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  • poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...
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  • book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular ... Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe ...
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  • Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... and some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former colonial powers ...
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  • established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...
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  • Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...
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  • (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...
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  • The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies ... defeats during the summer and autumn of 1941, Soviet forces counter ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...
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  • English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...
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  • gifts in the folktale genre at the age of 40. While many of his earlier ... mother moved to St. Petersburg in the hope of securing a government pension ...
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  • A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission ... The first working laser was demonstrated in May 1960 by Theodore Maiman ...
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  • or Padang) is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia ... A cultural tradition of seeking education outside the community has ...
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  • was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World ... while in high school. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive ...
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  • Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from ... natural sciences it is also considered one of the behavioral sciences—a ...
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  • , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...
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  • to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... quot;). The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six ...
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  • Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...
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  • Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...
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  • is the largest tree in the world in terms of total volume.]] Trees are the largest plants. They are not a single taxon (unit of ...
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