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  • Austrian mathematician and physicist. He was the first to quantify the change ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. When an ... The object closest to the star is called the occulting object, as ...
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  • In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Free space is characterized by the defined value of the parameter ...
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  • diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft.]] a planet, which in our Solar System orbits the Sun. Most asteroids are believed ...
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  • :This article is intended as a generally accessible introduction to ... and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction ...
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  • developed was incomplete at best, regarding the external (physical) aspects ... to 1980, teaching and serving as chairman of the anthropology department. He ...
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  • sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...
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  • , Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court at the height ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...
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  • Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were ...
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  • (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as ... Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ...
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  • 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the ...
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  • is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...
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  • The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...
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  • Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general anthropology ... of culture and behavior, and are some of the pieces of human history that ...
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  • author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...
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  • Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... This planet is heavily cratered and appears similar to the Moon. It ...
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  • Daniel Kahneman, he was a key figure in the discovery of systematic human ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...
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  • and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...
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  • historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... Tocqueville's insights into what made the United States successful ...
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  • and part of its Golden Age. She was one of the few actors or actresses of ... Garbo is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie ...
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  • studies, and moral development. Much of the research in this field is ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...
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  • novelist. He is best known for his novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being ... history and political science in Poland (at the University of Lodz). He worked ...
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  • Sparke and J.S. Gallagher III, Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction ... clusters, and various interstellar clouds. The Solar System is located in ...
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  • activist. Sontag was an original, who broke the mold, creating a new role ... from North Hollywood High School at the age of 15. She began her undergraduate ...
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  • He is commonly regarded as a bridge between the philosophies of Hegel and ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...
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  • ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...
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  • been published in digital formats. Use of the term "sheet" is ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...
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  • born philosopher of science. He was one of the half-dozen or so most important ... Feyerabend lived, worked, and taught in Austria, England, the United ...
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  • [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... in human sacrifice, often accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims ...
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  • Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development ...
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  • his theory of relativity and specifically the equation E = m c^2, which ... general theory of relativity which extended the principle of relativity to ...
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  • BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... BP began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., registered in 1909 ...
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  • His novels gained him a reputation as one of the most widely read writers of ... adventure to fuel his stories and experience the political world of various ...
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  • print and broadcast) or online social media. The term Fake news is a neologism ... officials and institutions accountable to the public. The proliferation ...
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  • Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's leading ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...
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  • In its modern sense, as used in astronomy and navigation, the celestial ... In the Aristotelic and Ptolemaic models, the celestial sphere was ...
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  • Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. This ...
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  • The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...
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  • common characteristics for large segments of the population, describing people ... based on various approaches to the nature of personality. While ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...
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  • center of mass. For each member of a pair, the other is called its companion ... eclipsing binaries. Binary stars are not the same as optical double stars ...
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  • The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians ... This tiny apocalyptic sect was thrust into the international spotlight ...
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  • "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... His political views and the alliances he made with Nazi and other ...
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  • ) sometimes referred to by the name Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Hendizadeh ... cleric and marja (religious authority), and the political leader of the 1979 ...
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  • Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...
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  • The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...
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  • The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...
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  • often described as a polymath and as 'The Last Universalist' in ... Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854, into an influential family in ...
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  • The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... musical score, and memorable characters, The Wizard of Oz was considered ...
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  • novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern ... Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ...
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  • and social class. Social psychology examines the effects of social contacts ... had a significant impact not only on the academic worlds of psychology ...
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  • The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...
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  • company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector ... The company's main business is the exploration for and the production ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...
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  • great thinkers, Immanuel Kant is known for the historical synthesis of his ... creating a revolutionary synthesis between the absolute, but speculative ...
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  • religion, nature, science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He ... not often associated with modern music of the early twentieth century. After ...
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  • Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...
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  • Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...
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  • and intuitive phenomenon operating in the spheres of time, pitch, and ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • puzzling and controversial, being both the most familiar and the most ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...
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  • The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... are now commonplace in popular culture. The sex discrimination that has ...
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  • Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November ... although his Hindu subjects (who were the majority) were staunchly loyal ...
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  • topics. For nearly 60 years he traveled the world, pointing out to people ... India, and in 1909 met C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical ...
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  • politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in ...
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  • The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום ... تشرين, ħarb Tishrin), also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and ...
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  • |+ The Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill |align="center" colspan ... |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ...
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