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  • Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for ...
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  • The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization was a complex Pre-Columbian society that included as many as 30 major population ...
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  • Easter, also called Pascha, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion ...
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  • Robert Herrick (August 24, 1591 – October 1674) was a seventeenth century English poet and cleric, known as the most famous of the "Sons ...
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  • The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya in Aymara) is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered ...
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  • In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus of sapience ...
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  • The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...
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  • Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into ...
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  • Amelia Mary Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart ...
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  • In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were holy female priests who honored Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Kinsey, Alfred Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Biologists Category:Politicians and reformers ...
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  • The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...
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  • Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ("Big Rapa") or "Isla de Pascua" in Spanish, is an island ...
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  • Category:Public In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive evidence for the existence of true matriarchal societies ...
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  • An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface ...
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  • Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother ...
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  • William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...
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