| | nickname of Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo | |
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| | Michelangelo (Tw) | |
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| | Paul | |
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| | (loanword) romance | |
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| | Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia) | |
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| | Rowling (name) / Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels | |
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| | lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation) | |
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| | Byelorussian (person) | |
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| | South Carolina, US state | |
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| | Mizongyi, Mizong, My Jhong Law Horn - "Lost Track Fist" (Chinese Martial Art) | |
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| | Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江, flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖 | |
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| | Monrovia, capital of Liberia | |
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| | Russian (person) | |
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| | snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm | |
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| | Russia | |
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| | Russian empire (1546-1917) | |
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| | tempura (loanword from Japanese) | |
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| | Russian Federation, RSFSR | |
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| | Colorado | |
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| | George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist | |
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| | Cairo, capital of Egypt | |
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| | Rome, capital of Italy | |
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| | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) | |
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| | Rostock (city in Germany) | |
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| | the Grand Canyon (Colorado) | |
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| | Croatia | |
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| | South Jeolla Province, in southwest South Korea, capital Gwangju 光州 | |
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| | Brahmin | |
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| | Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor | |
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| | Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania | |
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| | Łódź, third largest city of Poland | |
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| | Roman law | |
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| | bow-legged / bandy-legged | |
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| | Tetris (video game) | |
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| | Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo) | |
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| | many things arranged together, or connected together / to go on limitlessly | |
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| | Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008 | |
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| | Barcelona, Spain | |
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| | baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword) | |
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| | Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist | |
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| | Zorro | |
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| | Europe / Europa | |
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| | Zagros mountains of southwest Iran | |
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| | jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus | |
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| | all-embracing / all-inclusive | |
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| | Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works | |
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| | the Latin alphabet | |
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| | Jura mountains of eastern France and extending into Switzerland | |
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| | Russian roulette | |
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| | North Jeolla Province, in west South Korea, capital Jeonju 全州 | |
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| | all roads lead to Rome / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom) | |
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| | Tom Robbins, American novelist | |
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| | Belarus | |
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| | Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company that focuses on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics | |
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| | the Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw) | |
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| | Luozhuang district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong | |
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| | Colosseum (Rome) | |
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| | romance (loanword) / love affair | |
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| | (Indian mythology) Asuras – powerful, malevolent beings who oppose the gods | |
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| | Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case | |
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| | compass | |
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| | (math.) Galois theory | |
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| | Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago) | |
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| | inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet | |
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| | Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero) | |
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| | lit. you can net sparrows at the door (idiom) / fig. completely deserted | |
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| | the Ramayana (Indian epic) | |
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| | Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist | |
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| | (Tw) Florence, Italy | |
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| | Jeolla or Cholla Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Jeolla Province 全羅北道|全罗北道 and South Jeolla Province 全羅南道|全罗南道 | |
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| | Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004 | |
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| | Baltic | |
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| | Belarus | |
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| | clenbuterol hydrochloride (diet pill that burns fat) / e.g. Spiropent | |
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| | Baltic Sea | |
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| | net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella | |
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| | Ebro River (in northeast Spain) | |
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| | Russian ethnic group (of northeast China and Xinjiang etc) / Russian nationality / Russians (of Russia) | |
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| | Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor | |
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| | Solomon Islands | |
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| | Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria | |
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| | demon in Buddhism / poltergeist in temple that plays tricks on monks and has a taste for their food | |
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| | Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece | |
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| | Florence, Italy | |
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| | Luodong or Lotong Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan | |
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| | (Indian mythology) battlefield where Asuras 修羅|修罗 fought the gods; (fig.) a scene of cruelty and carnage; (slang) emotionally charged confrontation (esp. one involving a love triangle) | |
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| | unified Silla (658-935), Korean kingdom | |
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| | sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) | |
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| | roller (loanword) | |
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| | the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project | |
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| | dogbane (Apocynum venetum), leaves used in TCM | |
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| | Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece) | |
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| | the Palace of the King of Hell 閻王|阎王 | |
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| | violet (color) | |
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| | Luohu, a district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong | |
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| | Roman letters / Roman alphabet | |
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| | Zapatero (name) / José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011 | |
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| | Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453) | |
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