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  • An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...
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  • Ahn Jung-Geun or An Jung-Geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist. In 1909, during ...
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  • General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity ...
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  • Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and time that was developed by Albert Einstein in 1905 Einstein, Albert, [http://www ...
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  • category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...
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  • A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...
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  • Poker is a popular card game, or group of card games, in which players compete against one another by gambling on the values of each player& ...
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  • Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds in the order Anseriformes that includes the ducks, geese and swans, with ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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  • Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...
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  • Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SO. This colorless liquid is an important polar aprotic solvent that ...
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  • Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of ...
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  • Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Shawnee |image = [[Image:Shawnee ...
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  • John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ...
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  • Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...
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  • The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores chemical energy and makes it available in an electrical form. Batteries consist ...
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  • A space elevator is a proposed structure intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly Earth, into space ...
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  • Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The main goals ...
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  • In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory ...
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  • Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...
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  • Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...
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  • Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...
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  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...
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  • category:image wanted The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered a type of virtue ethics. Dominant traditional ethical ...
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  • The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second ...
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  • Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...
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  • Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 29, 440 to November 10, 461. He was a Roman aristocrat and ...
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  • Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs ...
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  • Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth ...
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  • A catamaran (from Tamil kattumaram) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=catamaran Catamaran] Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved June ...
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  • Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and ...
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  • Colin Luther Powell, KCB, MSC, (April 5, 1937 - October 18, 2021) was an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States ...
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  • An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Outline of cave paintings, Altamira.png|thumb ...
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  • Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...
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  • The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million ...
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  • Henan ( c=河南 |p=Hénán |w=Ho-nan ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the central part of the country. Its ...
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  • Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God in the Abrahamic religions, who personifies evil and temptation, and is ...
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  • Kashmir (Kashmiri: کٔشِیر, कॅशीर; Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically the term ...
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  • Mircea Eliade (March 9, 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, and novelist notably ...
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  • A United States National Monument is a protected area that is similar to a U.S. national park with the exception that the President of the United ...
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  • The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, comprises roughly three thousand individual reefs and nine hundred islands ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005), was an Austrian-Jewish architectural ...
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  • The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the Black Hawk Incident, was a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq that ...
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  • Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor (July 25, 1852 – January 21, 1919), reigned 1863-1907 served as the twenty-sixth and final king of the five-century ...
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  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument ...
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  • Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E.; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the ...
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  • Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of mostly perennial and aromatic herbs and shrubs in the daisy family Asteraceae, characterized by alternate ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Egyptian hieroglyphs |type=logography |typedesc=usable ...
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  • James Emory Foxx (October 22, 1907 – July 21, 1967) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who is widely regarded as one of ...
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  • Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753 - February 26, 1821) was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being ...
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  • Tortoise is the common name for any turtle of the family Testudinidae, characterized by thick, club-like hind legs, and a high, rounded, domed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Harris, Marvin [[Image:MarvinHarris.jpg|right|thumb|Marvin Harris]] ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a state located off the ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Boxer | name = Rocky Marciano | nationality = United States | realname = Rocco Francis Marchegiano ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Skyline Parkway Motel Burned.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A motel after an arson fire]] ...
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  • Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeological sites Category:Anthropology Category:Art [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing ...
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  • Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. Edutainment ...
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  • Zirconium (chemical symbol Zr, atomic number 40) is a strong, lustrous, gray-white metal that resembles titanium. It is obtained chiefly from ...
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  • The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder--for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|thumb|right]] Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Андре́й Дми́триевич ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Triosephosphate isomerase.jpg|thumb|350px|Ribbon diagram of the enzyme [[triosephosphateisomerase|TIM]]. Each enzyme has ...
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  • The Russian Provisional Government ( Временное правительство России|Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii ...
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  • Alveolus (plural: alveoli), or pulmonary alveolus, informally known as air sac, is any of the innumerable minuscule, thin-walled, capillary-rich ...
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  • Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler) (April 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783) was a prolific Swiss mathematician and physicist who applied his expertise ...
