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  • Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the ... Anarcho-syndicalism remains a popular and active school of Anarchism ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...
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  • An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people ...
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  • [[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple ... the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands by priesthood bearers ...
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  • The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on D-Day itself came ...
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  • Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... that provide a context for the laying on of hands and anointing. For ...
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  • Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order ... rainforests. Overall, about 88 percent of amphibian species are frogs ...
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  • or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... simply by saying a few words, or laying on of hands, and at other times ...
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  • The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak ... Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss ...
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  • province, and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... Rudolf Steiner was born on February 27, 1861 in Donji Kraljevec, Austria ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... patriarch to a church member. "Laying on of hands" is a popular ...
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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations ...
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  • 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; ... he lived out his life in the context of what many regarded as permanent ...
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  • Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...
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  • by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...
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  • well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region. ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...
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  • Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... (the first order), the Poor Clares (founded on his advice by his friend, Saint ...
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  • gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...
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  • to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...
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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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  • West as Alexander the Great or Alexander III of Macedon, in Greek ... (Megas Alexandros), King of Macedon (336–323 B.C.E.), was the most ...
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  • American folk singer and activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s ... (The Hammer Song)" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and "Turn ...
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  • 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...
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  • The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...
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  • Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...
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  • leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...
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  • Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...
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  • Tibetan art, or “Himalayan art,” refers to the art of Tibet and ... Tibetan visual art consists primarily of murals, thangka (painted religious ...
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  • the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...
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  • ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...
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  • The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...
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  • The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...
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  • writings she is said to be the first wife of Adam, who refused to lie under ... Historically, the figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind ...
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  • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...
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  • one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...
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  • when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...
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  • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...
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  • is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes ... Similarly, the term may be presented in terms of allele frequency ...
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  • ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...
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  • The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...
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  • for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...
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  • ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...
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  • revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...
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  • Dinosaurs are an extinct, diverse, largely terrestrial group of vertebrate ... The finding of fossils of the "terrible lizards" presented ...
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  • The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...
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  • The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...
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  • In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally ... The theory of descent with modification postulates that all organisms ...
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  • For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...
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