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  • #039;s France) and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. ... he used his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin treatises explaining ...
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  • to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. With ... * Coogan, Tim Patt. The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search ...
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  • American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...
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  • to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The ... * Coogan, Tim Patt. The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search ...
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  • arrived in Lecompton to look into the troubles. The majority report of ... 0001.001 1856 Congressional Report on the Troubles in Kansas] – Making ...
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  • and songwriter, widely considered one of the greatest blues guitarists ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...
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  • Irish Civil Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute ... were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...
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  • The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders ... The seated statue occupied the whole width of the aisle of the temple ...
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  • an American golfer who won 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour, and 80 more worldwide ... Virginia near Hot Springs, Virginia. He was the son of a poor Virgina farmer ...
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  • holder of many boxing records, Robinson was the first boxer in history to ... Muhammad Ali, who repeatedly called himself "The Greatest" ...
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  • Lithuania and King of Polish, a monarch of the united Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ... After he had been deposed in 1595 from the Swedish throne by his uncle ...
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  • The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet ... The previous year, Pope Leo X had issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine ...
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  • The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...
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  • whose systematic eclecticism made him the best-known French thinker ... of Public Instruction in France, he studied the educational system of Prussia ...
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  • The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River ... The Lincoln Tunnel established a key linkage for the mid-twentieth ...
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  • of several people who have been considered the father of information science ... Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International ...
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  • contemporaries. Sei Shōnagon reports the troubles of Empress (Sadako) Teishi ... In The Pillow Book Shōnagon reports the troubles of Empress (Sadako) Teishi ...
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  • known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He ... Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ...
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  • ; (December 8, 1542–February 8, 1587) was the Queen of Scots (the monarch ... Falkland Palace, Fife, her father heard of the birth and prophesied, "The ...
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  • – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to ... Although he refused appointment as Ambassador to the United States ...
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  • The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...
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  • was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph ... Patterson inherited wealth, experience, and the ability to succeed in the ...
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  • from Northern Ireland, and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with ... * White, Barry. John Hume: a statesman of the troubles. Belfast L ...
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  • from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, Bing ... has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million ...
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  • novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost ... Austria, and Italo Svevo in Italy is one of the seminal figures of Modernist ...
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  • committed nationalist and socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of ... O'Casey was especially associated with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin ...
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  • Community in 1973. With the onset of The Troubles (1969-1998) a 1973 referendum ... Following the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969, the ...
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  • only a deacon, not a priest or a bishop at the time, by modern criteria he ... Cardinal Deacon of San Adriano thus joining the College of Cardinals. In addition ...
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  • wide range of subjects, they bear witness to the breakdown of relationships ... the Irish Republican Army during "the Troubles" (Ireland’s struggle ...
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  • The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped ... Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ...
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  • The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957 ... While the founders' hopes for supranational identity and for ...
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  • pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky ... Born in South Carolina, Adair enlisted in the state militia and served ...
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  • Sotheby's is the world's second oldest international auction ... bookseller Samuel Baker first auctioned off the library collection of the ...
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  • for previous popes. He was not a member of the college of cardinals when ... native of Grizac in Languedoc (today part of the commune of Le Pont-de-Montvert ...
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  • (March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National ... always resulted in huge forward leaps for the business of football. Rozelle ...
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  • 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often ... Arnold was also a major cultural critic, and his views on the moral ...
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  • Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...
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  • and author. Respectfully dubbed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee," ... people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships ...
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  • The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...
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  • The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...
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  • The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the ... The Lake Chad area, around which the kingdom was centralized, was ...
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  • The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars, involved the military ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...
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  • historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...
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  • ===Background: The Troubles=== The Belfast Agreement built on and was ... The Troubles are usually said to have started in October 1968 when ...
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  • of Mary I) from 1554 to 1558, Lord of the Seventeen Provinces (holding ... empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...
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  • on an individual. It can also refer to the mental or emotional response ... a serious physical impact distinct from the troubles of what psychotherapists ...
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  • Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs ... Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...
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  • The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...
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  • Baseball who is widely regarded as one of the greatest right-handed power ... Nicknamed "Double X" and "The Beast" by the press ...
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  • as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...
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