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  • The immune system is the system of specialized cells and organs that ... Allergies are the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the United ...
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  • MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...
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  • ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...
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  • nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its ... When purified artificially, several different allotropic forms of ...
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  • Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...
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  • Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative ... not just literary work, but also forms of creative work such as sound ...
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  • Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...
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  • Impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure of citations in ... Impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...
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  • Iguana is both the common name for several of the larger members of ... For humans, they add to the wonder of nature and the green iguana ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... States and most continental European countries, civil rights laws are ...
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  • organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ... shocked and angered to come across the story of two Portuguese students sentenced ...
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  • was a Chinese Communist leader and President of the People's Republic ... Liu Shaoqi was a main ideologue of the Chinese Communist Party, and ...
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  • Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of ... William III, who became the sole ruler of both countries upon her death ...
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  • , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...
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  • Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center ... This city of 1.4 million people is the doorway to Madagascar's ...
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  • Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...
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  • or alkyl halides) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting ... Freon is a trade name for a group of chlorofluorocarbons used primarily ...
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  • specific purposes. Early balloons were made of dried animal bladders. Modern ... Party balloons are mostly made of natural latex tapped from rubber ...
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  • services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. ... As of September 30, 2008, GE is the world's tenth largest company ...
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  • " is the mythical figure who, in most of Western cultures, brings gifts ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...
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  • gas (LPG or LP-gas) and can be a mixture of propane with smaller amounts ... in gasoline by Dr. Walter O. Snelling of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in ...
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  • The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...
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  • Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...
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  • Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques ... Afonso I left his mark on the map of Europe. The impetus created by ...
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  • is a gaseous material consisting primarily of methane and deriving from one ... bogs, landfills, sewage, the stomachs of ruminants such as cows, and ...
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  • (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended ... Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the largest and most prestigious ...
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  • to a traditional Korean fermented dish made of seasoned vegetables. The most ... Kimchi has been a mainstay of Korean culture for over 2,000 years ...
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  • The dugong is only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; ... Dugongs are part of the order Sirenia along with manatees, both of ...
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  • 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...
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  • quot; railway because it linked the capital of Vienna with Austria’s Italian ... It is still fully functional as a part of the Austrian Southern Railway ...
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  • ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...
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  • Formaldehyde readily results from the incomplete combustion of carbon ... It is mainly produced by the oxidation of methanol, itself obtained ...
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  • The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...
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  • The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... behind Vatican City. It has a population of 32,410 in a total land area ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...
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  • There are not specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area ... and still others around contests where many of the participants sport loin ...
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  • Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... In total, Lake Ladoga covers an area of 6,700 fresh water square miles ...
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  • Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...
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  • The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... The early Pandyan dynasty went into obscurity during the invasion ...
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  • in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from ... September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict ...
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  • at the top, called the mouth. It may be made of glass, clay, plastic, or other ... Bottles have been developed and used over millennia of human history ...
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  • in an agricultural setting for the purposes of profit or subsistence, whether ... Raising animals (animal husbandry) is an important component of modern ...
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  • Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... affinity with Spain's northern region of Catalonia is longstanding; ...
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  • U.S., and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every ... to develop the Pico Canyon Oilfield north of Los Angeles. It was purchased ...
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  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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  • who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...
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  • in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries ... It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals ...
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  • can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...
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  • Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...
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  • often referred to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass ... his brother Charlie in the 1930s, as one of the Monroe Brothers. Bluegrass ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...
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  • Taejo of Joseon (1335-1408; r. 1392-1398), born Yi Seonggye, was the ... who overthrew the Goryeo throne, his move of the capital to Seoul, and his ...
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  • elastic, water-resistant, natural material of commercial importance and for ... in colloquial speech, is the outermost layer of a woody stem, derived from ...
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  • Kobe(Kōbe-shi) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent ... It was one of the first cities to open for trade with the Western ...
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  • ::This article is about the traditional culture of Korea. For the ... The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 ...
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  • The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...
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  • Saint Rose of Lima (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), known as ... When she read a biography of Saint Catherine of Siena, she was inspired ...
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  • guitarist. He is widely known for his brand of "heartland rock," ... albums and somber folk-oriented works. Much of his iconic status stems from ...
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  • [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...
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  • and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...
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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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  • the two difficult to separate. About half of all hafnium metal manufactured ... Hafnium (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen," the hometown of ...
