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  • recognition and become one of his most popular creations. Thirty years ... between him and Dr. Seuss. Also popular was a 1981 collection of ...
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  • sunbirds, sugarbirds, and other species in search of nectar. For most of the ... Many popular horticultural plants such as pelargoniums, freesias, ...
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  • The most extensive air and sea search in naval history began immediately ... Another popular theory suggests Earhart overflew the Marshall Islands ...
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  • with respect to careful and repetitive search by the dog, but would seem ... rats, without the help of a human hunter. Popular terriers include the airedale ...
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  • delicacy. They are also common animals in popular culture, folklore, and symbolism. ... air pressure can also be detected in the search for prey. ...
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  • frequent migrating of the herds in search of greener pastures. The ... |left|250px|Traditional Bedouin nomadic culture is noted for generous ...
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  • #039;s familiar themes of sex, gender, and popular culture. ... on politics, history, literature and culture."National Book Foundation, ...
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  • Haitian religious practices and the folk culture of black Floridians. ... language in this way caricatured black culture. In more recent times, however ...
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  • potential for human improvement through culture and progress has been strongly ... In Chinese thought and culture, there is no notion of sin as it exists ...
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  • prevailing direction of influence in the culture at large. In the United ... printed mass-medium was probably European popular prints from about 1400. ...
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  • differ in size, structure, and usage with each culture. ... Tumuli differ from one culture to another. The simple ones were graves ...
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  • in 1836 and named after John Emory, a popular bishop of the Georgia Methodist ... a college to be named for John Emory, a popular bishop who had presided ...
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  • #An international search for knowledge to strengthen the foundations ... Western ideas gave rise to a growing popular rights movement which called ...
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  • their king's inclination toward Greek culture. Another revolt in 682 C ... the heavenly universe.Rafis Abazov, Culture and Customs of the Central ...
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  • A unique Creole culture exists here, the result of the intermingling ... out along its sandy beaches. The most popular bays are Dickenson Bay and ...
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  • A Native American Encyclopedia; History, Culture, and Peoples (Oxford Press ... allowed them greater mobility in their search for better hunting grounds. ...
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  • West after World War II and has become a popular form of self-expression ... Hokku were one of the most popular forms of poetry in Japan during ...
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  • and anthropologist specializing in the culture of Plains Indians. Also ... complexity and beauty of native American culture. He made a motion picture ...
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  • maté, a stimulating tea-like beverage popular in many South American countries. ... made the discovery of the river during his search for a passage between the ...
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  • that number again in developed countries. Popular migration points for Grenadians ... the result of out-migration by men in search of employment. Teenage pregnancy ...
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  • Black Sparrow Press, visited Bukowski in search of material for his publication ... ==In popular culture== Several bands have made reference to Bukowski ...
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  • in action has brought the term into the popular lexicon as an idiom describing ... was tested via a nationwide white-pages search on yahoo.com's online ...
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  • Tang government allowed these people to search for arable land in the mountains ... them into the national economy and culture. During the first two years ...
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  • Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture and Experience. (Bucknell ... (cachacos) wanted to preserve their old culture, including their cherished ...
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  • investigators preferred publication in the popular press and demonstration ... of Being an Expert." Technology and Culture 16 (2):133-161. ...
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  • svyatikh, Lives of the Saints) formed a popular genre of the Old Russian ... Slavic textbook on history. It was rather popular until the mid-nineteenth ...
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  • Open access publishing is becoming increasingly popular in the web ... Advertising is a major source of funding for media, web sites, and ...
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  • an extensive and profound influence on the culture, arts and literature of ... of comic presentation and his plays remain popular. He poked fun at everyone ...
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  • struggles for control of the area. Its culture has thus been molded by ... Contrary to popular belief, the south of Malta is not Europe's ...
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  • Nilkanth Varni traveled across India and parts of Nepal in search ... Yogi. Dinkar Joshi, Glimpses of Indian Culture (Star Publications, 2005 ...
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  • boredom, and an unremitting need to search for power, while making the ... and deviating from those accepted by any culture. These patterns develop ...
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  • studies and wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of ... writing, his novel German Love being popular in its day. Müller's ...
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  • university and to "wander forth in search of realization" (Ray ... Popular legends of Nagarjuna's life state that he traveled deep ...
