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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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  • (born Kimitake Hiraoka, 平岡 公威) (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and playwright, famous for both his nihilistic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group-Jen| |group=Nenets |image=[[File:No-nb bldsa ...
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  • The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...
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  • Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French novelist, philosopher, and feminist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies ...
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  • Koi is any of the ornamental, domesticated varieties of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, of the Cyprinidae family, a freshwater fish characterized ...
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  • The Danube is Europe's second longest river after the Volga and the longest river in the European Union. It originates in Germany's ...
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  • Jacob Obrecht (1457/1458 – late July, 1505) was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer of masses in Europe ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Albrecht Dürer Betende Hände.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Faith in something greater is an important theme in all the world ...
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  • South Korea's foreign relations have been shaped by its evolving relationship with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States ...
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930), was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective ...
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  • Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ...
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  • Jiuzhaigou Valley ( s=九寨沟 |t=九寨溝 |p=Jiǔzhàigōu ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates a nature ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Goldmark, Josephine Clara Josephine Clara Goldmark (October 13, 1877 – December 15 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Omaha |image=[[Image:Bandera Omaha Nation ...
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  • Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of Karl Marx and his collaborator, Friedrich Engels. It also refers to, in a ...
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  • Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also ...
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  • Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half ...
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  • The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard Hebrew Malkut Yəhuda) was the nation formed from the territories of ...
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  • Chemical bond is the term used to describe the linkages between atoms joined together to form molecules or crystals. Chemical bonds are the result ...
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  • Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in southern Oregon; the only national park in the state. It was established ...
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  • Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...
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  • Zōu Yǎn or Tsou Yen ( c=鄒衍/邹衍|p=Zōu Yǎn|w=Tsou Yen ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin ...
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  • André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who first demonstrated that two current-carrying wires exert ...
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  • The Great Leap Forward ( s=大跃进|t=大躍進|p=Dàyuèjìn ) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan ...
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  • James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety ...
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  • The Pyrenees are a range of mountains in southwestern Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Tarde, Gabriel [[Image:M. Tarde, membre de l'Institut, professeur au Collège de France CIPB0463.jpg|thumb|right|175 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Morgan, Lewis H. [[Image:Morgan.jpg|thumb|140px|Lewis H. Morgan]] Lewis Henry Morgan ...
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  • category:Image wanted Roth, Philip {{Infobox Writer | name = Philip Roth | image = Philip Roth - 1973.jpg | caption = Roth in 1973 ...
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  • Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ("not ...
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  • Jaroslav Hašek ( [ˈjarɔslaf ˈɦaʃɛk] ) (April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly ...
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  • Gérard de Nerval ( ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval|lang ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator ...
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  • The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately by two boys, each of whom claimed to have been inspired by a vision ...
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  • The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...
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  • The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions pertaining to Jewish law, biblical interpretation, ethics, customs, and ...
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  • The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...
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  • Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...
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  • Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893 ...
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  • Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa of the biological family Suidae, characterized by large heads with tusks ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Sci Am 50.png|thumb|300px|right|Scientific American, 1920]] ...
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  • Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and ...
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  • George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (January 11, 1859 – March 20, 1925) was a British Conservative ...
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  • category:fix cite refs {{Infobox Writer | name = Osip Mandelstam | image = Osip Mandelstam.jpg | imagesize = 150px | caption = ...
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  • Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century, ...
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  • Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...
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  • The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Sarnoff, David David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA ...
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  • Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, writer, producer, and director. He became most ...
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  • A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs, or slows the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake, or impoundment. In Australian ...
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  • Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the ...
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  • Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary critics and philosophers. He was a master of the Kula school of Shaivism ...
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  • Aspasia (c. 470 B.C.E. - 400 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἀσπασία ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous for her romantic ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia ...
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  • Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469 – 1523) was a German-Jewish convert to Catholicism who became a famous anti-Jewish polemicist. After associating ...
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  • Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. He was elected ...
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  • Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music ...
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  • The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia, is one of the richest depositories of manuscripts and books ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Monetary policy is the government or central bank process of managing the money supply ...
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  • Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...
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  • The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British philosophers who attempted to reconcile the empiricism of their British contemporaries ...
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  • Lucie Simplice Camille Benoist Desmoulins (March 2, 1760 – April 5, 1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role ...
