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  • Shangdi (上帝, pinyin: Shàngdì, Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:George_Gershwin_1937.jpg|thumb|right|250px|George Gershwin in 1937.]] George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11 ...
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  • Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United ...
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  • In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. It is chemically and mechanically different from underlying ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|right|300px|The tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere.]] The lithosphere (from the ...
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  • Antonio Genovesi (November 1, 1712 – September 22, 1769) was an Italian philosopher and political economist who played a pivotal role in modernizing ...
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  • Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented ...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United ...
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  • Parvati (Sanskrit: from Parvata, meaning "mountain") is a Hindu goddess married to Shiva (the ascetic god of destruction). She is ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person in the time period between ...
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  • Gull is the common name for any of the aquatic birds comprising the family Laridae, characterized by long and narrow wings, strong bills that ...
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  • The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Starr, Ellen Gates [[Image:Hullhouse.jpg|thumb|Hull House community workshop poster, 1938]] ...
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  • Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本 龍馬, Sakamoto Ryōma) (January 3, 1836 - December 10, 1867) was a Japanese imperial loyalist whose effort to forge ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A Comprehensive school is a secondary educational institution that teaches an inclusive ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in ...
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  • Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834—August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German zoologist best known ...
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  • The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...
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  • Fauvism got both its start and its name at a 1905 exhibition held at the Paris Salon d'Automne where it was heralded as a new style under ...
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  • Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the ...
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