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  • would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... Walter Lippmann was born on September 23, 1889 in New York City to ...
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  • Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources ... The Park's 119 square miles (309 km²) of spire-filled desert forms a ...
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  • lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... and Otlet created the Central Office of International Associations ...
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  • Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...
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  • The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between ... Some of the most famous of all the Pharaohs, such as Ramesses II and ...
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  • was a popular US jazz saxophonist and one of the premier saxophonists of ... (Segell 2005, 123). Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock ...
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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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  • she was understood as the protector of the Lower Kingdom, and represented ... In classical Egyptian religion, Bast was the subject of considerable ...
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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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  • Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...
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  • ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in ... The city is revered by Muslims for containing the holiest site of ...
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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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  • who contributed to mapping the source of the Niger River and was the ... his father, William Laing, a private teacher of classics, and at Edinburgh ...
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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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  • psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...
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  • " Monk is often regarded as a founder of bebop, although his playing ... 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk ...
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  • ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...
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  • S. Census Bureau, covers nine states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...
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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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  • 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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