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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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  • Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial ...
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  • Empedocles (c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. ...
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  • The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of ...
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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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  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971) was a Scottish doctor, biologist and politician who received the ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in ...
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  • Dioscorus of Alexandria was the twenty-fifth bishop of Alexandria, known in Oriental Orthodox tradition as Pope St. Dioscorus the Great. In Catholic ...
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  • Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...
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  • Wystan Hugh Auden, known more commonly as W. H. Auden, (February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential ...
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  • In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. ...
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  • ==Etymology== From kilometre, from French kilomètre; synchronically analyzable as kilo- from French, kilo- irregularly derived from Ancient Greek ...
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  • Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦颐/周敦頤; Pinyin: Zhōu Dūnyí; Wade-Giles: Chou Tun-yi; 1017-1073 C.E.), or Zhou Lianxi (周濂溪; Chou Lien ...
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  • Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing, MCCF, (February 2, 1926 - December 2, 2020) was a French center-right politician who was ...
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  • Here below is additional discussion content generated during the formation of the article: ==My email letter to you== Cheryl, I am sending you ...
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  • Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial shorthand ...
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  • John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...
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  • The Berlin International Film Festival ( Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin ), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...
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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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  • Laurel and Hardy were an American-based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth century for their work in motion ...
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  • category:image wanted Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) (November 2, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet, considered ...
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  • The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück) signed in October and May 1648 which ...
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  • Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living organisms ...
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  • The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems ...
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  • The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...
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  • Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman ...
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  • Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 Gibbon's birthday is April 27, 1737 of the old style (O.S.) Julian calendar; England adopted the new style ...
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  • Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ...
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  • Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas ...
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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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  • . [[image:Heinrich der Seefahrer.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Henry the Navigator]] Henry the Navigator (1394 - 1460) was the third son of John I of ...
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  • The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies. The Caicos Islands ...
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  • Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) was born Thocmentony, a Paiute name that means "Shell Flower." She was a peacemaker, teacher, interpreter ...
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  • Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Bulgakov.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mikhail Bulgakov]] Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (or Bulhakov, Михаил Афанасьевич ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Npr headquarters.jpg|thumb|right|250px|National Public Radio headquarters ...
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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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  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. U.S. Census Bureau tabulations ...
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  • Watercolor painting is a painting method. A watercolor is either the medium or the resulting artwork. Watercolor, also known in French as aquarelle ...
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...
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  • Cell biology or cellular biology (formerly cytology, from the Greek kytos, "container") is an academic discipline that studies cells ...
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  • Indian Railways (Hindi भारतीय रेल), abbreviated as IR, refers to a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry ...
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  • Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. The twelfth-largest state by area in the U.S., Minnesota ...
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  • This is the list of completed articles from the New World Encyclopedia. Updates are frequently made. Errors and suggestions can be reported using ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Yin and Yang| image_name=Yin yang.svg| image_desc=Yin and yang symbol| text=The concept of yin and ...
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  • Emperor Huizong (November 2, 1082 – June 4, 1135; r. 1100-1126) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors of the Song Dynasty of China ...
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  • Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (c. 1135 – March 30, 1202), was a Christian visionary and abbot whose teaching of a three ...
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  • Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753 - February 26, 1821) was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being ...
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  • Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son ...
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  • The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north ...
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  • António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE (April 28, 1889 – July 27, 1970), served as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal ...
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  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process by which children ...
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  • The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread widely in Europe in the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian ...
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  • Czeslaw Milosz (June 30, 1911 - August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic ...
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  • Category:Economists Menger, Carl [[Image:Carl Menger.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Austrian School economist Carl Menger]] Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 ...
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  • ==Etymology== Patron from Middle English patroun, patrone, from Old French patron, from Latin patrōnus, derived from pater (“father”). ...
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  • The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire refers to a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on November 22, 2006. A lightning ...
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  • In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek word ἔλλειψις, which literally means "absence") is a closed curve on a plane, such ...
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  • Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃.tɛg.zy.pe.ʀi] ) (June 29, 1900 – presumably July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator ...
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  • The Hunter Biden laptop controversy involves a laptop computer that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden, son of the then-presidential candidate ...
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  • The Jacobin Club was an important political society during the French Revolution. Its members included members as different as the comte de Mirabeau ...
