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| Known for the Iron Law of Wages | show 🗑
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| Founded the Jesuits | show 🗑
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| show | 16th
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| show | Hector
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| Often called Wobblies | show 🗑
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| show | Crete
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| Accredited with creating democracy (in Athens) | show 🗑
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| Series of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party | show 🗑
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| Wrote "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" | show 🗑
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| show | Polk
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| Law of Segregation (his first law) | show 🗑
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| show | Landsteiner
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| show | Henry VIII
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| The amount of thermal energy needed to change a substance from a solid to liquid | show 🗑
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| First British Prime Minister | show 🗑
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| Louis XIV's Chief Minister | show 🗑
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| A ritual instrument for Hebrews; is a ram's horn | show 🗑
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| show | Cloture
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| Olympic committee is in this country | show 🗑
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| show | George III
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| show | Snell's Law (of Optics or of Refraction)
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| Last King of Lydia who was defeated by Cyrus | show 🗑
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| show | Barbizon School
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| WWI raids that the legality of citizenship of radical leftists | show 🗑
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| show | Moho (Mohorovičić discontinuity)
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| show | Frigga
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| Like water color, but heavier | show 🗑
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| show | Meissner Effect
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| French King, ruled from 1715-1774; Took throne at the age of 5 | show 🗑
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| show | Muckrakers
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| Was a model for the League of Nations and UN; Headed by Austrian statesman Metternich; Redrew map of Europe | show 🗑
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| show | George Wallace
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| Author of Walden Two | show 🗑
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| Guard room at Fort William that held British POWs and 123 of 146 prisoners died | show 🗑
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| the "father of numbers" and first person to call him self a philosopher (lover of wisdom) | show 🗑
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| show | Herodotus
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| A transition from a solid to gas phase with no intermediate liquid phase | show 🗑
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| show | Christian Goldbach
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| show | Pericles
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| called the "smoking bay" | show 🗑
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| Headed the De Beers diamond monopoly in Africa | show 🗑
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| known as the "father of history" | show 🗑
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| show | Triple Point
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| show | Thiamin
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| show | Horus
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| show | David
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| show | Haber Process
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| Planned plot to kill King Charles II of England and his brother James, Duke of York | show 🗑
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| Ugandan dictator from 1971-1979 | show 🗑
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| increases blood sugar level; opposite of insulin | show 🗑
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| show | Cortisol
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| produced in the pineal gland; regulates the circadian cycle and is only produced in darkness | show 🗑
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| show | Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH)
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| Found as nodules in chalk or limestone; used to spark | show 🗑
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| show | Alibi
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| show | Cirrus clouds
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| show | Cumulonimbus
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| Clouds that are layered and indicative of rain | show 🗑
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| show | Contrails
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| show | Precipitate
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| First laws to codify Athens; Extremely harsh | show 🗑
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| show | Filmore
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| show | Monroe
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| Signed Kansas-Nebraska Act | show 🗑
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| Signed Homestead Act | show 🗑
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| show | Aerosol
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| show | Foam
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| A liquid in a solid (butter) | show 🗑
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| show | Emulsion
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| won 1945 Pulitzer Prize for photographs on Iwo Jima | show 🗑
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| Discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1879; called it "radiant matter" | show 🗑
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| show | I.M. Pei
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| show | the Great Fire of Rome
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| show | Methuselah
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| show | Nat Turner
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| show | Carl Sagan
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| show | Teddy Roosevelt
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| show | American Gothic (by Wood)
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| show | Libertarian Party
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| show | Zimbabwe
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| show | Mjolnir
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| The heaviest naturally occurring element | show 🗑
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| Prison that was build in 1383 in the Hundred Years' War | show 🗑
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| show | Michelson-Morley Experiment
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| Psychological experiment that revealed people would submit to authority, pushing and electric shock button if told to | show 🗑
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| President after Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881 | show 🗑
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| show | Diogenes
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| Set up a 13-member Committee of the States | show 🗑
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| show | Filmore
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| Capital of Wales | show 🗑
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| The only crusade that didn't attack any Muslim cities, instead hit Constantinople | show 🗑
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| show | Gateway Arch
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| These are the 2 houses of British Parliament | show 🗑
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| Parliament of Israel | show 🗑
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| show | Diet
