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| former dictator of Uganda | Idi Amin
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| house of Richard III | York
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| last of the 5 good Roman emperors | Marcus Aurelius
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| Marcus Aurelius' philosophy | Stoicism
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| divided the Roman Empire in 2 parts | Diocletian
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| formed the Red Army | Trotsky
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| wrote An Economic History of the Constitution | Beard
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| John Glenn's shi[ | Friendship 7
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| built the Aswan Dam in Egypt | Gamal Nasser
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| replaced Nasser, was assassinated | Anwar Sadat
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| previous president of Egypt | Mohammed Morsi
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| Communist group in Nicaragua | Sandinistas
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| leader of the Sandinistas | Daniel Ortega
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| former dictator of the Philippines | Ferdinand Marcos
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| replaced Ferdinand Marcos as dictator of the Philippines | Corazon Aquino
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| fascist dictator of Spain following Spanish Civil War | Francisco Franco
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| replaced Francisco Franco as dictator of Spain | Juan Carlos
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| Great Compromiser | Henry Clay
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| former long-time leader of Ethiopia | Haile Selassie
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| leader of Solidarity in Poland | Lech Walesa
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| portrait artist of Henry VIII | Holbein
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| vice president of Andrew Jackson that called for states' rights | Calhoun
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| group that formerly ran Afghanistan | Taliban
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| wrote Leviathan | Hobbes
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| Muslim sect in Iran | Shiite
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| former dictator of Cambodia | Pol Pot
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| Pol Pot's organization/party | Khmer Rouge
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| family name of Kaiser Wilhelm II | Hohenzollern
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| family name of Henry VIII | Tudor
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| mother of Elizabeth I | Anne Bolyne
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| mother of Mary I | Catherine of Aragorn
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| parents of Catherine of Aragorn | Ferdinand and Isabella
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| debated Lincoln for Illinois Senate, idea of popular sovreignty | Stephen Douglas
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| party of Margaret Thatcher, John Major | Tory/Conservative
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| character that symbolized England | John Bull
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| former female prime minister of Pakistan | Benizar Boutha
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| said, "Go west, young man, go west!" | Horace Greely
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| wrote Das Capital | Karl Marx
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| said, "In the long run, we are all dead." | Keynes
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| Roman emperor who moved eastern capital to Byzantium | Constantine
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| Roman emperor who adopted Christianity | Constantine
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| Roman emperor who made Christianity the official religion | Thodosius
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| legendary founders of Rome | Romulus and Remus
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| Soviet leaders from Stalin to Gorbachev | Stalin, Krushev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev
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| 4 Stuart Kings | James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II
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| revolution that ousted James II | Glorious Recolution
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| who came to power | William and Mary
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| Truman's Secretary of State | Dean Acheson
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| Eisenhower's Secretary of State | John Foster Dulles
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| Kennedy's Secretary of State | Dean Rusk
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| Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of State | Dean Rusk
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| Nixon's Secretary of State | William Rogers (first term) Kissinger
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| Ford's Secretary of State | Kissinger
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| Carter's Secretary of State | Cyrus Vance (1977-1980) Ed Muskie
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| Reagan's Secretary of State | Alexander Haig (1981-1982) George Shultz (1982-1989)
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| George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State | James Baker (1989-1992) Lawrence Eagleburger (1992-1993)
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| Clinton's Secretary of State | Warren Christopher (first term 1993-1997) Madeleine Albright (second term 1997-2001)
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| George W. Bush's Secretary of State | Colin Powell (first term 2001-2005) Condoleezza Rice (second term 2005-2009)
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| Obama's Secretary of State | Hillary Clinton (2009-2013) John Kerry (2013-
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| assassinated Robert Kennedy (RFK) | Sirhan Sirhan
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| Republican senator, against League of Nations | Henry Cabot Lodge
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| voted against WWI and WWII | Judith Rankin
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| New York governor, the "Happy Warrior" | Al Smith
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| defeated by Hayes in 1876 even though he won the popular vote | Sam Tilden
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| former communist dictator of Romania | Coucesceau
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| conservative Prime Minister of Victoria | Benjamin Disraeli
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| chief rival of Victoria's PM Benjamin Disraeli | William Gladstone
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| defeated Churchill in 1945, attended Potsdam Convention | Clement Attlee
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| Royal house of Elizabeth II | Windsor
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| Prussian major-general, helped train colonists in Valley Forge during Revolutionary War | Baron Friedreich von Steuben
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| proposed Share Our Wealth program during New Deal/his nickname | Huey Long/The Kingfish
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| university where 4 were killed by National Guard | Kent State
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| had Thomas Becket killed | Henry II
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| leader of Spartans at Thermopylae | Leonidas
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| archeologist/discoverer of Troy | Heinrich Schliemann
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| McKinley's Secretary of State, came up with the Open Door Policy | John Hay
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| Russian for minority, opposed by Lenin | Mensheviks
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| Athenian, called for conquest of Sicily, betrayed Athens | Alcibiades
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| 3 French Dynasties following Carolingian | Capet, Valois, Bourbon
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| designed geodesic domes in Montreal, carbon allotrope named after him | Buckminster Fuller (buckminsterfullerene)
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| common people of Rome | plebians
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| aristocrats of Rome, could vote/hold office | patricians
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| aristocratic landowners in Prussia | Junkers
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| US president known as the Great Communicator | Reagan
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| 2 opposing admirals at the Battle of Jutland and their countries | Jellicoe (Great Britain), Scheer (Germany)
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| royal house of George I through Victoria | Hanover
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| group of people tried for riot at 1968 Democratic National Convention | Chicago 7
