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  • in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]] Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe, and ...
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  • 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960 National Book Award), ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...
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  • during the mid-1960s, and the President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969 ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...
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  • Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from ... The Book of Exodus presents some of the Bible's most dramatic ...
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  • played a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry and defined ... He was bitterly attacked by the media of his day, newspapers and the ...
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  • Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...
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  • the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... many, he believed in progress prior to World War I but the war served to disillusion ...
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  • North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...
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  • thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... cravings, Tolstoy came to embrace a life of personal austerity based on ...
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  • Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...
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  • meanings. The first describes the members of the early Christian movement ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...
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  • The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...
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  • Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...
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  • information on troop movements during World War II (National Archives)]] Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ...
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  • (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ... (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ...
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  • Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York ... except on Sundays. However, during the Civil War the Times (along with other ...
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  • and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... United States in 1846. An early supporter of reforms such as mixed-gender ...
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  • Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...
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  • later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon ... The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King ...
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  • In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...
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