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  • Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...
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  • The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... The far-reaching reforms enacted by the Council impacted virtually ...
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  • include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), and Guglielmo Tell ... Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town ...
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  • Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal ... The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, ...
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  • the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...
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  • | name = Michael Crichton | image = | pseudonym = John ... genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have ...
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  • central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...
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  • The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...
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  • largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...
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  • ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...
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  • - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ...
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  • in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the south ... is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest ...
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  • ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ... his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes ... " meaning electric, from the name of the Italian physicist Volta ...
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  • [[Image:Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.jpg|thumb|200px ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ...
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  • ) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...
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