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  • (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians ... government witnessed the outbreak of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In ...
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  • consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known ... statistics/ An Apple a Day Keeps the Troubles Away – Mind-Blowing ...
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  • 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter," ... minor leagues, Feller made his debut with the Indians at the age of 17. ...
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  • Muslim minister and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also ... #039;s shortcomings and hypocrisies, he made the majority understand that maintaining ...
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  • editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of ... in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844. The couple had several children ...
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  • was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. as a chess prodigy. In 1972, he became the first, and so far the only ...
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  • The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval ... The kingdom included the ancient city of Timbuktu, which was flourishing ...
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  • Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... and to a Pax Britannica all paid homage to the Roman legacy. At the time ...
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  • This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Feofilaktovich ... of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation ...
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  • physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan ... After the war, he was a chief advisor to the newly created United ...
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  • poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English ... as an actor, writer, and part owner of the acting company the Lord Chamberlain ...
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  • Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth or The Old Colony) was an ... Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ...
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  • sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier ... serves as a corrective over-and-against the way in which such outlaws ...
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  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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  • ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...
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  • philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention ... but he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror ...
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  • The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...
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  • With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... Despite this acceptance, post-Soviet Russia lacked the military and ...
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  • The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... 40 years of communist totalitarian rule in the late twentieth century under ...
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  • The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...
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