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  • The Governor-General of India (fully Governor-General and Viceroy of India) refers to the head of the British administration in India, and later ...
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  • Geb (also spelled Seb, and Keb) was an important member of the Ennead, the pantheon of deities revered in ancient Lower Egypt. Geb represented ...
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  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Case citation 347 U.S. 483 (1954), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly ...
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  • Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov ( Михаил Евграфович Салтыков ) ( January 27,|1826|15 January in Spas-Ugol village, Tver ...
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  • Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (August 15, 1771 – September 21, 1832) was an influential Scottish novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among ...
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  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and ...
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  • Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions of Japan, Shinto and Buddhism. Japanese mythology is a complex system of ...
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  • Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung) of Kievan Rus'. The son of Igor ...
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  • Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all ...
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  • The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the last major battle of the Peloponnesian War. In the battle, a Spartan fleet ...
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  • The Ottoman-Habsburg wars refers to the military conflicts fought from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries between the Ottoman Empire ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[Image:protocomicstrip.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Example of a proto-comic strip from ...
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  • The Légion d'honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a French order established ...
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  • Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially ...
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  • The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; Kara Kitad; t=西遼|s=西辽|p=Xī Liáo ) existed from 1124 C.E. (Yelü ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short story ...
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  • Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, writer, producer, and director. He became most ...
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  • Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical ...
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  • Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...
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  • Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the ...
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