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What defensive weapon did Leonardo da Vinci sketch with a fan of multiple gun barrels?
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Organ gun
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s proposed musical instrument that combined bowed strings with keyboard keys?
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Viola organista
What name is commonly given to Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century design for a vertical-flight machine with a helical rotor?
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Aerial screw
Which 1994 Mexican financial crisis caused a severe stock-market fall known as the Tequila Crisis?
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Mexican peso crisis
What name is given to the 1901 U.S. stock-market panic caused partly by speculation in Northern Pacific Railway shares?
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Panic of 1901
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Which 1994 Mexican financial crisis caused a severe stock-market fall known as the Tequila Crisis?
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Mexican peso crisis
Which currency crisis triggered the 1997 Asian financial crisis and helped crash stock markets across the region?
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Thai baht devaluation
Which 1720 French company collapsed in the Mississippi Bubble, one of history’s major speculative crashes?
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Mississippi Company
Which 1987 event caused stock markets worldwide to plunge on October 19, 1987?
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Black Monday
What event marked the start of the Panic of 1873 in the United States?
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Jay Cooke and Company’s failure