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  • category:image wanted Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ten Boom. Ten Boom was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor ...
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  • St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...
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  • Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the nineteenth century ...
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  • Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. He was elected ...
    16 KB (2,464 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
  • Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine ( alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin|lang ; October 21, 1790 February 28, 1869 Gorton Carruth ...
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  • José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...
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  • Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard I, the Lionheart. She was ...
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  • Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example of Homo erectus, an extinct species of the genus to which modern humans also ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Geertz, Clifford Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was ...
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  • Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...
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  • Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ...
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  • Katsu Kaishū (勝 海舟 Awa Katsu; Kaishū; Rintaro; Yoshikuni 1823-1899) was a Japanese naval officer and statesman during the Late Tokugawa ...
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  • Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina ...
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  • James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October 14, 1633 – September 16, 1701) became King of England, King of Scots, and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19 ...
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  • Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, which affirms that the Church ...
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  • Guillaume du Vair (March 7, 1556 – August 3, 1621) was a French author and lawyer who popularized Stoicism during the Enlightenment. After ...
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  • The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects. The other major sect is ...
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  • Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost ...
    15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
  • The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story ...
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