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  • Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure ...
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  • Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ...
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  • Moscow ( Москва́ , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country's economic, financial, educational, and transportation ...
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  • Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov is sometimes rendered in English as Paul Miliukov or Paul Milukoff. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...
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  • In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. Some stress may be beneficial, motivating people to perform better. Such ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key. It applies to music that does not conform to the system ...
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  • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain of central ...
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  • Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist ...
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  • Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471 ...
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  • Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ...
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  • Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda. The city became Rwanda's capital in 1962 when independence was gained ...
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  • Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397, Candes, Gaul) was a bishop of Tours who has become one of the most famous ...
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  • You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Boxer | name = Rocky Marciano | nationality = United States | realname = Rocco Francis Marchegiano ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese ...
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  • Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a strategically important country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean ...
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  • Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. Though some sources suggest that Athanasius may have been born as ...
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  • The Xiongnu ( c=匈奴|p=Xiōngnú|w=Hsiung-nu ); were a nomadic people from Central Asia, generally based in present day Mongolia and China. ...
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  • A sari or saree is the traditional female garment in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. A sari is a very long strip of unstitched cloth ...
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  • category:image wanted Dixon, Willie {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Willie Dixon | Img = | Img_capt = | Img_size = ...
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  • Bean is a common name for edible plant seeds or seed pods of several members of the Legume family (Fabaceae, formerly Leguminosae) or the various ...
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  • Category:Public Hugo, Victor [[Image:Victor Hugo.jpg|thumb|225px|Victor Hugo]] Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist ...
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  • The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era churches in the Philippines designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site ...
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  • Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The country's name ...
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  • An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into an electrical current, which is then made ...
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  • Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte ( Серге́й Ю́льевич Ви́тте|r=Sergéy Yúl'yevich Vítte|p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈjʉlʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ...
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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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  • Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks ...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO ...
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  • Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental ...
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  • The diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses compression ignition, in which fuel ignites as it is injected into air in the combustion ...
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  • Dar es Salaam ( دار السلام Dār as-Salām), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city, industrial center, and major port of Tanzania. Its ...
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  • Flour is a finely ground powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding cereal grains or other edible, starchy portions of plants and used chiefly in ...
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  • Category:Economists Malthus, Thomas Robert {{Infobox_Economist |school_tradition= Classical economics |color = #B0C4DE |image_name ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Achomawi ...
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  • Sigismund III Vasa ( Zygmunt III Waza ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Polish, a monarch of the united ...
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  • Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic ...
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  • Big Bend National Park is a National Park located in Texas, USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms the international ...
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  • Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni) (February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary ...
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  • Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the south, ...
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  • Atheism (from Greek: a + theos + ismos "not believing in god") refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Lévi-Strauss, Claude [[Image:Levi-strauss 260.jpg|thumb|Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005]] ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.png|right]] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20 ...
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  • A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ...
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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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  • , ˈmɑŋgə , is the Japanese word for comics (sometimes called komikku コミック) and print cartoons. In their modern form, manga date from ...
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  • A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light ...
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  • Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative name Elohim is ...
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  • ArcelorMittal ( MT , MT , LU0323134006|MTS , MT ) is the largest steel company in the world, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. ...
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  • Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов), (January 2, 1896 – February 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Paramore Mausoleum.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The Paramore family mausoleum in ...
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  • Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...
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  • The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise ...
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  • Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is ...
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  • The Tower of London (known historically simply as The Tower), is an ancient fortress and historic monument in central London, England on the ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Cattell, Raymond Raymond Bernard Cattell (March 20, 1905 - February 2, 1998) was a British and American psychologist who ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Frankl, Viktor Viktor Emil Frankl (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. ...
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  • The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo-jidai), also called the Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period ...
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  • Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ritual. It has been practiced in many cultures throughout much of history ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Abnormal psychology is the field devoted to the study of causes of mental dysfunction ...
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  • Like hormones, pheromones are endogenous (internally produced) chemical signals secreted by multicellular organisms. Whereas hormones affect ...
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  • The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. An ocean basin, it is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the ...
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  • Shirley Temple Black (née Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public ...
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  • Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Monetarism is an economic theory which focuses on the macroeconomic effects of a nation’s ...
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  • A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...
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  • Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto) (September 29, 1511 – October 27, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist. ...
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  • Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, commonly known as Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ...
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  • Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and singer considered a crucial figure ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...
