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  • Shaka was succeeded by Dingane, his half brother, who conspired with ... royal household and fled north. Mpande, the half-brother who had been spared ...
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  • was a leading rabbinical sage of the first half-century following the destruction ... which has been at the center of Jewish life and civilization for the last ...
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  • a son of the Daoguang Emperor and a younger half-brother of Xianfeng Emperor ... *Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi's autobiography My First Half Life (我的前半生 ...
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  • 1392, had been on the throne for four and a half centuries, the royal bloodline ... in Korea was postponed for another half century. ==Death== ...
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  • as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...
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  • (except for those noted in the table) have half-lives from a few days to fractions ... The isotope 137Cs, with a half-life of 30.17 years, has been used ...
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  • While many of the Iroquois renounced him in the last years of his ... Albany, New York. Abeel spent his adult life as a trader in western New ...
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  • and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He studied at the University ... The Brethren of the Common Life, or Modern Devotion, as it was also ...
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  • isotope of rubidium, 87Rb, which has a half-life of 4.88 × 1010 years. ... the most significant one is 90Sr, with a half-life of 28.78 years. As a byproduct ...
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  • countries, and the bread-machine of one half of the human race." ... invalid for the last three or four years of his life. New York Times ...
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  • Sikhs alike regard it as a celebration of life and use the occasion to strengthen ... designation in the Indian calendar. A lunar half-month is 15 days. Diwali as ...
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  • works of art and literature devoted to his life story. He was an early conservationist ... == Early Life == John Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts ...
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  • temporary blindness, which caused the left half of images to be blotted out ... that the metal's density was half that of platinum. As he was ...
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  • fuel rods. No isotope of technetium has a half-life longer than 4.2 million ... neutron activation of 98Mo. 99Mo has a half-life of 67 hours, so short-lived ...
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  • Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the ... the Hansen family from 1919 into the second half of the twentieth century: ...
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  • under King David. Although his personal life ended tragically, he left ... that portion of the account of Eli's life that deals with his ministry ...
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  • somewhat different values for the half-life of tritium, the U.S. National ... Because of tritium's relatively short half-life, however, tritium ...
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  • == Life == Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the ... became world famous, and in the first half of the twentieth century was ...
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  • Sailing was a very important part of ancient Greek life, but the waters ... for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and half-fish creatures ...
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  • from them by her description as half-woman and half-serpent. ... been a seductress, as in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, where ...
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