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his tomb raided after Iturbide's victory in War of Independence ; sponsored by Charles V | Hernando Cortes |
Stonewall Jackson trapped Dixon Miles's troops at this place during Antietam ; located at confluence of Shenandoah and Potomac rivers ; raided on October 16, 1859 | Harper's Ferry |
indole-3-acetic acid (discovered by Darwin) is this type of plant hormone | auxin |
was Assistant Attorney General under Reagan ; defeated David Dinkins to become Mayor of NYC | Rudy Giuliani |
compiled from lectures at Lowell Institute and Columbia University | Pragmatism |
its first president was William Bouncker ; chartered in 1662 ; began with meetings at Gresham College | Royal Society |
invasion of Japanese home islands | Operation Coronet |
wrote The Fortunate Pilgrim ; Dark Arena | Mario Puzo |
worked with Robert Rauschenberg ; portrayed objects as "seen, but not looked at" ; made Painted Bronze | Jasper Johns |
was The Marchioness of Pembroke | Anne Boleyn |
Louise Brown was conceived in 1979 through this | In Vitro fertilization |
wrote History of New England Witchcraft | Cotton Mather |
wrote autobiographical essay Cassandra ; "The Lady of the Lamp" | Florence Nightingale |
described by Lucan in Lover of Lies ; created in 450 B.C. | Diskobolos |
Otto IV of Germany was defeated in 1214 at this battle | Bouvines |
created a monumental war memorial for slain soldiers at Targu Jui ; sculpted Table of Silence ; Lover's Kiss | Brancusi |
mother was Cyprus ; father was Antipater ; his patron was Marc Antony ; built the port of Caesaria and the Masada ; burned alive Judas and Matthias | Herod the Great |
designed by Joshua Humphries; built in Edmund hartt's Boston shipyard ; was Preble's flagship in Barbary Wars ; captained by Charles Stewart, Bainbridge, and Isaac Hull during War of 1812 ; | U.S.S. Constitution |
was defeated at the Battle of Tondibi ; capital was Gao on Niger River ; reached its peak under Askia Muhammad and expanded under Sunni Ali; conquered Jenne and Timbuktu | Songhai |
discovered independently by Peter Debye; explained the increase in wavelength of X rays scattered by electrons | Compton effect |
wrote The Angry Wife ; The Hidden Flower ; The Child Who Never Grew Up ; East Wind, West Wind | Pearl Buck |
instituted with Leviticus 23:26 ; begins with the Kolnidre and ends with the blowing of the tekia gedolah | Yom Kippur |
discovered by Carl Anderson | positron |
was military commander at the Battle of Mollwitz ; won battles at Rossbach, Leuthen, and Zorndorf | Frederick the Great |
located near Toompea in the Harjumaa region ; includes Rocc al Mare and Kadriorg ; captured by Danes in 1219 | Estonia |
first work was Flore Francaise ; participated in Seven Years War ; one of his opponents was Georges Buffon | Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck |
tutored by Camille Pissaro | Gauguin |
helped draft the UN Charter ; was American Ambassador to the Treaty of San Francisco ; developed conflict with Anthony Eden | John Foster Dulles |
son of Apollo who was killed by Heracles using a stool ; was a lyrist | Linus |
worked for Alfred Binet | Piaget |
worked with producer Hal Prince ; created Merrily We Roll Along ; Company ; Into the Woods ; Sweeney Todd ; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Stephen Sondheim |
the Second Opium War was attempted to be settled by this | Treaty of Tientsin |
its currency is the Kwanza | Angola |
fought with Olikut and Looking Glass ; forced by General Oliver Howard to retreat ; "The Red Napoleon" | Chief Joseph |
influenced by Montesquieu and David Hume | Edward Gibbon |
given safe refuge by Artaxerxes ; his political rival was Aristides ; ostracized in 471 B.C. ; created walls to the Piraeus | Themistocles |
begun in 1957 and finished in 1972 ; built on Bennelong Point; first performance there was Prokofiev's War and Peace | Sydney Opera House |