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The life and death of this poet playwright (image next slide) remains shrouded in mystery and thus gives rise to several conspiracy theories. Some suspect he was a secret agent in the garb of a playwright, while others speculate Queen Elizabeth I had a hand in his early death. His first play is ‘________ the great’ about a Scythian shepherd’s rise to power is among the first English plays in blank verse and estd it as the standard for later Elizabethan and Jocobean dramatic writing. It is considered the beginning of the mature phase of the Elizabethan theater.The playwright as well as the subject of the play were in news in 2016 in different parts of the world and for wildly different reasons.Identify both. 

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Christopher MarloweThe play was Tamburlaine the

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TIME’s 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016 included two Pakistanis. One was of them was Malala Yousafzai.

The second Pakistani was 17 year old Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan Syed who became a millionaire in 2015 at the age of 15. In fact, the Guinness World Records recognized him as the youngest to earn $1 million in his ‘field’.

What is the source of Sumail Hassan Syed’s riches?

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Professional Dota 2 Player

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The Marxist author John Berger while accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel G, launched a tirade against capitalism and the resulting inequality. He was particularly severe on one MNC, about which he said“XY have had extensive trading interests in the Caribbean for over 130 years. The modern poverty of the Caribbean is the direct result of this and similar exploitation. One of the consequences of this Caribbean poverty is that hundreds of thousands of West Indians have been forced to come to Britain as migrant workers. Thus my book about migrant workers would be financed from the profits made directly out of them or their relatives and ancestors.”

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Booker McConnell

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In 1903 a land of 13,000 km2 at Uasin Gishu, an isolated area atop the Mau Escarpment was proposed for the purpose by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain under the _________ scheme. Interestingly, the scheme is wrongly named as the territory proposed doesn’t even belong to the country after which the scheme is named.The proposal was initially accepted but later fell through, making it one of the ‘what if’ moments in history. Although. several such proposals followed over the next four decades, none came as close to become a reality as this scheme did. What was the proposal about? What was it ‘wrongly’ named?

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The Uganda Scheme. Inaccurately named as the land lies in present day Kenya.

Zionist leader Theodor Herzl negotiated with British Government and came to an agreement to allow for the creation of a Jewish homeland in British controlled Uganda.In 1903, Herzl proposed the agreement to the Sixth Zionist Congress, which voted in favor of sending a group to evaluate the territory.  

However, Herzl’s death within 10 months of the proposal and the resentment among some Jews over the decision ensured the plan never materialized.

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In an effort to deal with the issue of space junk, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) blasted into orbit a space garbage collector in Dec 2016. Made of an aluminum and stainless steel mesh, the space garbage collector ’s tether would generate electricity as it passes Earth’s magnetic field to slow junk. Scientists think this action will cause the junk to move into lower orbits so it can burn up in our planet’s atmosphere without harming anyone on Earth.

For the design of the tether, JAXA were helped by a 106-year old company Nitto Seimo Co. What does Nitto Seimo traditionally make?

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Fishing Nets

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"The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" is a published paper written in 1952 describing the way in which non-uniformity (natural patterns such as stripes, spots and spirals) may arise naturally out of a homogeneous, uniform state. The theory (which can be called a reaction–diffusion theory of morphogenesis) has served as a basic model in theoretical biology. This theory was validated in early 2014 by researchers from Brandeis University and the University of Pittsburgh who provided the first experimental evidence that validates this theory in cell-like structures. 

Who is this English writer of the paper who had something far bigger happen to him just a few months before this news?

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Alan Turing

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Before a game against rivals PSV Eindhoven on 30 October 1970, Gerrie Muhren couldn't find his usual shirt. A teammate solved his problem by letting him wear his shirt.

The positive result of the game for Muhren’s team would start two trends. The first was a personal one for the player who helped Muhren with his shirt problem.

The another was a departure from tradition trend at a global level of which the same player became a pioneer.

What two trends are we talking about?

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Johan Cryuff started wearing no. 14 jersey

It started a trend of players wearing jerseys with number

outside of 1-11

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The XY Doctrine was an interestingly named policy of the USSR under the government of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980’s which allowed neighboring Warsaw Pact nations to determine their own internal affairs, and virtually bringing an end to the Cold War.

The phrase was coined on 25 October 1989 by Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. He appeared on the popular U.S. television program Good Morning America where he enlightened on the nomenclature of the policy, "We now have the XY doctrine. He has a song, __________. So every country decides on its own which road to take." 

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SINATRA DOCTRINEnamed after his song ‘I did

it My Way’

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In a 2016 April Fool Prank, H&M announced their collaboration with this person. The special collection consisted of seven grey T-shirts and a single pair of “basic jeans”. With whom did H&M announce their collaboration?

