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- Pope Francis
- b) – Centaur. A minotaur is half-man and half bull, while a faun is half-man and part goat.
- False – in 1943, the Battle of Attu took place off the coast of Alaska between Japanese and American forces. It lasted about three months.
- Rolls Royce which manufactures engines for A350 planes.
- Britain and Ireland.
- Base
- Mongolia – which is heavily reliant on Russia for gas and electricity. The ICC warrant, was issued last year due the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children. The ICC lacks the means to enforce its rulings.
- Nivea
- It is refusing to remove him as a third-party candidate despite his withdrawal from the election. His inclusion on the election ballot is believed to be advantageous to the Democrats.
- To remove or destroy completely.
- Marvel (Avengers)
- Dynamic pricing – which adjusts prices in accordance with demand. Oasis tickets doubled in price within minutes of release. Keith Starmer, the UK’s PM, has vowed to control such mechanisms to protect consumers. Adam Smith might have a few trenchant comments if he were still alive.
- Bandy – the origin of the sport is a subject of much debate with Russia, England, Wales and the Netherlands claiming origin. Today the sport is popular in Russia, the Nordic countries and even Kazakhstan. The first rules were published in England in 1882.
- True – Mary Anderson was an American property developer, rancher, viticulturist, and an inventor. Although she was granted a patent in 1903, no manufacturing firms agreed to make her invention and she never profited from it.
- The Tremaloes – the band is still performing with two members that date back to the 1960s.
- Arthur Ashe stadium (the largest in the world) which is part of the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center. The complex is in Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.
- Drunken men – attributed to Thomas Hughes (1822- 1896) when he used it in his book, Tom Brown at Oxford, a sequel to his more famous, Tom Brown’s School Days.
- Pythagoras theorem a² + b² = c² for any right-angled triangle. Apparently there are at least 370 methods for proving it correct. It is likely that it had been well known before Pythagoras’ time, 570 – 495 BCE.
- Johannesburg
- Oscar Wilde – 1854 – 1900.
