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  • Category:Image wanted Sayyid Abul Ala al-Maududi (Urdu: سيد ابو الاعلى مودودی, Arabic: سيد أبو الأعلى المودودي; ...
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  • Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced ...
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  • Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. Lamour began her ...
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  • William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Image wanted [[Image:John t scopes.jpg|thumb|200px|John T. Scopes]] The Scopes Trial ...
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  • Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in the southern part of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers ...
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  • Beirut ( بيروت , Bayrūt, Greek: Βηρυττός Viryttós, Beyrouth , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. The ...
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  • Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often ...
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  • (born Kimitake Hiraoka, 平岡 公威) (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and playwright, famous for both his nihilistic ...
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  • Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles (468 sq. km.), it is about half ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image = [[Image:Dartmouth ...
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  • Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth Pope of the Roman ...
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  • Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare concerning two young "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played ...
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  • com/archive/opinions/1991/04/14/sex-spies-and-literature/77b162a4-2d48-4d5c-8dc6-3c44e9ebebd0/ Sex, Spies and Literature] The Washington Post ...
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  • Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929—January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award winning actress, a favorite leading lady during an era when the Golden Years ...
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  • The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated notably by the Chinese and Vietnamese people. Similar festivals are celebrated as Chuseok ...
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  • Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all ...
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  • Aspasia (c. 470 B.C.E. - 400 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἀσπασία ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous for her romantic ...
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  • The Malleus Maleficarum Translator Montague Summers consistently uses "the Malleus Maleficarum" (or simply "the Malleus") ...
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  • Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an immensely talented Italian Renaissance polymath: architect, anatomist ...
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  • Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...
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  • Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the ...
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  • Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic ...
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  • John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, America may refer to the nation of the United ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Norske nobelinstiutt 1.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.]] ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. The coast faces the Atlantic Ocean on the west, and Senegal ...
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  • Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in Western Africa. From its 32-mile (51 km) coastline on the Gulf of Guinea ...
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  • Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation on the east coast of Africa. The name is derived from Tanganyika, its area ...
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  • The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct ...
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  • Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म) and Vaidika-Dharma by most Hindus, is a worldwide religious tradition rooted ...
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  • William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, an ordained Southern Baptist minister. ...
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  • Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις—"creation," "beginning," "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral patterns unique to ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...
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  • of neurons and groups of neurons that perform sex-specific functions. In C. elegans, males have 383 neurons, while hermaphrodites have 302 neurons ...
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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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  • Category:Public Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 B.C.E. – December 7, 43 B.C.E.) Cicero was a Roman lawyer, statesman, philosopher and ...
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  • Many - see section below. Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying) vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers ...
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  • Roe v. Wade, 410|113|1973 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113 Jane ROE, et al., Appellants, v. Henry WADE] Legal Information ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_President | name=Gerald Ford | image name= Lt_Cmdr_Gerald_Ford_uniform_1945.jpg | order=38th President of the United States ...
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  • Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western ...
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  • For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. {{Infobox country | conventional_long_name ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[Image:Kvinde-emancipation.gif|thumb|right|260px|In the 1890s, when gender role ...
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  • Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/; locally [ˈkɛɲa]), officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa with its capital ...
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  • A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and equipment. The best-known ...
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  • Substance abuse, also known as Substance use disorder (SUD), and formerly as drug abuse, is use of a drug in amounts or by methods which are ...
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  • Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in the central part of southern Africa. Zambia covers an area of 752,614 square ...
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  • Binge drinking, or heavy episodic drinking, is drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of ...
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  • The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were followers of a controversial religious sect that flourished in the Languedoc ...
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  • Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (July 27, 1768 – July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday ( kɔʁdɛ|lang ), was a figure of the ...
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  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...
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  • Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an iconic American actress, singer and model. Decades after her death, she remains one of ...
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  • John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was a noted and highly accomplished American film director. Although most famous for westerns ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family The term polygamy ...
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  • Cyprus ( Κύπρος, Kýpros ; Kıbrıs ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, Kypriakí Dhimokratía ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |image=[[Image:Célèbes 6543a.jpg|none|300px]] ...
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  • Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam), Jawi: برني دارالسلام ), is a country located ...