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This Indian became the first Asian to win the award for best sound at the coveted Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards in 2016. Interestingly, in a rare achievement he had won two nominations for two ventures, Y and Z, which were both banned in his country. Eventually, he won the award for Y which he dedicated to a 23 year old paramedic student on whom it is made. Give me the person and the two ventures in question.

Hurt by Johny Cash

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Resul PookuttyIndia’s Daughter

Unfreedom

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The largest country of a continent derives its name from the plural of this word in Arabic. The singular of this word translates to ‘something’ that isn’t too far away from this country and is a very important force in the region. However, this something claims that its name literally means ‘the peninsula’.

What is the word? Also name the country and the entity in question.

The IslandAlgeria

Al-Jazeera

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Despite its wild popularity in 2016, nobody knows anything about the people behind it except for its 25 year old CEO who is also a visiting lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

This is largely due to their motto of zero-marketing policy. Whenever the CEO has been asked about the rest of his team, he has refused to give details. "When people find out you are a part of a team they start emailing and calling you. It becomes difficult to focus," he said. He did reveal though that a team of 9 friends is behind the venture.

What’s their brainchild?

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PRISMA App

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As the matter of Fake News came to light post the 2016 US elections results and efforts were launched to combat the menace of hoaxes, X came up with an extension for both Chrome and Firefox users on 16th December called the Real_______context that sought to deal with something similar, albeit on a different platform.

The extension was released by X’s Reporter Philp Bump who thanked developer Stuart Bentley for his help on the plug in.

Who released it?What does it do?

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This 2010 Anthony Sattin novel takes place in the winter of 1849, when an unhappy Englishwoman and an obscure French writer boarded the same boat leaving Alexandria for Cairo. In its Telegraph review, the reviewer writes“You could hardly pick two more polarized figures. On the one hand the paragon of Victorian propriety, her later fame as X inspired by self-conscious godliness. On the other, the louche inventor of the realist novel, whose work was soon to scandalize Europe.”

Whose pre fame stories does this novel weave in Cairo?

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Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert

Apple’s Jonathan Ive has long acknowledged this man as his inspiration. Ive said in an interview “what he and his team at ______ did was to produce hundreds of wonderfully conceived and designed objects: products that were beautifully made in high volumes and that were broadly accessible”. Even he has claimed that Apple Inc. is one of the few companies designing products according to his principles.

The calculator on the iPhone and iPod Touch even appear clearly inspired by his version of those things. Who is he?

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Dieter Rams

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When he visited this country as a protagonist of the World Peace Movement, he found the country unwelcoming due to his communist links. This was strange for he was an active participant in the anti colonial movement during his stay here. In his ‘Memoirs’, he went on to describe a meeting on this visit with someone of a somewhat similar sounding surname

“Dark, cold eyes looked at me without feeling. Thirty years before, he and his father had been introduced to me at a huge rally for independence. I mentioned this to him, but it produced no change in his face. He replied in monosyllables to everything I said, scrutinizing me with his steady, cold eyes.”Who met who?

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Neruda met Nehru

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Designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Jean Nouvel, this project has been in the pipeline since 2012, and has attracted severe criticism from the artist community. Where and what’s the name of the project that will open in 2017?

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Louvre Abu Dhabi

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How did a conversation between a naga Sadhu Totapuri Maharaj and

Ramkrishna Paramhans on the banks of Hooghly, at a point where it is at its filthiest, get immortalized in the world of

Hindi cinema in 1985?

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Written Round8 Questions

+10 for a correct answer+20 Bonus for getting 5-7 correct

+30 for 7 or 8 correct

Where can one find these?

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Singles Day started as an obscure "anti-Valentine's" celebration for single people in China back in the 1990s, but it has spawned into the world's biggest online shopping day. On what appropriate date is Singles Day celebrated?

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When he scored 400* against England in the Antigua Test, Brian Lara brought up the highest individual score in Tests as well as the highest individual score by a captain in Tests. Who holds the parallel record in ODIs?

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The one paying tribute died on May 29, 1997 and the one being paid tribute to passed away on August 16, 1997. Identify both. No part points.

Bob Bemer is known for the invention of ASCII, the language used by most of the world's computers to translate text to numbers. He also invented something in 1960 as way for programmers to switch from one kind of code to another. This something found itself as the subject of several memes last year due to a major decision by a tech giant. Which another invention of Bemer is being talked of?

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Ittiam Systems is a venture capital funded company founded by Srini Rajam in 2001.  It develops DSP (Digital Signal Processing) based products; both off-the-shelf components pluggable into the customers’ systems, as well as custom products. It is headquartered in Bangalore. How does the company get its name?

