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  • William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...
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  • Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of ...
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  • Yakshagana (Kannada:ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ, pronounced as yaksha-gaana) is a traditional dance drama popular in the coastal districts and adjacent ...
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  • Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the name given to a number of gases present in the earth's atmosphere which reduce the loss of heat into space ...
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  • The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes the results of a number of separate policies conducted by successive ...
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  • Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a French portraitist, who is best remembered ...
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  • Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of ...
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  • Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily ...
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  • Supramolecular chemistry refers to an area of chemistry that specializes in the study of noncovalent interactions within and between molecules. ...
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  • The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that flourished ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena. ...
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  • Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. The word cocoa also is used to refer to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Tuscarora |image = ...
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  • The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist ...
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  • The Westminster Confession of Faith is a reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition embraced by the Church of Scotland ...
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  • The Canadian Screen Awards ( link=no|Les prix Écrans canadiens ) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing ...
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  • Soldering is a high-temperature method of joining metallic surfaces using a filler material called a solder. A solder is a metal alloy with a ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = Seventeenth-century philosophy(Modern Philosophy) | color = #B0C4DE | ...
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  • Framing, in construction known as light frame construction, is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which ...
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  • Fire apparatus (or firefighting apparatus) is a generic term that refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires, such as a fire engine or fire ...
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  • Category:Public [[File:Heidegger 2 (1960).jpg|thumb|200px|Martin Heidegger]] Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) is considered ...
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  • Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid 1950s based mainly in the American ...
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  • Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 128 ...
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  • Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and further developed by ...
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  • Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...
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  • A rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and mineral-like substances called mineraloids. Rocks are classified as igneous, sedimentary ...
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  • The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492, although there was at least one earlier colonization effort ...
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  • Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 – c. 1499), known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first early ...
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  • The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the twentieth century and remains a leading ...
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  • This article is about the 20th-century aviator. {{Infobox Biography | subject_name = Charles Lindbergh | image_name = LindberghStLouis.jpg ...
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  • The Russian battleship Potemkin ( Князь Потёмкин Таврический|translit=Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy , "Prince Potemkin ...
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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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  • Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented ...
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  • Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר meaning Day of Atonement) is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar. It falls on the ...
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  • The Holy Grail is a mythical object or symbol associated with Jesus Christ. In earliest Grail literature, it was described as the dish, plate ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[File:911-Panel.JPG|thumb|300px|A panel in the Newseum in Washington, DC shows the ...
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  • Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...
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  • The Triple Entente ("entente"—French for "agreement") was the alliance formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great ...
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  • Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and during ...
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  • Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (October 6, 1769 – October 13, 1812) was a British Major-General and Government Administrator. Brock is best ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Άθηνά , Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη , Athénē; Latin: Minerva) was a multifaceted Greek goddess whose spheres ...
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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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  • 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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen| name=Drew University| ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language from the earliest texts, dating back to the early Archaic period ...
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  • The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of ...
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  • The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. They ...
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  • Category:Anthropologists Levy-Bruhl, Lucien Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (April 10, 1857—March 13, 1939) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist ...
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  • category:image wanted Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or organization submit copies of their publications to a repository. ...
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  • An ulcer (from Latin ulcus) is a lesion or eroded area on the surface of the skin or mucous membranes characterized by tissue disintegration ...
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  • Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal ...
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  • The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or the Protoevangelium of James, is an apocryphal Gospel written about 150 C.E ...
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  • A pearl is a hard, smooth, rounded (not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that is organically produced by certain ...
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  • Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is located at the border of the Ngorongoro conservation area and the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is ...
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  • The Rule of Saint Basil refers to the monastic regulations formulated by Saint Basil the Great (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.), which became ...
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  • Albacore (Thunnus alalunga) is one of the eight tuna species belonging to the Thunnus genus. It is the only tuna species that can be marketed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Millais-Blind Girl.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|"The Blind Girl" ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group-Jen| |group = Māori |image = [[Image:Te_Pun ...
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  • The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was a bestselling anonymous illustrated work of popular theology in the late Middle ...
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  • Scallop is the common name for any of the marine bivalve mollusks comprising the family Pectinidae, characterized by a large, well-developed ...
