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  • Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...
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  • temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, in southeastern ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...
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  • The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...
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  • An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... being generally at or near the top of food chains, consuming fish ...
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  • John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth century. His ...
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  • - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... on another whaling ship and in the California Gold Rush, Manjiro risked ...
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  • States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Hempel wrote, "Carnap's ingenious and illuminating methods ...
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  • reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... term held by ancient Indians to be redolent of fecundity and the many blessings ...
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  • Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...
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  • The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began ... The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ...
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  • – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...
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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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  • education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...
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  • those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...
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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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  • 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Wilder attended school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder ...
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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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  • The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...
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  • An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...
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