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It's the Spanish term for warm ocean surface waters that bring extra rain to the Gulf Coast & Southeast every 2 to 7 years
What is El Niño?
This colorful sea cuts through 2 geological plates: the Nubian & the Arabian
What is the Red Sea?
Tourists in this Jamaican capital may want to visit the Bob Marley Museum & Liberty Hall, a museum devoted to Marcus Garvey
What is Kingston?
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he wrote Matilda and was named after explorer Amundsen
Who is Roald Dahl?
This decision held that when a taxing authority keeps “excess” or “surplus” funds from a tax foreclosure sale, the authority has made a taking without payment of just compensation in violation of the 5th Amendment
What is Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, 598 U.S. 631 (2023)?
This language has 2 main written forms: modern standard & classical the language of the Koran
What is Arabic?
The world's largest ice cave lies in a section of this mountain range in Austria
What is the Alps?
By the early 1200s Genghis Khan & the Mongols were attacking northern China, taking this current capital city in 1215
What is Beijing?
French painter Monet kept art very local from the 1890s until 1926 with a series of about 250 oil paintings focused on a pond of these in his garden
What is water lillies?
To determine the owner of a given property and its relevant encumbrances, you must conduct this, usually spanning 50 years or more.
What is a Title Search?
This German name for a type of school was meant to give the idea that the tots would grow & thrive like plants
What is kindergarten?
Saying "mount" & adding "yama" to the name of this highest Japanese peak is redundant--"yama" means mountain
What is Mt. Fuji?
It's only about 130 miles from Vienna to this capital of Hungary
What is Budapest?
Raphael brought together great scientists, mathematicians & philosophers in this fresco, an allegory of knowledge
What is The School of Athens?
This is another way to quiet a "messy" title. It is the same process as registration, except when the case is ready for judgment, the land will not be registered but will remain recorded
What is Confirmation?
Irish is one form of this language also called Erse
What is Gaelic?
443 feet high & on the south bank of the Thames, it takes 30 minutes to do one complete rotation
What is the London Eye?
January temperature averages are in the 70s in this Chilean capital, but bring a coat in July, when the figure is in the 30s
What is Santiago?
On view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts is a self-portrait of this artist dedicated to Russian exile Leon Trotsky
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Boston zoning appeals and Conservation commission or other environmental permit appeals should not be brought to the Land Court unless it is this type of case
What is Permit Session?
This language is spoken by about 11 million in Europe & about 200 million in South America
What is Portuguese?
The Blue Mosque is across the way from the Hagia Sophia in this city?
What is Istanbul?
FDR became the first president to fly while in office when he attended a conference in this African city, sweetheart
What is Casablanca?
He said he used his mother's maiden name because double S names work for artists--Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau
Who is Picasso?
This went into effect on Oct. 1, 1898.
What is the “Land Registration Act”?