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  • The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from Canada's British Columbia through the U.S. states of ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Elektrolyse1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|An apparatus called a Hoffman voltameter is being used for the electrolysis of water ...
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  • Asclepius (Greek Άσκληπιός , transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology ...
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  • Electrical conductivity or specific conductivity is a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electric current. When an electrical ...
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  • Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only ...
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  • The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the period of the Cold War and the removal of the Iron ...
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  • Liu Shaoqi ( s=刘少奇|t=劉少奇|p=Liú Shàoqí|w=Liu Shao-ch'i ) (November 24, 1898 – November 12, 1969) was a Chinese Communist ...
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  • The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise ...
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  • The Canadian Screen Awards ( link=no|Les prix Écrans canadiens ) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Dart, Raymond Raymond Arthur Dart (February 4, 1893 – November 22, 1988) was ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Vladimir Horowitz | Landscape = 200px | Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist ...
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  • Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling below) (chemical symbol S, atomic number 16) is a yellow crystalline solid at ordinary temperatures and pressures ...
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  • Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding shark, Rhincodon typus, characterized by a large, terminal mouth with small ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:WilliamPaley.jpg|thumb|right|William Paley]] William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group| |group=Yupik |image=[[Image:Edward S. Curtis ...
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  • The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties represent sections of the Constitution of India that prescribe ...
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  • The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular Nuremberg Trial held before a U.S. military court for 23 Nazi medical doctors ...
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  • Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960) was an iconic American actor, voted King of Hollywood by an adoring public throughout the ...
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  • ==Etymology== From liable, from Old French lier (to bind), from Latin ligare (to bind, to tie), + -ity. ==Noun== liability (countable and uncountable ...
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  • Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Public Category:Copyedited Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ...
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  • TaNaK (Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh, is an acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the initial Hebrew letters (T + N + K) of each of the text ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Waterhouse_-_Hamadryad.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A ...
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  • Richard Hooker (March 1554 – November 3, 1600) was an influential Anglican theologian, regarded, together with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate pursuit of modernization. Since the end of the Korean War, South Korea ...
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  • Saint Hippolytus of Rome (died 235 C.E.), sometimes called Ypolitus (Ippolito ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ...
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  • Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...
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  • category:image wanted Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that maintain information stored in digital formats in order to ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Featured| title=Antonio da Correggio| image_name=Antonio da Correggio.jpg| image_desc=| text=Antonio Allegri da ...
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  • Category:Image wanted George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was ...
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  • Burglar (or intrusion), fire, and safety alarms are found in electronic form today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via either a low ...
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  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...
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  • category:fix cite refs Mussolini, Benito [[Image:Benito Mussolini colored.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini]] ...
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  • Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) (May 24, 1941 - ) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, poet, and disc jockey who has been ...
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  • A tsunami (IPA: /(t)sʊˈnɑːmi/ ) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass ...
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  • Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...
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  • Kalimpong (Nepali: कालिम्पोङ), a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian ...
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  • Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic theory. His work laid the foundation for the identification of light as an ...
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  • The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan covers the years from about 710 to 784 C.E., during which the Empress Genmei ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel) , are part of the Hebrew Bible), or Old Testament. They deal with beginnings ...
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  • Characidae is a large and diverse family of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish, belonging to the order Characiformes. Known as characins ...
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  • The Warring States period covers the period from sometime in the fifth century B.C.E. to the unification of China by the Qin dynasty in 221 B ...
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  • The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in ...
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  • Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Fromm, Erich [[Image:Erich Fromm 1974.jpg|thumb|right|Erich Fromm]] Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – ...
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  • Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell ...
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  • The astronomical unit (abbreviated variously as AU, au, a.u. or ua) is a unit of length roughly equal to the mean distance of the Earth from ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name=Emory University ...
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  • category:image wanted Kilgour, Fred Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:RhodesHouseOxford20040909 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rhodes House ...
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  • Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...
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  • Margaret Valdemarsdatter (Norwegian: Margrete Valdemarsdotter) (1353 – October 28, 1412) was Queen of Norway, Regent of Denmark and Sweden ...
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  • Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome from 461 to February 28, 468. Earlier he was Pope Leo I's envoy to the ...
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  • Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a small medieval castle village and a commune located in the Languedoc region of southwestern ...
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  • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his ...
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  • Category: Image wanted The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection of funerary texts that are used, especially by Tibetan ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht. ...
