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  • Superior National Forest, part of the United States National Forest ... 9 million acres (6,100 mi² or 16,000 km²) of woods and waters. The majority ...
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  • Diego County, California, 90 miles southeast of Mount Wilson Observatory, on ... celestial discoveries, including hundreds of asteroids; the Eris dwarf planet; ...
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  • in China. He is best known for his discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now ... with First Nations people, learning one of their languages. He also tried ...
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  • east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...
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  • mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...
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  • organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...
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  • his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. Based ... He entered the University of West Virginia at the age of fifteen, ...
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  • and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À ... in Austria, and Italo Svevo in Italy is one of the seminal figures of Modernist ...
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  • Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became one ... a new trend in archaeological practices of preservation, which together ...
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  • cause. Academic tenure is awarded to university professors based on seniority ... unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ...
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  • Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...
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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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  • A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... A variety of methods have been developed to assess personality differences ...
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  • 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...
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  • Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...
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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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  • American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to ... to have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway ...
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  • Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...
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  • was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books for ... Laura and her pioneer family never dreamed of, and yet she was to experience ...
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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...
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  • 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...
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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... family. In keeping with the customs of the time, he spent terms at ...
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  • The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...
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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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  • novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best ... Hurston's uniquely autobiographical style of relaying her anthropological ...
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  • on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...
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  • material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...
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  • empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...
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  • are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans who historically ... the plains where they adopted the lifestyle of Plains Indians, hunting bison ...
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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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  • a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...
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  • [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...
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  • Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ... Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval ...
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  • American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...
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  • is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually attracted, primarily ... children, either prepubescent or at the beginning of puberty ...
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  • Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...
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  • (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to ... Sukarnoputri means "daughter of Sukarno" (Sanskrit) and ...
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  • a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...
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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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  • The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...
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  • KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...
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  • – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...
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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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  • movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Kevin Passmore. Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University ...
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  • Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...
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  • to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...
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  • take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...
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  • celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...
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  • Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German ... His most famous pieces of writing include his short story Die Verwandlung ...
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  • Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...
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  • | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...
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  • Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...
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  • It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy ... For some Christians and Pagans the religious origins of the holiday ...
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  • Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...
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  • The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...
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  • was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. He then obtained his law ...
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  • 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...
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  • Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...
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  • | work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...
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  • Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...
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