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  • In the 6sixth century C.E., during the era of the Pala Empire, Tārā ... wives, Nepalese princess Tr’itsün and Chinese princess Wen-ch’eng, each ...
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  • He introduced two initiatives bearing his name: Lugar–Obama, which expanded ... In March 2009, Obama reversed a Bush-era policy which had limited ...
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  • | Name = John Cage | Img = John Cage ... as one of the most important composers of his era. Cage was a long ...
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  • styles and aesthetic conventions of their era and works of art were produced ... styles and aesthetic conventions of their era and works of art were produced ...
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  • 200px|Playing Children, by Song Dynasty Chinese artist Su Hanchen.]] child labor, and against child abuse to name a few. But these developments ...
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  • in their organization of Congo's era of a single-party state. A ... #039;s GDP and near-term prospects. The Chinese are granting loans to be ...
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  • Louis XIV. The French colony was given the name Saint-Domingue. In the 1697 ... presence of East Asians, primarily ethnic Chinese and Japanese, as well as ...
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  • by the end of the seventeenth century, a name derived from the French Mont ... title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Société de Notre ...
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  • on both sides of the Atlantic, as did A Chinese Honeymoon (1901), which ... than Show Boat and the other musicals of the era, and in some respects it foreshadowed ...
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  • first domesticated the horse. Indeed, its name is derived from an ancient ... police units, a remnant of the Soviet era, leads to problems of jurisdiction ...
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  • Ekaterina Geladze. In 1913, he adopted the name "Stalin," which ... has been assessed variously. His name, however, was constantly invoked ...
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  • thumbnail|left||A replica of an ancient Chinese incense clock.]] ... the performance of clocks until the modern era. However, its practical limitations ...
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  • freed them from slave ships. Indians, and Chinese account for the remaining ... * René, France Albert. 1982. Seychelles, the New Era. [Victoria, ...
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  • remained under French control in all but name, and that the post-independence ... 2007, there were an estimated 750,000 Chinese nationals working or living ...
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  • The origin of the name "Nepal" is uncertain, but the most ... 500 years ago. Ramayana, which refers to the era before Mahabharat, says Mithila ...
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  • to be written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way ... marine arthropod of the Paleozoic era with three lobes. ...
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  • after its capital city, whose original name of foundation was Mexico-Tenochtitlan ... the early settlers took for themselves this name and they were called Mexicatl ...
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  • Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長; original name Kichihoshi, later Saburo ... history as the Age of Provincial Wars, an era when warlords and their retainers ...
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  • tribes for over a century. In the modern era they continue with the operations ... guerrilla warfare structure is seen by the Chinese and Vietnamese communists ...
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  • The "hopping corpse" may be considered the Chinese equivalent of the vampire. However, this creature fed on a person's qi, or ...
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  • that were traditionally owned by Chinese and Mestizo oligarchs to ... Economic performance during the Marcos era was strong at times, but ...
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  • the first Franco-Hova War (Hova being the name of the Merina aristocrats ... high level of illiteracy are left from this era. National elections in 1982 ...
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  • victory. After this victory, the temple’s name was changed to Daigyoji. ... *Kenchoji Temple – Founded in 1253, Kenchoji highlights a Chinese ...
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  • The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated from ... "Veneciuela," suggesting that the name "Venezuela" may ...
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  • flutes or recorders have been found in Chinese archeological sites. ... often used in learning to play music. The name is also sometimes used to ...
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  • the great composers and songwriters of the era such as Irving Berlin, George ... foot prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood. ...
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  • Movement component of the Progressive Era, arguing there were technical ... seized or destroyed by reorganizing the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company ...
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  • Strait flooded around 5000 B.C.E. The name Papua has also been long-associated ... Puncak Jaya, sometimes known by its former Dutch name Carstensz Pyramid ...
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  • writer who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life, is considered ... to convert many of the Native Americans, Chinese, and Indians to Catholicism ...
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  • Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and ... Large sailing junks of the Chinese Empire, described by various travelers ...
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  • foreign travelers during the late medieval era combined with recent excavations ... frequent visits, some captained by the Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho, and brought ...
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  • China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty ... A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era ...
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  • ant (Sphecomyrma freyi) from the Cretaceous era. The specimen was trapped ... During the Cretaceous era, representatives of only a few species of ...
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  • the Greek Zeus, the Norse Odin and the Chinese Shang-di. These celestial ... Iotnar. Some of the giants are mentioned by name in the Eddas, and they generally ...