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  • Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the triode ...
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  • This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history. For contemporary countries, see the People's Republic of China (mainland ...
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  • The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was the United States capture of the island of Iwo Jima from Japan, producing some ...
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  • The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought near the village of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, from ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] Epicurus (Epikouros or Ἐπίκουρος in Greek) (341 B.C.E. – 270 ...
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  • The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and the German ...
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  • Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce ...
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  • Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828–March 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, best known for novels such ...
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  • An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged image. Electron microscopes ...
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  • Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, it is home to ...
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  • The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...
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  • The Minangkabau ethnic group (also known as Minang or Padang) is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. The Minangs are the ...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United ...
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  • A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is most oriented toward or away from the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe writing]] ...
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  • Category:Public The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably the oldest known work of literature. The story includes a series ...
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  • Milan Kundera ( ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra ) (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France ...
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  • Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ...
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  • A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation of the Hebrew words goy (גוי) and nochri (נכרי). The word "Gentile ...
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  • Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...
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  • Tertullian (/tərˈtʌliən/; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 – 220 C.E.) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage ...
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  • Category:Public [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London. St. Paul's Cathedral ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled crafts practitioners ...
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  • Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority ...
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  • The climate of India comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale and varied topography, making generalizations ...
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  • The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 This number is reached by adding the 435 Representatives, 100 Senators ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:CircleOfFriends.jpg |thumbnail|250px|A group of Outward Bound participants with ...
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  • Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park located in south-central Utah. Established as a national monument in 1937, it was ...
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  • Casablanca (Spanish for "whitehouse"; Amazigh: Anfa; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda) is a ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Bloom, Benjamin [[File:Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.jpg|thumb|400px|Bloom's Revised Taxonomy]] Benjamin Bloom (February ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Life sciences [[File:Vacuum-aspiration ...
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  • The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica at over 3.5 million ...
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  • A public library is a library that is open to the public and generally funded by taxes at the municipal, district covering several municipalities ...
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  • Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American stage and screen actor, ...
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  • Dormancy is a general term used to describe a period in an organism's life cycle when metabolic activity is minimized and active development ...
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  • The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It took place from June 4, 1942 to June 7, 1942, approximately ...
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  • category:Image wanted Chandler, Raymond {{Infobox Writer |name =Raymond Chandler |image = |imagesize = |caption = |pseudonym = ...
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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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  • Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south Eastern Europe, bordering five countries: Romania to the north (mostly along ...
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  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ...
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  • The term Biblical canon refers to a definitive list of inspired, authoritative books that "constitute the recognized and accepted body of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Military A war an armed conflict between nations or conflicting political ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = Nineteenth-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Nietzsche1882 ...
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  • A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. It has no payload capacity of its own and its sole purpose is to ...
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  • A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the ...
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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Powhatan john smith map.jpg|thumb|250px|Chief Powhatan ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics In economics and finance, arbitrage refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical ...
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  • Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (May 26, 1908 - June 12, 1976) was a Vietnamese politician who was the first Prime Minister of South Vietnam, serving from ...
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  • Bauhaus is the common term for the Staaatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for its ...
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  • Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge ...
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  • Romanesque architecture is the term that describes the architecture of Europe which emerged from the dark ages of the late tenth century and ...
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  • Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His ...
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is esteemed by some scholars as the finest ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Submitted Marriage is a universal ...
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  • Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language ...
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  • The Counter-Reformation was a movement within the Catholic Church to reform itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The term, "Counter ...
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  • A catamaran (from Tamil kattumaram) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=catamaran Catamaran] Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved June ...
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  • The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Magyar tribes (ninth-tenth centuries) and of the Kingdom of Hungary (1000/1001 ...
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  • Jean-Paul Marat ( ʒɑ̃pɔl maʁa|lang ; born Mara; May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist ...
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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Mapuche |image=[[Image:Mapuche ...
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  • The White Rose ( die Weiße Rose ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of a number of students from the University ...
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  • Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character often translated as ‘Way’ or 'Path'. Though often seen as ...
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  • John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 23, 1800) was an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following ...
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  • Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (pronounced "ot-LAY") (August 23, 1868 - December 10, 1944) was an Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and ...
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  • Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition ...
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  • Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) was a major Christian saint from Italy, whose famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western ...
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  • Pole vaulting, a part of track and field, is a rigorous and demanding athletic event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole (which today ...
