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  • main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... without organs, deterritorialization, line of flight, nomad thought, plane ...
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  • The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...
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  • The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...
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  • died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...
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  • Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...
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  • This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • Christianity. Not content to be a member of the religious "flock, ... #039;s largest cities, preaching to tens of thousands and (not incidentally ...
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  • shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque ... In the strict sense satire is a literary genre, but the larger notion ...
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  • island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...
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  • 1791) was a prolific and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous ... The young Mozart toured as a child and won the patronage of both nobility ...
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  • – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... Vietnam War. He is also noted for his middle-of-the-road domestic policy that ...
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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...
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  • The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...
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  • Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...
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  • the southeastern United States. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies ... Territory (now Oklahoma) known as the Trail of Tears. Today North Carolina ...
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  • For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...
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  • 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...
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  • The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| insurgents storming and seizing control of the medieval armory, fortress ...
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  • from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...
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  • is known as the "national pastime" of the United States, although ... The game also involves a unique combination of individual competitiveness ...
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  • The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...
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  • [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...
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  • The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of ... in Utah, but lacking funds for full teams of oxen or horses, nearly 3,000 ...
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  • The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...
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  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...
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  • is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes ... Similarly, the term may be presented in terms of allele frequency ...
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  • and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...
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  • and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia. After briefly working ... 86 years old in Jakarta in 2008. The legacy of Suharto's presidency is ...
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  • The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...
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  • Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European Bulgarian ...
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  • of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program ...
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  • The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is ... negative on its fibers, at or near the time of his proclaimed resurrection ...
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  • is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress ...
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  • Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...
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  • transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...
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  • Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an ...
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  • North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...
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  • The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ... the war. The campaign marked the beginning of the transition by Allied forces ...
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  • William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...
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  • ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...
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  • Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...
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  • (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...
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  • physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...
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  • Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...
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  • Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning ...
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  • Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in ... Pakistan had been carved from out of India as a homeland for the ...
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  • Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...
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  • revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...
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  • when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...
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  • (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972 ... , named Zurich the city with the best quality of life in the world. ...
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  • who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...
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  • Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...
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  • in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...
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  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...
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  • The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...
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  • The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...
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  • Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The world ... the Three Gorges Dam generates 95±20 TWh of electricity per year ...
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  • site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...
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  • ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of ...
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  • The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...
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  • ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ... The Convention came about in the wake of the King's Flight to ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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  • and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...
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