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  • 1557, the Emperor Jiajing (嘉靖帝, the 12th emperor), ordered the transcription ... reign of the Emperor Jiajing (嘉靖帝 the 12th emperor), the Encyclopedia ...
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  • India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century (Pearson Education, 2009 ... India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century. Pearson Education, 2009 ...
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  • made up Bradley's new command, the 12th Army Group. By August, the ... River Elbe in mid-April. By V-E Day, the 12th Army Group was a force of ...
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  • on a global scale until the nineteenth century, the idea of public education ... success, but by the late eighteenth century the physical extent of some ...
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  • plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with ...
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  • until developments in the late nineteenth century with Gottlob Frege and Bertrand ... *Copi, Irving M., and Carl Cohen. Introduction to Logic (12th ed. ...
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  • an ancestor of the Kara-Khitans, 10-12th century CE.]] ... From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh Century China Sung's Foreign ...
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  • Apsaras dance on a stone pillar in the 12th century temple called the Bayon ... counted more than 1,860 at the twelfth Century monument, some carved on ...
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  • Suffolk, in the course of the fourteenth century, and members of it occasionally ... In 1771, he was again sent to Germany, this time for duty with the ...
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  • Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ... had occurred by the beginning of the tenth century C.E., a couple of centuries ...
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  • in the first half of the nineteenth century. Hudson's Bay Company ... In the nineteenth century, Yukon was a segment of the Hudson Bay Company ...
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  • Mount Sinai. However, in the fourth century, under the Byzantine Empire ... (French Calvinists) in 1583 during its 12th National Synod: ...
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  • later than Thutmose's own death in his 12th regnal year.Gardiner, 1964 ... had been built under Sesostris III of the 12th Dynasty—to be dredged in ...
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  • won international renown during the past century, brought to the world's ... and botanists in literature for over a century and in Hindu mythology for ...
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  • largest electoral successes in the twentieth century. Gill Bennett ... * Pons, Silvio, and Robert Service (eds.). A Dictionary of 20th-Century ...
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  • quot; (or living Imam), since the 12th Imam of the majority of Shi'a, who went into "occultation" in 940 C.E. is referred to as ...
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  • composer, one of five great nineteenth-century Russian composers known ... permeated Russian culture of the late 19th century. Though Tchaikovsky was ...
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  • European explorers arrived in the eleventh century. French colonists established ... since the middle of the twentieth century. Fishing, mining, forestry ...
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  • Pagan to Christian: The Story in the 12th-Century Tapestry of the Skog Church.]] ... * Leiren, Terje I. From Pagan to Christian: The Story in the 12th ...
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  • Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African ... African continent, when by the fourteenth century they had established a system ...
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  • defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the ... the deadliest earthquake in the twentieth century and resulted in over 240 ...
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  • book of poems, and spanned much of the nineteenth century. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult ...
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  • However, during D-Day, several tank units, notably the 12th SS Panzer ... and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century. Penguin Group, 2006. ISBN ...
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  • some did not comply, but Alastair MacIain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, waited until ... and Campbells—since the late twentieth century the Clachaig Inn, a hotel ...
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  • gradually set in from about the second century B.C.E. For written texts ... of the Rigveda are dated from the eleventh century. The Vedic period ...
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  • raised four daughters and one son, Henry, the 12th Viscount. ... it hope to survive into the twentieth century. Lieven states, that as ...
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  • Revolutionary-Military Committee on October 12th. Dzerzhinsky was a member ... *Nenarokov, Albert P. Russia in the Twentieth Century. New York: William ...
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  • Robert Service, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard ... "Year of the Great Break: Toward the 12th Anniversary of October" ...
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  • The seventeenth century historian Bernabé Cobo said of the plaza: ... in Lima during the early twentieth century. It is located on land originally ...
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  • Europe, especially from the twelfth century to the nineteenth century ... (French) half-timbered buildings date from the 12th century. ...
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  • invasion of the country in the eighth century. However, a more popular ... At the end of the seventeenth century the vihuela was slowly replaced ...
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  • the city's development. By the ninth century C.E. the city had become ... day Tunis, was founded in the ninth century B.C.E. by settlers from Tyre. ...
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  • which did not survive into the twentieth century. While four teams from the ... L. and the 11 teams formed a new N.L.; the 12th team would be whichever of ...
