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  • The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during the 1890s and early 1900s. It involved the wrongful conviction of Jewish ...
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  • Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó) (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear ...
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  • Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder of the city of Lima ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Hill, Patty Smith Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a American nursery school ...
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  • The NASA Astrophysics Data System (usually referred to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and physics papers from ...
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  • Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who commits apostasy is called an apostate. Many religious faiths consider apostasy ...
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  • category:image wanted MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. The MARC standards ...
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  • Weathering is the process of disintegration of rocks and soils and the minerals they contain through direct or indirect contact with the atmosphere ...
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  • Eggplant is the common name for a perennial plant, Solanum melongena, of the potato or nightshade family Solanaceae, characterized by large leaves ...
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  • Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. In his time, the early papacy began to take on a more definite historical character ...
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  • Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose ...
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  • Aikido is a modern Japanese budo (martial art), developed by Morihei Ueshiba between the 1920s and the 1960s. Ueshiba was religiously inspired ...
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  • Gestation is the period of development inside a female viviparous species of one or more offspring; that is, a time period involving the carrying ...
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  • Uzziah of Judah ( עֻזִּיָּהוּ ), also known as Azariah, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. William F. Albright has dated ...
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  • The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought from September 12 to September 15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. As ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Benham's_Disc.svg|thumb|right|250px|A sample of a Benham ...
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  • Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air. It is one of the five senses originally described by Aristotle. ...
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  • Category:Public Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary ...
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  • An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow. It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures. Bows and arrows have been ...
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  • Category:Public Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (34 – 62 C.E.), was an ancient Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. His six short ...
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