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A photograph taken in this country depicts a woman wearing heels who kneels on a beach while aiming a pistol. In 2010, nearly 4000 smuggled photographs taken in this country were discovered in three cardboard boxes in a closet in Mexico City. (10[1])Those photographs were taken in this country by the Polish photojournalist David “Chim” Seymour and a pair of Jewish refugee lovers who covered a war in this country using the pseudonym of a fictitious American journalist. The female German photojournalist Gerda Taro died (10[1])during a battle (10[1])in this country. The best-known image of a war in this country (-5[1])depicts a rifle slipping out of a man’s hand (10[2])as he seems to recoil (10[1])from being shot in the head. For 10 points, Robert Capa may have staged his photograph The Falling Soldier during what country’s 1930s civil war? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Spain [or España; accept Spanish Civil War or guerra civil española or guerra de España; prompt on Catalonia] (The photograph of the woman wearing heels is Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro.)
<Michigan B, Other Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Gus VanskikeMaryland BJohn Jay College4110
Nathan ZhangCornell BGeorge Washington A8410
Aum MundheRutgers ANYU B8710
Peter LutzGeorge Washington BNYU A99-5
William OrrYale AHaverford A10810
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AHaverford B10810
Patrick TorreMaryland APenn B11310
Owen MimnoNYU AGeorge Washington B13910
Sam MacchiVassar AColumbia C13910

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TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
California2025-02-013100%33%111.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-016100%17%116.17
Midwest2025-02-016100%17%116.50
Northeast2025-02-01580%40%105.75
Pacific Northwest2025-02-012100%0%108.00
South Central2025-02-012100%0%128.50
Southeast2025-02-011100%0%108.00
UK2025-02-015100%20%125.80
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