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a 1939 American epic-historical-romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel, set in the 19th-century American South, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, from her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, to her marriage to Rhett Butler.
What is Gone With the Wind
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1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).[1] Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.[2] However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century
What is The Jungle
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Was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.
What is Neil Armstrong
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This place is where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address during the American Civil War on Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
What is Gettysburg Address
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Ceremonial title given to the chief of the Panther Tribe of the advanced African nation of Wakanda.In the distant past, a meteorite made of the (fictional) vibration-absorbing mineral vibranium crashed in Wakanda, and was unearthed. Reasoning that outsiders would exploit Wakanda for this valuable resource, the ruler, King T'Chaka, hid their country.
What is Black Panther
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A 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which became a movie, taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.
What is The Color Purple
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An epic high-fantasy novel written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, it is the second best-selling novel ever written, with over 150 million copies sold
What is the Lord of the Rings
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Was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States & led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with the multi-racial group's capture.
What is John Brown
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A sculpture carved into the granite face featuring the sculptures of four American Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
What is Mount Rushmore
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Fictional extraterrestrial species characterized by its trophy hunting of other species for sport. Physically distinguished from humans by their greater height, arthropod-like mandibles and long, hair-like appendages on their heads that are set into their skulls
What is Predator
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1993 American epic historical period drama film, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, based on the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
What is Schindlers List
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In this political treatise Montesquieu pleaded in favor of a constitutional system of government and the separation of powers, the ending of slavery, the preservation of civil liberties and the law, and the idea that political institutions ought to reflect the social and geographical aspects of each community.
What is The Spirit of the Laws
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An African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist whose best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?,"
What is Sojourner Truth
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An island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
What is Ellis Island
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One of the most gifted beings alive, whose hatred of "interfering aliens" pushes him down the path of a sociopath. Known for his "ends justifies the means" approach to life, his single-minded and often brutal focus puts him at odds with The Man of Steel.
What is Lex Luther
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A 1998 American epic war drama film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, it follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and a squad as they search for a paratrooper, Private first class James Francis Ryan, who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.
What is Saving Private Ryan
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A work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke & his ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.
What is Second Treatise of Government
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An American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit, whose nickname was "Scarface", whose men gunned down seven rivals in 1929 in what was called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."
What is Al Capone
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An island in San Francisco Bay where officials detained, inspected, and examined approximately one million immigrants, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
What is Angle Island
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A god-like figure who feeds by draining living planets of their energy.
What is Galactus
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A 1983 American Christmas comedy film where nine-year-old Ralphie Parker wants only one thing for Christmas: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle with a compass
What is A Christmas Story
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A novel by Harper Lee published in 1960, it focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird
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Founder of the Standard Oil Company and, later, a philanthropist whose wealth bankrolled his Foundation. In 1911 the U.S. Supreme Court called Standard Oil a monopoly and forced the Trust to separate into competing companies.
What is John D. Rockefeller
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United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acres have been buried the dead of the nation's conflicts beginning with the American Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.
What is Arlington National Cemetary
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Was a Force-sensitive Human male who served as the last Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and the first Emperor of the Galactic Empire. He restored the Sith and destroyed the Jedi Order.
What is Darth Sidious or Palpatine
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