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  • Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of the smallest nations in continental Africa. Formerly the Portuguese colony ...
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  • The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...
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  • Jehoiachin, also known as Jeconiah ( יְכָנְיָה , jəxɔnjɔh , meaning "God will fortify"), was one of the last kings of Judah ...
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  • Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice ...
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  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971) was a Scottish doctor, biologist and politician who received the ...
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  • Margaret Valdemarsdatter (Norwegian: Margrete Valdemarsdotter) (1353 – October 28, 1412) was Queen of Norway, Regent of Denmark and Sweden ...
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  • Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan ( Անաստաս Հովհաննէսի Միկոյան ) (November 25, 1895 - October 21, 1978) was an Armenian Bolshevik ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A gift tax is a transfer tax, a tax applied to an individual giving anything of value ...
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  • Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil, located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Housing [[Image:Nez-perce-couple-teepee-1900.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|A tipi of ...
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  • Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 B.C.E. – ca. 54 B.C.E.) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the first century B.C.E. Catullus is ...
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  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...
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  • The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy and Psychology | era = Nineteenth/Twentieth-century philosophy | ...
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  • Yosemite National Park (pronounced "Yo-SEM-it-ee"), is a U.S. national park largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne counties in the state ...
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  • Amun (also spelled Amon, Amen; Greek: Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon; Egyptian: Yamanu) was a multifaceted deity whose cult originated ...
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  • Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative ...
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  • The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious ...
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  • Category:Public Copernicus, Nicolaus [[image:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Nicolaus Copernicus]] Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 ...
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  • category:image wanted Generally, a fact is defined as something that is true, something that can be verified according to an established standard ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor performing in Sophocles' lost play Andromeda.]] ...
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  • Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country ...
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  • Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air. It is one of the five senses originally described by Aristotle. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Penobscot |image=[[Image:penobscotlogo ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Sexual abuse (also referred to as molestation) is defined by the forcing ...
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  • Irish elk is the common name for an giant, extinct deer, Megaloceros giganteus, characterized by enormous antlers. This is the largest deer known ...
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  • Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich ( Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician ...
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  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki Jōyaku"), known as the Treaty of Maguan ( t=馬關條約|s=马关条约 ...
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  • Antifa is a political movement, expecially in Germany and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous, militant groups ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:GermanWoodcut1722.jpg|thumb|300 px|German woodcut ...
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  • Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with Rome against his Jewish countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies of World War II) that consisted of those nations opposed to the Axis Powers ...
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  • The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite Imperial Japanese Army forces towards Pasir Panjang at Pasir Panjang Ridge ...
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  • An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained from a fuel) into useful mechanical power or motion. If the engine produces ...
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  • was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were active primarily between the tenth and nineteenth century. The word samurai ...
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  • Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, Latvian: Sergejs Eizenšteins) (January 23, ...
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  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) ( November 19|1711|November 8 – April 15|1765|April 4 ...
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  • The Korean National Parks, like the National Treasures, provide a look at the heart and soul of Korea. The Parks host and protect many of South ...
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  • Reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, are an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus), similar to the elk and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:COINCOLLECTIONCOINS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Coins from around the world]] ...
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  • Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June ...
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  • Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Combotrans.svg|thumb|right|225px|The gender symbols used to denote a female ...
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  • Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language (c. 1,100,000 speakers). The domination of Estonia after the Northern ...
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  • Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the half-dozen or so ...
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  • Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and its struggle to be accepted as ...
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  • Crushing by elephant ( زير پى ِپيل افكندن literally "casting beneath an elephant's feet") represented for thousands ...
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  • The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The ...
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  • Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for ...
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  • Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son ...
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  • The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ...
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  • Potassium (chemical symbol K, atomic number 19) is a member of a group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. It is a soft metal and is ...
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  • Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24 , 1895 – December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves lived through the developments ...
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  • Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád, Hungary, is also known as Charles Robert, Charles Robert of Anjou, and ...
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  • Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches (reciting tones). Chants may range from a ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Submitted Marriage is a universal ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Abbott, Edith [[image:edith_abbott.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Edith Abbott]] ...
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  • The prophetic book of the Bible attributed to Zephaniah occurs ninth among the twelve minor prophets, preceded by Habakkuk and followed by Haggai ...
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  • The Fugitive Slave Act was a federal law in the United States providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners regardless of where ...
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  • Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory has a curved shape ...
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  • The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of ...
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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient ...
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  • Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor whose theater ...
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  • St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...
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  • Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (December 11, 1475 - December 1, 1521) was Pope from 1513 to his death. He is known primarily ...
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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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  • The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew Bible (and Christian Old Testament) that describes the rebuilding of Judah ...
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  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New ...
