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  • Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂; c. 662 – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently in the ...
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  • Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...
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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 Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately 14060000|km2|abbr=on ...
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  • Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...
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  • The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place in 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the ...
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  • Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...
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  • The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer) is a landlocked endorheic (having no natural outflow except evaporation ...
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  • Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically ...
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  • Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā (Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا) (April 15, 1489 - April 09, 1588), better known simply as ...
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  • Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...
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  • 5 (five) 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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  • Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, December 12, 1903 – December 12, 1963), an influential Japanese film director, is regarded as one of the masters ...
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  • Peter Edward Rose, Sr. (born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former player and manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from 1963 ...
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  • Tashkent ( Toshkent, Тошкент ; Ташкент , Taşkent ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city was an important ...
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  • Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such characters ...
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  • Taiko (太鼓) means "great" or "wide" "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any ...
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  • Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons, in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over his opponent. ...
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  • Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly of the Soviet Union, surrounded entirely ...
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  • Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for almost ...
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  • Tengriism (Tengerism, Tengrianism, or Tengrianizm) was the major belief of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic, and Altaic ...
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  • Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language ...
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  • Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...
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  • Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE, known as Diana Rigg, (July 20, 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ...
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  • Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha ...
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  • The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Order of St ...
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  • The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. ...
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  • Sergei Mironovich Kirov Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров (né Kostrikov; Ко́стриков March 27, 1886 – December 1, 1934 ...
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  • Human subject research may be considered a systematic investigation designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Sioux |image=[[Image:Sitting Bull.jpg ...
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  • Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the largest city in Pakistan. Located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, north ...
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  • Microsoft Corporation, ( MSFT , 4338 ) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports ...
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  • <!-- [[Image:Western-ganga-empire-map.svg|250px|thumb|right|Western Ganag Dynasty Territories]] --> The Western Ganga Dynasty (350 – 1000 ...
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  • Turkmenistan (also known as Turkmenia) is a country in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist ...
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  • The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...
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  • Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country in central and south-eastern Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian ...
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  • Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...
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  • The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental ...
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  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, BMA|1992|p=66; Bonnie|2002; Finckenauer|1995|p=52; Gershman|1984; Helmchen ...
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  • Hagia Sophia ( lk=yes 'Holy Wisdom'; Ayasofya ; Ἁγία Σοφία|Hagía Sofía ; Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia ...
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