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  • Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor. In his acting, he gave ...
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  • Bali is an Indonesian island positioned in a chain with Java to the west and Lombok to the east. The Balinese people are descendants of a prehistoric ...
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  • Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...
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  • Ashoka the Great (304 B.C.E. - 232 B.C.E.; also known as Asoka, Sanskrit: अशोक, Aśoka; pronounced Ashok, even though there is an 'a ...
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  • Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło He is known under a number of names: la|Jogaila Algirdaitis; pl|Władysław II Jagiełło; be|Jahajła ...
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  • The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. It was signed on September 5, 1905, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ...
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  • Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; April 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from ...
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  • Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна Романов ...
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  • Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist ...
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  • Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=May Day |image=Maypoles.jpg ...
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  • Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, it is home to ...
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  • The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common Era, and a rich trade flourished between India and Greece, especially ...
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  • William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. The Baroque ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Howard, John (prison reformer) John Howard (September 2, 1726 – January 20, 1790 ...
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  • Saint Ursula was a legendary Romano-British princess traditionally believed to have died as a Christian martyr together with 11,000 other virgins ...
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  • Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (July 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now the Republic of Singapore) ...
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...
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  • The Mariinsky Theater ( Мариинский театр , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ballet in St Petersburg ...
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