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  • Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...
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  • 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... of Unoke, a farming village on the Sea of Japan, about twenty miles from ...
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  • The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...
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  • and "Ichiyusai Hiroshige") was one of the last great ukiyo-e (“pictures ... Impressionists and Post Impressionists, many of whom were influenced by his ...
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  • Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...
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  • carnivorous mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family, typically ... Originally, the name "weasel" was applied to one species ...
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  • was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, and one of ... Born the son of an insignificant daimyo in Owari province, near present ...
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  • may also be used for a canal or a flow of water—for consumption, for ... the construction in the twentieth century of such undersea tunnels as the ...
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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... after the Japanese defeat and at the onset of the Chinese Civil War. The ...
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  • in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...
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  • Most commonly, rivers flow on the surface of the land, but there are also ... ==Origins of river water== A river may have its source in a spring ...
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  • artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is ... Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. Before its opening ...
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  • Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of ... and the Philippines and probably the Sea of Japan/East Sea, then migrate ...
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  • in 1558 when T'oegye was at the peak of his notoriety. However T'oegye ... Xi's Thought in Korea and set the path of Korean Neo-Confucianism leading ...
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  • is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...
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  • In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along ... the steam engine was the dominant form of locomotive power through the ...
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  • Hawaii and Australia. With the exception of tiny Vatican City, Tuvalu has ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...
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  • Scallop is the common name for any of the marine bivalve mollusks ... Scallops constitute a cosmopolitan family, found in all of the world ...
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  • An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...
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