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510: Poster for a play. What phrase did this play popularize?

509: The Battle of Marengo – on of the key battles in Napoleon’s military career; lent its name to Napoleon’s horse and to the dish Chicken Marengo.

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509: Connect the picture of the battlefield to the horse and the dish.

508: The picture of the book lying amidst broken glass is a photograph from the infamous Tiger Woods automobile mishap. The book is the physics tome “Get a Grip on Physics” by John Gribbin. Gribbin, a science writer with a dozens of books on popular science to his credit, shot up on Amazon rankings as a result of curious people buying his books after spotting “Get a Grip..” in the photograph. Allegedly, in a February 1988 article in Nature, Gribbin was the first person to suggest that the greenhouse effect might be reduced by adding iron to the oceans as a “fertiliser”. This concept of “Iron Fertilization” has gained currency in recent years among climate researchers as a potential method to reverse global warming.

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508: What’s the amusing story? (The technical diagram could act as a clue.)

507: 1932 film Freaks inspired the Ramones catch phrase “Gabba Gabba Hey”. Brad Pitt is dressed up as DJ Lance Rock, the character who hosts the Nickleodeon children’s TV show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” whose title is inspired by the Ramones slogan.

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507: Connect.

506: Eisenhower And Churchill were both hobbyist painters. In the photograph, Eisenhower is showing one of his paintings to Churchill, a portrait of  Churchill painted by Eisenhower himself!

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506: Something very interesting is happening in this picture. Explain.

505: H.G.Wells and Jules Verne.

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505: Identify the two people with differing approaches depicted in this comic strip.

504: Charlie “Bird” Parker.

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504: Very simple one. Identify the artist. :)

503: Stained glass window dedicated to Lewis Carroll in the All Saints Church in Daresbury,  Warrington – the so called “Alice in Wonderland Church”. “All Saints in Daresbury is synonymous with Alice in Wonderland as the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born in the parsonage at Newton-by-Daresbury on 27 January 1832. The Daniell Chapel contains one of the best known features of All Saints’, the Lewis Carroll Memorial Window.  To mark the centenary of his birth Carroll enthusiasts from all over the world subscribed to a memorial fund, which resulted in a gift to All Saints’ of this striking and unusual stained glass window, dedicated in 1935.” A closer look is available here.