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  • spelled vélo) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race]] old) is a collectible item desirable because of its age, rarity, condition ...
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  • thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... cravings, Tolstoy came to embrace a life of personal austerity based on ...
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  • in library and information science, which is the organization and management ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...
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  • 31, 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, ... made him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, ...
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  • Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...
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  • Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...
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  • painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ... The name Vorticism was given to the movement by Ezra Pound in 1913 ...
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  • May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was one of the foremost portrait and landscape ... He is recognized among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of ...
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  • important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and early 60s. ... Raised in Minnesota, Cochran moved with his family to California in ...
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  • Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair ... The lesson that he learned from his own career as a popular and much ...
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  • Typically, a fire extinguisher consists of a hand-held cylindrical pressure ... Fire extinguishers have been a major part of fire prevention. The ...
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  • 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... In addition to painting two United States presidents - Theodore Roosevelt ...
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  • institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...
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  • best known for his excavations of the Pyramids of Giza and other ... and other data that provide insight into the significantly advanced civilization ...
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  • an illustration by John Leech that satirizes the preparatory cartoons for frescoes ... A cartoon is a form of expression, or communication, that refers to ...
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  • The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Scholars distinguish the Old Academy (Plato and his immediate successors ...
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  • (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...
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  • Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...
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  • Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions ...
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  • Taejo of Goryeo (877-943, r. 918-943 Combining his rule of Taebong ... ), the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty, ruled Korea from the tenth to ...
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