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During this war, Tecumseh was killed for the British at the Battle of the Thames. Oliver Hazard Perry won the Battle of Lake Erie during this war, and Francis Scott Key described this war in "The Star-Spangled Banner." The Battle of New Orleans was fought two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent ended, What conflict between the United States and Great Britain, dubbed "America's Second War of Independence?"

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The War of 1812

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History

George Orwell called this writer a "good bad poet" in an essay for Horizon magazine and T.S. Eliot described him as "impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to believe." Name this Victorian British Author. In this anthology of this man's work, Eliot included "The Law for the Wolves," which states that "the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

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Rudyard Kipling

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Literature

George Orwell called this writer a "good bad poet" in an essay for Horizon magazine and T.S. Eliot described him as "impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to believe." Kipling included "The Law for the Wolves" in his second book with this title, which includes five stories about Mowgli. In the first book with this title, Mowgli drives Shere Khan away by using fire.

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The Jungle Book

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Literature

George Orwell called this writer a "good bad poet" in an essay for Horizon magazine and T.S. Eliot described him as "impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to believe." For 10 points each: This other Kipling poem included in Emily's anthology describes the title water-carrier as "a better man than I am," although the speaker earlier called him a "squidgy-nosed old idol".

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Gunga Deen

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Literature

Certain Types of bacteria possesses carb-oxy-somes, which increase the rate of this process. The most abundant enzyme on Earth, Ru-Bis-Co, is necessary for the dark reactions in this process. Most organisms that undergo this process are cy-an-o-bacteria, and this process takes the place in the chloroplasts in plants. Name this process which converts carbon dioxide and water to sugar using light energy.

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Photosynthesis

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Biology

This building once contained a giant statue of Athena sculpted by Phidias, which was originally gilded and painted in a colorful style. Name this temple which sits on the Acropolis and once contained the Elgin Marbles.

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Parthenon

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History

Mythology

The Parthenon is found in this city.

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Athens

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Mythology

In this work, one character leases a house for 999 years. That character, represented by a "Star-Spangled Banner" theme, is Pinkerton, a sailor on the Abraham Lincoln who marries the title character with the help of Goro. That title character sings the aria "Un bel di" and commits suicide after Pinkerton returns to Japan with another wife. Name this Giacomo Puccini opera about Cio-Cio San, a bridge whose name is Japanese for beautiful winged insect.

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Madame Butterfly

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Production

Freeman criticized this Woman's work in his The Faithful Hoaxing of [this woman]. Name this woman, an anthropologist who wrote Coming of Age in Samoa as well as Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies.

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Margaret Mead

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Literature

Mead studied at this Ivy League univeristy in New York City, where Franz Boas founded the first PhD program in antropology.

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Colombia University

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Geography