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  • The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often ...
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  • The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...
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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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  • An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...
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  • Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the easternmost region of the continent, composed of two distinct regions: ...
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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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  • Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...
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  • The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded by Lawrence Lessig in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works ...
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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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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Economics Market research is the process of systematic gathering, recording ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :Arawak redirects here [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Tejon Serrano.jpg|thumb|200 px|A Tejon Serrano]] ...
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  • South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: ...
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  • A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Mariette, Auguste [[Image:Auguste Mariette statue, Boulogne ...
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  • The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...
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  • The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...
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  • Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...
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  • The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...
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  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh). It defines not just the books of the Jewish canon, but also the precise ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest ...
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  • Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg ...
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  • The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international soccer competition contested by the men's national soccer teams ...
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  • Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader ...
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  • The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican religion that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia ...
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  • An air bag, also known as an Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) or Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), is an automobile safety device that ...
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  • Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of enlightened rule”) (November 3, 1852 – July 30, 1912) was the 122nd imperial ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...
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  • Carrie Amelia Nation, later Carry A. Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...
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  • In horticulture, cultivar refers to a group of plants of the same species that have been selected, maintained through cultivation, and given ...
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  • The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as the Great War) began on October 10, 1868. On this date, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...
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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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  • Category:Sociologists Mills, C. Wright Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist. His writings addressed ...
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  • Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962) was an Austria-born American violinist and composer. Noted for his sweet tone and expressive ...
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  • Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...
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  • Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...
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  • The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from October 23 ...
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  • Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings Originally "van Dijck," with the "IJ" digraph, in Dutch. Anthony is the English ...
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  • Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...
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  • Pulakesi II (Kannada: ಇಮ್ಮಡಿ ಪುಲಿಕೇಶಿ) (r. 610 - 642 C.E.) reigned over the Chalukyas of Badami an Indian royal dynasty ...
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  • A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together ...
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  • Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...
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  • A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened ...
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  • Lake Huron, bounded on the west by Michigan, USA, and on the east by Ontario, Canada, is the third largest (by volume) of the the five Great ...
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  • Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning ...
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  • A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set ...
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  • Category:Public Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth, in which all beings are ensnared, according to the Indian ...
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  • John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...
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  • The Atacama Desert of Chile covers the northern third of the country stretching more than 600 miles (1,000km), and straddles the southern border ...
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  • Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...
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  • Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given as 1250 and 1246), also known as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian ...
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  • Ubuntu ùbúntú , is a traditional African concept. The word ubuntu comes from the Zulu and Xhola languages, and can be roughly translated as ...
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  • Bethel (בית אל, "House of God")—also written as Beth El or Beth-El—was an ancient Israelite town, located about ten miles ...
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  • Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province of Manitoba located in Western Canada. The metropolis is located near the ...
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  • Barley is any annual cereal grass of the genus Hordeum, and in particular the species Hordeum vulgare. The term also is used for the edible grain ...
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  • David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973) was the first and third prime minister of Israel. A tough and uncompromising leader ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Gosvāmī Tulsīdās (1532 — 1623; Devanāgarī: तुलसीदास) was an Awadhi poet and philosopher. He was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ...
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  • The dizi ( c=笛子]]|p=dízi ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also sometimes known as the di (笛) or hengdi ...
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  • In logic, a theorem is formally meant to be a formula that can be transformed by applying inferential rules to axioms in a deductive system. ...
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  • A compass (or mariner's compass) is a navigational instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized pointer free ...
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  • The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 ...
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  • The Shimabara Rebellion|島原の乱|Shimabara no ran was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in 1637–1638 during the ...
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  • Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians, brought this form of music into the American ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Earth Western Hemisphere.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Increasingly the ...
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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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  • An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials and help attach them together. The state of attachment is known as adhesion ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Atsugewi |image = ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:BCCYMCA Waterfront.JPG|thumb|250 px|Students and fathers at "Dads' ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox Engineer |name = Thomas Telford |nationality = British |birth_date =1757|8|9,|mf=y ...
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  • Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern East Africa. A former colony of Italy, it fought a thirty-year war with ...
