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Note to moderator: Read the entire answerline and note the directed prompt. Historical or modern names acceptable. A 2020 Ana Martinez work analyzing “performance” in this place describes its role in public protest. 18,000 people posed nude in this place for a 2007 photoshoot by Spencer Tunick. Agustí Querol Subirats designed four sculptures of Pegasus that formerly decorated this place. In 1978, Eduardo Matos began excavating a site at this place after an 8.5-ton circular stone disk representing a dismembered moon goddess (15[1])was discovered. The Cruz (15[1])de Mañozca is located in a church in this place whose Crypt of the Archbishops includes the resting place of (*) Juan de Zumárraga. That cathedral in this place also holds the tilma of Juan Diego and was where a massive “sun stone” calendar was unearthed during renovations. For 10 points, a national president rings a bell used by Father Hidalgo and delivers the Cry of Dolores every year in what central square (10[1])of Mexico (10[1]0[2])City? ■END■

ANSWER: Zócalo of Mexico City [accept Plaza de la Constitución or Constitution Square; accept Plaza Mayor of Mexico City; accept Plaza de Armas of Mexico City; accept Templo Mayor; prompt on Zócalo or Plaza de Armas or Plaza Mayor before “Mexico” is read by asking “in which city?”]
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Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country8115
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange8515
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15710
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1590
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1590
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit15910

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