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In one way of saying this, it refers to an ancient complex that probably sat on Capitoline Hill and where newly-minted coins were stored, as well as where the books of the magistrates were deposited - hence the application of a deity’s second name, Moneta, to the structure. In another way of saying this, it’s a person who has been Emmy-nominated for their roles on Fargo and Ted Lasso. What two words do I seek?
An estimated 3000 people can cross it when traffic stops. What’s the two-word name given to this intersection in Tokyo, thought to be the busiest pedestrian intersection in the world? It was so busy when I visited it that I didn’t see one of its most famous landmarks - the Hachikō statue - because I was too busy people-watching.
Rumored Vice-Presidential candidate Aaron Rodgers recently said on a podcast that “[Redacted] is interesting to me because I have a natural skepticism paired with a true curiosity about history. I studied history in college.” (He did not graduate college.) In that conversation, he was referring to what alleged empire, which conspiracy theorists assert existed up until the 20th century, when it was mysteriously wiped out, some say by a “mud flood”? The only evidence of its purported existence is marvelous works of architecture, ranging from the Pyramids to Beaux-Arts structures, that advocates such as Rodgers explain could have only existed if a civilization more advanced than our own built them. An appropriately sumptuous building from the city of Kazan, supposedly built in the 16th century, is shown as a mildly helpful clue.
Kenneth Clarke is standing next to a doorway inside what abbey, one of the triumphant works of Romanesque architecture? Assuming the empire posited in the previous question did not actually exist, we think that this abbey was built by Cluniac monks in the 12th century. It’s also historically important for being the structure where Bernard of Clairvaux, acting at the behest of Pope Eugene III, promulgated the Second Crusade.
At his death, he was worth probably $500 million. While royalties from songs of his (like “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” and “Beer For My Horses”) and business ventures (like his restaurant chain I Love This Bar & Grill) helped, it is likely that his stake in record labels like Show Dog-Universal and Big Machine Records account for much of his earnings, especially with the latter being the original record label of Taylor Swift. Who was this?
On July 17, 1838, Richard Rush departed London on the Mediator with 105 sacks of gold sovereign coins, a total that if calculated today might be worth as much as $220 million. He had been in Great Britain for the previous two years helping to direct a case at the Court of Chancery, acting at the behest of the United States government. These 105 sacks would become the basis of what?
What adjective, here in a non-historical context, can describe a “fault” that presents different symptoms to different observers, or the system “failure” that results because the individual actors cannot reach a consensus because of their differing information? It has implications in game theory and computer science. In the latter, it is usually applied to a scenario where, in a distributed computing system, a server can appear as either failed or functioning depending on which nodes in the system are interacting with it.
I have shown below an alphabet (with its Latin alphabet analogues) that serves as a script for the languages spoken by what ethnic group?
Juli Lynne Charlot died earlier this month. She is most famous for designing what - which early on made use of such things as Christmas trees and dachshunds?
The name’s nearly the same. One is the smallest of Mexico's federal states that abuts the Pacific Ocean, with Manzanillo as its largest city. The other is a region of Russia, not itself organized as a federal unit, that surrounds its namesake river in northwestern Siberia, and can reasonably be described as the land lying between the East Siberian Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. That region also lends its name to R504. What are these two similar-sounding words?
