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  • The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... Among the instrumental groups of definite pitch in the modern symphony ...
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  • The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...
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  • Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a "bee") is ... interact with nature. In order to receive the product of honeybees, or their ...
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  • The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period ...
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  • between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. His ... Bruno Walter is ranked among the twentieth century's greatest ...
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  • was a major Russian playwright and perhaps the foremost modern writer of ... for his several hundred short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces ...
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  • writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...
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  • Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh ... During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos ...
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  • [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at ... A tea house or tearoom is a venue designed for people to gather for ...
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  • , also known as brussels sprout (without the capital B) and brussel sprout ... in Europe, has resulted in diverse cultivars of Brussels sprouts, selected ...
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  • novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...
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  • Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... The Śiśunāga dynasty ruled Magadha for more than two hundred years ...
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  • UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...
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  • Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...
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  • Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English term for a general variety ... Curry originated on the Indian subcontinent, but was carried by emigrants ...
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  • Khachaturian made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then a part ...
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  • The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...
    16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
  • Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...
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  • novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...
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  • was a renowned Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he ...
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