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I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS |
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It was made the capital of China in 1949 |
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In the 8th century the Venerable St. Bede popularized the idea of dating from this event |
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One of his origin stories states he was raised by a lighthouse keeper before regaining his royal birthright |
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Usually served in thin slices, this Italian ham cured by drying has a name from Latin meaning "suck out" |
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He published the landmark treatise "Opticks" in 1704 |
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A little sound from a Russian Blue or an Abyssinian |
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Those born during the first half of April have this sign, the ram |
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Now known to historians as the Migration period, the early Middle Ages were long known by this name implying ignorance |
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Wonder Woman's tools have included an invisible plane & a magic one of these that can make you tell the truth |
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Here's a piece of this layered Italian cake flavored with espresso & dusted with cocoa |
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A Swedish astronomer gave his name to this temperature scale |
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This 4-letter word for a short note is an abbreviation of a 10-letter word |
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A googol is equal to a 1 followed by this many zeros |
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Quarreling with Germany's Henry IV over who got to appoint bishops, Pope Gregory VII did this to Henry, twice |
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Peter Parker has worked as a photographer for this newspaper created long before Spider-Man was |
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This grated cheese made from skim milk is named for a city about 70 miles southeast of Milan |
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This hereditary bleeding disorder, aka Christmas disease, is caused by a deficiency of clotting factors |
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The variety of this seen here is small enough to grow in your little garden |
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Columbia University began handing out these awards in 1917 |
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Merchant & craft were the 2 main types of these business associations, from an old word for "payment" |
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Her alter ego is the successful attorney Jennifer Walters, but don't make her angry |
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Puttanesca sauce is commonly made with olives, capers & these small salty fish |
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These are proteins, such as hydrolase, that catalyze biochemical reactions |
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A small case containing a scroll, it's hung on doorposts in Jewish homes at an angle, top facing inward |
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Filbert is another name for this nut |
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Clovis I founded the kingdom of these people who would give their name to a country |
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The lone survivor of a massacre, this green-skinned guardian grew up to be the "deadliest woman in the galaxy" |
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It's the 2-word name for this flavorful Italian dish made from veal shanks |
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Hundreds of copies of this type of DNA, mtDNA for short, are outside the nucleus of the cell, helping ancestry.com trace your mother's line |
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This subatomic particle is made of a quark & an antiquark |
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