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Agni
   is the Hindu god of   
Fire
Agni was so important to the Ancient Indians that 200 hymns in the Rig Veda are devoted to him and 8 of the 10 books begin with praises to him

History & Mythology > Hindu Gods


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Chico
Horst Buchholz

Entertainment > Gangs


Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
   has the tagline   
Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours & 11 Minutes
Movies > Movie Taglines


The 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco Was 7.8 in Magnitude
   is   
False
Approx. 7.8. Estimates range from 7.7 - 8.3 but it is now thought to be between 7.7 and 7.9.

Misc > True or False


A Bagniokeeper
   was   
A Keeper of a Bathhouse or Brothel
From French, baigner, to bathe.

Language > Old Occupations


Brocken Spectre
   is/are   
Enormously Magnified Shadow of an Observer, Cast Upon the Upper Surfaces of Clouds Opposite the Sun
German (Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre

Science & Nature > Atmospheric Phenomena


Lindley's Paradox
   states that   
Tiny Errors in the Null Hypothesis Are Magnified when Large Data Sets Are Analyzed, Leading to False but Highly Statistically Significant Results
Misc > Paradoxes


Charles Francis Richter
   invented   
The Richter Magnitude Scale
(1900-1985), USA

Science & Nature > Inventors


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Chris Adams
Yul Brenner

Entertainment > Gangs


Vittorio Tamagnini
   comes from   
Italy
Sports & Leisure > Boxing


Thirst
   in Polish is   
Pragnienie
Language > English - Polish


The Magnificent Seven (1960)
      
Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn
A Mexican village dogged by banditos hires protection in the form of seven superstars

Movies > Guy Flicks


The Magnificent Seven (1960)
   featured Steve McQueen in the role of   
Vin
Western/adventure/drama, also starred Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach & Charles Bronson. Was nominated for and Oscar

Movies > Films - Steve McQueen


Magniloquence
   is speech which is   
Pompous
Language > Speech Styles


Pietro Mascagni
   composed the opera   
Cavalleria Rusticana
Ushered in the "Verismo" movement in Italian operatic music, its premier caused a great sensation in Europe

Music > Operas


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Lee
Robert Vaughn

Entertainment > Gangs


Don Magnifico
   features in   
La Cenerentola
Bass buffo role; Cenerentola's stepfather

Music > Operatic Roles


Cagnina Di Romagna
   is from the appellation   
Emilia-Romagna
Misc > Wine Appellations - Italy


The Compagnie of the Black Swan
   was founded by   
Prince of Savoy
1350

History & Mythology > Chivalric Orders


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Bernardo O'Reilly
Charles Bronson

Entertainment > Gangs


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Britt
James Coburn

Entertainment > Gangs


The Magnificent Seven (1960)
   starred   
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson
Director: John Sturges. Also starred Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Horst Buchholz and Brad Dexter.

Movies > Movies of the 1960s


Gene Wilder
   was considered for the role of   
Vin in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Steve McQueen got the part

Movies > Movie Stars That DIDN'T Get the Role


The Magnificent Evans
   featured the character   
Plantagenet Evans
Played by Ronnie Barker

Entertainment > Best of British TV Comedy


Microscope
   is used for   
Magnifying Small Objects
Science & Nature > Scientific Instruments


The Magnificient Ambersons (1942)
   starred   
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Donald Dillaway
Directed by Orson Welles

Movies > Movies of the 1940s


The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
   starred   
Felicity Devonshire, Bruce Forsyth and Paul Whitsun-Jones
Director: Graham Stark. Also starred Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims & Roy Hudd. Plot: This early Seventies British comedy takes us through seven short stories based on the Seven Deadly Sins...

Movies > Movies of the 1970s


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Vin
Steve McQueen

Entertainment > Gangs


Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965)
   starred   
Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles and James Fox
Director: Ken Annakin. Also starred Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley & Gert Fröbe. Plot: Sabotage efforts damage an international air race.

Movies > Movies of the 1960s


Krzysztof Penderecki
   recorded   
Magnificat
World premiere recording, EMI, 1975

Music > Classical Albums - 1960-1979


The Magnificent Lie (1931)
   starred   
Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy and Stuart Erwin
Director: Berthold Viertel. Also starred Françoise Rosay, Sam Hardy & Charles Boyer. Plot: A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

Movies > Movies of the 1930s


Angela Gheorghiu
   recorded   
Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz
Roberto Alagna, Berlin Opera Orchestra; DG, 2009

Music > Classical Albums - 2000 - Present


The Magnificent Ambersons
   was written by   
Booth Tarkington
1919

Arts & Literature > Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


Orson Welles
   directed   
The Magnificient Ambersons (1942)
Movies > Directors - Narrative Feature Films


Pietro Mascagni
   composed   
Cavalleria Rusticana
Music > Classical Music


Ron Goodwin
   wrote music for   
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Movies > Movie Scores


Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnie
   discovered   
The Human Retrovirus HIV
(1980s) Competing scientists Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier separately discovered a new retrovirus later dubbed HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and identified it as the causative agent of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

History & Mythology > Discoveries


The City of Magnificent Distances
   is a nickname for   
Washington, D.C.
Geography > City Nicknames


The Magnificent Seven (1960)
   has the last line:   
“The Old Man Was Right, Only the Farmers Won. We Lost. We'll Always Lose.”
Movies > Films - Last Lines


Levinthal Paradox
   states that   
The Length of Time in Which a Protein Chain Finds Its Folded State is Many Orders of Magnitude Shorter Than It Would Be if It Freely Searched All Possible Configurations
Misc > Paradoxes


Joseph Wood Krutch
   said   
"The Grand Paradox of Our Society is This: We Magnify Man’s Right but We Minimize His Capacities"
American writer, critic, and naturalist

Language > Quotations


The Magnificent Seven
   had   
Harry Luck
Brad Dexter

Entertainment > Gangs


Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier
   won for work on   
The Discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
2008

Science & Nature > Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine


Auxometer
   is used for   
Measuring Magnifying Power
Science & Nature > Scientific Instruments


The Magnificent Seven (1960)
   was set in   
New Mexico
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson

Movies > Films - Settings


Edmund I
   was known as   
The Magnificent
He was so much so considered a hero by writers of his and later times. Florence of Worcester describes him as "Edmundus magnificus", perhaps translating the Saxon epithet Edmund, the "deed-doer"

History & Mythology > Sobriquets - English Monarchs


The Magnificent _____
   contains the number   
Seven
Movies > Films - Missing Numbers


Scalar
   means   
A Quantity That is Defined by Its Magnitude Only
Energy and temperature.

Science & Nature > General Scientific Terms


Boncompagni
   is the birth name of   
Gregory XIII
Misc > Birth Names of Popes


Vector
   means   
A Quantity With Both Magnitude and Direction
Language > Interesting Words








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