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  • Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...
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  • Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...
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  • The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. Operation Marita ...
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  • Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...
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  • in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...
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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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  • Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...
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  • are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...
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  • August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 ... Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He ...
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  • Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...
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  • established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...
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  • Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai Chin. ...
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  • ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...
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  • operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...
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  • Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...
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  • | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...
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  • movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...
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  • New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's ... (1760-1820) who was descended from the House of Brunswick." ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...
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  • played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all ... in football and for his outspoken support of policies that improve the social ...
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  • Ice hockey one of the more physical sports, is one of the four major ... While there are 72 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...
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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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  • Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...
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  • face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded ... many ritual elements, such as the use of salt for purification, from ...
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  • Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast ...
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  • Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied ...
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  • is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto. For one-thousand ... and architectural treasure. Since the end of the eighteenth century, tourism ...
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  • he organized mass protests against the use of nuclear power. ... ntsofjapanliv00west/page/294 Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan& ...
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  • , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... Historically, Crete was once the center of the Minoan civilization ( ...
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  • Radulescu was a prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian ... Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...
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  • in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...
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  • 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...
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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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  • the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...
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  • Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...
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  • politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...
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  • a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...
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  • philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...
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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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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...
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  • in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...
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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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  • Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... The goal of water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay (dental caries ...
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  • physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...
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  • George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...
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  • – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...
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  • to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...
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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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  • England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...
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