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  • role essential to human society and culture. Although Freud at one time ... interaction with the parents, family, culture and other external influences ...
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  • The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... letter of Prester John fed medieval popular fantasy and inspired the ...
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  • Rico were the Ortoiroid, an Archaic age culture. An archaeological dig in ... States, particularly New York City, in search of better economic conditions ...
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  • a sense of alienation from the secular culture, a distrust of liberal elites ... spheres. They feel besieged by secular culture which they regard as immoral ...
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  • European explorers—first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands ... Congress, which has 14 members elected by popular vote. Four senators, one ...
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  • Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ... who is chief of state, is elected by popular vote for a seven-year term ...
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  • includes a Maritime Surveillance Unit for search and rescue missions and surveillance ... == Culture == [[File:Tuvalu Funafuti atoll beach.jpg|thumb|400px|A ...
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  • ("people"), populi ("popular" or "of the people ... in the case of the French Revolution, the search for enemies of the people ...
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  • his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work, A Short History of ... *The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906) ...
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  • that it was unnecessary to travel in search of truth, and turned back ... forever, and vowed to protect him. Various popular legends have grown up around ...
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  • frivolity of royal spending created popular anger. Radical pamphleteering ... 21, 1790. Each section was granted its own popular militia, civil committee ...
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  • as "integral parts of the national culture." The great majority ... Music and dance are central elements of Equatorial Guinean culture ...
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  • by a narrow coastal strip, is shallow and popular for water sports. Togo is ... a major raiding center for Europeans in search of slaves, earning Togo and ...
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  • and Kamtapur along ethnic lines grew popular in the 1980s. The issues ... unstable, making voltage stabilisers popular with many households. Darjeeling ...
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  • as reformers and prophets of a new culture. He began his career as ... epigrams and aphorisms making fun of popular religious doctrines. The ...
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  • clinic in Moroeni, because the death of a popular young writer in custody ... that "regardless of place, time or culture, archaic peoples have shown ...
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  • . However, the evidence for this once popular view is slim. It is more ... (1998), 73. When he wrote of Muslim culture, Bar-Hebraues expresses ...
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  • larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended ... The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture ...
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  • Hans-Robert Jauss). He has also influenced popular culture studies though he ... of interpreting a text. William’s search for the truth is a reflection ...
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  • writing of the Hebrew Bible, however, the popular concept of Sheol had come ... the girl's mother, began a panicked search for her missing child, frantically ...
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  • 1853.jpg|thumb|250 px| By 1853, when the popular song Spirit Rappings was ... During the nineteenth century, séances were extremely popular. Participants ...
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  • was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors. He wrote 50 books ... Close-Up, and a permanent panelist on the popular television show Front Page ...
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  • political economy, technology, and culture. Among the most prominent ... by jury, and exemption from unreasonable search and seizure. States were ...
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  • of a southward migration of the Megalithic culture - K.A.N. Sastri. A History ... although they rapidly adopted the local culture and the Tamil language. ...
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  • A concept of reincarnation, called gilgul, became popular in Medieval ... ==Reincarnation in Popular Culture== Reincarnation seems to have captured ...
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  • the central leadership scrambling to search for individual divisions ... in communist countries that was popular in the late 1980s; as a ...
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  • As science fiction entered popular culture, writers and fans active ... impossible. Magic and mythology are popular themes in fantasy.Robert ...
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  • They continue to be proud of their culture, and are famous for their ... men left the homelands in order to search for work in the cities. As ...
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  • of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded ... custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt ...
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  • a pre-Islamic code of conduct, culture and honor typically characterize ... Important metropolitan centers of Pashtun culture include Peshawar ...
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  • the way of the townspeople) was a distinct culture that arose in cities such ... #039;yōshū were all studied anew in the search for the Japanese spirit. ...
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  • their own image. Megawati quickly became popular, her status as Sukarno& ... lack of political experience, she was popular in part for her status as ...
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  • Protestants and Catholics, at least in popular understanding. The "troubles ... contemporary religions must remove from popular opinion the assumption that ...
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  • hegemony of the logocentrism in Western culture, to a very conservative ... of rough definitions. One of the most popular definitions was given by ...
