PEOPLE & PLACES
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SCIENCE GLOSSARY
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES
5 SIXTHS
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One of Europe's oldest languages, Euskara is the language of these people of Northern Spain & Southwestern France
What are the Basques
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In a familiar phrase that judges good versus bad, you separate the wheat from it
What is the chaff?
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Rock bottom on the Kelvin scale, it's the temperature at which molecules have the lowest possible energy
What is absolute zero?
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Made the 674-stair climb up to the second story of this Paris landmark
What is the Eiffel Tower?
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In "Bridget Jones's Diary", Daniel, played by him, follows a bit of Keats with a dirty limerick
Who is Hugh Grant?
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King Charles VI of France suffered from the delusion that he was made of this & might break, even putting iron rods in his clothes
What is glass?
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With over 1.2 billion people, this 3-letter ethnic group is the largest in China & the world
What is Han?
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Ooh, this prickly seed pod is in a tricky, hairy place on Fido--scissors, comb & cooking oil, stat!
What is a burr?
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"A" is for this measurement from the height of a wave's crest to its midsection
What is amplitude?
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Gone to Pamplona, had a few too many & signed up for the encierro, or as we say in English, this
What is the running of the bulls?
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In "Mad Love" Peter Lorre quotes the first of her "Sonnets from the Portuguese", ending "not death, but love"
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
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England's Henry VI died while a prisoner in this fortress & by some accounts, the future King Richard III unalived him
What is the Tower of London?
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Tyrrhenians was the Greek name for this darned people of Italy who flourished in the vicinity of the Tyrrhenian Sea
What are the Etruscans?
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The "proxy" type of this can prevent malicious content from entering a system by inspecting & filtering traffic
What is a firewall?
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Units of atmospheric pressure are measured in these, abbreviated mb
What is millibars?
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Walked under a Redstone rocket & saw the Astronaut Hall of Fame at the visitor complex of this facility on a Florida island
What is the Kennedy Space Center?
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In "G.I. Jane" this actress' Navy SEAL training includes D.H. Lawrence's poem "Self-Pity"
Who is Demi Moore?
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Banned for decades, veneration of these images was reestablished during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI
What are icons?
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Rather than Lapps, a people of Northern Europe prefer to be called by this name
What is Sámi?
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What's all the this? It's a noisy commotion or a mid-'60s NBC rock 'n roll show
What is a hullabaloo?
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Term for the process of organic material hardening into fossils; it sounds close to organic material stinkily decomposing
What is petrification?
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Stayed up late in St. Petersburg, Russia to experience these colorful intervals that draw visitors every June & July
What is the White Nights?
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Daily Double
Featured in the trailer, "28 Years Later" included a 1915 reading of "Boots" by this British poet, about Boer War marchers
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
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Elected in 1492, corrupt & worldly Pope Alexander VI was from this vastly powerful family
Who are the Borgias?
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With an eye on conservation, these warrior nomads of Kenya have replaced lion hunting as a rite of passage with their own Olympics
What is the Maasai?
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It's the orbital point at which the Moon is farthest from the Earth
What is the apogee?
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Abbreviated Bq, this unit of radioactivity named for a Frenchman is equal to one decay per second
What is a becquerel?
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Explored the Goa Gajah or Elephant Cave on this Indonesian island better known for its beaches & resorts
What is Bali?
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Before Chloé Zhao directed "Hamnet", she had Frances McDormand quote a Shakespeare sonnet in this Oscar-winning movie
What is Nomadland?
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The current king of Morocco, the sixth of this name, became king in 1999 after the death of his father, Hassan II
What is Mohammed (VI)?