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is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of ... Together with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh ...

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of Mary by stating her perpetual virginity and presenting her as the New ... ==Authorship and date== The document presents itself as written by ...

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wild America, the America of frontiers and factories, full of American ... or to express her own private triumphs and tragedies. Often it is said ...

The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the ... The date of composition is disputed among scholars and is difficult ...

itself as a community or organic entity, and of how the Church understands ... Church, the relationship between the Church and the State, and question of ...

Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... Baroque composers and philosophers (not unlike the ancients in China ...

month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection, and community. A commemoration ... Muslims refrain not only from food and drink, but also tobacco products ...

Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly ... ==Authorship and Historical Context== As with many of the Biblical ...

from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition. He is honored ... evocative poems drew heavily on Buddhist and Daoist themes, often remarking ...

as a government official was based on merit and not on favoritism or heredity ... systems that developed in other Asian and Western countries. ...

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African-American anthropologist, novelist, and dramatist during the time ... Hurston's uniquely autobiographical style of relaying her anthropological ...

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on the stage, called the kōza (高座), and using only a paper fan and ... life, ephemeral reality of secular values, and others. Early rakugo performers ...

to pay tribute to Zeus, to forge friendships and alliances, and to enjoy or ... 2004, when Athens hosted the Olympic Games and the shot put competitions ...

It falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early ... calendar. The Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion ...

done in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history, understanding ... To the extent that history is continuous and not generalized, all ...

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refers to the entire structure that carries (and includes) the machine. In ... by Muslim geographers.Ahmad Y. Hassan, and Donald Hill, 1986, Islamic ...

– January 19, 2006) was an American Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll and soul ... soul music, Pickett's work between 1963 and 1973 left a legacy of dance ...

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Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...

Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic cultures. ...

Jodhpur, Gujarat. For the riding breeches and boots, see Jodhpurs. ... featuring many beautiful palaces, forts and temples, as well as a stark ...

) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ... away. Portugal, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, France, and Holland ...

Assembly who would be tasked with writing a new constitution and deciding ... signed by Kerensky as Minister-President and Zarudny as Minister of Justice ...

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the Greek words chronos ("time") and gramma ("letter" ... traditions including Jewish, Islamic, and Roman traditions. ...

known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea existed from approximately ... Africa has had no civilizations of its own, and required a supervising, helping ...

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ensembles, jazz bands, heavy metal bands, and marching groups. Drum kits ... == Etymology and names == [[File:NAMA Cymbale.jpg|thumb|[[Ancient Greece ...

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Images of the Madonna and Madonna and Child are among the central ... single figure in one, refers to a portrait-style image of Mary, but the term ...

for his creation of the comedy of intrigue and his Restoration plays. The ... notable playwrights such as William Congreve and Richard Brinsley Sheridan ...

Kata Loukan) is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the ... with social ethics, the poor, women, and other oppressed groups.Harris ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... located some 30 km south of modern-day Cairo and covers an area of around 7 ...

from the dark ages of the late tenth century and evolved into the Gothic style ... sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers, and decorative arcading. Each ...

of fire. Dresden's residents organized and cataloged stones from among ... under the direction of church architect and engineer Eberhard Burger, ...

became the capital of Vietnam when North and South Vietnam were reunited ... boasts more than 1,000 years of history, and that of the past few hundred ...

in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal ... at that time managed in a Vatican-like style and was called the "Rome ...

– March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso ... ===Life and career=== Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a ...

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Africa bears a difference from other regions and cultures. The roles of music ...

Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially ... of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style. It is the largest mud brick ...

consumed," an allusion to Exodus 3:2 and the Burning Bush. The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...

major culture of prehistoric Japan developed and flourished. The word “jomon” ... The Early and Middle Jomon periods correspond to a period of climactic ...

Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Church from the Roman Catholic Church and established Henry as the supreme ...

Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" ... ) is a sort of processed animal hide that is thin, smooth, durable ...

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) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Chachoengsao, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Pathom. ...

through the authority of the Antiquities Act and is managed by the Bureau of ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...

under his reign, as well as the strong and centralized Confucian state ... During his reign, China roughly doubled her size, and most of the ...

garment that is still worn by women, men, and children. robes that fall to the ankle, with collars and full-length sleeves. The sleeves ...

turning--which is similar to shaping metal and wood pieces. The potter's ... The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as an extension ...

) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ... groups, taking on aspects of their culture and language. The Han speak a ...

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York ... in the United States, for both classical and popular music, renowned for ...

a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn ... British painters of his generation and largely for the distinctive ...

April 22, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known for ... had notable examples of chivalric romance and allegory, and Cervantes' ...

on December 24 in Western Christianity and the secular world, and is ... ways around the world, varying by country and region. Elements common to ...

– January 1, 1953) was an American singer and songwriter, an iconic figure ... from a young age, Williams handled his fame and increasing fortunes with reckless ...

early 1970s. With five number one singles and six number one albums, the ... Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 and Hotel California, ranked among ...

jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. ... His musical innovations and expertise influenced a wide range of musicians ...