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  • The Balance of Payments (BOP) is a measure of all the financial transactions ... The following list of countries and territories by current account ...
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  • in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger ... one party still dominates the politics of the nation. Despite the greater ...
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  • to a lesser extent football, or union in countries familiar with rugby union ... An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting ...
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  • designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...
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  • who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... he regarded Vedanta as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered ...
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  • 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...
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  • be divided into two rough types, interviews of assessment and interviews for ... two or more people, and communication of ideas, emotions, thoughts, ...
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  • has been shaped by the passionate pursuit of modernization. Since the end ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...
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  • The Goguryeo-Sui Wars refer to a series of campaigns launched by the ... The might of Goguryeo displayed itself in the war with the Sui Dynasty ...
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  • Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...
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  • The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...
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  • ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... rulers in 1365, and became the capital of the empire of Timur, during ...
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  • as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...
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  • States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...
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  • world. In 1927, shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ... identical to those handed out today. As one of the most prominent award ceremonies ...
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  • Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike ... to be a Scottish invention. The Rules of Golf are internationally standardized ...
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  • The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
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  • Pontiff") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of ... The title of "Pontifex Maximus," dating back to the times ...
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  • Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...
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  • that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...
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  • also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria ... unable to cope with the mounting incursions of Ottoman forces, Hungarian invasions ...
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  • Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...
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  • a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...
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  • United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia ... and is called the Birthplace and Deathbed of the Confederacy, because it ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... " in the tenth century the city of Copenhagen was officially founded ...
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  • as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...
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  • activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...
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  • Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded ... Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain wrote about the ...
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  • 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still ... sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it ...
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  • to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...
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  • in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...
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  • Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...
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  • It comes in many allotropic forms, of which the yellow, black, and ... in history by murderers, including members of the ruling class, to gain wealth ...
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  • spoken language in the West African nation of Senegal), is the capital of ... north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...
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  • produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...
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  • primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. Large Korean ... A separate ethnic Korean community lives on the island of Sakhalin ...
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  • A bovid is any member of almost 140 species of ungulates (hoofed mammals ... The bovids are the largest family of hoofed mammals and are native ...
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  • pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near the Indian border ... east of the Kapilavastu. Legend states the Buddha lived there until ...
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  • found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... sources. In a typical barrel 84 percent (37 of 42 gallons) of the hydrocarbons ...
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  • (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...
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  • 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ... The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis ...
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  • Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...
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  • danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...
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  • border connecting the Indian state of Sikkim with the Tibet Autonomous ... Nathu La constitutes one of the three trading border posts between ...
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  • Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... Thailand. Many were resettled in Western countries, including the United States ...
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  • islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...
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  • its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...
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  • a crime is still an act in violation of a public law for which a punishment ... maintain the distinction, notably those of the United States. Those jurisdictions ...
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  • ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of ... in his own time, but he became the idol of later generations of poets ...
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  • Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...
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  • “The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ... our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the ...
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  • The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...
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  • Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of Chrysler ... transport and communication in some of the most isolated locations ...
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  • linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... has been applied inconsistently to a variety of non-Han peoples, often with ...
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  • Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... with Amsterdam at the center. The use of soft drugs was tolerated, making ...
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  • – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...
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  • Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... passed to attempt to regulate the activities of lobbyists and prevent corruption ...
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  • 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...
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  • Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...
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  • Baky, or Baki, located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, is the capital ... The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
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  • with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ... semiconductor industry for the manufacture of diodes and infrared detectors ...
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  • Cookware and bakeware are categories of food preparation utensils ... but they vary in shape. The size and shape of a utensil is typically determined ...
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  • ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...
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  • is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...
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  • American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording ... Orbison managed to overcome years of personal suffering and periods ...
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  • [[Image:Bankrupt computer store 02.jpg|thumb|Notice of closure attached ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability, or impairment of ability ...
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  • terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ... The rice culture of the Ifugao people requires tremendous skill and ...
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  • Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... For an exact list of countries by their HDI, see the List of countries ...
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  • Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide ... and social issues. Due to the global nature of a web environment, complex ...
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  • Bodhi tree, which sits on the western side of the temple. In the Pali Canon ... for Buddhism. It is considered the navel of the earth, the place that will ...
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  • city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...
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  • thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...
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  • The Golden Mountains of Altai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern ... The Altai Mountains are a mountain system of Central Asia that extends ...
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