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  • Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters ... On the morning of Friday, February 14, St. Valentine's Day, six ...
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  • the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...
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  • MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...
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  • It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ... The company is headquartered in Luxembourg City, the former seat of ...
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  • American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...
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  • was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...
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  • instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...
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  • gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...
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  • in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...
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  • was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...
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  • The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... by the Heisei period (1990– ), neither of these is widely associated ...
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  • |observedby=United States and Canada |date=February 2 whether it sees its shadow, announcing the result of this ...
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  • known particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in ... Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ...
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  • He was influential in the development of modern systematic zoology, ... is given annually by the National Academy of Sciences for an original contribution ...
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  • Gravel is rock that is of a certain particle size range. In geology ... or tarmac. Russia alone has over 400,000 km of gravel-surfaced roads. Gravel ...
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  • 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...
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  • architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...
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  • Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is a mineral composed of calcium ... Historically, some varieties of fluorite have been used for ornamental ...
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  • Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...
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  • 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...
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