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  • the forward direction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. LEDs are ... LEDs have a broad range of uses. Many are used for a variety of signs ...
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  • dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...
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  • Western classical music as a standard member of the string section of symphony ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...
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  • The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...
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  • ) (1610?- August 7, 1661), former name Jin Renrui (金人瑞), also ... Confucius avoided being named the author of the Spring and Autumn Annals ...
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  • Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...
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  • Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...
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  • also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...
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  • Movement. Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...
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  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...
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  • Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...
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  • , officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro ... Numerous unethical actions -- including lack of informed consent, ...
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  • Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded ... Governmental instability during the 1970s and 1980s was followed by ...
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  • its subsequent bursting affected over half of the U.S. states. Housing prices ... years, the economic impact is considered by many economists to have been ...
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  • The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...
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  • Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...
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  • Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction ...
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  • from 1981 to 1987. He served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee ... freedom and opportunity for others. A man of deep religious faith, his beliefs ...
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  • Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...
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  • The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... The far-reaching reforms enacted by the Council impacted virtually ...
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  • Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal ... The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, ...
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  • the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...
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  • | name = Michael Crichton | image = | pseudonym = John ... genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have ...
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  • central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...
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  • The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...
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  • include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), and Guglielmo Tell ... Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town ...
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  • largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...
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  • ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...
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  • - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ...
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  • in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the south ... is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest ...
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  • ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ... his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • [[Image:Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.jpg|thumb|200px ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ...
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  • that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes ... " meaning electric, from the name of the Italian physicist Volta ...
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  • ) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...
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  • large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per ... century and was used with devastating effect by colonial powers against the ...
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  • southwestern China and Tibet, characterized by woolly fur with large, distinctive ... thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ...
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  • A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...
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  • and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...
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  • from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...
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  • ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... E., making him a candidate to be the founder of the earliest religion based ...
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  • Governorate, Jordan. It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among ... The ancient city sits in the Negev Desert's Valley of Moses, ...
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  • abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... The titles commonly used to name Switzerland in French ( ...
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  • Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...
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  • , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...
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  • The brain is a centralized mass of nerve tissue enclosed within the ... Along with the spinal cord, the brain forms part of the central nervous ...
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  • disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Caused by infection with the spirochetal ... there identified additional features of the disease, including an unidentified ...
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  • Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken ... Confucian preoccupation with hierarchy dictated the placement of rooms ...
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  • Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...
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  • (in English, Octavian), for the period of his life prior to 27 B.C.E ... Although he preserved the outward form of the Roman Republic, he ruled ...
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  • Daoism (Wade-Giles: "Taoism") is the English name for a ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...
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  • discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto ... because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair ...
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  • , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...
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  • the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...
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  • genetic studies indicate that the ancestors of the Tibetan people diverged ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...
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  • began her film career in 1932 at the age of three. In 1934, she found international ... to represent the United States at a session of the United Nations General ...
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  • 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Canadian government, the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870 and the North-West ...
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  • and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and filming images ... to motion pictures. Although the exposing of images on light-sensitive elements ...
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  • in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors ... for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the name Lenin (April 22 ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...
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  • Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...
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  • Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia ... A 2006 study found that Vancouver had the third highest quality of ...
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  • The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...
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  • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...
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  • electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well ... to the brain to repair different types of brain damage. With this kind ...
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  • committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for political ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...
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  • March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...
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  • philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...
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  • [[Image:William Blake by Thomas Phillips.jpg|244px|thumb|right|William ... and spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or ...
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  • The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. Operation Marita ...
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  • (Latin: regnum Francorum, "Kingdom of the Franks"), Frankish ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...
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  • North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...
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  • Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...
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  • (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...
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  • [[File:Maccari-Cicero.jpg|thumb|right|350px| Cicero denounces Catiline ... The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ...
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  • ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...
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  • , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations of ... musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ...
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  • name = Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | birth = October 15, 1844 (Röcken ... 1844 – August 25, 1900) is known as one of the main representatives of ...
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  • found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... Petroleum is used mostly, by volume, for producing fuel oil and gasoline ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... People'. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered ...
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  • " and he is credited as Francis on some of his early albums. His real ... a unified musical expression was a hallmark of his output. A thorough-going ...
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  • religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still practiced today ... that respect and honor the spiritual nature of every living being. Jainism ...
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  • :This article is about plasma in the sense of an ionized gas. The ... In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states ...
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  • 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...
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  • A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...
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  • Water polo is a team water sport that combines elements of swimming ... == Overview of Rules == Glossary of Water Polo :Note: Rules below reflect ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...
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  • Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...
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  • Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...
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  • Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America ... swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations ...
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  • May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir. The infiltration of ... The war represents one of the most recent examples of high altitude ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
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  • Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two ...
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  • The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh ... Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ...
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  • in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, stands at an average ... UNESCO designated the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram in 1984 ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...
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  • at its peak, with an estimated population of over 100 million people. The ... Eurasia, beginning with the conquests of Western Xia in north China ...
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  • The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...
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  • , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. between the government and the armed forces by creating repressive security ...
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  • A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... In the summer, the direction of rotation of the blades is set to blow ...
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  • Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...
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  • Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...
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  • El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... a prominent painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He ...
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  • | Image = [[Image:Pyramids of Egypt1.jpg|250px|The Giza Pyramids ... | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/86 }} The Giza Necropolis ...
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  • UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... its inception, it was largely paralyzed by the Cold War between the United ...
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  • The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first ... the Treaty is nonetheless the subject of heated debate. Many Māori ...
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  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...
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  • from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years ... transport; not only would the actual carving of each statue require effort ...
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  • 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... Until their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...
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  • a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...
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  • Kanji Kun'yomi (Japanese reading) of 定家, (1162 – September ... of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form ...
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  • poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...
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  • physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...
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  • William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...
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  • portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the ... often described as enigmatic. The ambiguity of the sitter's expression ...
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  • The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...
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  • quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... among the Geonim (early medieval Rabbis) and by Rishonim (later medieval Rabbis ...
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  • Hare Krishna movement, was founded in 1966 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ... are easily identified in Western nations by their distinctive appearance ...
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  • gifts in the folktale genre at the age of 40. While many of his earlier ... mother moved to St. Petersburg in the hope of securing a government pension ...
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  • ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District ... was both a provincial capital and a center of the world-wide muslin trade ...
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  • conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order ...
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  • between France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation ... newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern ...
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  • established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...
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  • An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...
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  • (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...
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  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...
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  • 69 and 96 C.E., encompassing the reigns of Vespasian (69–79 C.E.), and ... The reign of Titus was struck by multiple natural disasters, the most ...
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  • Asia, North Asia, and East Asia. Its name derives from Saint Cyril, ... Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...
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  • is the largest tree in the world in terms of total volume.]] Trees are the largest plants. They are not a single taxon (unit of ...
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  • in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...
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  • Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ... While Peck promoted a life of discipline, true love, and honest relationships ...
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  • French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... Like the Montagnards, they initially were part of the Jacobin movement ...
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  • Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses ... Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the "Town of Kansas" ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of ... Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ...
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  • Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...
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  • The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...
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  • Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied ...
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