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What instrument did Leonardo da Vinci design to estimate the moisture in air?
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Hygrometer
What type of vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design with a wooden body and two internal springs?
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Self-propelled cart
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s proposed flying machine with a helical linen sail called?
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Aerial screw
What name is commonly given to Leonardo da Vinci’s 1489 design for a human-powered flying machine with flapping wings?
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Ornithopter
Which 2008 global financial crisis intensified after the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers?
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Global financial crisis
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What type of vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design with a wooden body and two internal springs?
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Self-propelled cart
Which 2008 global financial crisis intensified after the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers?
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Global financial crisis
Which 1992 British currency crisis forced the pound sterling out of the ERM?
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Black Wednesday
What was the name of Kuwait’s 1982 unregulated stock-market crash?
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Souk Al-Manakh
Which 1720 French speculative collapse was caused by John Law’s Mississippi Company scheme?
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Mississippi Bubble
Which 2010 U.S. market event caused a rapid, temporary plunge in major stock indexes?
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2010 Flash Crash
Which 1987 crash was called Black Tuesday in Hong Kong after the Hang Seng Index plunged?
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1987 stock market crash
Which 1962 U.S. sell-off is known as the Kennedy Slide?
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Kennedy Slide of 1962