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  • Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...
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  • Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. Known by ...
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  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive ...
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  • Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent writer, poet, lecturer, and women's rights activist. An American abolitionist ...
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  • Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730? – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth ...
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – October 29, 1618) is famed as a writer and poet. One of the last true "Renaissance men," Raleigh was an ...
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  • The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...
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  • Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern East Africa. A former colony of Italy, it fought a thirty-year war with ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Carib indian family by John Gabriel Stedman.jpg|thumb ...
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  • Joshua ben Hananiah (Hebrew: יהושע בן חנניה d. 131 C.E.), also known as Rabbi Joshua was a leading rabbinical sage of the first half ...
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  • James Emory Foxx (October 22, 1907 – July 21, 1967) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who is widely regarded as one of ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. The coast faces the Atlantic Ocean on the west, and Senegal ...
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  • Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609) was a major Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism ...
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  • The Goguryeo-Sui Wars refer to a series of campaigns launched by the Sui Dynasty of China against the Goguryeo kingdom of Korea between 598 C ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...
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  • The Eritrean War of Independence (September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991) was a conflict fought between the Ethiopian government and Eritrean separatists ...
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...
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  • Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor ...
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  • Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the Prince") (135 – 220 C.E.), was a key leader of the Jewish community ...
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  • Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer, best known for his piano concertos and piano miniatures ...
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