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  • ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... site became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone ...
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  • that people require the positive influence of teachers and ritual praxis ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...
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  • turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...
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  • The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...
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  • 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...
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  • [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...
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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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  • birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. Sanger attended ...
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  • crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of Apollo 11 as they circled the ... = astron + nomos, literally, "law of the stars") is the science ...
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  • Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from ... The Book of Exodus presents some of the Bible's most dramatic ...
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  • converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books on a wide ... at the Sorbonne led him to the position of scientific materialism. Later ...
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  • in Giorgio Vasari's Vite (Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied ... Alberti was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the ...
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  • the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...
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  • An endangered species is any animal or plant species that is in danger ... for anything or anyone that is in danger of dying out, such as "conservatives ...
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  • and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...
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  • has been used by economists since in defense of free trade. The main underlying ... years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his father's parents. ...
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  • Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 ... Marcilius was one of the first to apply the methods of Aristotelian ...
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  • teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...
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  • Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ... crime and ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of society. The ...
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  • , was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the ... this same story in poetic form, and it is thought to have been composed in ...
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