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  • included parts of present-day Iran, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey. the planting of the first cereal crops, and the development of cursive ...
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  • accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger ... social entertainment at feasts, festive and harvest gatherings, parades ...
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  • long-chain hydrocarbons are more viscous, and the longest chains are paraffin ... Petroleum is used mostly, by volume, for producing fuel oil and gasoline ...
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  • Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early ... technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including ...
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  • partner dances, which are enjoyed socially and engaged in competitively around ... the foxtrot is a purely American creation, and the tango is known to have ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... tribes who lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde in what later was to ...
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  • known for its significant artistic, social, and political transformations ... Asuka period, borrowing systems of political and social organization from China ...
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  • theologian, missionary, church leader and bishop who served as the last ... that bishops, symbolizing unity of faith and practice, can gather previously ...
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  • ethics, aesthetics, political organization and culture, and was not practiced ... related to conceptual components of language and logic, and generally involves ...
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  • on by the Russian Civil War (1919-1922) and the failures of the policy ... which had suffered severely due to war and revolution since 1915. The ...
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  • author, naturalist, pacifist, philosopher, and transcendentalist. Like his ... narrative prose. He is best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience, but wrote ...
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  • whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence ... , a poet living a life outside or against society. Abuse of drugs and alcohol ...
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  • on the Pacific coast south of Washington and north of California. Nevada ... western Oregon is the most densely populated and agriculturally productive ...
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  • that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...
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  • is derived from the Greek tomos (slice) and graphein (to write). ... which uses a CT scanner to study biological and paleontological specimens. ...
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  • theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the ... him, Hawking pursued his research vigorously and unceasingly for over half ...
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  • 1629) which stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of Southern ... across a large territory for a century and a half. It represents a pre ...
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  • nutrients obtained through the diet and essential in small amounts ... Vitamins can act both as catalysts and participants in the chemical ...
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  • it includes conditions of microgravity and hard vacuum. that cannot be readily reproduced on Earth, and potentially hazardous processes ...
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  • history traditionally refers to the study and interpretation of the written ... ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that ...
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