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  • Category:Library and information science [[Image:BritishLibraryOssulston.JPG|thumb|250px|The British Library ...
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  • Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...
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  • The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...
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  • founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...
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  • a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae ... for human beings in their experience of nature. Turmeric, which has ...
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  • Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...
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  • 8256/full/html A conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought] Journal ... the inherent risks involved. In the context of the creation of for-profit ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...
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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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  • The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...
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  • A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction ... geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while ...
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  • an Indian spiritual teacher. He lived in India and in other countries including ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...
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  • Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...
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  • - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... was summoned to Edo and given the rank of samurai. He was installed as ...
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  • to Find Out. is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency ... The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government ...
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  • Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...
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  • in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...
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  • Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...
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  • 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...
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  • to positive interaction between people of different faith communities ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...
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  • worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...
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  • [[Image:Paper 450x450.jpg|thumb|right|Sheet of paper]] Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers ...
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  • Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...
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  • energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...
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  • fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... At the invitation of South Africa's first post-apartheid president ...
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  • for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...
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  • command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... take on board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. ...
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  • Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...
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  • Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...
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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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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...
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  • 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...
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  • Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ... The primary reason for the enterprise of slave trade and human trafficking ...
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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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  • Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...
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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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  • The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...
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  • Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...
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  • Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...
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  • Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... and sexual expression between individuals of the same sex. Today attitudes ...
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  • authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution ... leader (marja al-taqlid, "source of imitation") to many Shi ...
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  • physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...
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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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  • Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...
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  • quot;) is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...
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  • Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...
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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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  • The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...
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  • conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...
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