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  • Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a self taught lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil ...
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  • Mackinac Island is an island covering 3.8 square miles (9.8 km²) in land area, belonging to the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Lake ...
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  • Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act of disobedience, as well as the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in ...
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  • Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. His poetry, marked by understatement ...
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  • Zhang Guo Lao (張果老) (Chang Kuo Lao in Wade-Giles) is one of the Eight Daoist Immortals who is generally thought to have lived during the ...
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  • Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First Invasion (1592-1596)|Japan's first invasion 1592 and 1596], creating ...
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  • Rodrigo José Ramón Francisco de Jesús Carazo Odio (December 27, 1926 – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ...
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  • Deoxyribose, also known as D-Deoxyribose and 2-deoxyribose, is a pentose sugar (monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms) that is a key component ...
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  • Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. Its official name and the one by which it is usually known ...
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  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...
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  • George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army ...
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  • Maria Isabella Boyd (May 4, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated ...
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  • Blood is a highly specialized, circulating tissue that consists of several types of cells suspended in a fluid medium. Along with the heart ...
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  • Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings ...
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  • Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying") is an ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian ...
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  • Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous ...
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  • Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor whose career spanned seven decades, during which ...
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  • Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for ...
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  • Category:Economists Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro [[Image:Edgeworth.jpeg|right|225px|thumb|Francis Y. Edgeworth]] Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (February ...
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  • Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Each snowflake ...
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  • Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (July 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) was a German mathematician ...
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  • Aachen Cathedral, frequently referred to as the "Imperial Cathedral" (in German: Kaiserdom) is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen, Germany ...
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  • Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the thirty ...
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  • Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region ("Région ...
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  • Asherah (Hebrew אשרה), also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing also in Akkadian sources as Ashratu, ...
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  • Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian Jewish novelist, philosopher ...
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  • Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...
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  • Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr., was an American poet whose works brought about the ...
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  • Category:Economists Mises, Ludwig von [[Image:MisesLibrary.jpg|right|250 px|thumb|Ludwig von Mises]] Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (September ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Matchmaking is the process of introducing ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Monetarism is an economic theory which focuses on the macroeconomic effects of a nation’s ...
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  • Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence ...
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  • Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language" and lalô λαλώ "speak, speaking") refers to ecstatic utterances ...
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  • John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...
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  • The proletariat (/ˌproʊlɪˈtɛəriət/; from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those ...
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  • Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly challenged the clerical ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The famous Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] ...
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  • 6 (six) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...
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  • Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...
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  • Animal rights is a philosophical concept in bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that ...
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  • John von Neumann (Hungarian Margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a mathematician who made contributions ...
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  • James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president ...
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  • Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical ...
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  • Strawberry is any of the various, low-growing perennial plants of the genus Fragaria in the rose family (Rosaceae), as well as the name for the ...
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  • Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was a blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular ...
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  • The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:WOTeb FCEN no trespassing.jpg|thumb|200px|A sign warning against trespassing.]] ...
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  • The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|250 px|right| Punch magazine cover, 1867]] ...
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  • A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to provide telecommunication links between countries. The first such cables ...
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  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinjitai (modern Japanese) writing: 豊臣秀吉; Kyūjitai (historical) writing: 豐臣秀吉; born Hiyoshi-maru日吉丸; ...
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  • In many Christian churches, Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and the beginning of Lent. Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days before Easter and falls ...
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  • The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...
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  • The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO-shuh") lies between the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic ...
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  • Dinosaurs are an extinct, diverse, largely terrestrial group of vertebrate animals of the Sauropsid orders Saurischia (lizard-hipped) and Ornithischia ...
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  • Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard I, the Lionheart. She was ...
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  • Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, 1195), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in ...
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  • Photosynthesis is the conversion of the energy of sunlight into chemical energy by living organisms. In most cases, the raw materials are carbon ...
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  • Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 – August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on ...
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  • The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...
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  • Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known as rock salt. Halite occurs as cubic crystals that are typically colorless ...
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