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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...
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  • Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...
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  • Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...
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  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...
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  • Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova ( Галина Сергеевна Уланова ) (January 10, 1910 – March 21, 1998) was regarded by many as the ...
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  • The Anschluss Until the German spelling reform of 1996, Anschluss was written Anschluß in the countries subject to the reform. (See also the ...
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  • Category:Economists Commons, John R. John Rogers Commons (October 13, 1862 – May 11, 1945) was an American political economist, sociologist ...
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  • The tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin, also known as the Forty-Seven Samurai, the Akō vendetta, the Akō Wandering Samurai|赤穂浪士|Akō rōshi ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...
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  • Laterite (from the Latin word later, meaning "brick" or "tile") is a surface formation that is enriched in iron and aluminum ...
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  • Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name "Pavol Jozef Šafárik" (born May 13, 1795 in Kobeliarovo, Slovakia ...
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  • A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic" was originally used in Classical Arabic to refer to Egyptians in general ...
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  • Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colorless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. It is a weak ...
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  • Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed ...
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  • category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy from an East ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Ross, Edward A. Edward Alsworth Ross (December 12, 1866 – July 22, 1951) was an American sociologist ...
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  • Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Graham, Katharine [[File:Katherine Graham (48426191266).jpg|300px|thumb|right|Katherine Graham ...
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  • Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...
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  • Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an instrumental soul band popular in the 1960s and 70s associated with Stax Records in the subgenre of Memphis ...
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  • The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched on July 20, 1974, was the Turkish military response against a coup which ...
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  • São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:VictorianPostcard.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Humorous nineteenth century postcard ...
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 22, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known for his beloved ...
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  • The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and ...
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  • Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1903) – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian intellectual author, ...
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  • Chevron Corporation ( CVX ) is the world's fourth-largest non-government energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, U.S., and ...
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  • The Horn of Africa is a large extension of land that protrudes from the eastern edge of the continent of Africa, lying between the Indian Ocean ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Water cycle.png|right|thumb|400px|The movement of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.]] ...
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  • Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of twentieth century English ...
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  • A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with hub-mounted rotating blades that circulate the air, thereby producing a ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person ...
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  • Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive, affective, and behavioral ...
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  • The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that rebelled against the United Kingdom and ...
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  • Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and ...
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  • Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part of South Korea. It is often referred to as one of the three mountains of the ...
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  • Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Christian restorationist ...
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  • Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco ...
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  • Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic ...
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  • Sergei Mironovich Kirov Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров (né Kostrikov; Ко́стриков March 27, 1886 – December 1, 1934 ...
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  • Category:Public [[image:Richard coeurdelion g.jpg|thumb|right|Richard I of England]] Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was king ...
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  • Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (August 15, 1771 – September 21, 1832) was an influential Scottish novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among ...
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  • Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company ...
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  • The Belle Époque was a period, largely in France, between the aftermath of the Paris Commune in 1870 and the outbreak of the First World War ...
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  • Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American early rock and roll guitarist famous for his "twangy guitar" style ...
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  • 1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the glyph that represents the number. It represents a single entity and is commonly regarded as the fundamental ...
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  • Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;font-size:90%;clear:right;" cellspacing="5" ...
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  • General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity ...
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  • Category:Economists Cournot, Antoine Augustin [[Image:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|thumb|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] Antoine Augustin Cournot ...
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  • The Orange Revolution ( Помаранчева революція|translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia ) was a series of protests and political ...
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  • James Francis Durante, better known as Jimmy Durante or Schnozzle (Snozzle) Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American ...
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  • Valine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to leucine and isoleucine in being ...
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  • St. Thomas Mount is a small hillock located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, near Guindy. The mount is known locally as "Peria Malai" ...
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  • Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 29, 440 to November 10, 461. He was a Roman aristocrat and ...
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  • Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...
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  • ==Etymology== Pen from Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), and name From Middle ...
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. Hopkins sought and struggled to unite ...
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  • Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film used primarily in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally ...
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  • category:image wanted Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to one's surroundings. This can result in the invention ...
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  • Telugu (తెలుగు; ['t̪elʊgʊ] ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the official language of the Indian ...
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  • The ear is the sense organ in vertebrates that detects sound and also plays a major role in the sense of balance and body position. The ear shows ...
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  • Category:Economists Jevons, William Stanley [[Image:Jevons.jpeg|200px|right|thumb|William Stanley Jevons]] William Stanley Jevons, (September ...
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  • Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon (July 356 B.C.E. – June 10, 323 B.C.E.), commonly known in the West as Alexander the Great or Alexander ...
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  • Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the thirteenth century. He is noted for his works ...
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  • category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Beverly Sills |Img = |Img_capt = Beverly Sills ...
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  • A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle. The design and structure ...
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  • The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically ...
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  • Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...
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  • The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae) in ...
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  • The Minoan eruption was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini) in the mid ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...
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  • A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein that is found in cells, with each chromosome being a very long, continuous, single ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate ...
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  • Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem hereditary disease that mainly affects the lungs and digestive system, causing progressive disability and ...
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  • The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having a conscience involves being aware of the moral rightness or wrongness ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski's ...
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  • Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus ...
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  • Kochi <!--( Kochi.ogg|pronunciation -->; Malayalam: കൊച്ചി [ koˈʧːi ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state ...
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  • Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851 – June 10, 1930), was a German theologian and prominent church historian who pioneered the effort to free Christianity ...
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  • Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish-born actress who was prominent during Hollywood ...
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  • A ballistic vest is an item of protective clothing that absorbs impacts from gun-fired projectiles and shrapnel fragments from explosions. A ...
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  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was an outstanding Dutch physicist who was the first to obtain an equation ...
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  • Sir Robert Filmer (1588 – May 26, 1653) was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born into an aristocratic family ...
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  • Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...
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  • Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian"Niemöller, (Friedrich ...
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  • Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24 , 1895 – December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves lived through the developments ...
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  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the ...
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  • Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English term for a general variety of spicy dishes, usually associated with Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan ...
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  • Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master ...
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  • Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (November 30, 1817 – November 1, 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician ...
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  • Category:Economists Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von [[image:1Bawerk.gif|thumb|right|250px|Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk]] Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (February 12 ...
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  • Labyrinthodontia is an extinct, traditional group (superorder or subclass) of amphibians that constituted some of the dominant animals of Late ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is ...
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  • In population genetics, genetic drift is the phenomenon of change in the frequency of alleles (variants of a gene) in a population of organisms ...
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  • Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, noted for his ...
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