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. A manifesto with this man’s name in the title argued against the termination policy and said that the black civil rights movement was incommensurable with the needs of American Indians; that political tract by Vine Deloria says that this man “died for your sins.”
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Custer
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The title character of one of this author’s works orders that a sleeping peasant be blown away with artillery while observing the building of the cathedral of Sans-Souci.
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Cesaire
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Steve’s class adds a spatial constraint to this class, and an open problem concerns whether Nick’s class equals this class.
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P
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. This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a “Prologue” and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon.
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Debussy
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This work offers the example of a cobbler exchanging one shoe with a farmer for one harvest to explain why justice must be distributed proportionally in a section that distinguishes between rectificatory and distributive justice.
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Nicomachean Ethics
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Cleanth Brooks discusses how this poet renews a “stale metaphor” with a poem’s final lines, “Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; and all that mighty heart is lying still.”
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Wordsworth
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One religion originating in this country engages in the "practice of the flame" ritual and believes that this country is the last remaining part of the lost continent of Mu.
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Japan
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. DCCI and BOP-Cl are common reagents in reactions involving carboxylic acids and these compounds. A common protective group for these compounds is Cbz, or a benzyloxycarbonyl group.
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Amines
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In one battle, this navy feigned a retreat, then had its lead ship execute a 180-degree turn and ram the opposing flagship, re-igniting the battle.
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Athenian navy
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In one story, this figure's vision was restored with gazelle milk after he was forced to hide out in a pair of oases, while in another story, he led his followers in harpooning 651 crocodiles and hippopotami outside the town of Edfu.
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Horus
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This author outlined his theories about comedy in an essay titled simply “Humor”, which sparked a long-lasting debate with Benedetto Croce.
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Pirandello
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One painting in this genre by this artist depicts an indistinct yellow creature leaping towards a long trail of smoke coming from the chimney of an orange house.
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Self portraits of Chagall
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In medieval Europe, proving that one possessed this quality was all that was needed to escape the jurisdiction of civil courts.
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Literacy
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Any tensor can be turned into one having this property by summing over all permutations of its indices
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symmetry
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One city in this American state was named for the road running through it and is the home of Wild Waves Theme Park.
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Washington
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This work cites the fact that it’s impossible to cut the front side of a piece of paper without also cutting the back side to explain how sound and thought are connected.
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Course in General Linguistics
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One character in this story claims death is not “a scythe and a skull” but two policemen on bicycles after recalling a hotel owner in Triberg who hung himself after a bad skiing season.
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Snows of Kilimanjaro
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This event was long feared by R.N. Kao, who attempted to prevent it by building bulletproof cars and secretly commissioning tailored bulletproof vests.
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assasination of Indira Gandhi
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One work by this man is currently displayed in a stairwell designed by Robert Adam in Apsley House;
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Canova
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A gradient in MinCD complex concentration ensures that this process begins correctly, while a fifty-five carbon alcohol is required to prevent autolysis near the end of this process.
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binary fission
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. One group’s outrage at the violation of national sovereignty during this action caused them to seek revenge by torturing Graciela Sirota.
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capture of Eichmann