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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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  • The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop ...
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh, (October 11, 1926 - January 22, 2022) was a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, author, poet, and peace activist. He was said to be ...
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  • The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles, are the historic defining statements of ...
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  • Sir Henry Morgan (Hari Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – August 25, 1688) was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of ...
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  • Richard Doddridge Blackmore (June 7, 1825 - January 20, 1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English ...
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  • A lake (from the Latin word lacus) is an inland body of water, not part of the ocean, that is larger and deeper than a pond and is localized ...
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  • In human spaceflight, a life support system is a group of devices that allow a human to survive in outer space. Such a system normally supplies ...
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  • Luis Buñuel Portolés (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Aragonese Spanish film director, writer, and sometime film producer (producing ...
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  • Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is one of the world's largest karst regions with 300 caves and grottoes ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education This article deals with the government-funded school provided for public education; for ...
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  • Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (October 1, 1914 - June 13, 2004), an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic and university administrator ...
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  • The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited ...
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  • The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme Court) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judicial ...
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  • Cloisonné, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items. Objects ...
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  • An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22, 1947, adopted the National Flag of India, in its present form, a few days ...
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  • Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of ...
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  • The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" of the Old Testament. It represents the most concise representation of Jewish ...
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  • Acorn is the fruit (a nut) of the oak tree (the flowering plant genus Quercus of the beech family Fagaceae). The acorn contains a single seed ...
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  • The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the twentieth century, it has been, since the 1920s, the ...
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  • Lake Baikal ( о́зеро Байка́л Ozero Baykal , ˈozʲɪrə bʌjˈkɑl , Байгал нуур Baygal nuur ) sits in Southern Siberia ...
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  • Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died August 11, 1464 in Todi) was a German cardinal of the Catholic Church, a ...
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  • Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Greater China region, which includes territories administered by ...
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  • Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night, and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November ...
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  • A novel is a longer work of narrative fiction compared to a novella, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English ...
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  • Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...
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  • A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships ...
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  • Austria ( Österreich ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ), is a small, predominantly mountainous country located in ...
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  • The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over a period of months leading up to its surrender on January 2, 1492. The city ...
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  • Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...
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  • Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. Though some sources suggest that Athanasius may have been born as ...
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  • In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite god, often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The ...
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was a noted educator and author renowned for her forthright opinions on women’s ...
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  • Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon, one whose longevity is at least partially attributable to the syncretic ...
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  • John Dryden (August 9, 1631 – May 12, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright who dominated the literary life ...
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  • Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 560 miles ...
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  • George Stanley Halas, Sr. (February 2, 1895 - October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a professional ...
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  • Rudolf (Jean-Baptiste Attila) Laban, also known as Rudolf Von Laban (December 15, 1879, – July 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance ...
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  • Carnegie libraries are libraries that were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Over ...
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  • In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...
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  • Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large ...
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  • Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations ...
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  • The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism ...
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  • Anne Brontë ( ˈbrɒnti ) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ...
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  • In chemistry, anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three benzene rings derived from coal-tar. Anthracene is used ...
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  • Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III and meaning Thoth is Born) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Heider, Fritz Fritz Heider (February 19, 1896 – January 2, 1988) was an Austrian-American psychologist ...
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  • Cubic zirconia (or CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). The synthesized material is hard, optically flawless, and usually ...
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  • Father Damien, also known as Blessed Damien of Molokai (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), was a Roman Catholic missionary priest from Belgium ...
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  • Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It makes up about ten percent of the total ...
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  • Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919), was an African-American philanthropist and tycoon. Born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana ...
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  • Pika is the common name for small mammals comprising the family Ochotonidae of the rabbit order Lagomorpha, characterized by relatively large ...
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  • Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan. ...
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  • In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect ...
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  • category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...
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  • Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand" + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named ...
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  • Albert Hoyt Taylor, Ph.D. (January 1, 1879 - December 11, 1961) was an American electrical engineer who made important early contributions to ...
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  • The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:TVP.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Police officers from Thames Valley Police, England.]] ...
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  • Betty Williams (May, 1943 - ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 (the prize for 1976), for co-founding ...
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  • Shiloh ( שלה - Šīlōh ) was a city in ancient Israel, situated north of Bethel and south of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim (Judg ...
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  • Lamprey is the common name for elongated, eel-like, jawless fish comprising the family Petromyzontidae, characterized by a primitive vertebrae ...
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  • Nitroglycerin (NG)—also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, and glyceryl trinitrate—is a heavy, colorless, oily liquid obtained by ...
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  • Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in ...
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  • Hickory is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Carya of the Juglandaceae family, characterized by pinnately compound ...
