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THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
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In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city
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the Great Plague
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A 2017 book by Ian Dunt has a title many are asking--this 6-letter word: "What the Hell Happens Now?"
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Brexit
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One eye, one arm but all man to Lady Hamilton, in 1799 this naval hero disobeyed an order to leave Naples (& the lady)
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Horatio Nelson
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In January 1606, 2 months after the foiled Gunpowder Plot, Parliament established this date as an annual day of Thanksgiving
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November 5th
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These twins who ran a criminal empire in the east end in the 1950s were among the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London
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the Krays
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MATH, PROFESSORS
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Adjacent these share a side & a vertex without overlapping
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angles
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It's what the symbol seen here means
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less than or equal to
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Let's test your calculating skills: it's 12 times 12 divided by 4
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36
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In mathematical groupings parentheses go inside brackets, which go inside these other "br-" symbols
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braces
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In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often
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mode
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MISCELLANY
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The 23rd Psalm begins, "The Lord is my shepherd" followed by these 4 words
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I shall not want
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Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging these
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flowers
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Dance the mazurka & you're doing a national dance of this country
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Poland
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Muhammad Ali called this late home run king "the only man I idolize more than myself"
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Hank Aaron
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A lack of iodine is the most common cause of this, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland
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goiter
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PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
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From Asia, it's a metal plate that is often more than 6 feet across
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gong
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In an orchestra, it's held at eye level; used by rock lead singers to keep busy, it's often banged on a hip
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a tambourine
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Larger than bongos, these hand-played drums heard here often come in pairs mounted together
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conga drums
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Originating in the Caribbean, these instruments were first made from containers used to ship petroleum
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steel drums
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German for "bell play" gives us the name of this, a set of tuned bars struck with mallets
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a glockenspiel
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MOVIE TAGLINES
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1995: "Houston, we have a problem"
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Apollo 13
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2010: "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"; what's on your mind?
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The Social Network
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1992: "...a woman's place is at home... first, second & third"
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A League of Their Own
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1994: "For Harry and Lloyd every day is a no-brainer"
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Dumb and Dumber
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2010: "Get the hot girl. Defeat her evil exes. Hit love where it hurts"
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
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BEFORE & AFTER
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Angling necessity that's a high-flying track & field event
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fishing pole vault
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Protective glove used to handle hot items on the stove that was the 2012 Republican nominee for president
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oven Mitt Romney
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A frankfurter within Canis Major
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hot Dog Star
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Experimental James Joyce novel requested from the hotel front desk to rouse you from sleep in the morning
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Finnegans Wake-up call
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Billionaire superhero & inventor of a miniature Arc Reactor/jellyfish relative of the gulf stream
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Iron Man of war
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LAW
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"A" is for this, a printed or written statement given while under oath
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an affadavit
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Chapter 7, part of this code, has to do with liquidation of property
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the bankruptcy code
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Named for a 1966 court ruling, these rights help to protect you from self-incrimination
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Miranda rights
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Venire is a term for a panel of prospective jurors, to be questioned in this French-named process
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voir dire
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If the Supreme Court wants the government's views on an issue, a CVSG "calls" for the "view" of this "10th justice"
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the solicitor general
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POETIC OBJECTS
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"A bird that stalks down his narrow" this "can seldom see through his bars of rage", wrote Maya Angelou
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cage
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Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" describes this "with jewels... on the hilt, bewildering heart and eye"
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Excalibur
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"Mending Wall", by Robert Frost contains the line "Good" these "make good neighbors"
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fences
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Of this title object Keats asked, "What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape, of deities, or mortals, or of both"
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a Grecian urn
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contains the sad line "I have measured out my life with" these utensils
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coffee spoons
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HOME, SWEET HOME
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This historic German region was home to Hohenzollern Castle, a home to Frederick William IV, king of that region
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Prussia
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Prince's Minnesota home & studio has this alliterative name, also the title of a Prince song
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Paisley Park
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Hughenden Manor was the home of this 2-time British prime minister nicknamed Dizzy
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Disraeli
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In the 1750s George Washington raised the roof on the mansion at this estate to create a full second story & a third-floor garret
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Mount Vernon
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This home stands as a "shining brow" on Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite boyhood hill in Wisconsin
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Taliesin
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REFUGEES
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Turkey has more than 3 million refugees from this country racked by Civil War since 2011
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Syria
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In 2021 the area called "Little" this city in Fremont, California prepared for a new wave of Afghan refugees
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Little Kabul
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Many refugees from Africa dwell in Kara Tepe II, a refugee camp on this Greek island also known for its poetic heritage
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Lesbos
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Political instability & other causes have sent thousands of refugees from this country into its neighbors
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Burundi
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Term for the largest Muslim group of mainly Buddhist Myanmar; many of them have become refugees
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the Rohingya
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CELEBRITIES
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With this man the Entertainer as host of the Emmys in 2021, the ratings went up from the previous year
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Cedric
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MJB for short, this R&B singer acted in "The Umbrella academy" & "Mudbound"
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Mary J. Blige
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She's been nominated for 3 Oscar so far, & won for "The Help"
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Octavia Spencer
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This Houston native was a student at Texas Southern University before her music career took off
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Megan Thee Stallion
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Seen here, this actor known for "The Wire" died all too soon in 2021
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Michael K. Williams
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LATIN MOTTOES & PHRASES
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Uncovered at Pompei, the mosaic seen here bears the warning that translates to this in English
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beware of the dog
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New York's state motto is this Latin word that means "ever upward"
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excelsior
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Descartes wrote, "Je pense, donc je suis", which we know as this Latin phrase
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Cogito, ergo sum
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The motto of Johns Hopkins University, "Veritas vos Liberabit", translates to this familiar phrase
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the truth will set you free
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In 2021 communiter (together) was added to this Olympic motto that means "faster, higher, stronger"
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“Citius, Altius, Fortius"
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FRENCH ARTISTS
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The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method"
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(Georges) Seurat
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