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  • An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...
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  • Ahn Jung-Geun or An Jung-Geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist. In 1909, during ...
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  • General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity ...
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  • Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and time that was developed by Albert Einstein in 1905 Einstein, Albert, [http://www ...
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  • category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...
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  • A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...
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  • Poker is a popular card game, or group of card games, in which players compete against one another by gambling on the values of each player& ...
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  • Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds in the order Anseriformes that includes the ducks, geese and swans, with ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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  • Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...
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  • Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SO. This colorless liquid is an important polar aprotic solvent that ...
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  • Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of ...
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  • Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Shawnee |image = [[Image:Shawnee ...
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  • John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ...
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  • Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...
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  • The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores chemical energy and makes it available in an electrical form. Batteries consist ...
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  • A space elevator is a proposed structure intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly Earth, into space ...
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  • Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The main goals ...
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  • In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory ...
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  • Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...
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  • Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...
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  • Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...
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  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...
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  • Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims ...
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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams, ostensibly ...
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  • Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10, 1894 – December 29, 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime ...
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  • Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of light into two rays when it passes through certain types of material, such ...
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  • Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the Democratic candidate for the United States presidency in the disputed election ...
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  • Sergey Paradzhanov (Sargis Hovsepi Parajanyan; Georgian: სერგეი (სერგო) ფარაჯანოვი; Сергей Иосифович ...
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  • Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, states that Congress has the exclusive authority ...
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  • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов IPA: [mʲɪxʌˈil əlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ...
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  • Fibers (or fibres) form a class of hair-like materials that occur as continuous filaments or in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces ...
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  • Colombo (Sinhala: [[Image:Colombo sinhala.jpg|40px]] , ˈkoləmbə ; Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city and commercial capital ...
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  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...
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  • Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, ...
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  • William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, an ordained Southern Baptist minister. ...
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  • The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with ...
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  • Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 – February 21, 1894), was a wealthy and generous French painter. Caillebotte originally sought a career ...
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  • Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an accomplished artist, author, multi-talented musician, and the ...
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  • Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 – November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and ...
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  • Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation ...
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  • Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...
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  • The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...
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  • category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Background = solo_singer| Instrument = Guitar | Name = Robert Johnson | Img = ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Submitted Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987) was born in Bronxville, New York. He served ...
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  • Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer, and (proto-) computer ...
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  • The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, Zhongyuan Jie (中元節), Gui Jie (鬼節) or Yulan Festival (traditional Chinese: ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:WilliamPaley.jpg|thumb|right|William Paley]] William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian ...
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  • Zagreb is the capital city, and the cultural, scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It is regarded as the economic ...
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  • Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Микола Вікторович Підгорний, Mykola Viktorovych PidhornyyНикола́й Ви́кторович ...
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  • Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries ...
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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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  • Catherine Howard (between 1520 and 1525 – February 13, 1542), also called Katherine or Kathryn There are several different spellings of "Catherine ...
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  • Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 - July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • Operation Barbarossa ( Unternehmen Barbarossa ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that ...
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  • Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish painter who is often said to be the greatest of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {| class="infobox" !colspan="2" ...
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  • Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...
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  • Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties and consciousness ...
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  • Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union general in the American Civil ...
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  • The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defense and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of ...
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  • An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and, in most cases recover, aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers thus ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Outline of cave paintings, Altamira.png|thumb ...
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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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  • Satya Sai Baba (also Sathya Sai Baba) (November 23, 1926 - April 24, 2011) is a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around ...
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  • Category:Economists Taussig, Frank William Frank William Taussig (December 28, 1859 – November 11, 1940) was an American economist and educator ...
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  • The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership (HJI), formerly Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), is an accredited ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Miskito |image=[[Image:Bandera ...
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  • Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding and persistent regard that sentient beings hold for their own existence ...
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  • The field of electronics comprises the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons (or other charge carriers) ...
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  • category:image wanted Simonides of Ceos (ca. 556 B.C.E. – 469 B.C.E.), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included, along with ...
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  • Saint Bridget or Bridgid of Sweden (1303 – July 23, 1373), born as Birgitta Birgersdotter and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic ...
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  • Jacopo Peri (August 20, 1561 – August 12, 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque ...
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  • Emperor Gao (256 B.C.E. or 247 B.C.E. – June 1, 195 B.C.E.), commonly known inside China as Gaozu ( c=高祖|p=Gāozǔ , Wade-Giles: Kao Tsu ...
