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  • U.S. Virgin Islands (St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix) were once part ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication shows the September 12 headlines in the U.S. and around the world]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American ...
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  • #039;s case. It is known that his family and his teacher Johann Albrechtsberger ... compositions. Of irritable temperament and physically unimposing, the ...
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  • out the proficiencies for vocal production and created a novel art which ... Born in Catania, Sicily, in 1801, Bellini, unusually blond and blue ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... 1994) was a famous British anthropologist and ethnographer who gained prominence ...
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  • June 4, 1135; r. 1100-1126) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors ... He was a collector of paintings, calligraphies, and antiques of previous ...
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  • the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. It should not be ... a new kind of art later became the cultural and artistic policy of the Soviet ...
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  • his generation. He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho ... fierce battle between the Athenians and the Mytilenes— so remarkable ...
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  • in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. The Cook Islands ... Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and New Zealand, spread out over ...
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  • Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the ... on the eastern coast, inland Ashanti kingdom and various Fante states along ...
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  • in the First Continental Congress and its President in 1774, Arthur ... prepared a constitution for the new state and was a co-designer of the state ...
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  • as “Slava,” was a Russian cellist and conductor. He was married ... Masovian Voivodeship. He grew up in Baku and spent his youth there. During ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ...
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  • a Finnish composer of European classical music, and one of the most popular ... On his views about composing he once stated, "Music is for me ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... the Feng-Huang is a symbol of summer and spiritual balance, and along ...
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  • early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy ... the current Swedish monarchs are descended, and his father, Auguste Manet ...
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  • was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... the point that he would lose all will-power, and crash his ship upon the Sirens ...
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  • an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in ... not only racial relations but sexual politics. His most famous play, ...
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  • was an American entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist. Coming from ... Baltimore, which was the first academy of music to be established in the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and throughout the Sonoran Desert ...
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  • Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...
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  • Bay Area. It was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused ... Fans of the Grateful Dead were known as "Deadheads" and ...
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  • Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was a popular and ... Soul" perhaps best reflects his stature and legacy. He had 29 Top 40 hits ...
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  • It lies south of Samoa, east of Fiji, and just north of the Tropic of ... of Polynesian civilization (along with Samoa and Fiji). Tongans have always ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...
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  • " was still unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and ... was comprehensive. It involved clarification and reform in the areas of doctrine ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle ... |longtype=Federal (and most U.S. states) |type=national ...
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  • requirement was originally limited to books and journals, but with the advance ... protection. The number of copies varies and can range from one to 19 ...
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  • A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle ... The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry ...
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  • to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because ... They have made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment ...
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  • - ) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician, whose introspective ... Browne joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in Los Angeles in 1966 and ...
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  • 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition ... 1807, the second of four children, to John and Abigail Hussey Whittier, at ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... herding is a pivotal part of Nuer culture, and most aspects of daily life ...
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  • Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... #039;s rejection of aristocratic social and political norms. It was also ...
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  • used to abbreviate authors' names and generate unique call numbers ... Cutter is widely recognized by library and library science communities today. ...
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  • July 6, 1971) was an American jazz musician and singer, and by consensus the ... Mastering poverty, a succession of unstable homes, and degrading conditions ...
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  • Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... His activities spanned from theology to politics for he was also the ...
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  • fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Grande Messe des Morts ... to follow in his father's footsteps and practice medicine or, alternatively ...
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  • to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena ... functions to legitimize power, authority, and social customs. A grand narrative ...
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  • includes explicit political implications, and thus can serve as political ... of the culture of mass-production and mass-consumption. Since environmental ...
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  • also one of the twenty-six regions of France and an integral part of the Republic ... is the oldest of the existing islands, and was created 8-10 million years ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...
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  • Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis ... The Wallis Archipelago is the most populated of the island group and ...
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  • Self-government was achieved in 1976 and independence two years later ... Since 1997, ethnic violence, government misconduct, and crime have ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law in many areas of everyday life, including politics, the legal system, business ...
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  • neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah ...
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  • an Italian philosopher, political economist, and statistician who played an ... Believing that ideology, the science of the origin and development ...
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