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  • 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...
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  • Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...
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  • Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...
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  • basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National ... Russell is widely considered one of the best defensive players in ...
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  • [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...
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  • prominence as a war correspondent during the first World War. He and his ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...
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  • Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...
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  • The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is ... The idea is that his image was somehow recorded as a photographic ...
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  • Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation ... Hospice care in the United States is largely defined by the practices ...
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  • New Year's, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...
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  • :This article is about the English engineer. {{Infobox Person ... engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line ...
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  • was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...
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  • pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into ... A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...
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  • Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major ...
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  • Romanesque architecture is the term that describes the architecture ... has very regular and symmetrical plans. The overall appearance is of simplicity ...
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  • South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...
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  • Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters ... in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s, and rose to fame ...
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  • Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taino inhabitants named the island ...
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  • naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...
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