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  • Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one of Japan's southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryūkyū ...
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  • Darjeeling (Nepali: दार्जीलिङ्ग, দার্জিলিং ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ...
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  • Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and as such, is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, ...
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  • James "Jim" Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead ...
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  • The Amish (Amisch or Amische) (IPA: ˈɑːmɪʃ ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and Canada (Ontario and Manitoba ...
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  • Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest island in the Caribbean Sea, after Cuba and Hispaniola, it is 146 (235 km) ...
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  • A monk (from Greek: monos meaning "alone") is a term denoting any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy ...
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  • Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to assess mental health problems, conduct and use scientific research to understand such ...
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  • Emma (c. 985–March 6, 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire), called Ælfgifu, was daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel) , are part of the Hebrew Bible), or Old Testament. They deal with beginnings ...
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  • Satire is a rhetorical strategy in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule ...
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  • Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals, characterized by a transparent, round, plate-like body of but a few ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...
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  • Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras) is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish ...
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  • The precautionary principle is the concept that establishes it is better to avoid or mitigate an action or policy that has the plausible potential ...
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  • Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...
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  • Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from April 22, 1509, until his ...
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  • Sikkim (Nepali: Sikkim.ogg|सिक्किम , also Sikhim) - a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. The least populous state ...
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  • The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787 ...
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  • Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. To its east and northeast, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka respectively; ...
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  • Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The country's name ...
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  • Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies ...
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  • Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) ( Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус|p=zʲɪnɐˈidə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ˈɡʲipʲɪus ...
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  • African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestors, were mostly indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is ...
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  • Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin) Though none of Chopin's family spelled their surname in the Polonized form ...
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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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  • Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for almost ...
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  • Médecins Sans Frontières (pronounced mɛtsɛ̃ sɑ̃ fʁɔ̃tjɛʁ), or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental ...
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  • Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and ...
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  • African dance occupies central place in cultures throughout the African continent, embodying energy and a graceful beauty flowing with rhythm ...
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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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  • Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE<!-- The award of Knight Bachelor carries the title of "Sir" and no post-nominal letters (see url ...
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  • 15, 2019 |url= https://mynewsla.com/crime/2017/07/07/sex-abuse-by-long-dead-michael-jackson-judge-rejects-lawsuit/first= Jenn |last= Selby |title= Michael ...
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  • Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe ...
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  • Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in ...
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  • This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division of Korea in the 1940s. See History of North Korea and History of South ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Military A war an armed conflict between nations or conflicting political ...
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  • Clinical Depression, also known as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), is a mental disorder characterized by pervasive low mood, low self-esteem ...
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  • Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages ...
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  • Christopher Columbus, commonly rendered in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón (1451 - May 20, 1506) was a Genoese-born navigator, explorer, and colonizer ...
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  • David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ...
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  • Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s. Its roots are firmly entrenched in hard rock bands ...
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  • The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East ...
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  • Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's ...
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  • Hippopotamus, or hippo, is the common name for a very large, semi-aquatic African mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, of the Hippopotamidae family ...
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  • Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born May 6, 1953) is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister from May 2, 1997 to June ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the "Red Planet ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline ...
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  • Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:John Calvin - Young.jpg|right|thumb|Young John Calvin]] John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian ...
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  • Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 – January 6, 1936), an American feminist, political activist, and journalist, became best known for her sympathetic ...
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  • Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (March 26, 1940 - ) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House ...
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  • Country music, the first half of Billboard's country and western music category, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in ...
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  • Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...
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  • Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous fish comprising the taxonomic group Selachimorpha (generally a superorder ...
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  • Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt) (May 6, 1775 – September 22, 1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in ...
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  • Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain ...
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  • Shimon Peres ( שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; August 2, 1923 – September 28, 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ...
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  • John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first ...
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  • Autism, formally called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by ...
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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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  • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his ...
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  • Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. After Earth's Moon, it is the brightest object in the ...
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  • Chennai (Tamil: சென்னை), formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, sits on the Coromandel Coast of ...
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  • The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. At its ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from gr|ψυχή, psyche ...
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  • Sir John Major KG CH PC ACIB (born March 29, 1943), is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the British ...
