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  • physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...
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  • Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...
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  • May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...
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  • an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, ...
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  • The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... ruler Charles the Simple had allowed a group of Vikings, under their leader ...
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  • Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...
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  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of ...
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  • , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...
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  • The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...
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  • a frame. The basic shape and configuration of a typical bicycle's frame ... since been made, especially since the advent of modern materials and computer ...
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  • partnership with Lionel Richie. One of the best-selling music artists ... National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the ...
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  • , was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary positions ... was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle, Denmark to ...
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  • Ahmose I (sometimes written Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning ... During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos ...
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  • British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ... As a logical positivist, Ayer narrowed the sphere of philosophical ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...
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  • [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...
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  • The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...
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  • Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...
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  • 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging ...
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  • David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...
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