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X is a moving line that separates the illuminated day side and the dark night side of a planetary body. X is defined as the locus of points on a Moon or planet where the line through a Sun is tangent. Given beside is a seasonal animation of the X line at sunset over central Europe.

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This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in March 2004. It’s actually the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy . So what is its popular name owing to its resemblance to something? 

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Kindly Exchange Sheets

Where can one find these?

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Thailand’s White Temple (Wat Rong Khun)

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Singles Day started as an obscure "anti-Valentine's" celebration for single people in China back in the 1990s, but it has spawned into the world's biggest online shopping day. On what appropriate date is Singles Day celebrated?

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When he scored 400* against England in the Antigua Test, Brian Lara brought up the highest individual score in Tests as well as the highest individual score by a captain in Tests. Who holds the parallel record in ODIs?

Virender Sehwag 219 vs West Indies in 2011

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The one paying tribute died on May 29, 1997 and the one being paid tribute to passed away on August 16, 1997. Identify both. No part points.

Jeff Buckley paying tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Bob Bemer is known for the invention of ASCII, the language used by most of the world's computers to translate text to numbers. He also invented something in 1960 as way for programmers to switch from one kind of code to another. This something found itself as the subject of several memes last year due to a major decision by a tech giant. Which another invention of Bemer is being talked of?

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ESC key

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6.Ittiam Systems is a venture capital funded company founded by Srini Rajam in 2001.  It develops DSP (Digital Signal Processing) based products; both off-the-shelf components pluggable into the customers’ systems, as well as custom products. It is headquartered in Bangalore. How does the company get its name?

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Takes its name from Rene Descartes’ ‘I think Therefore I

am.

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X is a moving line that separates the illuminated day side and the dark night side of a planetary body. X is defined as the locus of points on a Moon or planet where the line through a Sun is tangent. Given beside is a seasonal animation of the X line at sunset over central Europe.

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Terminator

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This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in March 2004. It’s actually the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy . So what is its popular name owing to its resemblance to something? 

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Firefox

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This is the photo of a tree in Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio, that fell in 2016. Two more images in the

next slide show how it looked before it fell. In 1994, someone found a box

containing a letter and cash to buy a bus ticket to Mexico. Tell me where

have you seen this tree.

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Lets Get Back to Pouncing and Bouncing!

Once Again, the Pouncing Rules

Differential Pouncing If 2 teams pounce +20

If 3-4 teams pounce +15If 5-7 teams pounce +10

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Because he was from New York and not California, he was assigned a letter which referred to that status of his. This, along with this 1987 book, became the reason of a widely popular myth about the person that was finally put to rest in 2016. What was the myth?

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Gaetan Dugas Being Patient Zero of AIDS in

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The first general store that was opened in this town was by the Nowrojee family in 1860. This store has been run by five generations of the family and has provided its customers with medicines, usual grocery and household items. But in 1905, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of the town and effectively ended the town’s prosperity. Many people moved out of the town and as a result it became deserted. In 1960, Nauzer Nowrojee, a descendant of the family was wondering how to make ends meet. He invited various businesses and government agencies to use the abandoned buildings and revive the place. Finally he wrote to the GOI and proposed a new use for the town. This proposal was taken up, resulting in a major revival of the town’s prospects. What resulted?

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The Government of India decided to allow Dalai Lama and his

followers to settle in McLeodganj (Dharamsala), based on Nowrojee’s invitation.

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Rajesh Khattar, apart from being Neelima Azeem’s second husband, has also acted in several films including Don and was recently seen in German and French serials. However, his resume boasts of bigger projects than those combined of the whole Kapur scion put together?

What does Rajesh Khattar most famously do?

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He has been India’s foremost dubbing artist for over 200

Hollywood movies

36 years later in a 2007 interview, he claimed that money was never the motivation. He had a good life going on and had a three book contract in hand. He owned a lovely Ibizan farmhouse, and his own boat.

'But one of my motives for doing the whole thing was to get away from home to be with Nina,' whom he would meet on his 'research trips'. 

This romance with the woman was a sub plot in which big story of the 70’s?

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Irving Clifford writing the fake autobiography of

Howard Hughes

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World famous artists Christo and Jeanne Claude were a married couple whose notable works of art include The Gates, Runing Fence, Oil barrels. However, their art also attracts significant criticism as critics point that there is no message in what they do. To this, Christo has said

“Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain.”

What do they do with their installations?

