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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...
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  • American sculptor. She was a master of naturalistic animal sculpture ... Huntington is recognized as one of America's finest animaliers ...
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  • in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...
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  • The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...
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  • The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...
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  • raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published ... Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death ...
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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...
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  • The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...
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  • [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...
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  • [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|350px|An inscription of the Code ... The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi ...
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  • Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...
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  • mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming ... , with a drainage basin of some 86000|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us , a large portion ...
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  • a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company ... Carnegie's writings provide insight into his philosophy of successful ...
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  • – April 23, 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...
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  • first baseman. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent ... and third World Series title after his return in 1946. His third MVP award ...
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  • urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...
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  • to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). ... The Rāmāyaṇa consists of 24,000 verses About 480,000 words, or ...
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  • during the American Civil War on the grounds of the antebellum plantation of ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...
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  • painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...
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