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  • Hubei ( c=湖北 |p=Húběi |w=Hu-pei ; Postal map spelling: Hupeh) is a central province of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation ...
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  • Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is most remembered ...
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  • The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it is differentiated from ...
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  • Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...
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  • Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is a hydrocarbon belonging to the group of alkynes. It is considered to be the simplest of all alkynes as ...
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  • The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad), often regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ...
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  • The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and ...
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  • Balhae (698 - 926) (Bohai in Chinese) existed as an ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's capital and ...
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  • Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 - May 31, 1910) was an abolitionist and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ...
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  • Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external ...
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  • The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, September 2 until Thursday, September ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure a nation's ...
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  • Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 ...
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  • Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 433 C.E.) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis) is a Christian theologian ...
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  • Cesare Borgia (September 13, 1475 – March 11, 1507) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal who resigned his church office to became a military commander ...
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  • Corrosion is the deterioration of a material's essential properties as a result of reactions with its environment. It can be concentrated ...
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  • Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in ...
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  • Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (the ability ...
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  • Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. An inflammation that includes both the brain and the ...
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  • Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP OM GCB GCMG VD PC (June 4, 1833–March 25, 1913) was a British army officer. ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography Panizzi, Antonio [[Image:Panizzi.jpg|thumb|200px| Anthony Panizzi]] ...
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  • Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to mid-nineteenth ...
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  • The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Economics [[Image:Rolandfealty.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Roland pledges his fealty ...
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  • Category:Economists Keynes, John Neville John Neville Keynes (August 31, 1852 – November 15, 1949) was a British philosopher and economist. ...
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  • The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital ...
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  • Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ, born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos) (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate ...
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  • Category:Public number=78 | symbol=Pt | name=platinum | left=iridium | right=gold | above=Pd | below=Ds | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...
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  • The Rapture is a controversial religious belief, held by some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns, descending ...
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  • safeguard the taiga for future generations. The world's largest terrestrial biome, the taiga ( ˈtaɪgə ) is a major subarctic, geographic ...
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  • Category: Image wanted Donald Malcolm Campbell, C.B.E. (March 23, 1921 – January 4, 1967), was a British car and motorboat racer who broke eight ...
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  • Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and of how the ...
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  • Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829 ...
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  • Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. Until discovering his birth ...
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  • King Myeongjong (명종 明宗|1534–1567, r. 1545–1567) was the thirteenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of ...
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  • Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries ...
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  • Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October 8, 1895, at Okho-ru (옥호루, 玉壺樓) Pavilion in the Geoncheonggung ...
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  • category:image wanted Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 – February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion ...
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  • Sunflower is the common name for any of the plants of the genus Helianthus of the flowering plant family Asteraceae (known as the aster, daisy ...
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  • The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. It is bordered by Great Britain to the west and southwest, northwest ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law An authorized official can pardon, or forgive, a crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, ...
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  • Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is the name given to what is generally, but not universally, considered to be an extinct species ...
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  • Ichneumonidae is a diverse family of wasps, typically characterized by a parasitic component to the life cycle, antennae with 16 or more segments ...
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  • The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 years ago. The legend of Dangun, the mythical founder of Korea, makes an impact ...
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  • Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos located at the base of Mount Phu Kao, 6|km from the Mekong river in Champassak ...
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  • Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Marathi: बाबासाहेब भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर) (April 14, 1891 - December ...
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  • The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...
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  • Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali had been a heavily ...
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  • Barabbas was a Jewish insurrectionist c. 30 C.E. whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, according to the Christian narrative ...
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  • Category:life sciences Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Melon jambon cru.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...
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  • The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County, Virginia, on September 13, 1862, during the American Civil War. Troops led ...
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  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island arc of the Caribbean Sea in North ...
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  • Jujutsu (Japanese: 柔術, jūjutsu; also jujitsu, ju jutsu, ju jitsu, or jiu jitsu) is a traditional Japanese martial art that utilizes a large ...
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  • Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...
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  • Sir Edward Mutesa II, KBE (November 19, 1924 - November 21, 1969), was the thirty-sixth kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1939 until his death, and ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel) , are part of the Hebrew Bible), or Old Testament. They deal with beginnings ...
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  • category:Politics and social sciences category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group= CherokeeᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ ...
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  • Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...
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  • Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...
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  • An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through the body. The minimum current a human can feel is thought to be about ...
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  • Turkmenistan (also known as Turkmenia) is a country in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist ...
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  • The arXiv (pronounced "archive," as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic ...
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  • Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French mathematician who initiated the movement to introduce rigor into the theorems ...
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  • ConocoPhillips Company ( COP ) is an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest ...
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