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  • Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Centaure Malmaison.jpg|thumb|240 px| Bronze Centaur ...
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  • A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. Its top and bottom are circular ...
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  • Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is a Bodhisattva that many Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth ...
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  • The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the best-known South Asian instrument in the West. A Hindustani stringed instrument ...
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  • Tuscany ( Toscana ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas. It has an area of 22990|km2|sqmi ...
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  • Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ninteenth century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句) ...
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  • The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ðe ɣwate'mala ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = | ...
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  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque ...
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  • Sedevacantism is a theological position embraced by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Papal See has been vacant since ...
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  • In Christianity, Sabellianism is the belief that God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit are three modes or aspects of God. Once popular ...
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  • Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family of secret societies formed in late medieval Germany, which taught esoteric ...
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  • The Place Stanislas, known colloquially as the place Stan', is a large pedestrian square in Nancy, Lorraine, France. Built between the Old ...
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  • This article is about the bird, for the machine see crane (machine) {{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Cranes | image = Sarus_cranecropped.jpg ...
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  • Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 – June 14, 1801) was a famous American traitor, having been a general in the Continental Army during the ...
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  • Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae ...
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  • The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 – January 13, 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession ...
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  • In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon, dæmon, or daimon) is a supernatural being of malevolent intent, or a fallen ...
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  • | [[Image:floodislewight.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This picture shows the flood plain following a 1 in 10 year flood on the Isle of Wight.]] ...
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  • Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta ...
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  • The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Haida |image=[[Image:Charles Edenshaw ...
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  • The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic ...
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  • The Eritrean-Ethiopian War took place from May 1998 to June 2000, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa ...
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  • A flowchart is a common type of chart that represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds and the order of steps ...
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  • The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder, (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1949) (from Ryder's esteemed ...
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  • The Juche Ideology (Juche Sasang 주체사상 in Korean; or Chuch'e; approximately, "joo-chey") is the official state ideology ...
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  • Petra (from πέτρα "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Public Maslow, Abraham Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who helped ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Black, Davidson Davidson Black (July 25, 1884 – March 15, ...
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  • Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families ...
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  • Socialism in one country links=no|социализм в отдельно взятой стране|r=sotsializm v otdelno vzyatoy strane|t=socialism ...
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  • Synthesis (from ancient Greek σύνθεσις , σύν (with) and θεσις, placing) is commonly understood to be an integration of two or ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Bachofen, Johann Jakob [[Image:Johann Jacob Bachofen.jpg|thumb|Johann Jacob Bachofen]] ...
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  • George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist. Coming from a lower-middle ...
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  • Being and existence in philosophy are related and somewhat overlapping with respect to their meanings. Classical Greek had no independent word ...
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  • A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, (from the Greek: aéros- "air" and -planos "wandering") ...
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  • Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic ...
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  • Bujumbura ( ˌbuːdʒəmˈbuːrə ) is the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=Mother's Day |image=Ivana-Kobilca ...
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  • Quebec is a province in eastern Canada. Known as la belle province ("the beautiful province"), Quebec is bordered to the west by the ...
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  • Category:Lawyers and Jurists Category:biography Blackstone, William [[Image:WilliamBlackstone.jpg|thumb|right|William Blackstone as illustrated ...
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  • The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict, Aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bosnian Civil War) was an ...
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  • The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the period of the Cold War and the removal of the Iron ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ...
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  • The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather than a single document, comprised a series of individual peace treaties signed ...
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  • 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures. Largely a recapitulation of other biblical texts, it is regarded ...
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  • According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created by the head god Zeus as a punishment for humankind after Prometheus stole ...
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  • Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially ...
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  • In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for "House of Horus") was an ancient cow goddess whose wide range of attributes and associations ...
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  • The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al ...
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  • The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ...
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  • Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab – November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani ...
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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Image wanted Leakey, Mary Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol) (February 6 ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Socrates.png|thumb|right|Socrates]] Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was an ancient ...
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  • Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28 1596) was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil engineer, and known slave ...
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  • Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery ...
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  • The Kathmandu Valley ( नेपाः स्वनिगः Nepāḥ Svānigaḥ ), located in Nepal, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:ac-parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon ...
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  • category:image wanted Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to one's surroundings. This can result in the invention ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Durham 2534.jpg|thumb|325px|Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint ...