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  • over 160 million years, during the Mesozoic era. Dinosaurs first appeared ... or "reptile"). Owen chose the name to express his awe at the ...
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  • an abundance of gold, hence the historical name of "Gold Coast" ... In 1472, Fernão do Pó discovered the island that would bear his ...
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  • The Sanskrit name for coconut is kalpa vriksha, which means "the ... as a carved vegetable lantern, hence the name of the fruit (Figueiredo 1940). ...
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  • land drained by the river of the same name. A higher, semi-arid region ... earning Togo and the surrounding region the name "The Slave Coast." ...
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  • #039;s interest in Eastern religion and Chinese philosophy, following a ... of an Indian man named Siddhartha—the name of The Buddha before his enligtenme ...
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  • ethnicities, including Scottish and Irish, Chinese, African American, Italian ... The name Chicago is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name ...
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  • There are different opinions on the source of the name "Uzbek ... many people; there used to be Greek and Chinese, Egyptian and Persian, Syrian ...
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  • 1767. It is believed that the town's name derived from either Bang Makok ... of the river and gave the city a ceremonial name (see below) which became shortened ...
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  • on a pair of male lovers, Qing Dynasty. Chinese Sexual Culture Museum in ... not identities. In more recent times, the Chinese society adopted the term ...
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  • However, at the same time, the alliance of the Kuomintang and the ... measures to promote industrialization. The era of the "Great Turn" ...
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  • in meaning. Some 900 years later, in an era of recovering the wisdom of ... ancient Indian philosophers, as well as by Chinese scholars. ...
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  • of Jesus (ΙΗ, the first two letter of his name ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, standing for 18), ... feast on the same day and under the same name ("In Exaltatione Sanctae ...
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  • (Iris) between Earth and Heaven. In Chinese mythology, the rainbow was ... in the sixteenth century as a sign of a new era, of hope and of social change ...
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  • catalog of deep sky objects, he used the name spiral nebula for certain ... from the SN 1054 supernova was observed by Chinese and Arabian astronomers ...
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  • the largest ports in the nation in the WWI era. Led by the African American ... Like many leftist organizations of the era, the IWW soon split over ...
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  • use of space. Paradoxically, the ancient Chinese had the exact opposite way ... During the French Baroque Era, Claude Lorrain's, 1600–1682 ...
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  • the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers ... The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the name for the collective armed personnel ...
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  • Afri was the name of several peoples who dwelt in North Africa near ... slave trade, which, before the Portuguese era, had been an overland trade ...
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  • called the forest estates Sachsenwald. The name was changed to Saxonwold, ... Although controversy surrounds the origin of the city's name ...
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  • of New Jersey. (A proposal was made to name it for the colonial Governor ... In 1896, the college officially changed its name from the College ...
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  • The Hollywood premiere was on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese ... as well as two radio programs of the era publicizing the film. ...
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  • by historians as the "Chalukya Vikrama era."Thapar (2003), 468–469 ... Nolambavadi-32000, Gangavadi-96000, each name including the number of villages ...
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  • of affluence. One study found that rural Chinese eat mostly whole plant-based ... ===Modern era (through 1941)=== * Early 1800s: The elements carbon ...
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  • Muslim culture of Al-Andalus, the Arabic name given to those parts of the ... county comprised of Spanish fiefs. The name Portugal derived from the ...
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  • in January 2006, where she was received by Chinese officials as Kim's wife. ... Much of North Korea's foreign policy during the Kim Jong-il era ...
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  • Contract workers, Mexican-Indian and Chinese, joined the labor force ... were undertaken by his government in the name of the program that he had ...
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  • it was taken over by the French in the name of the League of Nations. ... meadow"). Al-Merjeh soon became the name of what was initially the ...
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  • are growing in importance internationally in an era of Pacific Rim development. ASEAN has expanded in its dialogs to include in some meetings China ...
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  • while many celebrate decolonization in the name of freedom and realization ... subjectively, as a colonizer in all but name; hence, the dismemberment ...
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  • Singh is an ancient Indian vedic name meaning "lion" (Asiatic ... The Asiatic lion is a common motif in Chinese art. They were first ...
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  • nineteenth century, as part of the Meiji-era effort to encourage literacy ... for Japanese (manga), Korean (manhwa), and Chinese (manhua) comics. Scanlations ...
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  • through labor." The communist-era camps began at least in the ... There have been accusations that Chinese labor camps products have ...
