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| The bizarre bullseye-shaped Richat Structure is located in the West of this desert and the southwesten portion of this desert is known as the Azawad. |
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| The Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena algorithm can find them in polynomial time, and the Rabin-Miller test is a probabalistic method of identifying them. Gauss gave an estimate for their density in terms of the logarithmic integral. |
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| This artist was commissioned in 1930 by Ambroise Vollard to produce illustrations of Old Testament scenes as well as La Fontaine’s Fables. One painting by this man depicts a man in a suit holding hands with a woman in a red dress who is high in the air while another depicts a man playing the violin over a titular background color. In addition to Promenade and the Blue Violinst, this artist also produced stained glass windows for St. Stephen’s Church in Mainz and Reims Cathedral. |
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| This man wrote “folly is the cloak of knavery” and “Expect poison in standing water” along with 68 other adages in his “Proverbs from Hell”. Another work by this man involves a Clod of Clay inviting the titular character into the prison of the dead, The Book of Thel. |
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| The original plan for this battle was to have a brigade reach the summit of Kidane Meret so that they along with two other brigades could crossfire they opposing troops from above. Instead, that brigade under Albertone became lost in a narrow valley where the Oromo cavalry defeated him shouting “Reap! Reap!” |
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| Early works by this thinker include some 1763 lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms and his Essays on Philosophical Subjects includes a history of astronomy and ancient physics. In one on this man’s works he claims that a person’s judgment is influenced by custom and fashion and earlier in that work he describes two conditions on which people judge the views of others. That work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, would lay the groundwork for his most famous work which posits that the market is guided by an ‘invisible hand’. |
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| This figure planted a grove in the land of Beersheba which he earned in a treaty with the king Abelimech and the place where the righteous dead wait for the Second Coming is referred to as this figure’s “bosom”. This man is the uncle of Lot by his brother Haran and Lot accompanied this man after God commanded this figure to go to Canaan. |
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| Early in his reign, one of his first moves was to have potential opponents such as Lusius Quietus, a governor of Judea, and Gaius Nigrinus. One of the major projects during this emperor’s reign was the constrution of the city Aelia Capitolina on the site of the ruins of Jerusalem, which had not been rebuilt since the Great Jewish Revolt in AD 70. Towards the end of his reign, he declared Lucius Ceionius Commodus as his heir, though that heir died shortly after. |
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| One event in this novel involves a character attending an artistic school in Beardsley with the help of a French sophisticate named Gaston. The title character of this work eventually marries a man who is deaf in one ear, Dick Shiller and who obtains a work position in Alaska. This novel’s narrator notes several times that he is guilty for killing Clare Quilty and the premature death of Annabel Leigh is said to be an impetus for his obsession with young girls. |
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| ontained in this substance are two salts with hydrophilic and hydrophobic ends which form micelles into which triglycerides can be transported by pancreatic lipase. These salts, sodium glycocholate and sodium taurocholate facilitate the digestion and absorption of dietary fats in the duodenum. |
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| Zeeman slowers can be used to create degenerate gases named for this man, and his namesake level is important in the field of semiconductors. With Szilard, he developed and named the first nuclear pile in the Manhattan project, and this scientist’s namesake energy represents the maximum energy of an electron at zero Kelvin. |
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| In the speech that prompted this trial, the defendant praised the actions of Kate Richards O’Hare, whom he said had been convicted under false testimony. The defendant was arrested and charged under legislation later invalidated by Brandenburg v. Ohio. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Sedition act) |
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| In the fifth part of one of his major works, he utilized an a priori approach in developing his ontological argument for the existence of God. That work was published in 1641 and in it he published his principal philosophical work, he aimed to provide a conceptual foundation for the new mechanical physics, Meditations on First Philosophy. |
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| One novel by this author involves the transformation of Hilarion into Science as he tries to entice his former teacher. This man’s second novel involves the daughter of a Carthaginian general sneaking into a mercenary camp to retrieve a sacred veil. In addition to The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Salammbo, this author’s most famous work features characters like Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger and was famously condemned for being ‘obsecene’ in an 1856 court case. (Madam Bovary) |
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| This country’s early history involves an incident in which the French colony known as “France Antarctique” was attacked by troops under Mem de Sa. More recently, this nation adopted a military policy known as The New Professionalism and its modern borders were defined as per the 1750 Treaty of Madrid. This nation was formerly led by a system of oligarchic machine politics known as “Coronelismo” though its government became centralized in the early 20th century under the Estado Novo of president Getulio Vargas. |
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| This composer’s first completed opera is called The Fairies and features Zemina and Farzana rescuing Ada from the evil magician Groma while another of this composer’s operas ends with Senta throwing herself in the sea to live eternally with the doomed title character. |
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| One work by this author includes follows the titular character as she visits countryside with John Mary and Simor Therese while in another she juxtaposes various words and phrases to create new dictionary definitions. In addition to writing Lucy Church Amiably and Tender buttons, she served as librettist for the Virgil Thomson operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All. |
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| The Birch reduction selectively reduces this molecule by reacting it with sodium and an alcohol. The aminated version of this molecule is used to create the dye ‘mauve’ and two of these molecules fused together create a compound commonly used in mothballs; these are aniline and naphthalene respectively. Though it was first isolated by Michael Farday while he was trying to produce illuminated gas, its characteristic shape wasn’t deduced until 40 years later when August Kekule had a dream about a snake eating its own tail |
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| According to Plutarch, he is the only Greek god to have died; news of which was proclaimed by Thamus. One myth concerning this God explains why King Midas was bestowed donkey ears after this figure lost a music contest against Apollo. When he was pursuing the nymph Syrinx, he reached out to embrace her and she vanished, leaving in her place a bed of reeds which would eventually become his namesake instrument. |
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| This World War I veteran and farmer became head of the SS, and was the main overseer of the concentration camps. |
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| Known as the “Angel of Death”, this SS member and physician is notorious for his experiments on Nazi prisoners; most notably his studies on twins. |
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| This Nazi was one of the leaders of the Nazi propaganda movement, being the long-time publisher of Der Sturmer. Unpopular with many leading Nazis, he was stripped of most of his posts in 1940, but was hanged after the Trials at Nuremburg. |
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| That is the chorus of the titular animals in this 405BC Greek comedy in which Dionysus travels into the underworld to bring Euripides back to the land of the living. |
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| The thinkery, Aristophanes play |
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| One of the first of his detective stories, it features Auguste Dupin investigating a series of baffling deaths of Parisians that were carried out by a wild orangutan. |
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| Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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| Considered one of the classic stories of the horror genre, name this short work of fiction by Poe that is about the torments endured by one prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. |
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| Name this Weimar school of art and architecture that emphasizes the harmony between appearance and the function of structure. Notable members of this school include Hannes Mayer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. |
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| The first leader and founder of the Bauhaus is this man who later built what is now the Metlife building in New York as well as the US embassy in Greece. |
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| The aforementioned Mies van der Rohe is responsible for creating this glass and steel residence near Plano, Illinois that features a small staircase leading a a wide patio in front of the main entrance. |
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| This 1863 battle was a siege on a well-fortified west-facing cliff in Mississippi that saw victory for the Union under General Grant and allowed the Union to secure the Mississippi River. |
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| Azeotropes are a result of deviations from, FTP, what law relating the vapor pressure of a solution to those of its constituents. |
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