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  • The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...
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  • In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... lift, a push, or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object ...
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  • birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... children were initially met with fierce opposition, she gradually won support ...
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  • ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...
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  • is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...
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  • covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...
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  • His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... and dedicated his life to service of others. In 1890, he joined ...
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  • main guard for reinforcements. The officer of the day was Captain Thomas ... In the midst of the commotion, Private Hugh Montgomery was struck ...
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  • in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...
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  • ) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... public perception that the results of the run-off vote of November ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...
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  • and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ... The child of a wealthy and patriotic family, Rakovski attended monastery ...
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  • United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 square kilometers ... Little is known of the people who constructed these dwellings, and ...
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  • lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed ...
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  • [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential ...
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  • during which he made a then-division record of 14 title defenses. championship run, despite being accused of domestic violence and beating ...
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  • , the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... in the tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval ...
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  • Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), is a ... Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ...
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  • park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...
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  • the South Pacific Ocean. Known as "Rock of Polynesia," it is one ... Niue is located about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) northeast of New Zealand ...
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  • best known for having predicted the return of the comet that bears his name ... Halley was born at Haggerston, London, the son of Edmond Halley, a ...
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  • in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...
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  • also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...
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  • boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The area of Antigua and Barbuda is 171 ... to have been due to the combined effects of disease, malnutrition, and ...
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  • Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...
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  • Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...
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  • as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...
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  • Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...
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  • the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...
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  • 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...
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  • ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...
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  • The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...
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  • The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital. It began ...
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  • jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in ... itself. It made reference to the Springtime of Peoples, a lyrical title given ...
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  • Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... all African nations and very high incidences of HIV/AIDS infection. Zimbabwe ...
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  • November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...
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  • rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide uprising, Operation ... failed to make further headway in the course of the Uprising, leading to accusations ...
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  • 1977 motion picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Antiquities Act, granting the President authority to restrict ...
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  • British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...
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  • Canadian Rockies, the park is 80 miles west of Calgary in the province of ... As Banff is one of the world's most visited national parks, the ...
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  • June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...
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  • 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 C.E. to 1547 ... in Church Slavonic) was a long-awaited son of Vasili III. Upon his father ...
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  • politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...
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  • Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...
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  • for power within the Communist Party of China, in which at least half ... reassert his leadership after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward which ...
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  • located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 islands ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...
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  • | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...
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