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  • Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison ... The Gulag system was officially disbanded in 1960. Memoirs of prisoners ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...
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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...
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  • scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Shanghai ... texts, including the first six chapters of Euclid’s Elements, into Chinese ...
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  • is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...
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  • The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...
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  • explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...
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  • Maine and Vermont were considered part of other colonies at the time ... freedom. Massachusetts was also one of the key colonies in the events ...
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  • Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...
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  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...
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  • A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...
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  • Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...
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  • Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...
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  • [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los ... Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ...
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  • Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...
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  • A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that ... The history of the flag dates back to at least Roman times. The study ...
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  • Hawaii and Australia. With the exception of tiny Vatican City, Tuvalu has ... == Geography == Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true ...
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  • A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population ... and social development. In spite of the much greater technological ...
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  • Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...
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  • This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...
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