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WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES |
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WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES |
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This man tells Esau that he must "swear to me this day" to sell his birthright |
Jacob
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Seen here is this chess piece as represented in the Unicode system for electronic communication |
the bishop
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Published soon after he came to power, Robert Payne's 1950 study of this leader is subtitled "Ruler of Red China" |
Mao
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The name of this pungent striped mammal comes from the Massachusett language |
skunk
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Since 1995 the Schengen Convention has allowed free movement among 26 member countries on this continent |
Europe
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In Isaiah 45:23 the Lord says, "unto me every knee shall bow, every" this body part "shall swear" |
(Gairen: What is mouth?)
tongue
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In the 1960s & '70s, signs with 3 triangles indicated that a building had one of these nuclear war sanctuaries |
fallout shelter
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Not "Hidden Dragon" but this is the title of a study by Peter Navarro of China's growing militarism |
Crouching Tiger
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This word for a fierce tropical storm comes from the Taino name for a turbulent god |
hurricane
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The Berne Convention protects these for the life of the author plus 50 years |
copyrights
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Denying Jesus for the third time, he "began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak" |
Peter
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In white, the flower known as the calla this is a symbol of purity |
lily
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"Empress Dowager Cixi" is a bio of a 19th c. mother of emperors who began as a low-ranking one of these mistresses |
concubine
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The high-flying condor gets its name from the word for that bird in this Inca language |
Quechua
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Banning trade in many plants & animals, CITES is the Convention on International Trade in these |
Endangered Species
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Hebrews 6 says that when God made a promise to this patriarch, "because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself" |
Abraham
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A symbol of the Mormon faith is the angel Moroni with one of these in his mouth |
horn (trumpet)
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In "The Great Walk of China", Graham Earnshaw describes a journey on foot from this massive seaport to Tibet |
Shanghai
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Arianna Huffington |
Athens
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Zucchini & pumpkins are both types of this vegetable, a gourd family from a Narragansett name |
squash
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The 1786 Annapolis Convention on Interstate Commerce pointed up the weakness of these, leading to another convention next year |
the Articles of Confederation
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The book of Jeremiah asks, "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto" this Canaanite god? |
Baal
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With one serpent, the rod of Asclepius can be confused with the Caduceus, a twin-serpent symbol of peace belonging to this messenger |
Hermes
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Nixon's famed trip is covered in "On China", a look at Sino-U.S. relations by this former Secretary of State |
Kissinger
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Natalie Portman |
Jerusalem
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From Salish, it can be a type of salmon of the Pacific Northwest, or a warm, dry wind |
Chinook
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This pro-central-government party conducted the secret antiwar Hartford Convention of 1814-15 |
Federalist Party
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