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  • Quebec is a province in eastern Canada. Known as la belle province ("the beautiful province"), Quebec is bordered to the west by the ...
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  • Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare concerning two young "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played ...
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  • Northern Africa is generally accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco ...
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  • Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was a modern American poet, children's author, and a playwright ...
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  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially ...
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  • Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected writers of the ...
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  • The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of West Africa. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδών ; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of both the sea and earthquakes. In sculpture, he was instantly ...
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  • Leon Harrison Gross (alias Lee Falk), (April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was considered a talent in music, art, theater, and writing. Falk was ...
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  • Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption) is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Sotheby's london new-bond-street.jpg|thumb|240 px|Sotheby's auction ...
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  • Jianzhen or Ganjin (Chien-chen鑒真 or 鑑真; 688–763) was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ...
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  • Pharaoh is the title given in modern parlance to the ancient Egyptian kings. In antiquity its use began during the New Kingdom (1570–1070 B ...
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  • The bedhaya (also written as bedoyo, beḍaya, and various other transliterations) is a sacred ritualized dance of Java, Indonesia, associated ...
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  • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer ...
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  • Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has an area of 52,750 km² ...
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  • Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 186 miles (300 km) east of Puerto Rico. The island is divided into ...
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Arabic: بطرس بطرس غالي) (November 14, 1922 - February 16, 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the belief in a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Mi'kmaq |image=[[Image:Mikmaq State ...
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