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This Scottish knight became one of the main leaders of the First War of Scottish Independence following the English invasion of Scotland in 1296. 

Sir William Wallace

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Dedicated to the goddess Athena and located in the Acropolis, this prominent Greek temple was completed in 438 BC and is generally considered the zenith of the Doric order.

The Parthenon

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This technicality forces Tim Allen to suit up and take the reins as the big man in this (nearly) eponymously named holiday movie. 

The Santa Clause

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P.S. 118 is the elementary school for this blonde protagonist.

Hey! Arnold

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This concept is the boundary defining the region of space around a black hole from which nothing (not even light) can escape. 

The event horizon

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Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by this Scottish scientist. 

Alexander Fleming

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Built in Turkey in AD 537, during the reign of Justinian, this former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque, and now a museum, was the world's largest building and an engineering marvel of its time.

Hagia Sophia

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Neither Swim, Swammi, Slippy, Slappy, Swenson, nor Samsonite. This is Lloyd's love interest's actual surname.

Swanson (Mary)

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The Red Hot Chili Pepper's, Flea, played the voice of this adoptive, feral brother to Eliza. 

Donnie

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In his popular Pale Blue Dot, this famous astrophysicist can be remembered for stating the following words of wisdom; "We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable."

Carl Sagan 

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Distilleries in the surrounding area of this river in Scotland produce more whisky than any other, and is famous for Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail. 

River Spey

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This Roman structure, from the Greek word for "of all the gods" is a former Roman temple, now a Catholic church. 

The Pantheon

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This is the ghostly, loyal dog of Jack Skellington. 

Zero

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In this episode, the Rugrats shrink down and enter Chuckie's stomach to retrieve this before it starts to grow inside him.

A Watermelon Seed

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English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with pejoratively coining this term, during a talk for a March 1949 BBC Radio broadcast, as it disputed his favored "steady-state" cosmological model.

The Big Bang Theory

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This battle was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 against the English, taking place on 16 April 1746.

The Battle of Culloden

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Under this Renaissance era Pope, the worst destruction to the Roman forum occurred between 1540-1550, whereby he approved the exploitation of ancient temples for stone and marble to build the new Saint Peter's Basilica.

Pope Paul III

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On the eighth day of Christmas, My true love gave to me...

Eight maids a milking

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Nickelodeon's Avatar the Last Air Bender very nearly mimics the early 90's Captain Planet and the Planeteers in including all the same elements, with exception to this one. 

Heart

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In 1929, American astronomer Edwin Hubble was the first to describe this spectral phenomenon. These observations showed that nearly all galaxies are moving away from one another at an accelerating rate.

Redshift

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This traditional Scottish object is a special kind of shallow two-handled drinking cup.  

Quaich

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This Babylonian code of law of ancient was symbolically represented as being handed down by the Mesopotamian god Shamash in 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.

Code of Hammurabi

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Santa Claus is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white-bearded man—sometimes with spectacles—wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, red hat with white fur, and black leather belt and boots and carrying a bag full of gifts for children due to this 1823 poem. 

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" OR, as more commonly known, "The Night Before Christmas"

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In this first episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob is put to the test after Mr. Krabs is seen uttering "Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells... smelly" in reference to this type of sea creature. 

ANCHOVIES!!!!!

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"And yet it moves" is a phrase attributed to this Italian physicist in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse as asserted by the church. This error was eventually recognized by Pope John Paul II on October 31, 1992.

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

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