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  • one's ancestors. It has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years ... varies within different regions of Japan. In modern Japan, it is held on ...
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  • Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...
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  • Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...
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  • his divine love for humanity. Depicted in Christian art as a heart shining ... existed to some extent since the Middle Ages in various mystical sects. ...
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  • Purchase, most of the land ceded by Britain in 1818, some of the land acquired ... The "West" played an important part in American history ...
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  • [[Image:Carl_Jung_(1912).png|right|thumb|200px|Carl Jung in 1912]] ideas. According to Jung, archetypes reside in the level of our unconscious ...
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  • Similar festivals are celebrated as Chuseok in Korea and Tsukimi in Japan ... * Zhōngqiū Jié (中秋节), is the official name in Mandarin. ...
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  • Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly ... of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. The total ...
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  • is among the most venomous creatures in the world. The name sea wasp ... waters, especially around Vietnam, Hawaii, Australia, and the Philippines ...
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  • anecdotes and a section that predicts trends in fashion, food, home décor ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...
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  • ). Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on ... In modern times, cairns are often erected as landmarks or as navigational ...
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  • territory of the United States, located in the South Pacific Ocean southeast ... American Samoa is a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, located ...
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  • Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... often have poor reputations, being featured in legends and mythology as portents ...
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  • , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... The use of "drama" in the narrow sense to designate a specific ...
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  • and one of the four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with ... which are either all-black or very dark in coloration, are known as black ...
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  • ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... skills of speech, song, dance, and combat in movements that are symbolic ...
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  • (1783) after the defeat of British forces in the Revolutionary War. Its ... considered essential by plantation owners in the South, was reluctantly ...
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  • Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto Yoritomo in 1192. The Gempei War thus lies ... #039; (平). The conflict is also known in Japanese as the Jishō-Juei ...
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  • famous versions, such as stories of Matsya in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion ... deny that there was ever a single deluge in the last 6,000 years that covered ...
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  • 30 meters tall and is extensively cultivated in tropical climates. It is one ... "meat" or endosperm), which in turn surrounds the hollow, ...
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