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Signed in 1783, this treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the independence of the United States from Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Discovered by French soldiers in Egypt in 1799, this stone contained the same decree written in hieroglyphics, Demotic and Greek. Its discovery eventually allowed scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Although this country is the world's largest island nation by number of islands, its four principal islands contain the overwhelming majority of its population. Its capital sits on the island of Honshu, while the country's highest mountain is a volcano that has been dormant since the early 18th century.
What is Japan?
This element is essential to the production of hemoglobin, which allows red blood cells to transport oxygen. Its chemical symbol, Fe, comes from its Latin name, ferrum, and a deficiency can result in anemia.
What is iron?
This 1954 film takes place almost entirely in a Greenwich Village apartment, where a professional photographer confined to a wheelchair becomes increasingly convinced that one of his neighbors has committed murder. The title refers to what he uses to observe the world outside his window.
What is Rear Window?
Meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, reformers modeled this document on the Declaration of Independence as they demanded greater rights for women, including the right to vote.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
For centuries, the location of this ancient city was known primarily from biblical and classical references. Excavations in the 19th century revealed monumental structures including the Ishtar Gate, helping identify it as one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
Often associated with the pyramids at Giza, this ancient civilization developed along a river whose annual flooding deposited fertile soil across an otherwise arid landscape. Its rulers were buried in increasingly elaborate structures before later pharaohs favored hidden tombs in a nearby valley.
What is Egypt?
This organelle is often called the “powerhouse” of the cell because it produces much of the cell's usable energy in the form of ATP. Unusually, it contains its own DNA, supporting the theory that it originated from ancient bacteria.
What is the mitochondron?
This 1942 film centers on an American expatriate who owns a nightclub in Morocco and unexpectedly encounters a former lover who had disappeared from his life. Its famous line about “the beginning of a beautiful friendship” comes near the film's conclusion.
What is Casablanca?
In 1945, representatives of 50 nations signed this founding document in San Francisco, creating an international organization intended to promote peace, cooperation and collective security following World War II.
What is the United Nations Charter?
Discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well in China, this enormous collection of life-sized clay soldiers was created to guard the tomb of China's first emperor in the afterlife.
What is the Terracotta Army?
This African nation is unusual in that its modern borders contain the entirety of another independent country. The smaller nation is one of only three countries in the world completely surrounded by a single other country, and its capital lies at an elevation of more than 5,000 feet.
What is South Africa?
This phenomenon occurs when an object's observed frequency changes because the source and observer are moving relative to one another. A familiar example occurs when the pitch of a passing ambulance siren seems to change as the vehicle approaches and then moves away.
What is the Doppler effect?
This 1994 film follows a character whose life intersects with several major events of 20th-century America, including the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. Despite his limited understanding of the larger world around him, he repeatedly finds himself at the center of history.
What is Forrest Gump?
In 1957, this agreement established the organization that would later become known as the European Union's predecessor. Six nations signed it in an Italian capital, creating a common market intended to encourage trade and economic cooperation.
What is the Treaty of Rome?
For centuries, this famous Greek statue was missing from public view after being buried and forgotten. It was rediscovered on the island of Crete in the 19th century and is now one of the world's most recognizable examples of ancient Greek sculpture.
What is the Venus de Milo?
Though now divided among several modern countries, this ancient region was home to civilizations that developed cuneiform writing, sophisticated irrigation and some of the earliest known cities. Its name literally means “land between rivers,” referring to the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
Although this substance is commonly associated with a distinctive sweet taste, chemically it belongs to a class of carbohydrates. Plants manufacture it through photosynthesis, and its molecular formula contains six carbon atoms, twelve hydrogen atoms and six oxygen atoms.
What is glucose?
This 1980 film follows a struggling writer who becomes caretaker of an isolated Colorado hotel during the winter. As the months pass, the isolation and a mysterious supernatural presence contribute to his increasingly violent behavior, while his wife discovers the disturbing truth through the pages of a manuscript he has been writing.
What is The Shining?
Issued in 1215 after a rebellion by English barons, this document forced King John to accept limits on royal authority and eventually became a symbol of the rule of law.
What is the Magna Carta?
Described by Plato as a powerful island civilization that supposedly existed thousands of years before his own time, this legendary place was said to have disappeared beneath the sea after a catastrophe.
What is Atlantis?
This European country has territory on both sides of the Pyrenees, though most of its land lies north of the mountain range. Its capital is famous for a cathedral dedicated to a saint whose pilgrimage route has drawn travelers across Europe for more than a thousand years.
What is Spain?
Unlike ordinary glass, this naturally occurring volcanic material forms when lava cools so rapidly that crystals have little or no time to develop. Because of its sharp edges, prehistoric people used it to make cutting tools and projectile points.
What is obsidian?
In this 1960 film, Jack Lemmon plays an office worker who lends his apartment to executives for their romantic encounters, hoping the arrangement will help him advance professionally. Shirley MacLaine plays the elevator operator who becomes entangled in the scheme.
What is The Apartment?