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ART

fresco

putto

LANGUAGE

English

Spanish

French

LITERATURE

Aslan

Gulliver’s Travels

Bedivere

Mark Twain

Invictus

The Concord Hymn

The Pied Piper

Svengali

Shakespeare

MUSIC

a capella

PEOPLE

Joan of Arc

Elizabeth Blackwell

Constantine I

Lord Baden-Powell

Thomas Becket

Grigory Rasputin

Betsy Ross

Alaric the Visigoth

Erik the Red

GEOGRAPHY

the Galapagos

continental drift

Oklahoma

Ben Nevis

Geography counts

Central America

Sherpa

Taj Mahal

Rio Grande

New York City

Ireland

the Antilles

AMERICAN HISTORY

the electoral college

the Great Seal

E Pluribus Unum

WORLD HISTORY

the 100 Years’ War

the Domesday Book

NATURAL HISTORY

the human animal

Canis familiaris

Dinosaurs and human beings

flora and fauna

the periodic table

the ozone layer

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Hinduism

Zoroastrianism

Judaism

Ancient Greeks & Romans

Christianity

Islam

The Human Soul