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  • 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French ... Truffaut himself was something of an autodidact and a complex, enigmatic ...
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  • Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...
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  • |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...
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  • 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...
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  • in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. As a ... Du Bois is viewed by many as the father of modern black scholarship ...
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  • Operation Provide Comfort (OPC). The pilots of two United States Air Force ... the helicopters as hostile. The crew members of the AWACS aircraft were blamed ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...
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  • Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in ... Pakistan had been carved from out of India as a homeland for the ...
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  • The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...
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  • I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favoring trade privileges in ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...
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  • Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) is one of the provinces of Indonesia and ... the Acehnese practice Islam, while the rest of the archipelago tends to blend ...
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  • City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long ... regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...
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  • Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as ...
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  • Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...
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  • again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...
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  • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...
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  • The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria ...
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  • whose works, such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The ... to express the complexities and calamities of the modern era. Perhaps more ...
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  • power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 ... German population transfer in the aftermath of World War II. ...
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  • IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...
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