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  • in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...
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  • Sub-Roman Britain is a term derived from an archaeologists' label ... passed on to future generations. During a later age, the Roman legacy ...
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  • psychologist, and musicologist, he was also a passionate theologian and Bishop ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...
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  • two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in ... Tiananmen Square. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership ...
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  • of Cambridge. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...
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  • Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the ... Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth. ...
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  • Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1742 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk ... help the Indian to survive the transition from one culture to another, transcending ...
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  • was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558, until her ... Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. This was a period of English disengagement ...
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  • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington ... The memorial consists of two low, black granite walls that meet to ...
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  • #039;s contributions to them—remain today a standard source on the original ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...
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  • and political theory. He is also seen as a founder of modern biblical ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...
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  • Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born May 6, 1953) is ... have resigned had there been any truth to a BBC report that his government ...
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  • beauty, which attracts up to 150,000 tourists a year. Tourism accounts for ... A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and ...
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  • and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village ... eras of Christianity. His near death as a child in a parish fire, leadership ...
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  • Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810 ... and political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was ...
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  • was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of ... President Ronald Reagan, with whom she shared a similar domestic policy philosophy ...
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  • of the border. If the world is to become a place of peace and plenty for ... restoration of English power over Ireland, a process of settling Protestants ...
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  • Eskimos or Esquimaux is a term referring to aboriginal people who ... Although spread over a vast geographical area, there are many commonalities ...
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  •  – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat ... against Lenin's Bolsheviks. Exiled from Russia in 1908, Kollontai ...
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  • of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, ...
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