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  • François Couperin (French IPA: [fʀɑ̃'swa ku'pʀɛ̃] ) (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer ...
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  • ( fɛ̃ də sjɛkl|lang ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar ...
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  • The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular Nuremberg Trial held before a U.S. military court for 23 Nazi medical doctors ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Annulment is a procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is retroactive: ...
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  • Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (May 24, 1899 – July 4, 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam titles from 1914 through 1926. ...
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  • The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors in the Silla and Unified Silla dynasties who played an instrumental role in ...
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  • Metamorphic rock is produced deep beneath the Earth's surface when a pre-existing rock type, called the protolith, is transformed under ...
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  • Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the ...
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  • An arachnid is any member of the arthropod class Arachnida, a largely terrestrial group that includes spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, and harvestmen ...
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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death among human beings ...
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  • Sir William David Ross KBE (April 15, 1877 – May 5, 1971) was a Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics and for his work on Aristotle ...
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  • Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until ...
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  • Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the legendary punk rock ...
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  • Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz, (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker. Rothko was ...
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  • The term True Cross denotes the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified. According to legend, the True Cross was hidden following Jesus’ ...
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  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect ...
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  • Allan David Bloom (September, 14, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana – October 7, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation of Titans ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...
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  • Activated carbon (also called active carbon, activated charcoal, or activated coal) is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely ...
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  • Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...
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  • Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical ...
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  • The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; s=维吾尔|t=維吾爾|p=Wéiwú'ěr ) are a Turkic people of Central ...
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  • The Atlas Mountains ( جبال الأطلس ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion of the African continent ...
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  • The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened peace"), or Shōwa era, is a period of Japanese history that ...
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  • Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ...
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  • category:image wanted In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary qualities ...
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  • The Haridasa (Kannada: ಹರಿದಾಸರು, literally meaning "servants of Lord Hari") denotes a devotional movement that marked ...
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  • Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...
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  • Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 – October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth century French dramatists ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Libido, etymologically rooted in Old Latin libido (desire, lust) from libere (to be ...
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  • Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 21, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter. ...
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  • Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Diana Spencer) (July 1, 1961—August 3, 1997) was the first wife of Charles ...
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  • category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...
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  • Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem that arises when trying to ...
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  • Granite is a hard, tough, igneous rock that is widely distributed in the Earth's continental crust. It is medium- to coarse-grained and ...
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  • The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ("hoofed") mammal of the family Equidae and the genus Equus. Among ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using the conscious mind ...
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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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  • Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose ...
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  • Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-American film director closely associated with the suspense thriller ...
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  • Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ...
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  • "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA" ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers ...
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  • Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced "Casey") was an American psychic who could channel answers to questions ...
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  • Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large work Sunday ...
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  • Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...
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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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  • Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内), estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, it ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes all business profit ...
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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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  • The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά Λουκαν, Kata Loukan) is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest ...
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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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  • Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ...
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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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  • Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman of high rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the ...
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  • Hoysala architecture ( ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ ) indicates the distinctive building style developed under the rule ...
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  • Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer. Varèse's music features an emphasis ...
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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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  • Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd or Bride - c. 451–525) was an Irish nun, abbess, and founder ...
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  • James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety ...
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  • Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин|p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn ...
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  • Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...
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  • Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 – May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...
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  • The Minoans (Greek: Μυκηναίοι; Μινωίτες) were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing ...
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  • Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of Jesus. The word Christmas is derived from Middle English Christemasse and ...
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  • Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...
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  • Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period before written history became available to assist our understanding ...
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  • The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament attributed to the prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the ...
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  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality ...
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  • Vedanta (Devanagari: sa|वेदान्त , Vedānta ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature of reality, ...
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  • Mochi (Japanese: ja|餅 ; Chinese: zh-TW|麻糬 ) is a Japanese rice cake made by pounding glutinous rice into a paste and molding it into shapes ...
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  • Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous country in Africa. Archaeological evidence shows that human habitation ...
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  • Nicholas Nehemiah Kittrie (March 26, 1926 - December 9, 2019) was an American legal scholar. Raised in a Jewish family in Poland, he was deeply ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based membership organization ...
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