Rugby union (short for rugby union football and often referred to ... minutes each plus time added on for injury, and is controlled by a single ...

A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle ... The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...

day state of Karnataka between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries. ... between the then ruling Western Chalukyas and Kalachuri kingdoms, they annexed ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Category:Marriage and family Common-law marriage (or common law marriage ...

discovered in the twentieth century, and most of it is today in the ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...

Bible. It is part of Judaism's Torah and Christianity's Old Testament ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...

time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the Bamar, people of ... King Kyanzittha (r. 1084 - 1113) and his successor Alaungsithu (r ...

was founded in the twelfth century and developed over the centuries ... international postal, telegraph, railway, and copyright unions. It is an ...

extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training ... having learned to read at the age of three, and gaining proficiency to read ...

portions of his two major works, the Annals and the Histories, deal with the ... for its moral instruction, gripping and dramatic narrative, and inimitable ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing ...

Christian sites in the Catholic tradition and is the location of principal ... St. Peter's, Santa Maria Maggiore, and St. Paul outside the Walls ...

is a system of classifying living and extinct organisms based on ... tree of life. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequencing ...

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the failure of the Provisional Government and the 74-year reign of communism. ... decided to grant basic civil liberties and hold elections to a newly ...

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character as well as for his rich harmonies and stirring melodies. His talent was perhaps too heterogeneous and his stylistic skills ...

The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... was an increasing interest in Western music, and attempts to adapt both Western ...

the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the latter an ... ancestry. He was educated in Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome, where he came ...

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Kingdom of Montenegro, Kingdom of Greece, and Kingdom of Serbia) first conquered ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...

hundred Shinto shrines, palaces, gardens and architectural treasures. Kyoto ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...

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works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Though little ... ==Authorship and Historical Context== Habakkuk The prophet Habakkuk ...

as the radio gained popularity worldwide, and new media and technologies ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...

is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof that are ... of wood, bamboo, plastic, or ivory, and are typically used with red ...

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Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major ... In 1921, the Yankees and Babe Ruth were outdrawing their counterparts ...

artist. He lived in Italy for a year and a half from 1629 to 1631 with ... #039;s artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in ...

novelist, playwright, short story writer, and critic. He also penned several ... often seek out adventure to fuel his stories and experience the political world ...

the Egyptian place name "Keftiu" and the Semitic "Kaftor" ... Greek civilization and myth would draw on that of the Minoans. Archeology ...

out above the surrounding built environment and significantly changes the ... Skyscrapers are amazing feats of architecture and construction technology ...

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as well as poets (Guillaume de Machaut) and musicians (Arnold de Lantins ... ===Styles and trends=== The only medieval music which can be studied ...

The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and ... Culture that is identifiably and certainly Etruscan developed in Italy ...

the Pentateuch forms the beginning of the Old Testament. The books of the ... * Leviticus (ויקרא, Vayyiqra: "And he called…") ...

14, 1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer who is ... Borges drew from his extensive readings in literature, philosophy ...

the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, ... Russia suffered from a number of chronic economic and social problems ...

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Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as ... Japanese (prior to the advent of kana), and is generally represented ...

which denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional prayer itself ... joyful mysteries, the glorious mysteries, and the sorrowful mysteries. In ...

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as well as the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Romania ... of central Bucharest including centuries old churches and many historic ...

today southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, and northern Iraq, centered around ... they shared some deities with the Vedas and appear to have bridged the ...

to convey openness to all religions and all people. The four open ... Sikhs consider the Harmandir Sahib holy because the Holy Scriptures ...

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of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential Founding Father ... author, lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University ...

was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry ... Asimov wrote or edited more than five hundred books and an estimated ...

dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military ... boundaries of the Himalaya Mountains, and to the east into Assam. To ...

singer-songwriter, author, musician, poet, and disc jockey who has been a ... Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ...

Kyiv, pronounced [ˈkɪjiu̯], the capital and the largest city of Ukraine ... Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural ...

, Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... of many illustrious musicians, scientists and philosophers, including ...

from China. Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Christianity came from China ... see below), a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the ...

Thomas Gage (1719 – April 2, 1787) was a British general and commander ... Burgoyne, Richard Howe, Francis Bernard, and George Sackville. Upon graduation ...

to Be with You," "Wishin' and Hopin'," and "Son ... was a major fan of American soul music, and created a distinctive, female ...

building, which has been rebuilt twice, and is often referred to as simply ... Its history begins with John Rich, an actor and manager at Lincoln's ...

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Bible that is also included in the Christian Old Testament. It contains the ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...

American singer-songwriter, dancer, author, and actress, known as the "Queen ... Beginning her career as a rhythm and blues singer with her future ...

as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. Greensboro ... The son of a Quaker farmer and smith, he was born at Potowomut in ...

son of Yesugei, head of the Borjigin clan, and his wife, Hoelun. Born as ... Mongol Nation, who brought law, literacy, and learning to his people. The ...

twelve minor prophets, preceded by Habakkuk and followed by Haggai. It is ... The Book of Zephaniah has been most influential in the Christian and ...

was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ... to Captain-General of British forces, and later to a dukedom, Marlborough ...

