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This amendment says no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" |
(Susannah: What is the fourth amendment?)
the fifth amendment
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"Motionless" term for the type of painting that the Dutch call stilleven |
still life
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The name of this huge mammal is from 2 Greek words meaning "nose-horned" |
a rhinoceros
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The October 1881 gunfight at this corral didn't end the feud between the Earps & the Clantons |
the OK Corral
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Giovanni Schiaparelli first described the canali, Italian for channels, of this planet |
Mars
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Only about 5% of this desert, Asia's largest is covered by sand dunes |
the Gobi
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Ratified in 1913, the 16th amendment reduced net pay by authorizing this |
an income tax
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This technique often involves the hands & arms too, not just the digits as its name implies |
finger-painting
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It's the first four-legged mammal listed in the World Book Encyclopedia |
the aardvark
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"The Lodger", a novel about this legendary London murderer, has been made into 4 movies |
Jack the Ripper
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He won a 1909 Nobel Physics Prize for his work in wireless telegraphy |
Marconi
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The name of this Scottish city is Gaelic for "dear green place" |
Glasgow
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The 15th, 19th & 26th amendments are concerned with who is allowed to do this |
vote
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Aquarelle is another name for this kind of painting noted for its transparent qualities |
watercolor
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There are only about 2,000 of these largest cats left in India |
Bengal tigers
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In May 1994 a Tennessee board rejected parole for this convicted assassin of Martin Luther King |
James Earl Ray
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Luigi Galvani is known for studying the effects of this stimulus on the muscles of frog legs |
electricity
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Australia has made it illegal to collect coral from this 1,250-mile-long formation |
the Great Barrier Reef
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It's apropos that this amendment set the January date for the presidential inauguration |
the 20th
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Though these colored chalklike sticks are synonymous with soft colors, many come in brilliant hues |
pastels
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While experimenting with this species of monkey, scientists discovered the Rh factor |
the rhesus monkey
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In 1994 this terrorist also known as "The Jackal" was seized in Sudan & sent to France for trial |
(Alex: The notorious man's name was [*].)
Carlos
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Evangelista Torricelli, who invented the barometer, was this scientist's secretary in 1641 & 1642 |
Galileo
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At 13,843 square miles, Peten is by far the largest department of this Central American republic |
Guatemala
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Ratified in 1992, this amendment sets the procedure for Congressional pay raises |
the 27th
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Rockwell Kent's bold, angular black-and-white illustrations exemplify this style of the 1920s & '30s |
Art Deco
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Known as Orcinus orca, it's the largest of the aquatic mammalian family Delphinidae |
the killer whale
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He was using the alias Jimmy Lawrence when killed at Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934 |
John Dillinger
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He found that different gases, at equal volumes, temperatures & pressures, have an equal number of molecules |
Amedeo Avogadro
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This area off the coast of Newfoundland is the greatest cod-fishing region in the world |
(Susannah: What are the Great Banks?)
the Grand Banks
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