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Note to moderators: you are doing a great job! Thanks for staffing! This character compares an “immense desert” to Victor Hugo’s idea of the “Living Infinite.” This character screams “I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!” after spotting a ship and mourning his dead family. A flag with this man’s motto “Mobilis (20[1])in (20[2])Mobili” (20[4])is hoisted (20[1])over the South (20[1])Pole. (20[2])This (20[1])fervent anti-imperialist was (20[1])born as Prince (*) Dakkar, (10[2])the son of a Hindu (10[1])raja. (10[3])Five Civil War prisoners (10[2])discover this character after their balloon crashes on the Mysterious Island. In an 1870 novel, (10[1])this character rescues Professor Aronnax on the Abraham Lincoln using a vessel (10[1])that is attacked (10[1])by a giant squid (10[2])and sent into (10[1])a maelstrom. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Jules Verne wrote about what captain (10[2])of (10[1])the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues (10[1])Under the Sea? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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