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  • Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃] ) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist ...
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  • Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who won 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour, and 80 more ...
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  • William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was one of the most popular ...
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  • Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral ...
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  • Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist, and philosopher. Guattari is ...
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  • Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a Jewish-American political theorist of German descent and one of the most original ...
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  • The BEST (Marathi: बृहन्मुंबई विद्युतपुरवठा आणि परिवहन उपक्रम / बेस्ट ...
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  • The Ostrogoths ( Ostrogothi or Austrogothi ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in the political events ...
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  • The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 B.C.E. Chris Scarre, "The Wars with Carthage ...
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  • Beltane ( ˈbɛltən ) is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine or Bealltainn, the Gaelic names for either the month of May or the festival that ...
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  • The Russell Cave National Monument is a United States National Monument in northeastern Alabama, United States, just south of the Alabama-Tennessee ...
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  • Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ...
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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the Quechua language as Qusqu 'qos.qo ) is a city in southeastern Peru near the Sacred Valley in the Andes ...
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  • Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Image:Ltspkr.png [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was ...
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  • A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the càrn (plural gd|càirn ). Cairns are found all over the world ...
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  • Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke AC (December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian ...
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  • Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ...
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  • Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through two different languages ...
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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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  • Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (September 2, 1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002. He entered Parliament in 1955 ...
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  • The Qur’ān, literally "the recitation" (also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Qur'an) is the central religious ...
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  • Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of Malawi and its predecessor state, Nyasaland, from 1961 to 1994. After receiving ...
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  • Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with ...
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  • The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray," is Australia's largest river. It ...
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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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  • The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社,Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) ( 7951 ) is one of the most diversified companies in Japan, offering a ...
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  • Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims ...
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  • Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday ( Крова́вое воскресе́нье|r=Krovávoe voskresénje|p=krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ ...
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  • Cape Horn island ( Kaap Hoorn ; Cabo de Hornos ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra ...
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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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  • Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated ...
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  • The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present ...
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  • In a figurative sense, a tragedy (from Classical Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with a sad and unfortunate ...
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  • Aisha, Ayesha, 'A'isha, or 'Aisha 1 (Arabic عائشه `ā'isha, "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad ...
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  • North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending ...
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  • Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to ...
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  • Međugorje ( ˈmɛdʑu.ɡɔːrjɛ , roughly meh’-joo-gor-yeh) is a town located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, approximately 15.5 miles (25 km) ...
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  • Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown, outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor ...
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  • Hebei ( c=河北 |p=Hébĕi |w=Ho-pei ; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeast ...
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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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  • Karnataka ( ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ , IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India, was created on November 1, 1956, with the ...
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  • The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree, Punica granatum. Pomegranate also is used to refer to the ...
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  • This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see Georgia (U.S. state). {{Infobox Country or territory |native_name ...
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  • Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ...
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  • Jiangsu ( s=江苏 |t=江蘇 |p=Jiāngsū |w=Chiang-su ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...
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  • José Daniel Ortega Saavedra ( xoˈse ðanjεl ɔrteγa saˈβeðra )(born 11 November 1945), who served as Nicaragua's president from 1985 ...
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  • The Hui people ( c=回族|p=Huízú , Xiao'erjing: حُوِ ذَو ) are a Chinese ethnic group, typically distinguished by their practice ...
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  • Emu is the common name for a large flightless Australian bird, Dromaius novaehollandiae, characterized by long legs with three-toed feet, long ...
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  • Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess ...
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  • Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuˡseʁ) (October 16, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and ...
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  • The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from Canada's British Columbia through the U.S. states of ...
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  • Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. It has been found in nearly all ancient, historical sites in many parts of the world because it ...
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  • Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon, Egyptian egy|twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn; *tuwt-ʕankh-yamān ) was a Pharaoh ...
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  • John Gower (c.1330–October 1408) was an English poet who is remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ...
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  • Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना- حنا- urdu) as a temporary form of skin decoration, most popular in ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet, it was effected by Gen. Fazlollah ...
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  • Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...
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  • Cinematography, from the Greek words kine (movement) and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and filming images for motion pictures ...
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  • Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably associated with religion, ethics, aesthetics, political organization and ...
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  • Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or religious myths which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities ...
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  • Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique) and several tiny islands in the southeastern Caribbean ...
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  • Hay is any grass, legume, or other herbaceous plant, cultivated or wild, that has been cut and dried for use as fodder for domestic livestock ...
