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  • An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to ... General information retrieval systems have become more advanced. Search ...
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  • King Cheoljong (1831 - 1863) (r. 1849-1863) was the 25th king of the ... When he took the throne in the middle of the nineteenth century, the ...
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  • Category:Education jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open University. (Artist: ...
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  • by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research on future trends ... in various fields toady, including education and business. While professional ...
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  • to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and ... had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since ...
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  • The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...
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  • documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ... The traditional back-of-the-book index is a list of words that point ...
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  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks ... HM Stanley Hospital, St Asaph) until the age of 15. After completing an elementary ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...
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  • - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...
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  • mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...
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  • 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...
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  • in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly ... articles, peer reviews, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but ...
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  • artifacts. Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became ... a new trend in archaeological practices of preservation, which together ...
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  • and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... watched Public Broadcasting Service program in history. ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] ...
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  • The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... The Jogye order came fully into prominence following the end of the ...
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  • educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...
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  • the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...
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  • specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...
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  • A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...
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  • – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ... to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University for Peace, established ...
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  • who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... He saw the family as the first social setting in which education takes ...
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  • diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...
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  • Category:Education [[Image:New_York_Public_Library_030616.jpg|300px ... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading libraries ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ...
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  • Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...
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  • ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze ... Chongqing to the northwest. The capital city of the province is Changsha. ...
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  • ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...
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  • Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 B.C.E.) was a king of the Magadha empire ... peaceful relations with most if not all of his peers. He is legendary ...
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  • the Lynds pioneered applying the methods of cultural anthropology to the ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ...
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  • to maintaining an online library and archive of Web and multimedia resources ... historians, and scholars. It is a member of the American Library Association ...
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  • [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...
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  • is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
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  • A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ...
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  • 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the ... movement that has given birth to a number of leaders of the Bengali social ...
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  • He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and ... quot; aspect, or improve the popular image of librarians. ...
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  • Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products ... ” and pays with a credit card or some form of electronic payment. The products ...
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  • total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...
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  • famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...
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  • leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... 'Free' Frisians to accept the duke of Saxony-Meissen as their head ...
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  • 30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... England. After receiving a private education, he entered St. John's ...
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  • Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras ... Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ...
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  • Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...
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  • on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...
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  • 29, 1618) is famed as a writer and poet. One of the last true "Renaissance ... primarily for his poems, yet only 560 lines of his verse remain. He is not ...
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  • at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences ... unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ...
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  • 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...
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  • India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |caption= Shield of Emory University |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...
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  • economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...
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  • was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...
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  • [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...
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  • | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...
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  • The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... In March of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler began fundraising toward a ...
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  • #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...
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  • Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ... Noguchi received a number of awards during his lifetime and after ...
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  • known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...
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  • a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...
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  • known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products ... A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically ...
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  • modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...
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  • was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People ... Corrigan gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has ...
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  • first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...
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  • German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...
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  • Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...
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  • worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...
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  • which is the organization and management of information services or materials ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Law Category:Sociology in employment, housing, or education—but also to redress the ...
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  • South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...
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  • name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...
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  • architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...
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  • The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...
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  • 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...
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  • on many spiritual topics, including history, astrology, and health. ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...
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  • AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...
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  • those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...
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  • the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
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  • to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...
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  • known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...
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  • in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...
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  • (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...
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  • 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the ... the next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately ...
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  • الدین ایبک) was a Turkic ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan ... Muslim conflict, violence and persecution of one community by the other ...
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  • novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...
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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...
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  • and technology toward benefiting the lives of everyday people. Despite the ... Carver said that in his search for truth he embraced both faith and ...
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  • Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... Book Review and Booklist affect the sales of the book and critics play an ...
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  • energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
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  • The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...
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  • was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... Malta has had a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle ...
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