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  • Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under "mind control" from a religious or other community and influencing ...
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  • David Friedrich Strauss (January 27, 1808 – February 8, 1874), was a German theologian , writer, German-Protestant philosopher, and biographer ...
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  • Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ...
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  • Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely perennial) plants of the flowering plant genus Amaranthus, characterized ...
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  • Beatus Rhenanus (August 22, 1485 - July 20, 1547), was a German humanist, religious reformer, and classical scholar. Educated at the famous ...
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  • Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s – 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early seventeenth century. He was born in London ...
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  • Satyendra Nath Bose ( /sɐθ.jin.ðrɐ nɑθ bos/ সত্যেন্দ্র নাথ বসু ) (January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974) ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Stanton, Frank Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 - December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Douglass Helen Eva Frederick ...
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  • Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than as a ...
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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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  • Dar es Salaam ( دار السلام Dār as-Salām), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city, industrial center, and major port of Tanzania. Its ...
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  • Ise Shinto Shrine or Ise Shrine (Ise-jingū 伊勢神宮) is a Shinto shrine to the goddess Amaterasu ōmikami(天照大神). The Ise Shrine ...
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  • In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle encompasses diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the question ...
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  • The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984), better known as C. L. Franklin, was a highly influential African ...
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  • Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the four signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina. ...
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  • El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO; commonly referred to as simply El Niño) is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Ocean ...
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  • Beersheba ( בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע , Be'er Sheva, Birüssebi ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often referred ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The black market or underground market is economic activity involving the buying and ...
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  • Scarlet fever or scarlatina is an acute, contagious infectious disease caused by an erythrogenic toxin producing strain of Streptococcus pyogenes ...
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  • Kathmandu ( काठमांडौ , येँ ) is the capital and the largest city of Nepal, and is situated in the World Heritage Site Kathmandu ...
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  • Mitzvah (Hebrew: מצווה, "commandment"; plural, mitzvot; from צוה, tzavah, "command") is a word used in Judaism to ...
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  • Nestorius, in Greek, Νεστόριος (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10, 428 to June 22, 431. He is considered ...
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  • Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located on the Pacific coast south of Washington and north of California ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Federal Reserve.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Federal Reserve System is headquartered ...
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  • Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image = [[Image:Dartmouth ...
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  • Isoroku Yamamoto(Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku) (April 4,1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of ...
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  • An endangered species is any animal or plant species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range and/or ...
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  • Abba Eban ( אבא אבן , born Aubrey Solomon Meir) (February 2, 1915 - November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who was for ...
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  • An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural processes. Such islands have been created ...
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  • The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic radiation. The "electromagnetic spectrum" (or just spectrum ...
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He fought for the French ...
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  • Jogging is a form of trotting or running which is conducted at a slow or leisurely pace. The main purpose in jogging is to increase fitness levels ...
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  • Rights entitle one to perform certain acts (or be in certain states) and to (not) have others perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting ...
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  • Francis George Steiner [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FGSNR The Papers of George Steiner] Janus |quote=[Steiner ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (January 8, 1864 – January ...
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  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms ( t=三國演義|s=三国演义|p=sānguó yǎnyì ), written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century, is a Chinese ...
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  • Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr, better known as Belle Starr (February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889), was a famous American female outlaw. She ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St ...
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  • The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng; literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat; Manchu: ...
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  • Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ...
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  • William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1, 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary ...
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  • 1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons of the Bible. Protestants ...
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  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The annals were created late in ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:VacuumToCopier.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Plastics have become an indispensable part of our technological society.]] ...
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  • Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest ...
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  • James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal framers of the U.S. Constitution, a Virginia representative to Congress ...
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  • Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...
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  • Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds that were said to be inflicted on Jesus' body during his crucifixion ...
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  • Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...
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  • Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop ...
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  • Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually ...
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  • A state religion (also called an official religion, established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the ...
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  • category:image wanted Fine art photography refers to high-quality photographic prints that convey a thought or emotion of a photographer. Such ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic ...
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  • A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy from an East ...
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  • Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation on September 1, 1905. It is located in western Canada, bounded by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:LearningTheCountriesOfAsia.jpg|thumb|right|250px| A child learning the countries ...
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  • Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and ...
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  • Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important ...
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  • The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before ...
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  • Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered ...
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  • Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with ...
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  • Ernest Banks (January 31, 1931 – January 23, 2015), nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine", was an American professional ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue ...
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  • Saigyō Hōshi (Japanese: 西行法師, also called Sato Norikiyo) (1118 – 1190) was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet of the late Heian and ...
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  • Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...
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  • John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English ...
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  • Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints") is a set of related religious systems that fuse Roman Catholic beliefs ...
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