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  • Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims ...
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  • Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered ...
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  • Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...
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  • The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country consists of three islands in the volcanic ...
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  • Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...
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  • New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only constitutionally bilingual province ...
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  • The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life ...
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  • The Rus' Khaganate (sometimes called Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, or Novgorod Rus) was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period ...
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  • A carcinogen is any substance or agent that can cause cancer. A carcinogen can be a chemical, radiation, radionuclide (an atom with an unstable ...
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  • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 The year of his birth is also given as 1877, the date which appears on his gravestone. Robinson ...
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  • Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...
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  • The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 and 1707 by, respectively, the Parliament of England and the Parliament of ...
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  • Cycads (division Cycadophyta) are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk ...
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  • Diethyl ether, also known as ether and ethoxyethane, is a clear, colorless, and highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and a characteristic ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Biometrics.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken from the fingers of multi-day pass ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Morgan, Lewis H. [[Image:Morgan.jpg|thumb|140px|Lewis H. Morgan]] Lewis Henry Morgan ...
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  • The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science [http://travel.nytimes.com/travel ...
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  • The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest ...
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  • Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...
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  • Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...
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  • The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...
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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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  • A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation) by humans to catch and/or process, normally for sale, fish, shellfish ...
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  • Millennialism or millenarianism is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ will establish a kingdom on earth ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the ...
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  • Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "The Big Train," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major ...
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  • Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859 – died April 19, 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity ...
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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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  • The Belmont Report is an influential, eight-page document that identifies basic ethical principles and corresponding applications for the conduct ...
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  • Tao Qian ( c=陶潛|p=Táo Qián|w=T'ao Ch'ien (365 – 427), also known as Tao Yuanming (陶淵明), born in Xunyang Chaishang (九江; ...
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  • The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right ...
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  • Saint Andrew (first century C.E.) (Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas, "manly, brave"), called Protocletos, or the First-called in the ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Eisenhower in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|300px|President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned the U.S. about the "military–industrial ...
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  • Vanilla is the common name and genus name for a group of vine-like, evergreen, tropical, and sub-tropical plants in the orchid family (orchidaceae ...
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  • Frederick Earl Sontag (October 2, 1924 – June 14, 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He taught at ...
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  • KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language abbreviation for Комитет государственной безопасности ...
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  • Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...
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  • Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. It is one of the oldest human-made foods ...
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  • Telugu (తెలుగు; ['t̪elʊgʊ] ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the official language of the Indian ...
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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 Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to ...
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  • The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature ...
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  • is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by its ...
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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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  • Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: महाजनपद, Mahājanapadas) literally "Great Kingdoms" (from Maha, "great," and Janapada ...
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  • category:image wanted Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist ...
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  • Central America [[Image:CentAmerica1.gif|200px|Map of Central America]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: ...
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  • category:image wanted Gospel literally translated means "good news," deriving from the Old English "god-spell" translated ...
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  • Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...
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  • Category:life sciences Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Melon jambon cru.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...
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  • In biology, tapeworms or cestodes comprise a class (Cestoda) of ribbon–like endoparasitic flatworms that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:The Maiden dsc05364.jpg|thumb|right|The Maiden, an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design ...
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  • Category:Public Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to religious belief systems that accept the existence of many gods ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Frazer, James [[File:JamesGeorgeFrazer.jpg|300px|right|James George Frazer]] ...
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  • The New Economic Policy (NEP) ( новая экономическая политика (НЭП)|r=novaya ekonomicheskaya politika ) was an economic ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...
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  • Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson CBE (September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hermann Hesse ( [ˈhɛr.man ˈhɛ̞.sɘ] ) (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a Nobel Prize–winning German-Swiss novelist and poet. Hesse ...
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  • Antonio Francesco Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian Marxist writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political ...
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  • The Battle of Agincourt (IPA pronunciation: [/ɑːʒɪn'kuːʁ/] ) was fought on October 25, 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern ...
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  • Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader ...
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  • Mehmed VI, original name in Turkish Latin alphabet Mehmed Vahdettin (January 14, 1861 – May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman ...