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  • would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations from ... [[Image:Diagrammatic T-O world map - 12th century.jpg|thumb|The medieval ...
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  • – September 15, 1938) was a twentieth century American novelist and short ... brain. An attempt to operate on September 12th revealed that the entire right ...
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  • Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ... island in Indonesia and is the world's 12th largest island with an area ...
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  • until the beginning of the twentieth century, that is, they were hostile ... from London. He departed the morning of the 12th, gathering what available ...
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  • and Zhejiang, mostly in the second century B.C.E., only to be stopped ... After the Han Dynasty collapsed at the end of the second century ...
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  • the great international statesmen of this century. I have never seen such ... Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Penguin Books ...
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  • *Rees-Moog, William. "Time the mandarins joined the 21st century." The Times. October 30, 2000. *Swan, Conrad. "The forgotten babies ...
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  • Haeinsa serves as the head temple of the 12th Diocese of the Korean Buddhist ... hermitage in the late twentieth century. Far from serving as solely ...
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  • carnival and parody traditions of the twelfth century, Boureau (1988) ... pope exists from earlier than the mid-12th century, almost exactly four hundred ...
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  • In the twelfth century, King Richard the Lionheart enclosed the White ... A Royal Menagerie was established at the Tower in the thirteenth century ...
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  • Beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century, Lusaka became ... In the 12th century, waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants arrived. In ...
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  • various individuals from the seventeenth century, it developed as an intellectual ... broke out shortly after noon of the 12th, and the week-long scuffles ...
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  • at the beginning of the twentieth century, is Dallas's other ... Before Texas was claimed in the sixteenth century as a part of New ...
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  • for the building of the Panama Canal over a half-century later. Under Taylor´s administration, the United States Department of the Interior was ...
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  • in either the eleventh or the thirteenth century, when the city converted ... The first mosque on the site was built in the thirteenth century, ...
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  • quarter but for the rest of the nineteenth century it never reached within ... * Morley, J. The Life of Richard Cobden, 12th edition. London: T. ...
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  • By the thirteenth century, many European towns were demanding that ... has its origins in the eighteenth century, when surgeons were barber ...
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  • their Christianity. In the twentieth century, some Egyptian nationalists ... and the Muslims remained through the 12th century, such as the 1176 revolt ...
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  • pancakes on Shrove Tuesday dates to the sixteenth century. ... de Bienville, in the late seventeenth century, when King Louis XIV sent ...
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  • likely written during the fifth century, contained authoritative ... Johannes Goropius Becanus in the sixteenth century and Athanasius Kircher in ...
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  • city of Dubrovnik by the end of the eleventh century. Positioned at ... Ragusa and Dubrava was reclaimed in the 12th century, unifying the city around ...
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  • clay tablets in the library of the seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal ... and publicized in the nineteenth century. Utnapishtim's story ...
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  • manufacturing industry. In the twentieth century, Sweden emerged as a welfare ... [[Image:Scandinavia-12th century.png|thumb|right|300px|Kingdoms of ...
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  • Han Dynasty in the beginning of the third century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional ... China at the beginning of the fourth century began nearly three centuries ...
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  • he obtained a commission as ensign in the 12th Foot of the the Suffolk Regiment ... was lain out in the early years of the twentieth century. ...
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  • are foreign texts dating from the ninth century. Three others are East Slavic ... Ahmad ibn Rustah, a tenth century Muslim geographer from Persia, wrote ...
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  • major centre. The empire in the nineteenth century is often referred to as ... increased in power during the nineteenth century. The Sultan is chosen by ...
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  • The South Korean economy is now the 12th largest economy in the world ... dynasties, emerging into the twenty-first century with an identity crisis ...
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  • that time and continued until only about a century before the present day. ... Rabbi Petachiah of Ratisbon, a twelfth century Jewish traveler, reported ...
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  • At the turn of the twenty-first century, issues shifted to involve ... During the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, several militant groups staged ...
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  • started arriving at some time before the seventh century C.E.. ... to Cyprus to visit Lazarus in the first century C.E., when the ship was ...
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  • On maps from the nineteenth century (as early as 1810 John Pinkerton ... The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cusco area around the 12th ...
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  • 1833-1834. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Oregon Trail had been ... according to the USGS, the 12th largest in the United States. ...
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  • reforms of King Josiah in the seventh century B.C.E. Beersheba languished ... King Josiah of Judah in the late seventh century B.C.E., on the grounds that ...
