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  • An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...
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  • Ahn Jung-Geun or An Jung-Geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist. In 1909, during ...
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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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  • Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and time that was developed by Albert Einstein in 1905 Einstein, Albert, [http://www ...
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  • category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...
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  • A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...
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  • Poker is a popular card game, or group of card games, in which players compete against one another by gambling on the values of each player& ...
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  • Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds in the order Anseriformes that includes the ducks, geese and swans, with ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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  • Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...
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  • Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SO. This colorless liquid is an important polar aprotic solvent that ...
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  • Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of ...
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  • Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Shawnee |image = [[Image:Shawnee ...
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  • John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ...
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  • Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...
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  • The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores chemical energy and makes it available in an electrical form. Batteries consist ...
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  • A space elevator is a proposed structure intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly Earth, into space ...
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  • Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The main goals ...
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  • In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory ...
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  • Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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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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  • Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ...
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  • Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a broader sense, blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred ...
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  • The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ...
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  • category:image wanted MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. The MARC standards ...
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  • Francesco Borromini, also Francesco Castelli (September 25, 1599 – August 3, 1667) was a prominent and revolutionary Neapolitan and Sicilian ...
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  • Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. He played a major role in ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean ...
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  • Qi, also commonly spelled ch'i (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese ...
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  • When liquid helium-4 is cooled to a temperature close to absolute zero, it acquires an unusual set of properties known as superfluidity, and ...
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  • Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte ...
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  • Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 - May 9, 2020), better known by the stage name Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based membership organization ...
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  • Ole Christensen Rømer In scientific literature, his name is alternatively spelt "Roemer," "Römer," or "Romer." ...
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  • An abbey (from Latin abbatia, derived from Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an ...
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  • Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...
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  • Electronic engineering is a discipline that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production of electronic devices (such as ...
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  • A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or 'gathering circle'; Tibetan: tshogs kyi 'khor lo), also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja ...
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  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 - January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy ...
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  • Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative ...
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  • Urdu ( ur|اردو , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Nishida_kitaro.jpg|thumb|Nishida Kitaro]] Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was ...
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  • The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the first widespread use of technology—as humans progressed from simpler to more ...
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  • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (October 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime ...
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  • Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) Hughes was an innovative American businessman, movie producer, aircraft inventor ...
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  • Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in ...
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  • Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion ...
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  • 3 (three) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...
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  • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ...
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  • Southeast Asia [[Image:Southeast asia.jpg|180px|center|Topography of Southeast Asia.]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; ...
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  • Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario who ...
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  • Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television, ...
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  • The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until ...
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  • Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile ...
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  • Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 128 ...
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  • Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter of Henry VII and a grandniece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned ...
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  • Saint Catherine's Monastery (Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning ...
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  • A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules ...
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  • Autism, formally called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by ...
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  • Coccinellidae is a family of small, rounded (hemispheric), usually bright colored, short-legged beetles, known variously as ladybugs (North American ...
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  • The dictator novel ( novela del dictador ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role of the dictator in Latin American ...
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  • Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman ...
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  • The Books of Kings (Hebrew: Sefer Melachim ספר מלכים) are a part of the Hebrew Bible narrating the history of the kings of Judah and ...
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  • A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set ...
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  • Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ...
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  • Boiling is the process of rapidly converting a liquid to its gaseous (vapor) state, typically by heating the liquid to a temperature called its ...
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  • Saint Teresa of Ávila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptized as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) (March 28, 1515 – October 4, 1582) was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[image:Central Scientific Co catalog cover.png|thumb ...
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  • Acorn is the fruit (a nut) of the oak tree (the flowering plant genus Quercus of the beech family Fagaceae). The acorn contains a single seed ...
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  • Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...
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  • The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...
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  • Random access memory (also hyphenated as random-access memory), usually known by its acronym RAM, is a class of media used in computers for data ...
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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • Category:Economists Menger, Carl [[Image:Carl Menger.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Austrian School economist Carl Menger]] Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 ...
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  • Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков (April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977) was a Russian ...
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  • Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信, Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi ...
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  • Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks exchanging photons and gluons. Antimatter is made of anti-atoms, and anti ...
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  • Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure ...
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  • Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...
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  • The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 950 miles from Lisbon and about 2,400 miles from the east coast of North ...
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  • Category:Anthropologists Maspero, Gaston [[Image:Gaston MASPERO.jpeg|thumb|Gaston Maspero]] Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 - June ...
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  • Category:Image wanted John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ...
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  • Rubella, commonly known as German measles and also called three-day measles, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the rubella virus ...
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  • The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel's largest freshwater lake. It is approximately 33 miles (53 km) in ...
