Eastern/Oriental
Actually,...
Third
Minerals/Gemstones
Fauna
100

Koreans claim they've called this sea the East Sea for over two millennia and are pushing for a name change.

Sea of Japan

100

Some of the most widely distributed books in the world are religious texts: the Bible and the Quran. This list also includes the Harry Potter series and, surprisingly, this Swedish printed material. It has been published since 1951.

IKEA catalog

100

In the 14th century, the Bulgarians ambitiously named their capital, Tarnovo, by this name.

"The Third Rome"

100

Using alum and potassium chromate, the French chemist Marc-Antoine Gaudin first obtained this type of ruby in 1837.

Synthetic ruby

100

In the 1930s, attempts were made to acclimatize these Americans to the Soviet Union, but without success. Perhaps it was for the best... 

Skunks

200

After World War I, East Prussia was separated from the rest of Germany by the territory of that country.

Poland (the so-called Polish/Danzig Corridor)

200

In 1792, Count Médée de Sivrac allegedly unveiled the prototype of this vehicle, the "celerifer." In reality, neither the celerifer nor the count existed: a century later, journalists invented everything.

Bicycle

200

The construction of this highway was planned back in the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow.

Third Ring Road

200

It is this color that distinguishes citrine from other quartz varieties.

Yellow

200

The skin of a frog living in Cambodia is almost translucent, but THIS in a frog is green. Thanks to the pigment biliverdin.

Blood

300

Having set the action in Georgia, Lermontov subtitled this poem "An Eastern Tale."

"The Demon" (in earlier versions, the setting was arbitrary)

300

In fact, he wasn't working alone: he was assisted by timber workers Gavrila Shchigolev and Tikhon Borisenko, who were shoring up the vault to prevent collapse, so he didn't have to worry about other work.

Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov

300

It dissolves immediately in water and floats in kerosene, so it is stored in paraffin or gasoline.

Lithium (the third chemical element on the Periodic Table)

300

The Parliament Building in Montevideo is constructed from 52 varieties of this rock. None of it was imported: all was quarried in Uruguay. 

Marble

300

The Aztecs called this animal ayotochtli, literally "rat-turtle." 

Armadillo

400

For this detective film by Janik Fayziev, the band "Nogu Svelo!" recorded the song "Let's Go East!"

"Turkish Gambit"

400

In 1835, newspapers reported that astronomer John Herschel had discovered winged men, unicorns, and fire-breathing beavers on the Moon. In reality, Herschel wasn't even looking at the Moon; he was observing this celestial body.

Halley's Comet

400

The tagline for Seth MacFarlane's comedy "Third wheel" (третьий лишний) was "Love's Gotta Bear." The film was released under this title.

"Ted" 

400

This luxurious tourmaline was named after the place or rather the state where it is mined. 

Paraiba in Brazil

400

Fruit bats eat primarily fruit, so these two senses are much more developed in fruit bats than in regular bats. 

Smell and vision (they lack echolocation) 

500

There are countries in Asia where Christianity is the state or national religion. These countries include Georgia, Armenia, India, anf THIS country of South East Asia. The church structures of the Constantinople, Antiochian and Moscow Orthodox Patriarchates are represented in that place.

The Philippines 

500

In fact, the Novgorodians weren't always enemies with them. For example, in 1230, it was they who saved the residents of Novgorod from a severe famine by delivering wheat in a timely manner.

Germans

500

In 1866, its third head, Prince Vasily Dolgorukov, resigned after Dmitry Karakozov's assassination attempt on the tsar.


Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery

500

In the 18th century, it was valued on par with diamonds, but then huge deposits were discovered in Brazil and the stone was demoted to a semi-precious stone.

Amethyst

500

"There's nothing more difficult in the world than to frighten him, for he's burning with curiosity from nose to tail," Rudyard Kipling wrote about this little animal.

Mongoose

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