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| 2 leaders of Chicago 7 | Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman
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| Socialist candidate in early 1900s, led American Railway Union and Industrial Workers of the World union | Eugene Debs
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| nickname of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union | wobblies
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| wrote "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" | Gibbon
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| jailed for junk bonds | Milken
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| Frenchman who designed Washington DC | Pierre L'Enfant
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| designed Vietnam Wall | MAya Lin
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| newspaper heiress, kidnapped in 1970s, brainwashed | Patty Hearst
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| group that abducted Patty Hearst/her name with that group | Symbionese Liberation Army/Tania
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| last 5 Chief Justices of Supreme Court | Vinson, Warren, Burger, Rehnquist, Roberts
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| writer-patriot leader of Cuba, fought for independence | Jose Marti
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| 2 generals for Latin American Independence | Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin
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| had Square Deal program | Teddy Roosevelt
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| had Fair Deal program | Truman
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| had New Frontier program | John F. Kennedy (JFK)
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| rounded Rhode Island, seperation of church and state | Roger Williams
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| evil leader of Yugoslavia, practiced genocide | Slobodan Milosevic
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| only person to serve as president and vice president without being elected | Ford
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| Norwegian explorer who used Kon-Tiki, Ra, and Aku-Aku | Thor Heyerdahl
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| Nazi lieutenant-colonel captured in Argentina, tried and executed by Israel | Adolf Eichmann
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| Israeli secret police/intelligence agency | Mossad
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| Israeli cabinet | Knesset
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| Supreme Court justice nicknamed Whizzer | Byron White
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| last Chinese dynasty | Qing
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| Greek leader who made a very harsh code of laws | Draco
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| historian who wrote of Peloponnesian War (Athens vs. Sparta) | Thucydides
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| father of Persian War (Greek vs. Persians) | Herodotus
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| President of Peru | Alberto Fujimori
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| President of Russia | Vladimir Putin
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| real name of Unabomber | Theodore Kaczynski
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| drink Socrates used to kill himsel contained this herb | hemlock
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| British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo | Wellington
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| Prussian general who helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo | Blucher
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| terrorist leader, masterminded 1998 bombings of US embassies, 9/11 attacks on twin towers, led Al-Qaeda | Osama bin Laden
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| Malcolm X's last name before it became "X" | Little
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| only president to serve on Supreme Court | Taft
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| Only president to serve in House after his term | John Quincy Adams
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| French revolutionary killed in his bath by Charlotte Cordy | Jean Paul Marat
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| judge who presided over Watergate case | John Sirica
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| leader of Cambodia 1970-1975 (before Pol Pot) | Lon Nol
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| Napoleon's foreign minister | Charles Talleyrand
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| group of radical revolutionaries during French Revolution | Jacobins
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| victor at sea battle of Trafalgar and the name of his flagship | Horatio Nelson, HMS Victory
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| pharaoh/king buried in Great Pyramid at Giza | Khufu aka Cheops
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| doctor accused of killing wife, basis for "The Fugitive" | Sa, Sheppard
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| man convicted of killing Lindbergh's son | Bruno Hauptmann
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| archduke of Austria who became emperor of Mexico | Maximillian
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| Alexander the Great's horse | Bucephalus
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| meaning of the name "Sacajawea" | bird woman
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| US woman who spent 188 days in space | Shannon Lucid
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| woman who tutored Helen Keller | Anne Sullivan
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| 2 presidents buried in Arlington | JFK, Taft
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| one-eyed Israeli general who directed 6 Day War | Moshe Dayan
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| John Paul Jones reply to Richard Pearson's surrender request | "I have not yet begun to fight"
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| British archeologist who opened tomb of King Tut (1922) | Howard Carter
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| president called "father of the spoils system" | Jackson
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| newspaper of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison | The Liberator
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| 2 men convicted of Oklahoma City bombing | Tim McVeigh, Michael Fortier
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| prison where Rudolf Hess was held | Spandau Prison
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| school founded by Plato | Academy
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| school founded by Aristotle | Lyceum
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| method of learning using constant questioning | Socratic
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| to whom Hitler dictated "Mein Kampf" | Rudolf Hess
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| Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter who married Henry VIII | Catherine of Aragib
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| artist whose real name is Anna Mary Robertson | Grandma Moses
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| grandniece of Henry VIII, rival of Mary I, ruled 9 days | Lady Jane Grey
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| considered world's first absolute ruler | Sargon
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| cabinet member indicted for Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall
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| President in office during Teapot Dome Scandal | Warren Gamaliel Harding
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| shot Pope John Paul II | Hehmet Ali Agca
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| shot Huey Long | Dr. Carl Weiss
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| broke the code of hieroglyphics with the Rosetta Stone | Jean Francois Champollion
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| 1572 butchering of 3000 Huguenots | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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| William I's list of possessions for taxing | Domesday Book
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| code of honor of the Japanese samurai | Bushido
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| samurai with highest status in feudal Japan | Daimyo
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| representative body in France started in 1302 | Estates-General
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| mix of white and Indian in Latin America | mestixo
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| official home of British Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street
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| committee during French Revolution | Committee of Public Safety
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| headed the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution | Robbespierre
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| address of the White House | 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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