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  • The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus of Nazareth to his disciples, as recorded in chapters 5-7 of the Gospel of ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...
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  • The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship on April 28, 1789 which has been made famous by several books, films, ...
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  • The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (also called the "European Convention on Human Rights" and ...
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  • Prohibition In the United States (1920-1933) was the era during which the United States Constitution outlawed the manufacture, transportation ...
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  • The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...
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  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...
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  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the ...
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  • A line can be described as an ideal zero-width, infinitely long, perfectly straight curve (the term curve in mathematics includes "straight ...
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  • A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry in the late 1800s from the imitation of French models. Although it is one ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Wundt illusion.svg|thumb|right|160px|Wundt illusion]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Barber-pole-01.gif|thumb|150px|A Classic Barbershop Pole]] ...
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  • A Fishing line is any cord made for fishing. Factors that may determine what line an angler chooses include breaking strength, knot strength ...
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  • A pulley is a wheel with a groove along its edge for holding a rope or cable. It is a simple machine that helps change the direction and point ...
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  • A fishing reel is a device used for the deployment and retrieval of fishing line using a spool mounted on an axle. Fishing reels are traditionally ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Zollner_illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Zöllner illusion]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Fraser spiral.svg|thumb|right|225px|Fraser spiral illusion]] ...
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  • The Doppler effect, named after Christian Doppler, is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer ...
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  • In recreational fishing, a lure is an object that is attached to the end of the fishing line and designed to resemble and move like prey. The ...
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  • In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a given point, the center. The ...
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  • The Korean Demilitarized Zone, a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula, serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. The ...
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  • A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally ...
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  • Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was one of the most influential French fashion designers of the late 1940s and 1950s ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[image:Café wall.png|thumb|400 px|The café wall illusion]] ...
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  • Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, noted for his ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ponzo illusion.gif|250px|thumb|right|An example of the Ponzo ...
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  • In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical ...
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  • category:image wanted Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is an integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and nonchord tones, in ...
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