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  • heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... social, and economic problems. As a result of mismanagement, very few natural ...
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  • Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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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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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...
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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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  • A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...
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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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  • 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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  • a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot into the form ... characterized by simple suckers, the suckers of squids also are armed by hooks ...
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  • century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...
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  • ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...
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  • an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...
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  • that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...
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  • Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...
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  • as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... processing, transportation and marketing of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) ...
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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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  • ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...
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  • Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...
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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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  • A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...
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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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  • El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... For many decades, coffee was the mainspring of the Salvadoran economy ...
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  • Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...
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  • ==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...
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  • singer-songwriter and guitarist and the son of folk musician Tim Buckley. vibrato, Buckley was considered to be one of the most promising artists ...
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  • Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...
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  • who analyzed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify ... Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. His parents ...
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  • the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...
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  • 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...
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  • The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...
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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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  • 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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  • Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • the ostrich. It is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. The name ... The emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids ...
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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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  • movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...
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  • 224(4654) (1984): 1191–1198 making it one of the tallest peaks in the Indonesian ... Tambora erupted in 1815 with a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...
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  • Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... military revolutionary aims, unlike those of Emiliano Zapata and the Zapatista ...
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  • and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... with the social and psychological anomie of modern life than were many ...
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  • Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...
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  • The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...
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  • North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...
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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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  • ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...
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