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  • Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists ...
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  • A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ...
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  • At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by the Allied Powers, led by the United States with contributions also from ...
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  • A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in the frottola, and was also ...
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  • The Battle of Quebec, also known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, was a pivotal battle in the North American theatre of the Seven Years ...
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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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  • Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32 ...
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  • Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 C.E. which offer advice on ...
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  • Spruce, Western red cedar, Western Hemlock, Douglas-fir, and yew, and are thought to have been the greatest concentration of the largest of these trees ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Cushing, Frank Hamilton [[Image:Frank Hamilton Cushing.jpg|thumb|250 px|Frank Hamilton ...
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  • Category:Public Anthony, Susan B. [[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan B. Anthony ...
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  • Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States after 1876 requiring the separation of ...
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  • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...
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  • Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896), was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (August 14, 1892 – October 15, 1988) was a prolific British composer, music journalist, essayist ...
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  • Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer ...
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  • Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan GCMG, MBE, Hilal-i-Jurat, NPk, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and ...
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  • Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal ...
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