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  • and compromises essential to fourteenth century politics and diplomacy, ... nobles, such as Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, Richard Fitzalan ...
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  • By the mid-twelfth century, most of continental Southeast Asia was ... surviving structure is probably the tenth-century Nat Hlaung Gyaung. The shrines ...
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  • * 9th Battery, 12th Regiment, Royal Artillery * 50 naval ratings from ... against the British camp. The eighteenth century historian, Ghulam Husain ...
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  • school attendance in the nineteenth century, most education worldwide ... in the West began in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century ...
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  • from Ukraine in the beginning of twentieth century), the effects here were ... Ukrainian self-determination. At the 12th Congress of the Communist ...
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  • Haleakalā on Maui in the late eighteenth century. The newest volcano is Lōihi ... missionaries in the early nineteenth century, who assigned letters from ...
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  • his maternal grandfather, George Gordon, 12th Laird of Gight, a descendant ... was unusual for a man of the nineteenth century. ==Scandal and Exile== ...
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  • unify Japan, which had been disrupted by a century of civil strife. The period ... It was not until the late nineteenth century that Japan would again fight ...
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  • selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In February ... Bob Broeg's Redbirds: A Century of Cardinals’ Baseball ...
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  • Around the third century B.C.E., the central area of Yunnan around ... In the fourth century, northern China was largely overrun by nomadic ...
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  • approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Although establishing the ... Polyphony, in use since the 12th century, became increasingly elaborate ...
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  • to Greece around the tenth or ninth century B.C.E. The Greek word for ... did not become commonplace before the 12th century. It has been argued, ...
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  • white, Europeans. From the days of the nineteenth century gold rush, when many Chinese came to dig for gold, public opinion favored Caucasian over non ...
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  • The term classical mechanics was coined in the early twentieth century ... who along with al-Khazini in the 12th century, unified statics and dynamics ...
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  • world in the last 100 years. It has been a century of massive social, economic ... Northwest Passage followed in the 17th century, including Henry Hudson ...
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  • were popular throughout the eighteenth century and remain so today. They ... fashionable street in the late eighteenth century. (Fellow playwright Sean ...
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  • Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the Netherlands, was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village ...
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  • from Dunkerque and came to London on the 12th and lodgeth at the house of ... among the most successful of seventeenth-century Britain's indigenous ...
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  • and that such dependence still existed a century later, supporting a view ... politics of America for the past half century, and how myths and suspicion ...
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  • Alleghany Mountains by the mid-eighteenth century. A band of the Nanticoke ... New transportation links in the early nineteenth century encouraged ...
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  • of the United States, Minnesota is the 12th-largest state by area. ... who arrived in the 1600s. Late that century, the Ojibwe Indians migrated ...
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  • Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century, 111–112. Another council ... Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century, 159. However, Walter did ...
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  • Sumeria about 4,500 years ago. By the 15th century, toxic chemicals such as ... * Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment, 12th ed. Belmont: ...
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  • of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict ... had explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier. ...
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  • sort you must be ruthless" and 20th century democratic Britain would ... Battle of the Bulge, the front of the U.S. 12th Army Group was split, with ...
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  • and pluricontinental nation since the 15th Century, if the country were to ... * Gallagher, Tom. Portugal: A Twentieth-Century Interpretation. Manchester ...
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  • crusaders in the second half of the 12th century, attracted by a sparsely ... weakened by the end of the fourteenth century, when political alliances ...
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  • who was writing in Al-Andalus in the 12th century, admired him deeply and ... until the early years of the twentieth century, the first modern censored ...
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  • times between the middle of the second century B.C.E. and the first century ... announced the discovery of a new, 12th cave. There was one blank ...
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  • most influential people of the twentieth century. He is credited by many ... "Abbas and the 12th Imam of Shia," Ansar.org [http://www ...
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  • 978-1371253288). From the mid-twentieth century, poetry has sometimes been ... (15 B.C.E.–50 C.E.), Marie de France (12th century), Biernat of Lublin (1465 ...
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  • hits, and was later acknowledged as the 12th most profitable American film ... for Three Came Home, and although 20th Century Fox postponed the production ...
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  • in the early part of the ninteenth century was from the west country ... Throughout the ninteenth century, shipbuilding, both on the Bay of ...
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