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  • Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at University of Cambridge ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules ...
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  • Xiang Yu (項羽, 项羽, Xiàng Yǔ, Hsiang Yü, original name Hsiang Chi) (232 B.C.E. - 202 B.C.E.) was a prominent general during the fall ...
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  • Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. It lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...
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  • category:Image wanted Crichton, Michael {{Infobox Writer | name = Michael Crichton | image = | pseudonym = John Lange Jeffery Hudson ...
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  • Oracle bone script ( c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ...
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  • In 1978, an intact cranium of Homo erectus (KNM-ER 3883) was discovered. In 1984, he made his most important discovery--"Turkana Boy" ...
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  • Qin Shi Huang (November / December 260 B.C.E. – September 10, 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 ...
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  • Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov ( Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов , December 10|1821|November 28 – January 8|1878|December ...
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  • Fermium (chemical symbol Fm, atomic number 100) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A highly radioactive metallic transuranic element ...
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  • Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is a Bodhisattva that many Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth ...
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  • Robert Herrick (August 24, 1591 – October 1674) was a seventeenth century English poet and cleric, known as the most famous of the "Sons ...
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  • Jibananda Das-er Adhunikota. . Born in a literary family, with a schoolmaster father and a poet mother, he was raised and educated as a writer ...
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  • Terbium (chemical symbol Tb, atomic number 65) is a silvery-white rare earth metal. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth ...
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  • Category:Public Wordsworth, William [[Image:William Wordsworth - Project Gutenberg eText 12933.jpg|thumb|William Wordsworth, English poet]] ...
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  • Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a toxic, colorless crystalline solid with a distinctive sweet tarry odor. Its chemical ...
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  • The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal ...
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  • Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as ...
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  • Rabbit is the common name for small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, characterized by long ears and legs, large hind ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Alfred Tennyson 2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|caption|Alfred, Lord TennysonBritish Poet Laureate, 1850]] Alfred Tennyson, 1st ...
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