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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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  • a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...
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  • Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... work, Al-Madina al-fadila (The Virtuous City), describes a hierarchical ...
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  • Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | deathplace = New York City, U.S. | occupation = Novelist, editor ...
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  • Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...
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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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  • Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... Critics have speculated that Peter Pan was a reflection of Barrie ...
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  • was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People ... Corrigan gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has ...
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  • first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... Bernard Malamud was born April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to ...
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