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  • upon the legal and political history of Ireland, and the debates of ... * History of Ireland (1801-1922) * List of people on stamps of Ireland ...
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  • The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...
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  • during snowy, winter conditions. This member of the mammal family Mustelidae ... being a significant predator especially of small rodents, while falling ...
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  • Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...
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  • Kennedys became America's equivalent of the "royal family." Robert F. Kennedy were her sons. Both of these public servants were ...
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  • he emigrated to the United States at the age of 19 and rose to prominence as ... Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1891, ...
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  • or institution; sometimes used as a loan of money. The term derives from ... by an elected governing body. The principles of the charter's function ...
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  • Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... This is not an automatic right of an individual, nor is any state ...
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  • A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering and ...
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  • January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early ... tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by ...
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  • The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...
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  • – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote ... Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish American parents ...
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  • a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis ... Bougainville saw human rights as the property of all. All people ...
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  • Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...
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  • was launched in 1982, and an Irish version of the paper was launched on February ... "Daily Mail reader" has become something of a phrase in ...
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  • to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.]] Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...
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  • Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...
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  • for its non-conformist opinions and support of innovative, non-traditional ... in Manchester, England in 1821 by a group of non-conformist businessmen ...
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  • The White House is the residence and official office of the president ... The White House is well known throughout the world as a symbol of ...
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  • Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...
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