They are Wrapping artists who merely wrap

the art installations

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Continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years and the capital of the country since the 10th century, it also is the last and only divided capital in the world. A ‘Green Line’ was drawn in 1964 by the United Nations after skirmishes between two communities that divided the city into North and South blocs. Which capital?

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Nicosia, Capital of Cyprus

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Talking about the 1970 incident

"I have been often asked what the gesture was all about. Was it planned? No, it wasn't. As I stood on the edge of the Germany's historical abyss, feeling the burden of millions of murders, I did what people do when words fail.”

This gesture wasn’t unanimously popular though, as majority of Germans felt that his humility was exaggerated. Nonetheless, it fast tracked him to a Nobel Peace Prize.

Whose is the man?What was the gesture?

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Willy Brandt’s Falling down on his knees in a Warsaw monument dedicated to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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In the 1959 movie Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Beckons), the fictional Soviet spaceship Rodina was shown achieving something that as a concept had been abandoned in the face of space race that was kicked off as a result of the Russians sending Sputnik into the space in 1957. What did Rodina achieve that came back in news last year?

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Landing by Space X’s Rocket Falcon 9

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Whose angry face has been blanked out from the memes that mushroomed around August, 2016?

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These are photos of huts in Phonsavan. Look at these photos and determine the country (where this village is located) which holds an unwanted superlative that it achieved in the second half of the 20th century despite its neutral status due to the presence of something famously named after the person in the photo. (next slide). Also, give the unwanted superlative.

LaosOn a per capita basis, Laos is the most heavily bombed

country in history.

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It first happened to Thomas Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII. In the last century, it has happened to Italy's Benito Mussolini, Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and art historian Anthony Blunt who oversaw the care of the royal family's paintings. The last example of this is chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred Goodwin.

What happened to all of them?

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They all got de-knighted

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Originally a NIN song, X was taken on by Y in 2003. When the original video plan was rejected, the director with Y went to Y’s home and museum. The director said, “The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Y’s health - as candid as Y has always been in his songs.” That idea would blossom into a heart-wrenching music video that spoke about the transience of life and the gracelessness of death. 3 months after the shooting Y’s wife would die, and 4 months after that, Y himself passed away. X and Y?

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Hurt by Johnny Cash

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Born in 1816 in Sydney, Lang is generally regarded as Australia’s first native novelist who later sailed to India and made the country his new home, even learning the Hindustani language. He even started a newspaper in 1845 called The Moffusilite.When Narendra Modi visited Australia in 2014, he presented Tony Abbott with a petition of John Lang. On whose behalf did Lang write this petition that ensured his place of respect in Indian history?

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He was the lawyer of Rani Laxmibai

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Christian teaching generally states that Christ was assumed into heaven corporeally. Therefore, the only parts of his body available for veneration are parts he had lost prior to the Ascension. The most important among them is the Holy Prepuce. Till about 35 years ago, this relic was housed in an Italian town of Calcata. At this point, it is believed that the Vatican stole it as they didn’t like the irreverent curiosity it generated, a concern they’ve expressed throughout the 20th century.

What part of Jesus is the Holy Prepuce?

Jesus’ Foreskin

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When asked who or what was the greatest love of her life, she said: "What? Shoes. Who? My husband Philip. When in October, her leopard print heels attracted scrutiny, she said, "But look, do I regret the fact that people look at my shoes? Hey - it gives me an excuse to go and buy new shoes.“This self confessed obsession has led to comparisons with the woman whose almost 2000 pair of footwear are now found in Marikina Shoe Museum. Which two women?

Theresa May and Imelda Marcos

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This painting called the Gallery of the Louvre depicts masterpieces from the Louvre's collection that its painter "reinstalled" in one of that museum's grandest galleries, the Salon Carré. The idea of the artist, an American who had studied arts in Yale University, was to elevate Americans’ understanding and appreciation for art. Sadly, the painting was praised by critics, but rejected by the public for having little narrative interest.

Crushed by the response, the artist soon ceased painting altogether in 1832 and turned to something for which he is revered in the world of science. However, 150 years later, In 1982, the Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art bought Gallery of the Louvre for $3.25 million, the highest sum paid up until that point for a work by an American painter.

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While the origins of this phrase are unknown, some traced it back to Albert Camus. However, it is now associated with the man in picture (next slide)who wrote an article in Foreign Affairs in 1993 with the phrase followed by a question mark as the title.

This was a response to a 1992 book ‘The ____ ___ ________and the Last Man’ written by his student which gives us another political and philosophical concept associated with the result of the Cold War. In 1996, he used the first phrase as the title of his book, now without the question mark and with the subtitle ‘And the remaking of World Order’.

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Clash of CivilizationsEnd of History

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