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  • Truman García Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels, and plays are recognized ...
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...
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  • Kazi Nazrul Islam ( কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম ) (May 25, 1899 — August 29, 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary ...
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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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  • Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. He initially came ...
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  • Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director ...
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  • Orvon 'Gene' Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American cowboy singer and actor who gained fame as the first "Singing ...
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  • The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's ...
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife of the celebrated pilot Charles Lindbergh who completed the first solo ...
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  • Anne Brontë ( ˈbrɒnti ) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ...
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  • Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (The Glaciers) is a national park in Santa Cruz Province, located in southern Argentina or Patagonia. Established ...
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  • Graphite is one of the two common but distinctively different forms or allotropes of carbon, the other being diamond. Graphite holds the distinction ...
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  • The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was a federal agency that was formed during ...
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  • Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Politics and social sciences Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something that is lewd or indecent ...
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  • A detergent is a chemical compound or mixture of compounds used as a cleaning agent. A soap is a cleaning agent that is composed of one or more ...
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  • Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic ...
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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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  • The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny ...
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