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  • in Hertfordshire and became the founder of the diamond company De Beers ... Africa's natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship ...
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  • believes that the second coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ is imminent. Seventh ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...
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  • Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons. Both uses ...
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  • large passerine birds in the genus Corvus of the family Corvidae, typically ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...
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  • Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul ... before his conversion was a great persecutor of Christians. His experience ...
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  • March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...
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  • Snake charming refers to the practice of hypnotizing a snake by playing ... The snake charmer plays the role of hero, able to control the snake ...
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  • American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry ...
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  • quot;) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous ... Prior to the arrival of Europeans, and even after their arrival since ...
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  • The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...
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  • III (c. 1004– January 5, 1066), son of Ethelred the Unready, was the ... His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England ...
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  • The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...
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  • The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... #039;s sins, superseding the sacrifices of the "old covenant" ...
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  • [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...
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  • to mathematics and physics. One of the world's greatest mathematicians ... Lagrange was of French and Italian descent, and was baptized Giuseppe ...
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  • Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...
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  • largest by mass. It is 17 times the mass of Earth and slightly more massive ... ) is a stylized version of Poseidon's Trident. Neptune's ...
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  • Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ... possibly the culture and even ethnic group of an individual has implications ...
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  • and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...
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