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  • The Florida Everglades is a subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the U.S. State of Florida. Though modified by agricultural ...
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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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  • Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) official site of Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker ...
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  • In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...
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  • Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía, from óligon, “few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ...
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  • Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus Christ. Tradition names her parents as Joachim and Anne. According to the ...
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  • Roger Eliot Fry (December 14, 1866 – September 9, 1934) was an English artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group ...
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  • Australasia is a term used to describe a region within Oceania. The physical countries, islands or regions that comprise Australasia vary greatly ...
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  • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher ...
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  • Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that applies scientific and mathematical principles to design and develop processes by which ...
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  • The Devonian period is an interval of about 57 million years defined on the geologic time scale as spanning roughly from 416 to 359 million years ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Educational psychology is a dynamic discipline with immense potential applications. ...
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  • Zircon is a mineral belonging to a subgroup of silicate minerals called nesosilicates. Chemically, it is known as zirconium silicate, with the ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|thumb|right]] Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Андре́й Дми́триевич ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Triosephosphate isomerase.jpg|thumb|350px|Ribbon diagram of the enzyme [[triosephosphateisomerase|TIM]]. Each enzyme has ...
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  • The Russian Provisional Government ( Временное правительство России|Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii ...
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  • Alveolus (plural: alveoli), or pulmonary alveolus, informally known as air sac, is any of the innumerable minuscule, thin-walled, capillary-rich ...
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  • Gadolinium (chemical symbol Gd, atomic number 64) is a silvery white metallic element and a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements ...
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  • Lewis Mumford, KBE (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic ...
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  • Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...
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  • Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Like his close friend ...
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  • Propylene glycol, also known by the systematic name propane-1,2-diol, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C3H8O2. Under standard ...
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  • Java Man was one of the first specimens of Homo erectus to be discovered, having been located first in 1891, in Java (Indonesia). It was originally ...
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  • Tick is the common name for any of the small, bloodsucking, parasitic arachnids (class Arachnida) in the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae ...
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  • The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths which has become one of the most popular and most used instrument ...
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  • category:image wanted David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004) was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and ...
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  • Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer, a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment ...
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  • Fiberglass or glass fiber is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. The resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced ...
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  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...
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  • Maria Isabella Boyd (May 4, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated ...
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  • Blood is a highly specialized, circulating tissue that consists of several types of cells suspended in a fluid medium. Along with the heart ...
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  • A science museum or a science center is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays ...
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  • Ski jumping is a winter sport in which skiers go down an inrun with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go fly through the air and land ...
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  • The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. These amendments limit the powers of ...
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  • The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...
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  • Ungulates, or hoofed mammals, are members of the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Ungulates ...
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  • Category:Economists Category:Image wanted Morgenstern, Oskar Oskar Morgenstern (January 24, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was a German-born Austrian ...
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  • Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period ...
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  • The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S.I." also called the "Jesuits") is a Roman Catholic religious ...
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  • Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ...
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  • Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris, from ...
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  • Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional ...
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  • Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...
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  • Asherah (Hebrew אשרה), also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing also in Akkadian sources as Ashratu, ...
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  • Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian Jewish novelist, philosopher ...
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  • Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...
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  • Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and, from 1998 to his death in 2002, Joseph Pellegrino University ...
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  • Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical 12-tone compositions ...
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  • In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of the same substance) ontology that holds that all that can truly be said to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Money supply, "monetary aggregates" or "money stock" is a macroeconomic ...
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  • The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central and western Africa. It is triangular in shape, bordered by the Atlantic ...
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  • Jean-Luc Godard (UK: /ˈɡɒdɑːr/ GOD-ar, US: /ɡoʊˈdɑːr/ goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; December 3, 1930 - September 13, 2022 ...
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  • Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the ...
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  • The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians (or aboriginal Australians) of northern ...
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  • category:image wanted William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was a prominent twentieth-century American composer and music ...
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  • 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...
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  • Animal rights is a philosophical concept in bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that ...
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  • John von Neumann (Hungarian Margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a mathematician who made contributions ...
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  • James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president ...
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  • Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical ...
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  • Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...
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  • The Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first award made available to the common soldier. It was initially created as ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Spanish Inquisition torture chamber]] ...
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  • The Dead Sea ( البحر الميت , ים המלח , translated as Sea of Salt), is a salt lake lying on the border between the nations of ...
