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  • on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...
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  • ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...
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  • AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...
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  • ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... Calvinism. After attending the University of Edinburgh, Carlyle became ...
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  • September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... He shared the privations and hardships of camp life with his soldiers ...
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  • 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Honorary degrees, University of Strathclyde, 1971, University of Edinburgh ...
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  • {{Infobox University-Jen | name = Kyoto University | native_name ... Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2005. ...
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  • in a chain, stretching backward. The cause of the cat you see today, for ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...
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  • 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher ... Little was known until recently about much of Blanchot's life ...
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  • He also served as the first Architect of the Capitol and first Superintendent ... as a medical student in the University of Edinburgh in 1781. The architecture ...
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  • was a British baroque portrait painter. Wright trained in Edinburgh ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...
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  • John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...
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  • a Christian Apostle and the younger brother of Saint Peter. He was renowned ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...
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  • to introduce rigor into the theorems of the infinitesimal calculus ... Cauchy was a devout Catholic, and, toward the end of his life, dedicated ...
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  • curriculum is taught in preparation for university. In the past, subjects ... education for the most able irrespective of their social or economic background ...
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  • award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA ... Academy Awards. The awards are in the form of a theatrical mask. ...
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  • Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... – issued the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The 1912 movement ...
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  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and ... title=Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh|years=1953–2010 ...
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  • September 18, 2008. founded by a dynasty of Turkic mamluk (soldier-slaves ... when he succeeded to the ruler-ship of territories centered around ...
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  • a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...
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