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  • Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... several times by fire, King Christian IV of Denmark (and Norway) in 1624 ...
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  • and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after helping lead ... world leaders to see to the realization of such. His diplomatic skills ...
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  • and tasteless gas. It is the product of the incomplete combustion of ... technology, being a precursor to a myriad of useful—even life-saving—products ...
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  • and networking, and a major manufacturer of personal and office printers ... devotes approximately 10 percent of its net sales to research and ...
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  • The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...
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  • that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...
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  • EADS, high-technology and parent company of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes ... survival during the German economic crisis of the 1920s. Its automobiles ...
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  • San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...
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  • The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... noting it as "an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with ...
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  • rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...
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  • battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...
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  • |name = University of Oxford |latin_name = Universitas ... uk/aboutoxford/history.shtml A Brief History of the University.] Retrieved ...
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  • The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family ... the southwestern United States) across much of Central America and south to ...
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  • Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...
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  • The Beach Boys are one of the most successful American rock and roll ... The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in ...
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  • Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...
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  • Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Insects are arthropods ... Insects have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms ...
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