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  • The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle ...
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  • The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bjorn Borg Hollow Face.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This face of ...
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  • The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature ...
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  • A contact lens (also known simply as a "contact") is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the ...
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  • Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American National Basketball Association basketball ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Norske nobelinstiutt 1.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.]] ...
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  • The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of West ...
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  • Antennae (singular antenna) are paired appendages connected to the anterior-most segments of arthropods. In crustaceans, they are present on ...
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  • The Ozarks (also referred to as Ozarks Mountain Country, the Ozark Mountains or the Ozark Plateau) are a physiographic, geologic, and cultural ...
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  • Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese verbal entertainment. A lone storyteller (rakugoka) sits on the stage ...
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  • Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing ...
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  • Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to ...
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  • The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth ...
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  • The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah or Books of Moses, that is used by the Samaritans ...
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  • Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the common name for a long-legged, fast-running New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender ...
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  • Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide ...
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  • Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه‎, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Infrared_dog.jpg|thumb|right|332px|Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared ("thermal") light (false color).]] ...
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  • Jin Shengtan ( t=金聖歎|s=金圣叹|p=Jīn Shèngtàn|w=Chin Shêng-t'an ) (1610?- August 7, 1661), former name Jin Renrui (金人瑞 ...
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  • Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, cryptographer and one of the originators of modern ...
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  • In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|right|250 px|Lights ...
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  • Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...
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  • Thomas Helwys, (c. 1575 – c. 1616), was one of the joint founders of the Baptist denomination. He was, with John Smyth the leader of a non ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of geography—that ...
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  • Shin Saimdang (신사임당, 1504 – 1551) was a famous Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Korean painter and calligraphist. She also the mother of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed ...
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  • According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows the relationship between absolute magnitude, luminosity, classification ...
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  • In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from Latin Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element ...
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  • Thermodynamics (from the Greek θερμη, therme, meaning "heat" and δυναμις, dynamis, meaning "power") is a branch ...
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  • The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, a millennial ...
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  • A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...
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  • Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...
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  • The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent movie awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony ...
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  • The Atlantique Incident represented an event in which the Indian Air Force shot down a Pakistan Navy plane, Breguet Atlantique, carrying sixteen ...
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  • The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ...
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  • Lead (chemical symbol Pb, atomic number 82) is a soft, heavy metal. Bluish white when freshly cut, it tarnishes to dull gray when exposed to ...
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  • According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Born of the Davidic lineage, her name is a ...
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  • The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, September 2 until Thursday, September ...
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  • The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon ...
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  • Botanically, a nut is a hard, indehiscent (not opening to discharge seeds), simple, dry fruit, whereby the plant's ovary wall becomes very ...
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  • Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician ...
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  • Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (June 26, 1838 - April 8, 1894) ( বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় ...
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  • Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, which were very ...
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  • Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the capital and largest city in the state of Massachusetts and the largest city ...
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  • Sergey Gennadiyevich Nechayev (also Sergei Nechaev, Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев) (born October 2, 1847, died either November ...
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  • The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...
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  • The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's ...
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh (pronounced "Van'-bru") (January 24, 1664?–March 26, 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps ...
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  • The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions ...
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  • The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S. state of Utah. The area ...
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  • William Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely ...
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  • The Royal Library of Alexandria, part of a museum and library modeled after the Lyceum in Athens, was the largest library in ancient world. Originally ...
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  • Marietta Robusti (1560? - 1590) was a female Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. Trained by her father, Jacopo Tintoretto, she worked ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Park, Robert E. Robert Ezra Park (February 14, 1864 – February 7, 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the ...
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  • Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 – March 9, 1847) was an early British fossil collector and paleontologist. She is credited with the discovery of ...
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  • Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha, or Toyota in short, is a Japanese automaker. It is the world's second largest ...
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  • Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the triode ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Itsukushima torii angle.jpg|thumb|200px|A torii at Itsukushima Shrine]] Shinto (Kanji: 神道 Shintō) (sometimes called ...
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  • The Himalayas (also Himalaya, IPA: [hɪ'mɑlijə], [ˌhɪmə'leɪjə] ) are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent ...
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  • Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a ...
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  • The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries ( s=四川大熊猫栖息地|t=四川大熊貓棲息地|p=Sìchuān Dàxióngmāo Qīxīdì ), located in ...
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  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays ...
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  • Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for ...
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  • The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn dòng) was an anti-imperialist cultural and political movement, which marked ...
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  • Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...
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  • Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...
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  • Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce this name, considering it too ...
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  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolorist who was a designer in the ...
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