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  • |institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers |practice_name = ... and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. He was ...
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  • amateur poet. While watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War ... early education at home because there were no schools nearby. At the age ...
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  • cessation of hostilities, across the Bridge of No Return. Portrayed in the ... (OP) #5 on the hill overlooking the Bridge of No Return became Checkpoint ...
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  • 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...
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  • Hindu mythology and religion, found in both of the major Hindu epics - the ... Hanuman is one of the more popular deities in the Hindu pantheon, ...
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  • Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...
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  • Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... under Charles Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire ...
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  • Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...
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  • to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...
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  • Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose ... natural vegetation was an important feature of the design plan, the most important ...
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  • river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...
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  • regarded as China's most important of the twentieth century. Some ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...
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  • The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman ... The battle took place on October 14, 1066, between the Norman army ...
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  • Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...
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  • Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit (OM), Order ... are considered among the finest examples of vocal writing in the twentieth ...
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  • Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...
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  • who first explored and described the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the shores ... At the time of his death, no permanent French settlements had yet ...
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  • Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...
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  • Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is the oldest surviving form of classical ... are taken from the literature and history of the Heian period and are intended ...
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  • - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... Gold Rush, Manjiro risked execution to return to Japan, by Japanese law ...
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