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  • to control and adapt to its environment. In human society, it is a consequence ... Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ...
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  • poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the ... and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He was inducted into ...
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  • ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either ... without stigma, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany the symbol has ...
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  • (December 5, 1927 - October 13, 2016), born in the Year of the Rabbit), was ... The root of Bhumibol's longevity and endurance lay in his popularity ...
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  • heroic figure. It typically occurs in a totalitarian or authoritarian ... usually by the state or the party in one-party states and dominant ...
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  • and temperature. The term is also used in a narrower sense to describe ... proportional to each galaxy's distance in a relationship described by ...
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  • on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity ... Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. He was the ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... to those of the Earth. Of all the planets in the Solar System, it has the ...
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  • Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (in English ... shtml Abelard and Heloise] from In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) ...
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  • guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country ... with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July ...
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  • realms from February 6, 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...
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  • including 74.5 million albums in the United States alone. and was one of the most popular bands in the London underground music ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country. ...
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  • philosopher and writer who specialized in aesthetics and political philosophy ... witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France. From 1971 to 1992 he ...
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  • ), archaically spelled Luxemburg, is a small landlocked country in ... Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, and ranked ...
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  • resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, ... Machine," a popular digital time capsule, in collaboration ...
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  • and he was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning ... First elected to the Knesset in November 1959, Peres served continuously ...
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  • The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • War, or the Imposed War (جنگتحمیلی) in Iran, was a war between the ... 2003. The war irrevocably altered politics in the area, playing into wider ...
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  • 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology ... Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, in the German ...
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