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  • is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes ... for the individual, and the coming together of the community in laughter also ...
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  • in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... on March 3, 1847. He was the middle of three children, all boys. Both ...
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  • a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...
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  • – July 17, 1887) was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created ... Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in the tiny frontier village of Hampden ...
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  • Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...
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  • in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the twentieth century, it has ... #039; rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists ...
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  • [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...
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  • Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...
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  • best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling ... over spiritual values. Set in the context of the Cold War, of good vs. evil ...
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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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  • The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...
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  • from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...
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  • and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...
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  • painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...
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  • Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of ... Oswald's assessment in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of ...
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  • an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...
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  • The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United ... The House of Commons evolved at some point during the fourteenth century ...
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  • Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...
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  • Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is one of the oldest universities in ... degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, including medicine. ...
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  • physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...
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