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dubdobdeeq10:
i: Whose martyrdom is remembered on 21 April?
ii: What great edifice bears Liverpudlian similarities?
iii: Which physician was a founder of Corinthian Democracy?
iv: Where was Dacosta reprieved through solution of Ortega’s cryptogram?
v: In which city did the leprous “little cripple” create Isaiah and 11 others?
vi: Which once premier peak had to be relegated to No 3 in the pecking order?
vii: Which leader “serenely” hastened his departure from life “to enter history”?
viii: Where did James I surrender to the British prior to a diplomatic resolution?
ix: With what does the vexillologist associate Spica?
x: What owes its name to a Savoyard chemist?
COMPLETED:
i: i is Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier aka TIRADENTES was hanged on 21 April 1792, while agitating for Brazil's independence from the Portuguese colonial power. (Googled by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jauntyalan)
ii: The CATEDRAL METROPLITANA NOSSA SENHORA APARECIDA is apparently often compared to Liverpool's. (Googled byjauntyalan)
iii: SÓCRATES (a doctor) was part of the "Corinthians' Democracy" at the club Corinthians in the '70s, the players making democratic decisions regarding the football side of matters at the club (considered rather a big deal in dictatorship-era Brazil). (Known bythebopkids, google-confirmed by jauntyalan)
iv: is a JAGANDA at the MOUTH OF THE AMAZON (Dacosta and Ortega are character's in Jules Verne's Eight_Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (Googled byjauntyalan)
v: The leper Antonio Francisco Lisboa (c.1730-1814), aka ALEIJADINHO ("little cripple" in Portuguese) made statues for many churches in Brazil, including TWEVLE PROPHETS at the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos at Congonhas. (Googled bydubdobdee, following jeff_worrell's suggestion the theme was BRAZIL.:0
vi: This is PICO DE BANDEIRA, once thought the highest mountain in Brazil, now considered the third highest. (Google-confirmed byjeff_worrell)
vii:
viii:
ix: Vexillology is the study of flags, Spica is a star from the constellation Virgo, which appears on the BRAZILIAN FLAG. Semi-guessed bythebopkids, google-confirmed by jeff_worrell)
x: The BRAZIL NUT, whose genus Bertholletia is named for the Savoyard chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. (Googled byjauntyalan)
vii: Which leader “serenely” hastened his departure from life “to enter history”?
viii: Where did James I surrender to the British prior to a diplomatic resolution?
COMPLETED:
i: i is Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier aka TIRADENTES was hanged on 21 April 1792, while agitating for Brazil's independence from the Portuguese colonial power. (Googled by
jauntyalan)ii: The CATEDRAL METROPLITANA NOSSA SENHORA APARECIDA is apparently often compared to Liverpool's. (Googled by
jauntyalan)iii: SÓCRATES (a doctor) was part of the "Corinthians' Democracy" at the club Corinthians in the '70s, the players making democratic decisions regarding the football side of matters at the club (considered rather a big deal in dictatorship-era Brazil). (Known by
thebopkids, google-confirmed by jauntyalan)iv: is a JAGANDA at the MOUTH OF THE AMAZON (Dacosta and Ortega are character's in Jules Verne's Eight_Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (Googled by
jauntyalan)v: The leper Antonio Francisco Lisboa (c.1730-1814), aka ALEIJADINHO ("little cripple" in Portuguese) made statues for many churches in Brazil, including TWEVLE PROPHETS at the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos at Congonhas. (Googled by
dubdobdee, following jeff_worrell's suggestion the theme was BRAZIL.:0 vi: This is PICO DE BANDEIRA, once thought the highest mountain in Brazil, now considered the third highest. (Google-confirmed by
jeff_worrell) vii:
viii:
ix: Vexillology is the study of flags, Spica is a star from the constellation Virgo, which appears on the BRAZILIAN FLAG. Semi-guessed by
thebopkids, google-confirmed by jeff_worrell)x: The BRAZIL NUT, whose genus Bertholletia is named for the Savoyard chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. (Googled by
jauntyalan)