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| Type of neutron star that is very dense and very magnetic that rotates and emits a electromagnetic beam at a certain interval | show 🗑
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| show | 26th Amendment
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| Compounds with single unpaired electrons; dissociated by light in the air | show 🗑
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| show | Balfour
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| show | the EU
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| show | Shiva
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| The only spin-0 particle in the Standard Model; could explain difference between weak nuclear and electromagnetic forces; would explain why some matter has mass | show 🗑
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| show | Histones
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| show | Yahoo
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| show | Tom Lantos
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| 1814 battle that is also called the Battle of Plattsburgh | show 🗑
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| His famous speeches include "Message to the Grassroots" and "Ballot or the Bullet" | show 🗑
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| Finest classical Greek sculpture; famous for Zeus at Olympia | show 🗑
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| show | Electronegativity
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| show | Grand Coulee Dam
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| show | FDR Lake
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| show | Lake Mead
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| show | Battle of the Boyne
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| Low mass stars (no more than 40% of the Sun's mass); slowly fuse hydrogen and can live for 100 billion years; only about 10% of the sun's luminosity | show 🗑
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| The hottest layer of the sun; the plasmic "atmosphere"; 1 to 3 million K hot | show 🗑
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| the point and line at which all points on a parabola are equidistant | show 🗑
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| show | Beowulf
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| Has 2 sisters--Stheno and Euryale and was raped by Poseidon | show 🗑
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| show | Ben Bernanke
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| Fear of heights | show 🗑
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| Fear of the number 13 | show 🗑
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| Fear of birds | show 🗑
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| 1st US president to have never held an elected office; did in 1850 and was replaced by VP John Tyler | show 🗑
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| Greek for "without pain"; mild forms include aspirin and ibuprofen | show 🗑
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| H2O2 | show 🗑
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| Royal Navy ship mutiny; William Blight was commander (he eventually made it to Australia and was a Governor of New South Wales and sparked the 1808 Rum Rebellion--only successful armed rebellion in Australian history) | show 🗑
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| First American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | show 🗑
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| show | Tachyons
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| Defined as various forms of one element | show 🗑
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| Has white and red allotropes | show 🗑
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| show | Thucydides
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| show | Krebs Cycle
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| Man who shot MLK Jr. | show 🗑
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| show | Mycotoxins
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| show | Hadrian
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| Lost 1996 Presidential election to Bill Clinton | show 🗑
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| Cells that HIV attacks | show 🗑
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| H2SO4 | show 🗑
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| show | George Mason
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| Johnston Stoney predicted their existence in 1874, but Thomson didn't discover them until 1897 | show 🗑
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| This "army" was led by Walter Waters and was stopped by Douglas MacArthur | show 🗑
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| Was Jimmy Carter's VP | show 🗑
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| The 2 departments created by Carter | show 🗑
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| show | Gulf Stream or North Atlantic Drift
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| show | Kami
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| show | Roger Sherman
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| show | Musharraf
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| show | Superego
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| Proposed the existence of the neutrino and proved fermions have 1/2 integer spin | show 🗑
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| Also known as the Law of Segregation | show 🗑
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| show | Cuyahoga River
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| show | Queen Victoria
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| Known as base 60; used by the Babylonians | show 🗑
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| show | New Hampshire
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| Any one-celled organism which moves via pseudo pods | show 🗑
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| 1854 plan to buy or conquer Cuba from Spain; written by John Mason and James Buchanan | show 🗑
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| Claimants to, but not recognized as the head of the Roman Catholic Church | show 🗑
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| show | St. Paul's Cathedral
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| The world's largest cave; lies in Kentucky | show 🗑
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| show | Nicolae Ceausescu
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| Was the last king of independent Scotland; King of England from 1603-1625; Took throne of Scotland when he was just 13 months old | show 🗑
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| Author of Far From the Madding Crowd | show 🗑
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| show | Anemometer
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| artist who painted The School of Athens | show 🗑
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| novel by Herman Wouk which features Captain Queeg | show 🗑
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| show | Sirius
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| show | Hispaniola
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| Founder of the American Red Cross | show 🗑
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| Supreme Court case that said a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion because it violated a woman's right to privacy | show 🗑
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| French queen known as "Madame Deficit" | show 🗑
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| show | Warren
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| the right to vote | show 🗑
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| Second largest desert in the world | show 🗑
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| place where the temple of Zeus was constructed | show 🗑
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| last King of England | show 🗑
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| show | Vulcan
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| show | Protactinium
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| show | Bunyan
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| show | Neil Simon
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| show | Bizet
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| show | Pope Pius VII
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| show | Yeats
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| show | Cortisol
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| show | Nehru
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| First female Prime Minister of India | show 🗑
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