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The current Prime Minister in this country is Kristen Michal of the centre right Reform Party. He took the office on 23 July 2024 following the resignation of Kaja Kallas, the first female Prime Minister of this country, also of the Reform Party.
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Estonia
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Italian Holocaust survivor who wrote many books about his experiences in the war, including as a Partisan (If Not Now, When?) and his experiences in Auschwitz (If This is a Man)
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Primo Levi
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Latin for 'place of life', an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research.
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Vivarium
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An intellectual discipline, the name means in Latin "Love of Wisdom".
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Philosophy
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Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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Sociology
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A Victorian word for an infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others.
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foundling
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An German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Known for his misogyny and unique ways of ignoring or rewriting the rules of grammar.
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Charles Bukowski
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The Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in __________, England was the last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom. It closed on September 30, 2024, ending the UK's 142-year use of coal for electricity
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Nottinghamshire
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A seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 14 miles (23 km) west of Preston.
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Blackpool
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The _____ Moons of Maali Almeida is Shehan Karunatilaka's second novel & won the Booker Prize in 2022. The novel is set in Sri Lanka in the 1980s during the Civil War and written in the second person. The central character, Maali Almeida, is a dead photographer who sets out to solve the mystery of his own death and is given one week, during which he can travel between the afterlife and the real world.
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Seven
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A form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
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RAM
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Also known as German measles, is a contagious viral infection that causes a rash and mild fever.
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Rubella
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A medieval Cathedral in the 4th arrondissement of Paris that opened in 1145. It experienced a devastating fire in 2019.
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Notre Dame
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The left side of a ship is called the port side. The right side is called the _______ side
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starboard
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______'s red light district is the Reeperbahn, a street and entertainment district in St. Pauli.
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Hamburg
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One theory holds that many Halloween traditions were influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival ______, which are believed to have pagan roots
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Samhain
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Scottish dinner of stewed mince and mashed potato. Mince & _____
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tatties
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Addressing the Associated Press during an annual conference, who gave his 1973 “I Am Not a Crook” speech at Walt Disney World?
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Richard Nixon
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One of the locations of the Hindu Kumbh Mela festival, the Yamuna River flows through the capital of which Asian country?
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India
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Kon'nichiwa means what in Japanese?
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Hello
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Escargots is a dish of what, popular in France?
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snails
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A famous graphic novel published in 1991 by Art Spiegelman about his father Vladek, a Polish Auschwitz survivor.
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Maus
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Sadegh Hedayat was a famous _______writer of the early 20th century. His best known work was The Blind Owl. He committed suicide in 1951 age 48.
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Iranian
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