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  • Raghavendra Swami (1595 - 1671), also known as Guru Raya and Rayaru, was an influential saint in Hinduism. He advocated Vaishnavism (worship ...
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  • The Bering Strait ( Берингов пролив Beringov proliv) is a formidable sea strait linking the icy Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea ...
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  • The Toungoo Dynasty (1486-1752) was one of the most powerful post-Bagan Burmese kingdoms, over which seven kings reigned for a period of 155 ...
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  • Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád, Hungary, is also known as Charles Robert, Charles Robert of Anjou, and ...
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  • The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici), popularly known ...
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  • The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe of upheavals of 1848. It was a time of revolution. Individual nations oppressed ...
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  • The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series of campaigns by the Mongol Empire against Korea, then known as Goryeo, from ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern European colonial empires. It spanned almost six centuries, from the capture ...
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  • Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...
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  • The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| ) in Paris, France, on July 14, 1789, refers to revolutionary insurgents ...
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  • Seongdeok Daewang, or Seongdeok the Great reigned from 702–737 C.E. as the thirty-third king of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla, in the ...
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  • George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was an English poet, orator and a priest in the Church of England. The poems of his final years ...
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  • The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता Bhagavad Gītā , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...
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  • Category:Public Milton, John [[Image:John Milton - Project Gutenberg eText 13619.jpg|thumbnail|right|350px|John Milton, English poet]] ...
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  • Paul Henry Thiry, baron d'Holbach (1723 - 1789) was a French author, philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ...
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  • Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently called the greatest of the ...
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  • The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 41.1 million square miles (106.4 million ...
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  • The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, they were raised in ...
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  • Boris Fyodorovich Godunov ( Бори́с Фёдорович Годуно́в ) (c. 1551 – 23 April|1605|13 April ) was de facto regent of Russia ...
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