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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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  • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...
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  • Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United ...
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  • Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume ... As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines ...
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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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  • Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order ... Advantages of sorted lists include: *one can easily find the first ...
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  • has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. His best know ... physics, and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Halle, and Freiburg ...
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  • In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of ... as an algorithm that has nested sets of smaller algorithms within it ...
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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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  • silvery-white, inert metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements ... it is a symbol of wealth and is occasionally used in the presentation ...
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  • Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... which occurs when one violates copyright law by failing to get permission from ...
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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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  • period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...
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  • In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... A chemical synthesis begins by selection of compounds that are known ...
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  • for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...
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  • Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...
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  • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens ... The image of the gardens is impressive not only for its beauty, but ...
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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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  • 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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  • regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ... philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form the core spiritual ...
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  • volume Latin dictionary in the University Library of Graz.]] A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ...
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  • 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Eugenia Dittler, Wilder was nicknamed Billie by his mother (he changed that ...
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  • Uisang (의상625 - 702) was one of the most eminent early Silla scholar ... World System.) He was a close friend of monk Wonhyo, and both of their ...
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  • Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...
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  • with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ... and solder. Recently, it is being used by the semiconductor industry ...
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  • Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that ... While research on learning in animals has been used by some psychologists ...
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  • date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...
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  • Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...
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  • scholar who analyzed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to ... Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. His parents ...
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  • was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French ... revolutionary factions, with the passage of the Law of Suspects and the ...
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  • storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...
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  • The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...
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  • It comes in many allotropic forms, of which the yellow, black, and ... surreptitiously, arsenic was used in history by murderers, including members ...
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  • Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... Aleksandr Pushkin and culminating in two of the greatest novelists in world ...
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  • ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...
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  • used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety of diagnostic tests. 99Tc is used ... Before the element was discovered, many of the properties of element ...
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  • Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...
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  • Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor ... This genealogy shows the line of succession from the founding monarch ...
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  • sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...
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  • Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...
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  • Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans ... traditionally characterized by simplicity, spontaneity, and naturalism ...
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  • " is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting electromagnetic ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...
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  • (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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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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  • [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...
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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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  • IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...
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  • Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...
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  • ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... E., making him a candidate to be the founder of the earliest religion based ...
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  • Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...
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  • where the notations are not entered by buttons but are written on ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...
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  • a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...
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  • mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...
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  • that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...
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  • A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... either optically (visual binaries) or by indirect techniques, such as ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...
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  • The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel ... The Books of Samuel originally formed a single text, which probably ...
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  • to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular ... Hitchcock was the quintessential master of suspense. One aspect that ...
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  • ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...
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  • ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...
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  • colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...
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  • an unrelated physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...
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  • mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...
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  • The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the ... " emphasizing the participatory aspect of the web as opposed to the web ...
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  • and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... with the social and psychological anomie of modern life than were many ...
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  • Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...
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  • and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...
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  • discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto ... because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...
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  • Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... "aisthetike" and was coined by the philosopher Alexander ...
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  • Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ... While Peck promoted a life of discipline, true love, and honest relationships ...
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  • quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... among the Geonim (early medieval Rabbis) and by Rishonim (later medieval Rabbis ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...
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  • Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...
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  • the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...
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  • The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government ... By 1792, the Commune was dominated by those Jacobins who were not ...
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  • ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...
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  • ) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...
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  • ==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...
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  • dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...
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  • movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...
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  • == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
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  • The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...
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  • Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...
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  • Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...
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  • Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...
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  • A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...
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  • Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...
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  • physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...
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  • Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...
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  • Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents. It emerged ...
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  • ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ... "Deutsches Reich," the same name used by the German monarchy ...
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  • in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...
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  • French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... Like the Montagnards, they initially were part of the Jacobin movement ...
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