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  • The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive ...
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  • The Asuka period (飛鳥時代, asuka jidai), lasting from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during which the capital was located ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Philip Massinger (1583 - March 17, 1640) was an English dramatist famous for his plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second ...
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  • The Golden Horde (Turkish: Altın Ordu), also known as Kipchak Khanate or the Ulus of Jochi, was a Mongol state established in parts of present ...
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  • Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ...
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  • A natural satellite is an object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. Such objects are often called ...
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  • An abbey (from Latin abbatia, derived from Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an ...
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  • Lucrezia Borgia (April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance figure who later became Pope Alexander ...
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  • The Bolshoi Theater ( Большой театр , Bol'shoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theater and opera company in Moscow, Russia, which ...
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  • Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé PC CC CMM CD (née Benoît) (April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power and rights given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality in post-Kievan Rus' in the late twelfth century and existed until ...
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  • The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, in Covent Garden, London. Led by Director ...
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  • Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until deposed in January, 1327. His tendency ...
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  • Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471 ...
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  • Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century. He is remembered primarily for two things: he ...
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  • Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP OM GCB GCMG VD PC (June 4, 1833–March 25, 1913) was a British army officer. ...
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  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ...
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  • Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony, is located in the broad basin of the River Elbe, 19 miles (30 km) north ...
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