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  • Annie Oakley, (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's ...
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  • John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation ...
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  • The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO-shuh") lies between the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic ...
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  • Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard I, the Lionheart. She was ...
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  • Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, 1195), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in ...
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  • Francesco Landini, or Landino, (around 1325 – September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, and instrument maker. He ...
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  • Shabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib ...
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  • The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known in Korea as Sinmiyangyo (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the ...
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  • Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan country in western Africa, named after the Niger River. Though rich in minerals ...
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  • Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (pronounced IPA: /'boʊ.ɹɪ.ˌgɑɹd/ ) (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born ...
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  • Han Yu (韓愈, Hán Yù, Pinyin Han Yu, also called Han Wen-kung) (768 - 824 C.E.), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism ...
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  • Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate pursuit of modernization. Since the end of the Korean War, South Korea ...
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  • John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...
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  • Caiaphas (Greek Καϊάφας) was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest between 18 and 37 C.E., best known for his role in the trial of Jesus ...
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  • Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), a German physicist who did most of his work in the Netherlands ...
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  • Asunción (full name: Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción), a city of 512,112 (1,858,000 in its metropolitan area), is the capital of ...
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  • John Dee (July 13, 1527–1609) was a noted Welsh mathematician, geographer, occultist, astronomer, and astrologer, whose expertise in these ...
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  • Rugby league football (usually shortened to rugby league, football, league) is a full-contact, outdoor sport played by two teams of 13 players ...
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  • The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit described in ...
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  • Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ...
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  • A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid (Arabic: مسجد ...
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  • Rust is the material formed when iron or its alloys corrode in the presence of oxygen and water. It is a mixture of iron oxides and hydroxides ...
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  • A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before ...
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  • Carneades (c. 214 - 129 B.C.E.) was one of the most prominent Academic skeptics. Head of the Academy from 167 to 137 B.C.E., he not only argued ...
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  • Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (d. 850) ...
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  • The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1, 1993, saw Czechoslovakia split into two separate countries: The Czech Republic ...
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  • Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William ...
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  • Ethology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of animal behavior. Ethologists take a comparative approach, studying behaviors ranging ...
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  • Gabriele d'Annunzio (March 12, 1863, Pescara – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist ...
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  • Hagar (Arabic هاجر;, Hajar; Hebrew הָגָר; "Stranger") was an Egyptian-born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the ...
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  • The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is an island nation located in the Malay Archipelago in ...
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  • A Rakshasa (Sanskrit: रा॑क्षसः, rā́kṣasaḥ ; alternately, raksasa or rakshas) is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hindu mythology ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Grizzly_Giant_Mariposa_Grove.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest tree in ...
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  • The Pilgrim Fathers is the common name for a group of English separatists who fled an environment of religious intolerance in Protestant England ...
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  • A rabbit's foot, in most English-speaking countries, is considered a sign of good luck when carried on or near the body.Superstition Bash ...
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  • Susanne Langer (December 20, 1895 - July 17, 1985) née Susanne Katherina Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ...
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  • The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast Asia, with Laos and Cambodia to its east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia ...
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  • Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, formerly ...
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  • Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment of governance or authority through the creation of settlements by another ...
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  • Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. It identifies advantages and disadvantages ...
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  • Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...
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  • The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila citadel of the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Located in the northwestern corner of Lahore ...
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  • This article is about the city in the West Bank. Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: Bet Lehem meaning “House ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology To boycott is to abstain from using, buying, or dealing with a person ...
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  • Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1888 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed Shoeless Joe, was an American baseball player who played in the American ...
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  • The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political ...
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  • Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...
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  • According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot b'nei Noach), also called the Brit ...
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  • The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown antiquity. Pandyas were one of the three ancient Tamil kingdoms (Chola ...
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  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of ...
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  • Hula ( ˈhuːlə ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled ...
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  • Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol, or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless, slightly toxic chemical compound with a ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Public [[Image:Pocahontas original.jpg|thumb|260px|Pocahontas, in England ...
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  • Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring toward the end of the Book of ...
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  • Flint (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary, cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly ...
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  • Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II. The operation was canceled when Japan ...
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  • Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...
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  • Medical ethics, also known as health care ethics, or as biomedical ethics, is a field of applied ethics (see the article metaethics)—ethics ...
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  • Muhammad Ali-Haj (born January 17, 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. - June 3, 2016), was an American professional boxer. He is considered one ...