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  • Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. The day ...
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  • Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. He also won an Academy ...
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  • Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer who revolutionized the arts ...
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  • Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest (after Quebec) in total area. ...
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  • The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically ...
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  • Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between 43 and 410 C.E. The Romans referred ...
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  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–January 15, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor, and Conquistador. He is known principally for having ...
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  • The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on ...
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  • A templon (from Greek τέμπλον meaning "temple," plural templa) is a feature of Byzantine architecture that first appeared in ...
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  • {{Unification aspects|Sidney Hook was an American philosopher. After embracing communism in his youth, he was later known for his criticisms ...
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  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM GCVO PC PRS FRSE (June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding ...
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  • Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo. It is the country's largest seaport, serving ...
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  • Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters ...
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  • Chick Webb, born William Henry Webb (February 10, 1905 - June 16, 1939), was an African-American jazz drummer and big band leader. Both as a ...
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  • Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the Brisbane ...
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  • Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the ...
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  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = Ford Foundation | founded_date = 1936 | founder = Henry & Edsel Ford ...
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  • Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician ...
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  • A miracle (from Latin: miraculum, "something wonderful") refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ...
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  • Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented ...
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  • Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free access to information published. Many publications can be published in ...
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  • The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This relationship ...
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  • Category:Public This article is about the Roman philosopher. For the Native American tribe, see the article entitled Seneca nation. ...
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  • Watermelon refers to both the edible fruit and vine-like plant (Citrullus lanatus of the family Cucurbitaceae) of a climbing and trailing herb ...
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  • Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...
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  • Federalist No. 55 is an essay written under the name of Publius defending the number of representatives in the newly formed United States House ...
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  • Category:Economists Category:Biography Chamberlin, Edward Edward Hastings Chamberlin (May 18, 1899 – July 16, 1967) was an American economist ...
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  • The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is the second largest species of deer in the world, after the moose (Alces alces), which is, confusingly ...
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  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), Findlaw, [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=381&invol=479 Full ...
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  • Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, prose writer and baroque moralist. After receiving ...
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  • Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (baptized October 31, 1632, died December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary ...
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  • Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath, a scientist, mathematician, and architect, who played an important role ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by severe and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety that ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist 2 | Name = Marvin Gaye | Background = khaki | Birth_name = Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ...
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  • Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette) (September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) was a French aristocrat and military ...
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  • The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...
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  • Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese, is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigenous home to the ...
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  • Dajian Huineng (慧能 or 惠能; Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures in the Chinese Chán monastic tradition ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker. His one feature-length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Mackinac Island| image_name=Arch Rock.jpg| image_desc=Arch Rock on Mackinac Island| text=Mackinac ...
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  • The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, covers nine states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode ...
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  • Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous land empire, the Mongol Empire, ever established. He was the son of Yesugei ...
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  • In Christianity, an Apostle (Greek: Ἀπόστολος apostolos: meaning "messenger") designates an individual commissioned by God ...
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  • The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans called Etrusci ...
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  • The Book of Enoch is an apocraphal and pseudopigraphal collection of second century Jewish texts attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah ( ...
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  • Category:Public Gould, Stephen Jay [[Image:Tyrannosaurus AMNH 5027.jpg|frame|250px|right]] Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Terman, Lewis Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 - December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer ...
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  • Pharaoh is the title given in modern parlance to the ancient Egyptian kings. In antiquity its use began during the New Kingdom (1570–1070 B ...
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  • In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries ...
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  • Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the ...
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  • Intelligent design (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living ...
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  • Kobe(Kōbe-shi) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent seaport city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million. The city ...
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  • Emperor Hirohito or Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa Tennō) (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Scripps, E. W. [[Image:E_W_Scripps.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|E.W. Scripps, ca.1912]] Edward Wyllis Scripps (June 18 ...
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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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  • The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar ...
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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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  • Hezekiah (or Ezekias) (Hebrew: חזקיה, "God has strengthened") was the thirteenth king of independent Judah in the Bible. The son ...
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  • Fyodor Sologub ( Фёдор Сологу́б , born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников , also known ...
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  • Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics In economics Keynesian economics , also Keynesianism and Keynesian Theory, is based on ...
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  • Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than soft X-rays. The name ...
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  • Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act of disobedience, as well as the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in ...
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