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  • Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and ... Michigan's shores. The great cities of Chicago and Milwaukee were ...
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  • networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. A digital library has a number of advantages and problems not found ...
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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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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...
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  • state holidays, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...
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  • psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...
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  • organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...
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  • 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...
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  • The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...
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  • cause. Academic tenure is awarded to university professors based on seniority ... unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ...
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  • east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...
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  • often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...
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  • Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children belonging ... that the Hemings children were the offspring of a nephew of Jefferson. ...
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  • The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...
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  • migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...
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  • was taken soon afterwards by General Bai Qi of the state of Qin. Upon receiving ... Qu Yuan is considered the first prominent Chinese poet. Twenty-five ...
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  • Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...
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  • was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books for ... Laura and her pioneer family never dreamed of, and yet she was to experience ...
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  • , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...
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  • |birth_place=Whitewater, Wisconsin, U.S. |death_date=October 19, 1952 ... 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ...
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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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  • also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...
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  • Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...
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  • leaves with five leaflets, clusters of small flowers, and red to brown ... The high concentration of caffeine in the seeds, which is more concentrated ...
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  • are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans who historically ... the plains where they adopted the lifestyle of Plains Indians, hunting bison ...
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  • Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...
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  • sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... models, the celestial sphere was thought of as a physical reality rather ...
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  • movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Kevin Passmore. Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University ...
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  • important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...
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  • Superior National Forest, part of the United States National Forest ... 9 million acres (6,100 mi² or 16,000 km²) of woods and waters. The majority ...
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  • September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...
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  • | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...
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  • Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...
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  • Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...
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  • Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the ... as coats and jackets. Hunting and trapping of wild mink has given rise to ...
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  • The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...
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  • travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...
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  • [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims is used in various ...
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  • It generally is classified as a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus ... The word "dog" also is used to refer to some other members ...
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  • 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder ... Pizarro had been appointed governor of Peru before the country was ...
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  • The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...
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  • Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...
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  • [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...
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  • fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... At the invitation of South Africa's first post-apartheid president ...
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  • celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...
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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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  • for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of ... Welles was born in 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second son of ...
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  • | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...
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  • /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to a member of any of a number of peoples ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...
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  • Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...
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  • Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...
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  • The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...
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  • conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...
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  • Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...
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  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...
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  • Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...
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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...
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  • for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...
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  • #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...
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  • Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...
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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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  • Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...
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  • fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...
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  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...
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