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  • Zhuge Liang or Chu-ko Liang or Zhuge Kong Ming (born 181 C.E., Yangdu, Shandong province, China—died August 234, Wuzhangyuan, Shaanxi province ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Pawnee| image_name=Pawnee flag.svg| image_desc=Pawnee flag| text=The Pawnee are a Native American ...
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  • The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kallipolis ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey ...
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  • The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – 1713) was an English philosopher and a grandson of the First Earl of Shaftesbury ...
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  • Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...
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  • France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various ...
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  • Pope Urban V (1310 – December 19, 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370. Before his election, Urban ...
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  • A spacecraft is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Although it is, by definition, designed to travel into space, it may or may not ...
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  • Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels, The ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = Ohio State University ...
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  • Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. She is probably most remembered for her role as matchmaker ...
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  • Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest ...
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  • Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most ...
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  • Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 C.E. – c. 117 C.E.) was one of the important historians of Roman antiquity. The surviving portions ...
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  • The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast ...
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  • Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical ...
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  • François Couperin (French IPA: [fʀɑ̃'swa ku'pʀɛ̃] ) (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer ...
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  • Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Rawlinson, Henry [[Image:Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Photograph by Lock & ...
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  • Turnip is the common name for a root vegetable, Brassica rapa var, rapa (Brassica rapa rapa). This plant is grown in temperate climates worldwide ...
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  • A sari or saree is the traditional female garment in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. A sari is a very long strip of unstitched cloth ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Horney, Karen [[Image:Karen_Horney_1938.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Karen Horney]] Karen Horney (September 16, 1885, – December ...
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  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) ( November 19|1711|November 8 – April 15|1765|April 4 ...
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  • A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work [[Image:Boys in red.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Child laborers coming ...
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  • Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria and one of Europe's most popular tourist attractions ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Defense mechanisms are psychological mechanisms aimed at reducing anxiety. They were ...
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  • John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter of the American Old ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px|The numbering of ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (weapon), of unknown ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American ...
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  • Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning "penance, austerity"), [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ashram ...
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  • The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia ...
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  • Baffin Island (Inuit name, Qikiqtaaluk), Île de Baffin ) in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Biography Category:Economists Robinson, Joan Joan Violet Robinson, née Maurice (October 31, 1903 – August 5 ...
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  • According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus following Jesus ...
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  • Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation ...
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  • The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ...
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  • Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March 27, 1912 – March 26, 2005), was the fourth British Labour Prime Minister ...
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  • Seoraksan (Mt. Seorak) is the third highest mountain in South Korea, after the Hallasan volcano on Jeju Island and Jirisan in Gyeongsang Province ...
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  • The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...
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  • Wang Fu-chih (王夫之) or Wang Fuzhi or Chuanshan (船山 Ch’uan-shan), also known as Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher ...
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  • Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. H. L. Mencken called ...
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  • The César Award is the national film award of France. The awards are presented in the fr|Nuit des César , a nationally televised award ceremony ...
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  • 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jewish revolt against Antiochus IV and concludes with the defeat of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Service, Elman Rogers Elman Rogers Service (May 18, 1915 – November 14, 1996 ...
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  • Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea, and is the central city within the fourth-largest ...
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  • Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era who used his religious background to give ...
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  • The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination of Korean Buddhism developed in the late Goryeo period, as a means ...
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  • Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Alcott-L.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Louisa May Alcott]] Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888), is a beloved ...
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  • The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of conflicts that took place in New ...
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  • Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (and more formally as Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico. The river flows generally ...
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  • The shakuhachi (尺八) is a Japanese end-blown flute, which is held vertically like a recorder, instead of transversely like the Western transverse ...
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  • Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa with a population ...
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  • The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated and sanctioned by the papacy that were undertaken between the eleventh and ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down), from Romanic desbattere ...
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  • Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems ...
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  • Antwerp, a city and municipality in Belgium, lies on the River Scheldt, which is linked by the Westerschelde to the North Sea 55 miles (88 km ...
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  • Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in northern Ecuador in ...
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  • Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely ...
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  • Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss) (June 9, 1915 - August 14, 2009) was an American jazz and country guitarist, one of the key developers ...
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  • Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a preeminent French ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:785px-Kwakwaka'wakw big house.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Kwakiutl (kwakwaka ...
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  • Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...
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  • The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the ...
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  • Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), known as Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]), was a Swiss-French architect ...
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