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  • Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...
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  • The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... Eurasia and Africa to the east. A component of the all-encompassing World ...
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  • for wildlife and nature photography. Much of the beauty is attributed to ... A significant portion of the Serengeti Plain is protected and preserved ...
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  • The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...
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  • [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... penalty ordained in England for the crime of treason. It is considered by ...
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  • entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency. Born into ... was experimenting with the transmission of electrical signals via wire ...
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  • was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...
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  • 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...
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  • an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...
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  • Skydiving is a type of parachuting done for recreational purposes ... and aircraft in flight, later as a way of delivering soldiers to the ...
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  • August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...
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  • The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...
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  • she was for her actual poetry. During much of her career she lived the life ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...
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  • Division of Labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific ... The division of labor can apply to any field. Division of labor may ...
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  • The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...
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  • publisher, and politician. He was the editor of the Manchester Guardian newspaper ... Scott was an advocate of universal suffrage as shown through the support ...
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  • 2013. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first ... Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye ...
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  • Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...
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  • The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... ruler Charles the Simple had allowed a group of Vikings, under their leader ...
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  • The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...
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