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  • Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов|p=vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈmolətəf ...
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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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  • Tongariro National Park, established in 1887, was the first national park in New Zealand, and the fourth in the world. Located in the central ...
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  • In its modern sense, as used in astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ...
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  • Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered ...
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  • Zenobia ( زنوبيا ) was a Syrian queen (240-after 274 C.E.). After her husband's death, she became a powerful military leader in her ...
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  • Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter ...
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  • See Species and subspecies A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family of even-toed ungulates, or hoofed mammals. There ...
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  • category:image wanted The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered a type of virtue ethics. Dominant traditional ethical ...
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  • The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second ...
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  • A spermatozoon or spermatozoan (pl. spermatozoa), from the ancient Greek σπερμα (seed) and ζων (alive), is more commonly known as a ...
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  • Leon Harrison Gross (alias Lee Falk), (April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was considered a talent in music, art, theater, and writing. Falk was ...
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  • Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...
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  • Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason is possible only through ...
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  • The speed of an object is the rate of motion of the object, or the rate at which the object changes its position. It is usually expressed as ...
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  • Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887– June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic development, was a talented ...
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  • In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as ...
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  • Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless ...
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  • Akio Morita (盛田昭夫, Morita Akio) (January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was co-founder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman ...
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  • The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites. They were reportedly wiped out almost entirely as the result of Israelite ...
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  • The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...
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  • The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million ...
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  • Henan ( c=河南 |p=Hénán |w=Ho-nan ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the central part of the country. Its ...
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  • Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mannheim, Karl Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding ...
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  • Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas of patronage included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Necker cube.svg|thumb|The Necker cube: a wire frame cube with ...
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  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...
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  • The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country consists of three islands in the volcanic ...
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  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms ...
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  • Daoism (Wade-Giles: "Taoism") is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions that have developed ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] Epicurus (Epikouros or Ἐπίκουρος in Greek) (341 B.C.E. – 270 ...
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  • Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Брежнев; (January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from ...
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  • Ewha Womans University (Korean: 이화여자대학교, Hanja: 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ...
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  • The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious ...
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  • Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of mostly perennial and aromatic herbs and shrubs in the daisy family Asteraceae, characterized by alternate ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Egyptian hieroglyphs |type=logography |typedesc=usable ...
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  • James Emory Foxx (October 22, 1907 – July 21, 1967) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who is widely regarded as one of ...
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  • Joseph Smith III (1832-1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Smith III served ...
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  • Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ, IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ...
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  • The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn dòng) was an anti-imperialist cultural and political movement, which marked ...
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  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki Jōyaku"), known as the Treaty of Maguan ( t=馬關條約|s=马关条约 ...
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  • Robert Owen (May 14, 1771, Newtown, Powys – November 17, 1858) was a Welsh utopian socialist and social reformer, whose attempts to reconstruct ...
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  • The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to ...
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  • Malachi (מַלְאָכִי, Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to be written by ...
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  • François Marie Charles Fourier (April 7, 1772 – October 10, 1837) was a French utopian socialist and philosopher who advocated a reconstruction ...
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  • This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...
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  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and ...
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  • Andrew Warhola, (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an American renaissance man. Known primarily ...
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  • Informed consent, as used in human subject research or healthcare, refers to an active decision of a subject/patient to agree to a certain action ...
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