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  • The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses' absence on Mount Sinai ...
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  • The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the eponymous ...
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  • The llama is a domesticated, gregarious, South American ungulate, Lama glama, of the camel family (Camelidae), characterized by long neck and ...
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  • Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author ...
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  • Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow the religious traditions developed by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Economics [[Image:Rolandfealty.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Roland pledges his fealty ...
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  • John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the most innovative and versatile American artists of the nineteenth century. ...
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  • Hula ( ˈhuːlə ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled ...
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  • Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ...
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  • Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ...
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  • David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is widely credited with ...
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  • Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...
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  • Subclass Nautiloidea *†Plectronocerida *†Ellesmerocerida *†Actinocerida *†Pseudorthocerida *†Endocerida *†Tarphycerida ...
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  • Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...
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  • Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus ...
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  • Ammunition, often referred to as ammo, is a generic term meaning the assembled set of components that makes up whatever is to be fired from a ...
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  • Basidiomycota is a major division (or phyla) of the kingdom Fungi, whose members typically are characterized by the presence of a basidium, a ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union. The plan ...
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  • Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine ...
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  • Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals ...
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