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  • Christmas Eve is the evening or day before Christmas Day, the widely celebrated annual holiday. It occurs on December 24 in Western Christianity ...
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  • The veriform appendix or appendix is a narrow, elongated, blind-ended extension of the large intestine of certain mammals. This worm-like tube ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Tubman, William {{Infobox Officeholder | name=William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman | image = | order=19th President of Liberia ...
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  • Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Freud, Anna Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership ...
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  • Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was a German-born U.S. diplomat, Nobel laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of ...
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  • Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World mammals comprising the genus Procyon of the Carnivora family Procyonidae ...
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  • Gaius Marius Victorinus (fourth century C.E.), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher, was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome until ...
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  • category:Image wanted Hellman, Lillian {{Infobox Writer | name = Lillian Hellman | image = | imagesize = | caption = ...
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  • Lungfish is any sarcopterygian fish of the taxon Dipnoi, characterized by platelike teeth and lobed, paired fins, with modern forms typified ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The ...
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  • Purana (Sanskrit: पुराण, meaning "ancient" or "old") is the name of a genre of popular Indian scriptures, primarily ...
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  • Subutai (Subetei, Subetai, Sübeedei; Classic Mongolian: Sübügätäi or Sübü'ätäi; 1176–1248) also known as Subetai the Valiant ...
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  • A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud (or occasionally, a cumulus cloud) and ...
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  • Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Hyundai car assembly line.jpg|thumb|250 px|Assembly line at ...
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  • A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has a chemical affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is ...
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  • The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the ...
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  • Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain ...
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  • category:image wanted Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs) (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968) was a blues singer, harmonica player, and ...
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  • Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950, Piedmont, West Virginia) is a literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and ...
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  • Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...
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  • Sabbatai Zevi, ( שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי|Shabbetay Ẓevi ) (other spellings include Shabbethai, Sabbetai, ; Zvi, Tzvi) (August 1, 1626 ...
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  • A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability. Submarines ...
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  • Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...
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  • The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). It is mainly located in the ...
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  • The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes or alkyl halides) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting of alkanes, such as methane or ...
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  • A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. ...
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  • The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism ...
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  • Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...
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  • Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as just Correggio (/kəˈrɛdʒioʊ/, also UK: /kɒˈ-/, US: /-dʒoʊ/ ...
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  • Azerbaijan [ɑ:zɚbai'ʤɑ:n] (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) ...
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  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ...
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  • The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. It was the birthplace ...
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  • Babylonia, named for its capital city of Babylon, was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and ...
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  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his ...
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  • Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Khomeini ( Khomeini.ogg|listen (Persian pronunciation) ) sometimes referred to by the name Seyyed Ruhollah ...
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  • Seokguram Grotto ("Stone Cave Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures created by Far Eastern civilization ...
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  • Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one of the most famous British Jews in the nineteenth century. Montefiore was ...
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  • Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of ...
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  • Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless birds comprising the ratite genus Casuarius, characterized by powerful legs ...
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  • Bulguksa, one of Korea's largest and most often visited temples, sits on the side of T'oham-san (T'oham mountain) directly east ...
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  • A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument ...
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  • Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker. Largely self-taught, he excelled ...
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  • Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...
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  • The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena. ...
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  • Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them ...
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  • Fax (short for facsimile, from Latin fac simile, "make similar," that is, "make a copy") is a telecommunication technology ...
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  • The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan at West Thirty ...
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  • Maggot is the common name of the soft-bodied, legless, worm-like larva of insects of the order Diptera, typically with a reduced head, which ...
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  • Pontius Pilate ( ˈpɔnʧəs ˈpaɪleɪt ; Latin: Pontius Pilatus, Greek: Πόντιος Πιλάτος ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...
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  • Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. Sontag was ...
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  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a ...
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  • The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder--for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the ...
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  • The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad), often regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ...
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  • The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending Japan's 35-year occupation ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[File:Hombre Shuar.jpg|thumb|250px|A Shuar man in traditional ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lasker, Albert Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952 ...
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  • Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids (mammalian family Canidae) placed in the Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bezold Effect.svg|frame|right|Demonstration of the Bezold ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") is a written legal document ...
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  • Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (or True Pure Land) sect in Japan. He was ...
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  • Larch is the common name for any of the deciduous coniferous trees comprising the genus Larix of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized by ...
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