16, 2018) was an American soul, R&B, and gospel singer born in Memphis ... "Respect" written by Otis Redding, and released by Atlantic Records ...

"They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting ... Christians carry palm leaves or branches and hear sermons concerning Jesus ...

genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although ... centered in the provinces of Seville, Cádiz and part of Málaga—the area ...

era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of ... character's identity is usually unmade and then remade. Often, the interregnum ...

100,000 inscriptions have now been found, and many of these have been cataloged ... the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, are the earliest ...

Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Prague has become one of Europe's and the world's most popular ...

celebrate special events, learn about Islam, and meet fellow believers. Mosques ... The Arabic word masjid means place of worship and derives from the ...

see Contemporary Culture of North Korea and Contemporary Culture of South ... Shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Christianity, and it yields ...

seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish ... the North Sea. Owing to its rugged setting and vast collection of Medieval ...

A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... roofed hall built for transacting business and disposing of legal matters ...

, is an island country in the Persian Gulf and is the smallest Arab nation. ... This wealth has been invested in free education and free health care ...

on the philosophical aspects of mind and consciousness, and also the ... Yoga is also found in the Puranas, the Vedas and the Upanishads. ...

combining music, songs, spoken dialog, and dance. The varied emotional ... in large venues, such as big budget West End and Broadway theater productions ...

Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm. known for backing Bob Dylan in 1965-1966 and then began recording its own ...

(468 sq. km.), it is about half the size of New York City. A small independent ... is a large portion of its Spanish immigrants and their descendants. ...

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Therefore there are only a few texts in the Old Swedish from that period. ... , the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August Strindberg (late nineteenth ...

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covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent ... in the easternmost part of the Pakistani Punjab, or Pushkalavati and ...

both as a guide for agricultural activities and because regularity in the ... based on the true motions of both the sun and moon, calculated with sinusoids ...

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was discovered in the twentieth century and publicly unveiled in 2006 ... the third to fourth century C.E., and its text points to a date ...

language. Sumer together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization ... The history of Sumeria dates back to the beginning of writing and ...

, romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... Moscow is world-renowned for its architecture and its performing arts ...

Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north. ... known locally as a center for pearl–diving and boat construction, Kuwait ...

The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ... ==Origin and meaning== The Chinese character 行 (xing, hsing), though ...

) and ‘Attār ( عطار —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ...

perform a purely decorative role. The arch dates back to the fourth millennium ... openings such as portals, doors, windows, and fireplaces, especially in ...

of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia in the ... suggested that Neanderthals, modern humans, and another hominid known as Denisovans ...

sandstone cliffs veined with shades of red and purple varying to pale yellow ... Archaeological evidence points to habitation during Paleolithic and ...

novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. Known for his barbed ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...

commonly involved in the design of buildings and large nonbuilding structures ... Structural engineering theory is based upon physical laws and empirical ...

is, at frequencies lying below the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic ... (but not limited to) the following: Radio and television broadcasting, ship ...

ruling large parts of southern, central and northern India between the ... had been a feudatory of the Badami Chalukyas and during the rule of Dantidurga ...

to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually ... The hypothesis was first proposed by historian and theologian Bruno ...

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fame in the mid-sixteenth century when gold and silver from the mines in New ... role as a center for the Spanish Inquisition and as a major slave market. It ...

) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...

novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. helping to popularize themes of drugs and homosexuality during the countercultural ...

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... blues-based rock to later progressive rock and heavy metal, but it also drew ...

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God's command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from ... in his generation," to build an ark and to take on board his family ...

in the 1940s. See History of North Korea and History of South Korea for ... constant struggle between forces of unification and division. ...

29, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist and the son of folk ... Emerging in the 1990s, Buckley impressed critics and audiences with ...

been inspired directly from the teachings of and his experiences with don Juan ... throughout these fantastic encounters and could thereby capture the ...

was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. King Henry's marriage to Anne and her subsequent execution were ...

Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of ... of value in what they encountered in the New World, European conquerors ...

The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... punishment. In Roman times, both criminals and dissenters were hung on crosses ...

to the present. Vietnamese art has a long and rich history. Clay pottery ... during the Ly dynasty (1010 to 1225), and its ceramics became prized ...

but large bells such as church, clock and tower bells are normally cast ... zvon which are tuned to a common scale and installed in a bell tower ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... E., tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of Ancient ...

London, England) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hendrix is recognized ... Hendrix was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 ...

a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed ... were first released, identified with Dean and the roles he played. Many ...

artist, author, multi-talented musician, and the lead guitarist and vocalist ... to San Francisco; his mother was of Irish and Swedish lineage whose family ...

of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and the Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια ... of a single author or multiple authors, and the dating of both the compositions ...

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...

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