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  • The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British ... The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903, by Alfred Harmsworth ...
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  • government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...
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  • Daily Telegraph, The The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855 ...
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  • 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and founder of ... and sisters. His grandfather had issued the London Literary Gazette, and ...
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  • The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in ... something of a phrase in its own right in the UK. The stereotypical Daily ...
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  • Times, The (London) The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom ...
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  • The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as ... Founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon ...
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  • The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper ... The Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes; this includes four in editorial ...
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  • His philological works include Wen Shi (文始 "The Origin of ... character, he was jailed for three years by the Qing Empire and was put under ...
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  • philosopher and reformist who is considered the foremost intellectual leader ... Liang believed that journalism had an important role in educating ...
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  • Associated Press Building in New York City. The AP left this building in 2004.]] The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world ...
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  • publisher best known for establishing the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes ... His younger brother, Albert, was trained for the priesthood but never attained ...
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  • A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising ... The first newspapers appeared as a daily news posting known as Acta ...
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  • Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was a newspaper ... February 3, 1811, in Amherst, New Hampshire, the son of a poor farmer. He declined ...
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  • is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...
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  • 5, 1926) was a French Impressionist painter. The term Impressionism, which ... generation Parisians, of 90 Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris ...
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  • [[File:911-Panel.JPG|thumb|300px|A panel in the Newseum in Washington ... Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ...
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  • or individual journalists. Coined in the 1890s to describe the sensationalist ... However, the era of yellow journalism was influential both in galvanizing ...
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  • are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting ... The calendar is not only a tool for organizing information and dates ...
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  • renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... Her idea for a newspaper story chronicling her round-the-world trip ...
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  • expanding such knowledge, particularly in the United States, where he expanded ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...
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  • Lúcia de Jesus Rosa Santos—"Sister Lúcia of Jesus and of ... Ordered to keep silent about the content of her revelations, at age ...
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  • using his photojournalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York ... reforms toward better living conditions for the thousands of people living ...
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  • Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African ... Although her poetry about the colonies' struggle for freedom ...
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  • known as José Martí, was a leader of the Cuban independence movement ... were his books for children, La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age) being the most ...
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  • contributions to Holocaust theology. He was the first American Jewish theologian ... frontiers in Jewish thought. He argued that the experience of the Holocaust ...
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  • The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated ... Together with the People First Party ( 親民黨) and Chinese New ...
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  • manager in Major League Baseball who managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers ... Regarded as one of the greatest managers in baseball history, Alston ...
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  • wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World ... human foibles represented a break with both the prosody and sensibilities ...
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  • , was a Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary ... Gorky was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, renamed Gorky in his ...
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  • 21, 1843) was an English poet and writer of the Romantic school. Southey was ... is an invaluable record for one of the most important eras in English ...
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  • Journalism is the reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting ... officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics ...
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  • revolutionary. Although he was successful in the traditional Confucian system ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...
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  • html “Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is ... Vonnegut worked on the nation's first daily high school newspaper ...
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  • in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus. In ... " and later his circus, dubbed "The Greatest Show on Earth," ...
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  • Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... Plagiarism is not necessarily the same as copyright infringement, ...
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  • 88), who had been apprenticed as a youth to the Boston lithographic firm of ... Currier and Ives greatly increased the public demand for graphic images ...
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  • satirist, and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" ... He is well-known as the journalist who covered the Scopes Trial, which ...
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  • |flag_caption = Oklahoma Choctaw Battalion Flag during the American ... The Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally ...
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  • The Gang of Four ( s=四人帮|t=四人幫|p=Sì rén bāng ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's ...
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  • ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The ... Prithviraj Chauhan founded Ajmer (Ajaya-meru in Sanskrit) in the late ...
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  • Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan ... The operation proved significant as it sparked a large scale military ...
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  • in central Seoul, South Korea. One of the city's largest institutions ... as teachers, not missionaries. Looking at the teacher work as a cover for ...
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  • John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... Protestantism at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He ...
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  • Yi Sun-sin (April 28 1545 – December 16 1598), also commonly transliterated ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...
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  • Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...
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  • Sun Myung Moon ( ko|문선명 , ko|文鮮明 which is now part of North Korea. He founded the Unification Church (known ...
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  • voice and vocal range. She is one of the most celebrated ladies of ... of heritage and her last name, along with the fact that she was from New ...
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  • and early social work pioneer, perhaps the best known representative ... He was also a prolific author whose best known works were The Best ...
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  • than 60,000 interviews, including many of the most famous people in all ... King's concise, simple and to the point style of questioning ...
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  • The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the ... two whales, Japan and China representing the whales. Indeed, the history ...
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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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  • 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter" ... minor leagues, Feller made his debut with the Indians at the age of 17. ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • May 17, 2011), nicknamed "the Killer" and "Hammerin ... tremendous power and made him one of the most feared power hitters ...
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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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  • vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales; newspaper publishing; manufacture ... New England textile manufacturers. In the 1960s its assets, and a sizable ...
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  • music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s ... and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most ...
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  • be human life enriched.") title=About the University | year=2007 | publisher ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally ...
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  • was a Catalan Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...
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  • British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader ... Thatcher. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State ...
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  • form, source, or technology differing from the current popular forms, sources ... The term alternative energy also is used for energy derived from sources ...
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  • suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...
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  • The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... ). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia ...
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  • Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...
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  • Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The park occupies 81.4 square ... Little is known of the people who constructed these dwellings, and ...
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  • and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...
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  • The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... Today, the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ...
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  • was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ... pistols at his disposal. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates ...
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  • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...
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  • quot; since they have less representation in the Council of States. Switzerland ... The titles commonly used to name Switzerland in French ( ...
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  • 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth ... the end of the year, Elizabeth sued The Sun newspaper for breach of copyright ...
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  • The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... HMS Endurance was dispatched to remove the camp on March 25, but was ...
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  • A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...
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  • many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience ... Romagna, Italy and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, ...
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  • Koryo-saram (Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람 ... A separate ethnic Korean community lives on the island of Sakhalin ...
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  • The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...
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  • 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...
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  • 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely ... on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth ...
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  • The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...
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  • - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... tribes, Curtis was inspired to embark on the immense project that became ...
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  • A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... social engineering techniques, usually by the state or the party in one ...
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  • The Scopes Trial (often called the Scopes Monkey Trial) was a highly ... The Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn ...
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  • Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... The Klan's first appearance was shortly after the American Civil ...
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  • and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...
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  • revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic of ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...
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  • The Three Gorges Dam ( s=三峡大坝|t=三峽大壩|p=Sānxiá Dàbà ) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near ...
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  • from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the ... was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school ...
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  • PC (March 27, 1912 – March 26, 2005), was the fourth British Labour Prime ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...
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  • as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time ... his career, Pelé was adept at striking the ball with either foot in addition ...
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  • The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...
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  • The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... advancement, education, freedom of the press, human development, ...
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  • ‎; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...
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  • of rock music's most successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million ... including 74.5 million albums in the United States alone. ...
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  • th2 e Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became ... He was Napoleon's chief diplomat during the years when French ...
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  • Air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals ... with major stationary sources, but the greatest source of emissions ...
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  • is one of eight universities that belong to the Ivy League. Originally founded ... The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ...
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