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IN THE NATIONAL PARK
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200
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Great Fountain Geyser
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Yellowstone
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400
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The McKinley Station Trail
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Denali (National Park)
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600
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Alligator Creek Campsite
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Everglades
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800
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In California Twenty Mule Team Canyon
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Death Valley
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1000
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In Arkansas Bathhouse Row seen here
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Hot Springs National Park
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS
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200
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Performing in 2020 just after their family suffered a miscarriage this piano maestro dedicated "Never Break" to his wife
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John Legend
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400
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Straight Up now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley
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(Paula) Abdul
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600
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We won't dance around it--this band! at the 2019 show made their ma proud & lived up to the chorus of a hit tune
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Panic! at the Disco
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800
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This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021
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Glass Animals
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1000
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At the 2021 show this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!"
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AJR
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN
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200
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Susan La Flesche the first Native person to get this kind of degree had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation
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an MD (a medical degree)
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400
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In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations
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Pocahontas
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600
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Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims"
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a copyright
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800
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Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style leaving his stuff outside her lodge
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Kit Carson
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1000
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A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas including these 2 sisters Maria & Marjorie
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the Tallchief sisters
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BEVERAGES
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200
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7UP is among the soda brands that have replaced this word on their labels in favor of "zero sugar"
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diet
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400
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It's the beverage most associated with Dad's & Hires
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root beer
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600
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The original plant-powered drink; the first half of its ingredients are tomato puree carrots celery & beets
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V8
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800
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In 2020 McDonald's celebrated the 50th anniversary of this minty St. Patrick's Day treat
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a Shamrock Shake
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1000
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The name of this popular Chinese tea is less popularly spelled with a W-U at the beginning
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oolong
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION
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200
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An Oral History of this cable TV channel's "Golden Age" in the 1980s & '90s is shared in "Slimed!"
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Nickelodeon
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400
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Over the Edge of the World charts this 16th century explorer's "Terrifying Circumnavigation of the World"
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Ferdinand Magellan
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600
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Parents Children and the Search for Identity is the subtitle; the title completes the proverb "the apple doesn't fall far..."
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From the Tree
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800
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Eats Shoots & Leaves is subtitled "The Zero Tolerance Approach to" this part of writing
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Punctuation
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1000
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Tears of Mermaids reveals "The Secret Story of" these gems
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pearls
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS
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200
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A job like a chauffeur or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally
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a driver
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400
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It can mean highest in rank or value as well as someone of high rank at your school
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principal
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600
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Not just an occupation it's also a type of fruity pie
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a cobbler
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800
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A certain member of our military forces or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea
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Marine
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1000
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Someone who oversees construction work or a muscle that becomes shorter
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contractor
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ALL APOLOGIES
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400
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Robert Barclay's 1678 "Apology for the True Christian Divinity" stated the beliefs of this sect also called the Society of Friends
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the Quakers
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800
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The 1531 Apology of the Augsburg Confession was a defense of the doctrines of this branch of Protestantism
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Lutheranism
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1200
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This English statesman published an "Apology" defending Catholicism in 1533; 2 years later he was headless
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Sir Thomas More
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1600
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In 2010 John Henry Newman author of the "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" underwent this process that precedes canonization
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beatification
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2000
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This Bishop of Hippo in North Africa published an apology in 388 titled "On the Holiness of the Catholic Church"
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Augustine
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS
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400
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One short day in the Emerald City... full of so much to do
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Wicked
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800
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Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings...
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The Lion King
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1200
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Hey sanna hosanna hey JC JC you're alright by me
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Jesus Christ Superstar
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1600
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Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes how do you measure measure a year?
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Rent
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2000
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In short there's simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here
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Camelot
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS
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400
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Tories is a nickname for this U.K. political party
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Conservative
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800
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It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area
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jurisdiction
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1200
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This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne
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Restoration
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1600
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The name of this genus of bacteria honors a veterinarian with a fishy last name
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Salmonella
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2000
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This science studies the universe as a whole bringing together astronomy & physics
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cosmology
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THE 1960s
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400
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Protests in May 1968 that rocked Paris were kicked off by student occupation & police action at this Latin Quarter school
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the Sorbonne
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800
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Broadening his message from civil rights on March 2 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this
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the Vietnam War
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1200
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In the Six-Day War Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall
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Jordan
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1600
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On the medal podium in this city John Carlos & Tommie Smith raised fists & also wore no shoes to highlight poverty in America
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Mexico City
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2000
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In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR
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Nikita Khrushchev
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AUNTIE
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400
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In this novel Jo is ill-suited as a companion to her Aunt March
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Little Women
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800
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Jan Handzlik played the young Patrick Dennis who is taken in by this exuberant auntie played memorably by Rosalind Russell
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Auntie Mame
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1200
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The haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh does not approve of a match between this nephew of hers & Elizabeth Bennet
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Fitzwilliam Darcy
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1600
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Seen here she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale"
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Ann Dowd
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2000
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Her "astonishment was almost unspeakable" upon finding a fence whitewashed (ostensibly) by Tom Sawyer
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Aunt Polly
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ESTABLISHMENT
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400
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 created this position in the cabinet first held by Edmund Randolph
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attorney general
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800
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In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school at Columbia
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Melvil Dewey
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1200
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In 1999 Nunavut Territory was established out of the eastern portion of this other Canadian territory
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the Northwest Territories
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1600
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The Ayyubid Dynasty created by this famed hero ruled Egypt in the 12th & 13th centuries
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Saladin
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2000
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Initially worried about Axis control of this passage Britain created a base on Deception Island off Antarctica
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Drake's Passage
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CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD
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FINAL
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Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent
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Australia
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