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  • Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...
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  • The Aswan Dam, located in Aswan, Egypt, tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of social and economic causes ...
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  • Abu Simbel (Arabic أبو سنبل or أبو سمبل) is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the ...
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  • Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد ...
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  • A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. In temperate and polar regions, four ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...
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  • Federalist Paper No. 54 is an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published ...
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  • Crown ethers are heterocyclic chemical compounds that consist of a ring containing several ether groups. The most common crown ethers are oligomers ...
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  • John Fletcher (1579 – 1625) was a Jacobean playwright, and indisputably one of the most accomplished and influential playwrights of the seventeenth ...
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  • Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was a founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional ...
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  • Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ...
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  • Albert Hoyt Taylor, Ph.D. (January 1, 1879 - December 11, 1961) was an American electrical engineer who made important early contributions to ...
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  • Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE) (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food Chai [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right ...
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  • An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form of content that is not music. In the U.S., the Library of Congress initiated ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Philip Massinger (1583 - March 17, 1640) was an English dramatist famous for his plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second ...
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  • The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on ...
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  • Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...
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  • Sabellius, a Christian priest, theologian, and teacher, was active during the first decades of the third century, propounding a Christological ...
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