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  • later shortened to "tanks." The name "tank" became official ... remained remarkably similar even to WWI-era gun technology, with most ...
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  • understood to be "physics"—the name for which is still recognizable ... remnants of plant life from a previous era. People in many regions and ...
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  • in addition to, or in place of, a common name. Binary munitions, in which ... being dug by a besieging army. Even older Chinese writings dating back to ...
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  • mother and stepfather, assuming his last name "Clinton" throughout ... #039;s academic credentials, his 1960s-era protest record, and support ...
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  • Fake news, or its equivalent by any other name, is not a new phenomenon ... During the era of slave-owning in the United States, supporters of ...
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  • first time in carpentry and iron working; Chinese technology was used for ... The institutions established in his name are a testimony to his popularity ...
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  • By the post-classical era, many religions, including Christianity ... ), which holds a seminal place in Chinese literature, has a Buddhist ...
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  • affected by the pervasive racism of the era. Despite his success on court ... and Auerbach invested in plastics and a Chinese restaurant), ...
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  • Walter Cronkite, former Gemini/Apollo era astronaut Pete Conrad and ... * The Chinese HDTV system uses an Intellectual Property free MPEG ...
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  • (later Istanbul), and successive Chinese, Indian, and Muslim capitals ... them from the rest of society. In the Nazi era these ghettos served to confine ...
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  • ), who gave him the name Yongmyung ( ko|문용명 , ko|文龍明 ... included learning to read and write the Chinese characters that were used ...
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  • The official name of the nation is the Islamic Republic of Iran, but ... Persia, due to the ancient Greek language name for Iran, Persis. The name ...
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  • In spite of the apparent immutability of the heavens, Chinese astronomers ... Circa 1600, the names of the constellations were used to name the ...
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  • World War I-era submarines had their hulls built of carbon steel, ... The turn of century era marked a pivotal time in the development of ...
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  • the UK, which then changed to the current name in 1927 of the United Kingdom ... Britain to China. The Company discovered a Chinese demand for opium and started ...
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  • appellation "Father" for God. One name, Al Haqq, meaning “The Truth ... of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son ...
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  • of armored warfare in the interwar era. These thoughts resonated ... carried out by Japanese soldiers on the Chinese in the Sino-Japanese war ...
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  • only by the Persian Empire and by the Chinese Empire. At an early period ... Praetorian Guard who had been bribed in the name of Galba. It became all too ...
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  • The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ... presented Mustafa Kemal with the honorific name "Atatürk" ("Father ...
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  • during the tenth century and takes its name from the Angles, one of a ... its tiny medieval boundaries; but the name "London" has long ...
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  • Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... in Italian, huànxióng (浣熊) in Chinese, and mieshta mechka (миеща ...
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  • as he accused Deng Xiaoping's Chinese government of betraying ... rations were dramatically reduced, Chinese bicycles were imported to ...
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  • a Democrat since 1884. The Roosevelt name, money, and the Democratic ... the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA), which granted funds to the ...
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  • led by Leif Eriksson c. 1000 C.E. and the Chinese to South America c. 1421 ... the philosophy that religion by whatever name promotes the moral rectitude ...
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  • later became highly influential in the Chinese socialist market economy ... * 1921: The Era of Great Works * 1921: The New Economic Policy of Soviet ...
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  • The name Canada comes from a Saint Lawrence Iroquoian word meaning ... in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was adopted for the ...
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  • There is controversy over the etymology of the English name Georgia ... groups include Assyrians, Chechens, Chinese, Georgian Jews, Greeks, ...
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  • Union in Nikolayev in early 1897. Using the name 'Lvov,' ... of 1902, having stolen a passport in the name of Leon Trotsky (a former ...
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  • , about the beginning of the Christian era. These were Ulster, Meath ... of ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland. Chinese and Urdu are spoken by Northern ...
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  • , 232-265. The growth of the Victorian Era industrial cities left thousands ... the Russians in granting a loan to the Chinese government. Arguing that ...
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  • Spain, from the Latin name Hispania, is located southwest of France ... Turodi, and Zoelae). There were in this era, some small, semipermanent ...
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  • form of his maternal grandfather's name, Lecorbésier) as a pseudonym ... Adopting a single name to identify oneself was in vogue by artists ...
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  • the German coaling port of Qingdao in the Chinese Shandong peninsula. Within ... and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War. New ...
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  • Article 58-10 of the Stalin-era Criminal Code, "Anti-Soviet agitation ... Punitive psychiatry was not simply an inheritance from the Stalin ...
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