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  • for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...
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  • Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... manufacturing, communications, and education center. It serves as a ...
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  • Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...
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  • playwright, and essayist. With the end of Realism and its attempt to ... Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...
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  • "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... by the Ottoman government in 1666. Some of his followers quickly interpreted ...
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  • potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...
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  • is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...
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  • historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...
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  • The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...
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  • served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final ...
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  • or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...
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  • Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...
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  • Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...
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  • perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...
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  • Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...
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  • Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...
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  • This concept of a "Dark Age" was first created by Italian ... out that this idea was based on ignorance of the period combined with popular ...
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  • ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...
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  • Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...
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  • objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...
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  • traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...
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  • the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... involves political science, economics, history, anthropology, and many ...
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  • office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...
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  • Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...
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  • Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...
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  • a Major League club when he became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978. us/Culture062003.html Larry Doby, part of history, “courage, dignity ...
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  • movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...
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  • for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...
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  • (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...
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  • [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...
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  • , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...
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  • The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...
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  • he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...
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  • takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... Aristotelian concepts in their theories of ethics and politics. Aristotle ...
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  • Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...
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  • The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... Shilla, numbered among the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom ...
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  • that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...
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  • in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...
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  • Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...
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  • Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... tourism supports conservation through education by offering tourists insight ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... === Childhood and education === Rudolf Steiner was born on February ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...
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  • Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...
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  • by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... other things, such issues as the meaning of life, death, love, and the ...
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  • Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...
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  • ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...
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