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  • Edward Herbert Thompson (September 28, 1857 - May 18, 1935) Different sources give various years for his birth: 1956, 1957, and 1960. ...
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  • The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was the period of Queen Victoria's rule from June 1837 to January 1901. ...
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  • A koan (pronounced /ko.an/ Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally ...
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  • Jaisalmer Jaisalmer.ogg|pronunciation (Hindi: जैसालमेर), nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ...
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  • The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial rule over France (1805–1815). They ...
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  • Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended ...
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  • Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman who, along with John Dalton and Jöns Jakob Berzelius, is ...
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  • The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...
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  • Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two ...
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  • The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ) (1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in ...
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  • Apple Inc., ( AAPL ) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics ...
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  • Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II. The operation was canceled when Japan ...
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  • Tin (chemical symbol Sn, atomic number 50) is a silvery, malleable metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. It is obtained ...
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  • James Ewell "Jeb" Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States ...
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  • The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey, dedicated to Artemis, the Greek goddess ...
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  • Bhaskara (1114 – 1185), also known as Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya ("Bhaskara the teacher"), was an Indian mathematician and ...
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  • Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. Edutainment ...
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  • Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860) – (May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime ...
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  • A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and who incorporate some type of marching or other movement ...
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  • Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera, better known as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the ...
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  • Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright ...
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  • Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified Chinese: 红楼梦; pinyin: Hónglóu mèng), also known as A Dream of Red ...
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  • Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon of Olympian gods. He held jurisdiction over Mount Olympus, as well as ...
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  • Waseda University (早稲田大学, Waseda daigaku), often abbreviated to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan. Founded ...
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  • Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as ...
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  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 – December 14, 1947) was a British statesman and was elected three times ...
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  • Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...
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  • The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), ...
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  • The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the ...
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  • Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. Known for his humorous personality, Johnson ...
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  • The Nuzhen or Jurchens ( t=女眞|s=女真|p=nǚzhēn ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast China) until the ...
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  • The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that ...
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  • In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or a higher taxonomic unit (taxon), such as a phylum or class. The ...
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  • Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, that provides a perceptual experience ...
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  • The Corn Laws were import tariffs designed to support domestic British corn (in Britain, the term "corn" means "grain" (the ...
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  • The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of the Ottoman parliament by Sultan the Abdul Hamid II, who abdicated, marking ...
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  • Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized by simple, hand-formed bowls, low firing temperatures resulting ...
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  • Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (September 9, 1585 – December 4, 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and ...
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  • Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...
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  • Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...
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  • The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 ...
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  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[image:john.gower.southwark.london.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The effigial monument ...
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  • According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus following Jesus ...
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  • African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. In attributing philosophical ideas to philosophers of ...
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  • Sub-Roman Britain is a term derived from an archaeologists' label for the material culture of Britain in Late Antiquity. "Sub-Roman ...
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  • Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country ...
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  • Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian ...
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  • Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner (February 19, 1953 - ), commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner, is a lawyer and ...
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara Desert. Geographically, the ...
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  • Patrick "Pat" Floyd Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 28, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who ...
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  • Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק Yiẓḥaq Arabic: إسحٰق, ʾIsḥāq ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham ...
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  • Category:Psychology Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal Poltergeists, their name derived from the ...
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  • The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses' absence on Mount Sinai ...
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  • Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author ...
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  • John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the most innovative and versatile American artists of the nineteenth century. ...
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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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  • David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is widely credited with ...
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  • Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus ...
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  • Basidiomycota is a major division (or phyla) of the kingdom Fungi, whose members typically are characterized by the presence of a basidium, a ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union. The plan ...
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  • Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine ...
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  • Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family A dowry is a gift of money or valuables ...
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  • West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding on May 24 ...
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  • The Chalukya dynasty (Kannada: ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯರು ʧaːɭukjə ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ...
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  • Saint Maximus the Confessor (also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople) (c. 580 - August 13, 662 C.E.) was a Christian ...
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  • Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost figures ...
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  • Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving proper credit. It ...
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