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  • quot; confection that pleases the pow-wow crowds, but rather the simple bread baked over an open fire. Without the luxury of many utensils or ...
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  • thumb|right|250 px|Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha pow-wow.]] The Omaha Reservation today is located in northeastern Nebraska, approximately 26 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Template:Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Wichita |image=[[Image:Bandera ...
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  • Image:Grand Entry Omaha.jpg|Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha Pow-wow ... Image:Pow-Wow Maryland.jpg|Howard County, Maryland, 2007 Pow-wow ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Mi'kmaq |image=[[Image:Mikmaq State ...
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  • *Dartmouth Pow-Wow: A two-day ceremony is marked by traditional dancing, crafts, music, and art, held every spring since 1973. The Pow-Wow is ...
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  • social and cultural events. An annual three-day pow-wow is held at California State University San Bernadino in October. This event includes competitions ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Abenaki |image=[[Image:Abenaki ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Military A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power ...
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  • The Klamath are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area in Southern Oregon. Together with the Modoc, and Yahooskin they now form ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Osage |image=[[Image:Osage warrior.jpg ...
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  • in the United States is that of the pow-wow. At pow-wows, such as the ... performers young and old, ranging from pow-wow drum music to hard-driving ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Flathead Family.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Flathead family]] ...
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  • Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский (August 14, 1865 – December 9, 1941) was one of ...
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  • Category:Psychologists category:Psychology McClelland, David [[Image:David McClelland.jpg|right|frame|David McClelland]] David Clarence McClelland ...
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  • The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Aatsista-Mahkan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chief of the Blackfoot ...
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  • Günter Wilhelm Grass (October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright. He was born in the Free City ...
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  • The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations of North Korea and South Korea, which were created out of the occupation ...
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  • Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), that is most recognizable as the national bird and ...
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  • S. Army]] soldier preparing frybread during a 2004 pow-wow in Iraq.]] Most Muscogees were removed to Indian Territory, although some remained ...
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  • The Andersonville prison, located at Camp Sumter, was the largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War. The site of the ...
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  • François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and was best known ...
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  • and incorporates the use of herbs and spells. Pow-wow is folk magic generally practiced by the Pennsylvania Dutch, which includes charms, herbs, ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Komora gazowa.jpg|thumb|250 px|Gas chamber at Stutthof concentration camp.]] ...
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  • is held with a historic re-enactment and a pow-wow. The Mescalero are located on the Mescalero Reservation in southeastern New Mexico, near historic ...
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  • Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. His ironic novels ...
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  • Choctaw princess contest, and an inter-tribal pow-wow occurs on the third weekend of June each year on their reservation lands. ===Mississippi=== ...
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  • The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards North Korea until Lee Myung-bak's election to the South Korean presidency ...
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  • Category:Psychology Category:Philosophy Category:Religion Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son ...
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  • The Joint Security Area (JSA) or Panmunjom, often called the "Truce Village" in both the media Lee Jong-Heon, Panmunjom, South Korea ...
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  • The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge , is an international humanitarian ...
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  • the town of Lawton. This is the site of the annual pow-wow, the Comanche Nation Fair, when Comanches from across the United States gather to celebrate ...
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  • A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on ...
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  • Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, formerly ...
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  • The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary ...
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  • The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Spanish Inquisition torture chamber]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Military A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines ...
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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Ojibwa |image=[[Image:Anishinabe ...
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  • John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and naval officer. He was a prisoner of war during the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Aleut |image = [[image:aleut ...
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  • The Battle of Vicksburg, or Siege of Vicksburg, was the final significant battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series ...
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  • Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With 3,579,212 residents in 2006, it was the 28th most ...
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  • The Battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777, was a decisive American victory resulting in the surrender of an entire British army of ...
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  • Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose ...
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  • The Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first award made available to the common soldier. It was initially created as ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. The Baroque ...
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  • The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is ...
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