| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Nov 08 09:39PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > in the segregated states of the Deep South, facing racial > discrimination first hand. What was the name of the memoir > Griffin wrote in 1961? Black Like Me > detailed eyewitness accounts of the Great Plague of London, > the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. > Who was this famous diarist? Pepys > 3. Who was the transcendentalist who published a memoir called > "Walden" in 1854, detailing two years he spent, living simply, > in a cabin he built by Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts? Thoreau > by cerebral palsy? The same title was used for a 1989 movie > based on the memoir, which won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar as > Best Actor. My Left Foot > focuses on his military career and makes little mention of > his presidency. Who wrote this work, which was published and > was very successfully marketed by Mark Twain? Grant > mot, who wrote the memoir "De Profundis" ("From the Depths") > to his companion Lord Alfred Douglas while serving a 2-year > term in 1895-97 in Reading Gaol for acts of "gross indecency"? Wilde > Observed", a month after his wife died in 1960? In the memoir, > he expressed his anger not only over the loss of his wife but > over his temporary loss of conscious contact with God. Tolkien; Lewis > a close friend and confidante of Jean-Paul Sartre, and her > better-known works include the novels "She Came to Stay" and "The > Mandarins" as well as the feminist treatise "The Second Sex". George Sand > diameter that are ejected from a volcanic eruption? > 4. The summit elevation of what volcano decreased by 400 m > (1,300 feet) when it violently erupted in 1980? Mt St Helens > 5. If you go by the difference between the base elevation (below > sea level) and summit elevation, in what *island group* will > you find the tallest volcano in the world? Hawaiian > 7. The deadliest volcanic eruption occurred in 1815: the > after-effects caused 1816 to be "the year without a summer". > What was the name of this volcano that erupted in 1815? Krakatoa > 8. What is rough, highly vesicular, glassy volcanic rock called? Obsidian > 9. What is the name of a depression that is formed when the ground > subsides or collapses because the underlying magma chamber had > been partially emptied after a volcanic eruption? Caldera > 10. To the nearest multiple of 5%, and plus or minus 5 percentage > points, what percentage of the world's active and dormant > volcanoes are contained within the Pacific "Ring of Fire"? 70; 85 > Ratyvfu-fcrnxref Abegu naq Fbhgu Nzrevpn ner frcnengr pbagvaragf. > Vs lbh nafjrerq Nzrevpn ba gur fvkgu dhrfgvba, cyrnfr tb onpx naq > fcrpvsl juvpu bar bs gur gjb. Pete Gayde |
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