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  • The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...
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  • Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le ... The statue depicts a woman, standing upright, dressed in a flowing ...
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  • use a lariat so well that he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ... By the mid-1930s, Rogers was beloved by the American people and was ...
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  • Singer was a well-known proponent of the idea that New Religious Movements ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...
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  • worldwide. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature ... drew notoriety for his comments challenging the scientific basis of theories ...
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  • The Jeju Uprising or Jeju Massacre (old spelling, "Cheju" ... The detested Japanese occupation of Korea, which began in 1910, finally ...
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  • The Gambia, commonly known as Gambia, is the smallest country on ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...
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  • The Arapaho tribe of Native Americans historically lived on the eastern ... After adopting the Plains culture, Arapaho bands separated into two ...
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  • whether it sees its shadow, announcing the result of this ... |significance=Whether the groundhog sees its shadow or not determines ...
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  • ) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...
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  • [[Image:Schilling abuse.jpg|thumb|200 px|Kidnapping (depicted in the ... Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ...
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  • film director who is regarded as one of the greatest directors in cinema ... His best known film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was listed in fourteenth ...
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  • writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United ... of Old South Church in Boston, and from the tower of the congregation ...
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  • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known simply as ... The Cultural Revolution was initiated by Party Chairman Mao Zedong ...
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  • 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of ... needed to employ practical application of the teachings of the great religious ...
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  • (May 30, 1220 – November 14, 1263) was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and ... Nevsky, whose name derives from the legendary Neva River which flows ...
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  • Chennai (Tamil: சென்னை), formerly known as Madras, the ... The British established the city in the seventeenth century, developing ...
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  • The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ... The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The ...
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  • poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver ... attended two gymnasiums, was expelled from the first for political activities ...
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  • Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan ... Sydney is located on Australia's southeast coast. The city is ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Although the rioting was widely reported around the United States ...
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  • #039;s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of ... is almost entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested ...
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  • writer who played an important part in the development of twentieth century ... artistic genius, struggled to provide for the entire family, supplementing ...
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  • and diplomat. Poitier's family lived in the Bahamas, then still a Crown ... In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of ...
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  • The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... that day, shines brightly in history while the other speeches have long been ...
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  • sportswoman who, on August 22, 1950, became the first African-American woman ... and is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis ...
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  • and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean ... Burgess's fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day ...
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  • indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound. There are ... The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are ...
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  • journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures to ... The censorship lasted well past his death, as Dreiser did not live ...
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  • 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of ... to determine "scientifically" the underlying forces (i.e. the ...
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  • City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides itself ... Established in 1865, Cornell was non-sectarian from the beginning ...
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  • was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l ... In the 1960s Capp changed his politics from liberal to conservative ...
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  • Born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of former slaves ... own communities, Madam C. J. Walker refuted the stereotypes and broke the ...
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  • Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... if" ideas that often relate to the extremes of human behavior ...
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  • Phoenix is the largest and most populous city in the state of Arizona ... . It is the region's primary cultural, economic, and financial ...
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  • for both his nihilistic post-war writing and the circumstances of his ritual ... ryodo" ("scholarship and the martial arts"), according ...
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  • superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such ... and an American cultural icon.Les Daniels. Superman: The Complete ...
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  • The word comes from the Classical Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...
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  • print and broadcast) or online social media. The term Fake news is a neologism ... officials and institutions accountable to the public. The proliferation ...
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  • African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...
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  • – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to ... Although he refused appointment as Ambassador to the United States ...
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  • and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and ... Western Christianity. His understanding of the Bible was unique for someone ...
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  • publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional capitalization ... often deals with themes of love, nature and the relationship between the individual ...
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  • 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. The player of the joke or hoax ... beneficial or harmful. Laughter is good for the individual, and the coming ...
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  • is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement ... Her first three books, “Under the Sea Wind”, “The Sea Around ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...
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  • singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...
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  • and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially capitalism ...
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  • novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...
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  • Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...
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