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  • She received attention in American popular culture for her passionate ... to her underwear so female officials could search for drugs.Adam Liptak, [https://www ...
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  • , sovereign territory, a civilization, culture, or the whole of the human ... of progress, social evolutionism became a popular conception in the nineteenth ...
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  • of Europe's and the world's most popular tourist destinations. It ... for faith are evident in the city's culture; thus, the nickname "City ...
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  • Hokkaidō make it one of Japan's most popular regions for snow sports ... political dissidents and families in search of a way to make a living. ...
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  • Islanders traveled to the atoll in search of seabirds and flowers for ... disappearance, a schooner was sent out in search of the vessel. While stranded ...
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  • true story was popularized in Japanese culture as emblematic of the loyalty ... narrative were presented to a wide, popular readership in the West with ...
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  • between roosters and cockfighting became a popular form of entertainment; it ... Chickens often scratch at the soil to search for insects and seeds. ...
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  • self-identify with African descent and the culture of the freed slaves. attempt to erase any vestiges of African culture from the Dominican Republic ...
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  • One of them, the monkey, became a popular favourite in Chinese culture ... Monk (Xuanzang) who crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment. Alfred ...
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  • Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... enjoyed all over the world today. Several popular modern board games, including ...
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  • Nazrul Sangeet (Nazrul songs) and widely popular today. At the age of 43 ... Published in the "Bijli" magazine, the poem caused a popular ...
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  • of Kikuyu migrated into cities in search of work, contributing to ... initial British troops, a high degree of popular support, and the low quality ...
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  • promoting Sufi ideas. Such travel in search of knowledge was not uncommon ... the birds of the world set forth in search of their king, Simurgh ...
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  • written language. They are based mostly on popular cursive (caoshu) forms embodying ... that they undermine traditional Chinese culture and have only created more ...
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  • the Safavid takeover, Fuzuli was already a popular young poet. He dedicated ... academic studying Iranian and Azerbaijani culture, describes Fuzuli's ...
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  • and Tommy Johnson, as well as to other popular musical styles, through ... carefully to Leroy Carr, probably the most popular male blues singer of the ...
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  • fame in the annals of American culture - to the lowest depths of ... home. After a nationwide ten-week search and ransom negotiations with ...
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  • music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently ... Like all art forms in Indian culture, music is believed to have a ...
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  • Odysseus is one of the most recurrent characters in Western culture ... In fifth century B.C.E. Athens, tales of the Trojan War were popular ...
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  • Cabin, which significantly influenced popular attitudes toward slavery ... in nature studies, it failed to find a popular audience. ...
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  • the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA. ... school of animal fiction writing, his most popular work being Wild Animals ...
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  • acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. "Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait." ...
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  • ===In popular culture=== ====Parades==== [[File:Macys-parade-1979.jpg ... stations usually carry marathons of their popular shows on Thanksgiving day ...
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  • nation, with a mixture of urban and rural culture, and has long been considered ... is great diversity in Missourians' culture and character. The two largest ...
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  • have developed an interest in Japanese culture and have taken up the study ... despite their previous exposure to Korean culture in Sakhalin, immigrants ...
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  • day Saints, which greatly influences Utah culture and daily life. ... National Recreation Area (site of the popular tourist destination, Lake ...
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  • The Order of Things), which was enormously popular despite its length and difficulty ... However, whereas structuralists search for homogeneity in a discursive ...
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  • as well). Again, science is limited to the search for elements that promote ... saw the meaning of life in the search for the highest pleasure ...
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  • or Blue Mong (Mong Leng). In the Romanized Popular Alphabet, developed in the ... social unrest, when small groups went in search of better agricultural opportunities ...
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  • Spanish began to import African slaves to search for gold on the island. Spanish ... growth through natural increase. African culture thus remained strong among ...
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  • easy cleanup, enamel over steel is also popular for cookware used while camping. ... In Europe, a clay roaster is still popular because it allows roasting ...
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  • ==Popular culture and fashions== [[File:Grand-foyer.jpg|thumb|400px ... iconic poster art. The Can-can dance was a popular nineteenth-century cabaret ...
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  • An ancient center of Buddhist religion and culture, significant numbers ... that brought Western-style education and culture to the native people. English ...
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