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  • the Soviet Union and China, the its standard of living lagging dramatically ... rule, North Korea's economy standard of living declined precipitously ...
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  • The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... U.S. to seek employment and a higher standard of living. Significant Tongan ...
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  • reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... in economic development and in the standard of living but also in the development ...
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  • – March 26, 1959) was an American author of the so-called hardboiled detective ... Hammett's Sam Spade, the epitome of the hardboiled private detective ...
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  • | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... socialist, she aimed to raise the standard of living of her people and to ...
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  • The Beatles) outpaced her. She was also one of the earliest pop stars to have ... Dynamite, as the explosive sound pouring out of her diminutive, pre-teenage ...
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  • remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...
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  • Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... being had a significantly lower standard of living and life span in the ...
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  • 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Catholic Spark reacted by accusing him of seeking publicity to further ...
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  • The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...
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  • Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...
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  • [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), in the process of replacing scholarly notions ...
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  • pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the supreme master ... his mother owned, playing by ear by the age of three. Tatum would learn both ...
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  • gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...
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  • Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...
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  • Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... appointed General Nathanael Greene head of the meager and poorly managed ...
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  • The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific ... The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of ...
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  • [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...
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  • groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...
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