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  • Saint Thomas the Apostle (also known as Judas Thomas or Didymus, meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus who is best ...
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  • Calvary (originally known as "Golgotha" meaning: "place of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ...
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  • Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally the large intestine). Various types of colitis have been identified, such ...
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  • The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat ...
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  • East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name for the former German Democratic Republic (in German, Deutsche Demokratische ...
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  • Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American physicist and chemist. He is best known for an experiment in ...
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  • Gangtok Gangtok-pronunciation.ogg|pronunciation (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim ...
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  • Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese School. As ...
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  • Hakīm Abū l-Qāsim Firdawsī Tūsī, more commonly transliterated as Ferdowsi (also Firdowsi), (935–1020) was a highly revered Persian poet ...
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  • Thallium (chemical symbol Tl, atomic number 81) is a soft, malleable metal. When freshly cut, it looks like tin, but it discolors to gray when ...
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  • Malwa (Malvi:माळवा, IAST: Māļavā), a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ...
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  • Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 - 127), known in English as Plutarch, (in Greek Πλούταρχος) was a Greek philosopher, biographer, and essayist ...
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  • Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be a writer. He became one of the most ...
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  • Tantalum, formerly tantalium (chemical symbol Ta, atomic number 73) is a rare, blue-gray, lustrous metal. It is very hard, has a high melting ...
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  • category:Image wanted "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah Berlin, regarding the Russian author Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture that represents the first 150 years of the history ...
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  • The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s brightest laurels by Charles Cornwallis. It was also a great and ...
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  • The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The rising was an attempt by militant ...
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  • Alexander Cartwright II (April 17, 1820–July 12, 1892) was officially credited by the United States Congress on June 3, 1953, with inventing ...
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  • Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth ...
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  • Hesiod (Hesiodos, Ἡσίοδος ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode who lived around 700 B.C.E. Often cited alongside his close contemporary ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Dubois, Eugène Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (January 28, 1858 – December ...
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  • Nanna, also called Sîn (or Suen) was a Sumerian god who played a longstanding role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of ...
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  • Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one of the principal traditions of Hinduism that is distinguished from other schools ...
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  • Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some ...
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  • Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods ...
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  • Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a writer, politician, and ...
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  • The State of Illinois is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Illinois is the most populous state in ...
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  • The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke ( Гетьманщина, Het’manshchyna; Військо Запорозьке, Viys’ko Zaporoz’ke ...
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  • Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (November 15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished field marshals of World War II. He was ...
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  • Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism ...
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  • Category:Public Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku, 1686 - 1769) was a major reformer of the Japanese Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism. He ...
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  • Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本 龍馬, Sakamoto Ryōma) (January 3, 1836 - December 10, 1867) was a Japanese imperial loyalist whose effort to forge ...
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  • Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent writer, poet, lecturer, and women's rights activist. An American abolitionist ...
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  • Turmeric is the common name for a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, characterized by a tuberous ...
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  • Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...
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  • The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking. ...
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  • Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 – July 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slave campaigner and ...
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  • Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts ...
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  • Carlos Monzón (August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995) was an Argentine boxer who held the world middleweight title for seven years, during which ...
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  • Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in European fiction. ...
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  • Dönmeh, a derogatory term meaning "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews of the Near East who were originally ...
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  • Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of ...
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  • Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou (c. 1124 –April 1, 1204) was one of the most powerful women in ...
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  • Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. ...
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  • The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked ...
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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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  • An angel (from Greek: ἄγγελος, ángelos, meaning "messenger") is a supernatural and ethereal being found in many religions ...
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  • The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the ...
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  • Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was a prominent American actor who transformed Hollywood with his innovative practice of ...
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  • The Pythia (Gr. Πύθια) was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The Pythia ...
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  • A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea ...
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  • The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. Africa's oldest republic ...
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  • Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatic poet who studied with Zeno of Citium, head ...
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  • Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The term originally meant "songs sung to a harp, ...
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  • Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a nineteenth century French writer and novelist ...
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  • Play is an amusing interaction with people, animals, or things. Play may involve pretend or imaginary interpersonal and intrapersonal interactions ...
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  • category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...
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  • Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet and lawgiver, who according to the Bible and the Qur'an (by his ...
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  • Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy (August 9, 1928 - ) is a former American professional basketball player who, as point guard with the National ...
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  • The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was convoked by Emperor Theodosius II as an ecumenical council to deal with unresolved ...
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  • Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO," or "non-profit" or ...
