodges & amenities. National forests are managed for their resources and a wilderness is a place that is to be kept unaffected by man, no roads, no vehicles no human impact allowed

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31
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In what years did COVID shut down everything ?

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2020-2021

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32
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Correct pronunciation of gila?

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Hee la

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33
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The Gila wilderness is located in? And is the nation’s first…?

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New Mexico , south western corner
Nation’s first designated wilderness area (no roads, no buildings, no bikes allowed)

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Ss sa

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35
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Who first proposed to make Gila area a national wilderness area?

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Aldo Leopold , a forester in early 1900s

36
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What & where are The Aeolian Islands?

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An archipelago north of Sicily of Italy’s coast. Home of the most active volcanic system in the Mediterranean.

37
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About Stromboli (the place, not the food)

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A volcanic island in the Aeolian chain. It’s been egesting stuff for thousands of years & there’s always a faint glow.

38
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Where’s still active, Mt. Etna?

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On the island of Sicily

39
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Stromboli, Panarea , Vulcano Island, Lipari, Salina, Alicudi, Filicudi are all part of what Island chain?,

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The Aeolian Islanda north of Sicily

40
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Largest towns/cities in Sicily

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Palermo, Catania, Syracuse, Messina

41
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What is neutron degenerate matter?

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When something is so dense it penetrates the atomic shells and all the nuclei are packed together with no space such as in a neutron star.

42
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What happens to anything caught in a neutron stars gravity that falls to its surface?

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The atoms themselves are destroyed

43
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How much greater than earth’s is a neutron star’s gravity?

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100 billion times stronger

44
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What is electron degeneracy?

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When matter is compressed so tightly that all the electrons fill the lowest quantum state.

45
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What’s a strange quark star?

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A hypothetical star that’s more massive than a neutron star but not massive enough to be a black hole. Medium mass stars may produce strange quarks stars if the pressure is so much that it breaks neutrons apart the quarks in which all become strange quarks

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What separates the 6 different types of quarks ?

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The flavours differ in their mass and charge

47
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What are quantum numbers of an electron?

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A set of numbers that are Used to describe position & energy .

48
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What are the names of an electrons 4 quantum numbers?

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Principal, azimuthal , magnetic and spin

49
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What prompted John Wick to start killing again in the first movie?

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Someone killed his puppy

50
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What four letter symbols are used to describe an electron’s quantum state?

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Principal quantum number = n
Orbital angular momentum or azimuthal = I
Magnetic quantum number= mi
Electron spin quantum number = ms

51
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What does the principal quantum number if an electron (n) describe?

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What she’ll it’s in, what fixed orbital

52
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Define uncanny

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Strange or mysterious especially in an unsettling way
Eerie, unnatural

53
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Does China have giant sand dune deserts?

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Yes! Taklimakan desert in Western China by border of Kyrgyzstan & Tajikstan. The Gobi desert in Mongolia does too

54
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Ponce de Léon was first to…?

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Land in North America in Florida near St. Augustine In 1513

55
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Why is Florida named Florida?

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De Léon discovered Florida around Easter time. “Pascua Florida” means «festival of flowers» Florida was verdant with flowers . He thought Florida was an island.

56
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Oldest CONTINUOUSLY inhabited European settlement in Western Hemisphere?

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Santo Domingo 1496

57
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Earliest Western Hemisphere settlements

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Earliest would be the Vikings
La Navidad in Haiti & La Isabela in the Dominican Republic but we’re later abandoned

58
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Ponce De Léon first explored …?

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Puerto Rico & Florida

59
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What movie did Denzel Washington & Wesley Snipes star in?