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  • Lilith (Hebrew he|לילית ) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual temptation ...
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  • Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist ...
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  • Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916), was one of the greatest prose writers in American literature. Enormously prolific, James ...
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  • Montreal (French: Montréal) It is most common to omit the acute accent in English-language usage (Montreal), unless one is using a proper name ...
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  • The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S.I." also called the "Jesuits") is a Roman Catholic religious ...
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  • The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ...
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  • Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło He is known under a number of names: la|Jogaila Algirdaitis; pl|Władysław II Jagiełło; be|Jahajła ...
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  • Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon (July 356 B.C.E. – June 10, 323 B.C.E.), commonly known in the West as Alexander the Great or Alexander ...
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  • The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is an island nation located in the Malay Archipelago in ...
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  • 3 (three) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...
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  • Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España ), is a country located in Southern Europe, with two small exclaves in North Africa ...
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  • Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese ...
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  • The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96 C.E., encompassing the reigns of Vespasian ...
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  • The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ...
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  • Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens - Millbank ...
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  • The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge , is an international humanitarian ...
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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. A premier representative of the ...
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  • Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. It is ranked as one of the most beautiful cities in the world ...
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  • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (or Walmart as written in its new logo) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department ...
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  • The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland ...
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  • Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess ...
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh (pronounced "Van'-bru") (January 24, 1664?–March 26, 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps ...
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  • William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete and religious figure who left a promising baseball career ...
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  • Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily ...
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  • Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660 to ...
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  • Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992, (ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪˌmɑv) , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian ...
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  • Violence is defined as "the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy." [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence ...
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  • This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Feofilaktovich and the family name is Pisemsky. {{Infobox Writer | name = Aleksey ...
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  • Baseball is a team sport popular in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Asia. The modern game was developed in the United States ...
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  • William Seward Burroughs II ( 1914|2|5 — 1997|8|2 ; ˈbʌroʊz ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs was an American novelist, essayist ...
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  • The actual exercise of the death penalty was fairly rare; only one sex-related crime, a 1642 incidence of bestiality by Thomas Granger, resulted ...
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  • Charlemagne (742 or 747 – January 28, 814) (also Charles the Great; His name in English, Charlemagne, is identical to the French language from ...
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  • Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous reptiles comprising the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia) of the order Squamata ...
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  • James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. Most of its population of 6.4 million ...
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  • Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...
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  • George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an American theater and film director, and theater, radio and film actor. He gained ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia and a part of the Middle East between the West ...
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  • Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes may be slight or large, but must ...
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  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ...
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  • The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was designed to address the failings ...
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  • Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such characters ...
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  • George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001 and re-elected in the 2004 ...
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  • Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, ...
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  • Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and ...
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  • Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific ...
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  • Dinosaurs are an extinct, diverse, largely terrestrial group of vertebrate animals of the Sauropsid orders Saurischia (lizard-hipped) and Ornithischia ...
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  • Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American ...
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  • The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah) and the Porrajmos in Romani, is the name applied to the systematic persecution ...
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  • Sun Myung Moon ( ko|문선명 , ko|文鮮明 ), (February 25, 1920 (lunar: January 6, 1920) – September 3, 2012), was born in North Pyeongan ...
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  • Muhammad ( محمد , also Arabic transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the ...
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  • The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply Shqipëria) is a Balkan country in south-eastern Europe. Its motto is ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a state located off the ...
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  • Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first ...
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  • Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; April 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from ...
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  • Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia in the middle ...
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  • Harold Pinter CH CBE (October 10, 1930 – December 24, 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner ...
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  • Chinua Achebe ( ˈtʃɪnwɑː ɑːˈtʃeɪbeɪ ), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist ...
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  • Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, bordering Russia, Romania and the Black Sea. From at least the ninth ...
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  • Cancer, or "malignant neoplasm," is a large category of almost one hundred diseases, characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells ...
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  • Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning ...
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  • Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. tourism UN Tourism defines tourism more generally ...
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  • Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, intense longing, rapturous devotion, somber contemplation, and endless debate ...
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  • Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. The land within the borders of today ...
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  • England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the ...
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  • France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world's third largest economy ...
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  • The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental ...
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