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  • of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, then a town of 1,800, that the controversy ... hot for Genesis." He mocked the town's inhabitants as "yokels ...
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  • Humphrey spent most of his youth in the small town of Doland, South Dakota, on the Dakota prairie. His father was the town pharmacist and a community ...
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  • Sicily, only to come back and die in his home town. His sarcophagus was discovered at the foot of the tower in 1820. The tower first acquired ...
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  • born on a plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, a tiny town located about 22 miles east of Natchez, in Franklin County. Wright's family soon moved to ...
    9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
  • #039;s camp outside Janos while the men were in town trading. Among those dead were Geronimo's wife, children and mother. His chief, Mangas Coloradas ...
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  • became the responsibility of the local town or county. This responsibility ... famous American orphanage is Girls and Boys Town, located outside of Omaha ...
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  • Hunan ( c=湖南 |p=Húnán ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its position south of Lake Dongting provides ...
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  • for his entry to the Ecole du Genie in the town of Mezieres in 1760. ===Professional career and early research=== After graduating in 1761, he ...
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  • a famine obliges Isaac to retire to the Philistine town of Gerar, where Abimelech was king. God appears to Isaac and establishes His covenant with him ...
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  • Ucayali River, just below the provincial town of Nauta, to form the mighty ... 12,000 inhabitants, including slaves. The town of Manaus at the mouth of ...
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  • Londinium was a relatively new town, founded after the conquest of ... Manduessedum (Mancetter), near the modern day town of Atherstone in ...
    18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
  • stone throwing comes from the small town of Bingen on the Rhine, where ... the Wesley family in 1716, in the small town of Epworth, Lincolnshire in ...
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  • Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress, Marie. Woyzeck ...
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  • old. They then moved to Sequoya County, near the town of Hanson, in the Cookson Hills section of Oklahoma, in 1911, when Floyd was around 11 years old. ...
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  • and his entourage were settled in the town of Tekirdağ (Rodostó in ... Rákóczi lived in the Turkish town of Rodosto for 22 years. He adopted ...
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  • after his defeat, and then exiled to Cape Town. The British passed rule of ... of the Zulu and Neighbouring Tribes. Cape Town, ZA: C. Struik, 1964. ...
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  • 1932 and is interred in the Paiute Cemetery in the town of Schurz. ==Early life== Wovoka was born in the Smith Valley area of western Nevada around ...
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  • of their actions to the public library of every town with 5,000 people or more. ===Monaco=== In Monaco, four copies of locally produced books ...
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  • group of banished dissenters founded the town of Pocasset, renamed Portsmouth ... Elementary schools, such as in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island ...
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  • derived from Chennapatnam, the name of the town that grew up around Fort St ... the Chola, the Pandya, and Vijaynagar. The town of Mylapore, now part of Chennai ...
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