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  • The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. They were a civilization with ...
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  • The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling) Islands, is a territory of Australia comprising twenty-seven tiny coral ...
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  • Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space. As of 2008, orbital space tourism opportunities ...
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  • Cancer, or "malignant neoplasm," is a large category of almost one hundred diseases, characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells ...
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  • Nova Scotia ( ˌnəʊvəˈskəʊʃə ) (Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh ; Nouvelle-Écosse ) is a Canadian province located on Canada's ...
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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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  • Kālidāsa (fl. fourth–fifth century C.E.) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright ...
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  • Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional comic book superhero co-created by ...
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  • Rubber is an elastic, hydrocarbon polymer that occurs as a milky, colloidal suspension (known as latex) in the sap of several varieties of plants ...
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  • Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov ( Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв , commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; March 2, 1931 - August ...
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  • Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan (November 15, 1897 – July 6, 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was a key figure on the left ...
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  • The Weimar Republic ( Weimarer Republik , IPA: [ ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ...
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  • Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ...
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  • Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases covering most of the Earth's land surface and that serves, or has the ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists ...
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  • The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good Friday Agreement, and occasionally as the Stormont Agreement, was a major political ...
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  • George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers), grew up with deep religious ...
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  • Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil, usually to assist with the growth of crops. In crop production, it is mainly used ...
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  • Jacob or Ya'akov (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב; Arabic: يعقوب, Yaʿqūb ; "holds the heel"), also known as Israel ("Struggles ...
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  • Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical ...
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  • A planetarium (plural form: planetariums or planetaria) is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about ...
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  • The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin ...
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  • Rajaraja Chola I ( இராஜராஜ சோழன் ), considered as the greatest king of the Chola Empire by many, ruled between 985 and ...
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  • Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with ...
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  • Kolkata ( কলকাতা , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in ...
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  • Turkmenistan (also known as Turkmenia) is a country in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist ...
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  • Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 B.C.E., Greek: Περικλῆς , meaning "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and ...
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  • Sir William Petty (May 27, 1623 – December 16, 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving ...
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  • William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques to change the ...
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  • Category:Public In a general sense, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to look about, to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought ...
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  • The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat and sacking of the capital of the Western Roman Empire in 476 C.E. This ...
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  • The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern era stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is the smallest country, in terms of population, in continental Africa, though ...
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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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  • Baseball is a team sport popular in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Asia. The modern game was developed in the United States ...
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  • The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military conflict, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Image wanted [[Image:John t scopes.jpg|thumb|200px|John T. Scopes]] The Scopes Trial ...
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  • Atonement means that two parties, estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile to each other. It usually ...
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  • The Comintern (Communist International, also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organization founded in Moscow ...
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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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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. ...
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  • The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers of the period, causing 900,000 to 1,400,000 deaths. Statistics of Wars ...
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  • Television (or TV) (from the Greek tele, meaning "far," and the Latin visio, meaning "sight") is a telecommunication system ...
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  • Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher who synthesized Stoic ...
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  • category:image wanted The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President ...
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  • John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
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  • The First Council of Nicaea was the earliest ecumenical council (meaning "worldwide council" - though actually limited to the Roman ...
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  • A carpet is a heavy fabric usually used as a floor covering, although it may also be used for table and wall coverings. The hand-knotted pile ...
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  • The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The entire island of Ireland provisionally became ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plains of what is now Lebanon ...
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  • Hernán(do) Cortés, Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish explorer, military commander, and colonizer whose ...
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  • Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. Until discovering his birth ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on the Zealand and Amager Islands, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
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  • Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia in the middle ...
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  • The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means "Greatest Pontiff") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs. This ...
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  • The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ, Telugu: విజయనగర సామ్రాజ్యము ...
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  • Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...
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  • Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large marine turtles comprising the superfamily Chelonioidea, characterized by forelimbs ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St ...
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  • Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles (468 sq. km.), it is about half ...
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  • James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October 14, 1633 – September 16, 1701) became King of England, King of Scots, and ...
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  • The ancient kingdom Goguryeo, occupying southern Manchuria (present-day northeast China), southern Russian Maritime province, and the northern ...
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular ...
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  • Sir Thomas More ( February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535) was an English lawyer, author, statesman, and a Catholic martyr. During his lifetime he earned ...
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  • Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( Никола́й II , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...
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