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Mo’ Better Blues with Spike Lee

60
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Plot of Mo’ Better Blues

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About a talented & self absorbed jazz trumpeteer named Bleek Gilliam

61
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Mo’ Better Blues (Wesley Snipes) also stars

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Giancarlo Esposito & Samuel L. Jackson

62
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Some of Denzel Washington’s movies

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Crimson Tide, 1995 (sadistic submarine captain vs Washington’s 2 bd in command morally heroic upstart )Malcolm X, Cry Freedom (plays martyred South African activist Steven Biko)
The Might Quin 1989 (police chief trynna figure if his bff if guilty of murder) Inside Man 2006 (spike Lee movie) Mississippi Masala (1992) (a romance) Fences 2016 (bring a black man in 1950s plays Troy Maxson - won Pulitzer for role in play). Training Day 2001 (corrupt LAPD detective “hazing” trainee Ethan Hawk) Malcolm X 1992

63
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Who played Blade the part vampire vampire slayer?

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Wesley Snipes
Mahershala Ali will be blade in new one

64
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What endangered animals do people want to eat?

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Pangolin, elephant, giraffe, gorillas, chimpanzee, reptiles, lemurs

65
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What else is increasing the problem of poaching besides indigenous cultures traditional mode of subsistence?

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There’s a a high demand in the luxury market meaning rich people will pay a lot of money to eat rare, exotic & endangered animals.

66
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What practice in the handling of bat bushmeat makes it very easy for diseases to infect humans?

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Vendors kill the bats once someone buys them and debone the bats wings with their teeth.

67
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What’s mpose?

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Popular in Congo, it’s Palm Weevil Larvae a source of protein better than bushmeat.

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How did Egyptians in 5-2K BC have metallic iron objects so far before smelting was invented?

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Pure iron fell from meteorites

69
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What is iron ore?

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Iron combined with other elements. Pure metallic iron doesn’t exist naturally on earth.

70
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When did Europeans finally believe that meteorites fell from the sky?

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Not until 1803 when a huge meteor shower rained about 3 thousand stones down on L’Aigle France

71
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What object was found in King Tut’s tomb made from meteor iron?

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A dagger which was still sharp and had an intricately decorated handle with stone & glass inlays and gold filigree. Pommel made from a type of quartz

72
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When did Wyoming become a state?

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July 10th 1890

73
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When & where was Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting?

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Rochester NY 1872

74
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Who was the first woman to hold federal office in the US?

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Jeanette Rankin, US House of Representatives as a Republican in 1916 in Montana

75
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Which state was first to grant women the right to vote?

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Wyoming in 1869

76
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1878 and 1887 with regards to women’s suffrage ?

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First legislation giving women the right to vote was in 1878. It wasn’t acted upon & was defeated in senate 16-34 in 1887

77
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The Hoba meteorite?

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Biggest piece of natural iron on earth & the biggest in tact meteorite. Named after the farm where it was found. Near Grootfontein, Namibia

78
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The Hoba meteorite hit earth about…?

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80,000 years ago

79
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Is the Hoba meteorite purely iron?

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No. It’s 16% nickel and .8% cobalt

80
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What is the Noivo do Cordeiro community

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A community in Brazil founded by women seeking to escape harsh oppression of the Roman Catholic Culture. Everything is shared, everyone helps in the community, men & women are equal. Being gay is accepted . Portrayed as community of beautiful young women who dominate the men by some media.

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What is the history of Noivo do Cordeiro?

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At end of 1800s Maria Senhorinha de Lima left a marriage she was forced into and ran off with Chico the man she loved. They settled along with others especially women excommunicated from the church. In 1940s Anisio Pereira, a Protestant evangelist started a church named “Bride of the Lamb” and became a patriarch there again oppressing women, when he died, Delina, Maria’s granddaughter and his teenage bride became matriarch & made changes.

82
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What’s a mexerica?

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Brazilian word for mandarin orange

83
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What’s Noivo do Cordeiro like?

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Everything is communal and shared. Everyone helps each other with children, farming and maintaining the community. People are assigned tasks and work hard. Noivo’s main crops are coffee beans and mexerica’s . Men & women work side by side and respect each other.

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