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  • Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế ... from the fifteenth century during the reign of Le Thanh Thong, one of the ...
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  • Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy ...
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  • Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for ...
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  • daring, albeit short, career as an explorer of the New World earned him a ... Hudson's explorations of the arctic regions exemplify the relentless ...
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  • [[Image:New_York_Public_Library_030616.jpg|300px|thumb|New York Public ... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading libraries ...
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  • The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... triumph that the ancient historian Antipater of Sidon identified it as one ...
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  • and writer who is considered to be one of the most important writers ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...
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  • March 30, 1964) was a mixed-race novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, an ... race protagonists, Larsen displayed clarity of vision despite the complexities ...
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  • the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
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  • | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...
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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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  • 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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  • June 3, 1953, with inventing the modern game of baseball. Abner Doubleday was once credited with the invention of baseball, ...
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  • in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...
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  • ; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era” ... transported and kept in the Forbidden City. In 1557, the Emperor Jiajing ...
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  • in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The ... seemingly understood as a composite ancestor of the ruling dynasty. From the ...
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  • ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... site became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone ...
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  • spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...
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  • Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ... Noguchi received a number of awards during his lifetime and after ...
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  • Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became one ... Carter's efforts established a new trend in archaeological practices ...
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