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Margaret Thatcher
A Soviet newspaper gave Margaret Thatcher the nickname "Iron Lady," which she enjoyed as it reflected her uncompromising politics and steadfast leadershipCharles Perrault
Charles Perrault was almost 70 years old when he wrote his Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (also known as Mother Goose Tales).Great Slave Lake
Canada's Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North AmericaHuman sexuality
Human sexual activity is more than a physical activity, it impacts the minds and hearts as well as the bodies of the participantsColin Cherry
Colin Cherry was the first to study the "cocktail party effect" which is the human ability to follow a single conversation in the midst of other conversations and background noisesSir Thomas Browne
The seventeenth century English author Sir Thomas Browne merged the new method of scientific inquiry with his Christian faithGreta Garbo
Greta Garbo was one of the few actors or actresses of the silent film era to make a successful transition to the "talkies"Empire State Building
The Empire State Building remained the tallest skyscraper in the world for over 40 yearsNagaland
In Nagaland, a small state in India, over 90 percent of the population are Christian, predominantly BaptistEagles
The Eagles are the highest-selling American band in U.S. historyGustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of artJesse and Frank James
Jesse and Frank James rarely robbed passengers on the trains they held upMongol Empire
The Mongol Empire, established by Genghis Khan in 1206, was the largest contiguous land empire in human historyDrawing and quartering
In Britain, the penalty of drawing and quartering was usually reserved for commoners, including knights. Noble traitors were merely beheadedJudo
Despite the meaning of "judo" being "the gentle way," it is very demanding and injury can easily occurYurt
Yurts have been a distinctive feature of life for nomads living on the steppes of Central Asia for at least three thousand yearsWeimar Republic
Historians invented the phrase "Weimar Republic" for the government of Germany from 1919 to 1933 officially called Deutsches Reich, usually translated as "The German Reich"Chichen Itza
The pyramid "El Castillo" at Chichen Itza was constructed so that on the equinoxes the rising and setting sun casts a shadow in the shape of a plumed serpent, representing the feathered-serpent god Kukulcan or Quetzalcoatl, that slides down thCanada
Canada is the second largest country in the world by total area (including its waters), and the fourth by land areaPatrick Henry
Patrick Henry is best known for his speech "Give me liberty, or give me death!" advocating American independenceMorean War
The Morean War against the Ottoman Empire was the Republic of Venice's last expansionist campaignWilliam Matthew Flinders Petrie
Despite lacking formal education Flinders Petrie pioneered systematic methods in archaeology and was the first to use seriation, a new method for establishing the chronology of a siteGrenada
Grenada is known as the "spice isle" because it is a leading producer of several different spicesAxiology
Axiology is the philosophical study of valueRock art
The many possible meanings of prehistoric rock art include records of hunts, religious practices, and astronomical calendarsVanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius VanderbiltFeng-huang
Unlike the Phoenix of the Western World, the Feng-Huang is immortal without needing to go through a cycle of death and re-birth.Charles Kingsley
Author Charles Kingsley was one of the first to praise Charles Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species," and seeking a reconciliation between science and Christian doctrineAegis
The "aegis" is the shield of Zeus, often worn by Athena, and has an amulet of the Gorgon Medusa's headFahrenheit
The Fahrenheit temperature scale was proposed in 1724 by Amsterdam-based physicist Daniel Gabriel FahrenheitFreedom of religion
In 1948 the United Nations defined freedom of religion as a universal human rightJoseph Warren
Joseph Warren died during the Battle of Bunker Hill, fighting in the front lines for the American RevolutionHermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach inkblot personality test, was nicknamed "Klecks," meaning “inkblot,†because of his childhood interest in Klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot picturesBureaucracy
Max Weber saw the ideal of bureaucracy as a means for achieving maximum efficiencyDravidian peoples
The origin of the Dravidian languages, spoken by over 200 million people located primarily in Southern India, has remained unclear and controversialMethanol
Methanol is often called wood alcoholDarjeeling
Tourism and the tea industry constitute the two most significant contributors to Darjeeling's economyKanji
Kanji are the Chinese characters used in the Japanese writing system