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  • The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel is a historic hotel located at 481 Eighth Avenue in New York City, United States. The 43-story Art Deco hotel, opened ...
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  • Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He received the 1944 Nobel ...
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  • Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short ...
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  • Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος Νύσσης) (ca. 335–ca. 394 C.E.) was a Christian bishop ...
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite ...
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  • Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys were an influential bluegrass band performing and recording from 1948 through 1969. ...
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  • On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were ...
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  • Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...
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  • Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers for phenomenological ...
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  • The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah) and the Porrajmos in Romani, is the name applied to the systematic persecution ...
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  • Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often remembered as the third ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive the gift of tongues (Acts 2)]] Montanism was an early Christian ...
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  • The Saint Lawrence River and Seaway System is a large hydrographic system in east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ...
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  • In chemistry, a carbene is a highly reactive organic compound with the general molecular formula "R1R2C:." This formula indicates that ...
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  • General Rubén Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, better known as Fulgencio Batista (pronounced fulˈɣensio baˈtista̩ )—January 16, 1901 – ...
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  • Civil engineering is a broad field of engineering covering many specialties. It includes construction engineering, environmental engineering ...
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  • Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation of omens or an alleged supernatural agency. Divination is distinguished ...
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  • William Whewell (May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of ...
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  • Category:Lawyers and Jurists Dicey, A. V. Category:Public Albert Venn Dicey (February 4, 1835 – April 7, 1922) was a British jurist and constitutional ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education the building intended for indoor sports or exercise|gym A gymnasium is a type of school ...
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  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living ...
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  • George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
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  • In chemistry, radicals (or free radicals) are atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons in an otherwise open shell configuration. These ...
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  • Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in Central Africa that is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and the second ...
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  • Tashkent ( Toshkent, Тошкент ; Ташкент , Taşkent ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city was an important ...
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  • Lysine is an α-amino acid that is present in many proteins, has low available concentration in certain popular agricultural crops, such as wheat ...
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  • Pierre Francis Berton, (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history ...
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  • Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...
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  • The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the islands of the Sulu Sea, in the southern Philippines. Though Muslim historians ...
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  • category:image wanted Thomas Hill Green (April 7, 1836 – March 26, 1882) was an English philosopher and brought idealism into England. Green ...
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  • Volleyball is a globally recognized sport that found its origins in the United States of America. In fact, worldwide, volleyball is second on ...
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  • Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. If adjacent islands are included, it covers six percent ...
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  • Dynamite is the first safely manageable chemical explosive stronger than black powder. It is based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin ...
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  • Florence (Italian: Firenze, Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, ...
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  • Bernard Bosanquet (July 14, 1848 – February 8, 1923) was an English philosopher and an influential figure on matters of political and social ...
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  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) in the Congo, born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), ...
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  • Seongdeok Daewang, or Seongdeok the Great reigned from 702–737 C.E. as the thirty-third king of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla, in the ...
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  • Shanxi ( c=山西 |p=Shānxī |w=Shan-hsi ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northern ...
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  • James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ...
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  • Nimbarka (Śrī Nimbārkācārya श्री निम्बार्काचार्य), was a Hindu philosopher and commentator, known ...
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  • Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...
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  • Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence ...
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  • The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Newcastlebridge.jpg|thumb|300px|The old Co-operative building behind the Gateshead ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Putnam, Frederic Ward Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 – August 14, 1915 ...
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  • Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte ( Серге́й Ю́льевич Ви́тте|r=Sergéy Yúl'yevich Vítte|p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈjʉlʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ...
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  • Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of ...
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  • Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and ...
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  • John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European evolution theory ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, with great natural ...
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  • Category:Public Suárez, Francisco [[Image:Franciscus_Suarez%2C_S.I._%281548-1617%29.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Francisco Suárez]] Francisco Suárez ...
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  • A tropical cyclone is a meteorological term for a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and thunderstorms that produces strong ...
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  • Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as ...
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  • Mount Everest--also known as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma--is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level ...
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  • Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 C.E.), the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
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  • Cement, in the most general sense of the word, is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Psychology [[Image:Bullying Irfe.jpg|thumb|250 px|Bullying can be detrimental ...
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  • Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин) (April 14|1862|April 2 September 18|1911|September 5 ...
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  • Diwali, also called Deepavali, known as the "Festival of Lights," is a major Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of good over ...
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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near the center of the North American continent and touches two of the five Great ...
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