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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
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
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1590
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1590

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