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  • Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... As a part of the once powerful British Empire, Great Britain played ...
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  • The Triple Entente ("entente"—French for "agreement ... Fear and suspicion drove the three nations to seek a viable partnership ...
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  • Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... When the Anglo-Saxon period ended and the Norman period began, this ...
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  • The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field was fought in the county of ... This conflict began when King James declared war on England, to honor ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...
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  • The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...
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  • The Battle of Talikota (or Tellikota) (January 26, 1565) constituted ... Throughout the onslaught of invading armies of Muslims, Mughals, and ...
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  • The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...
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  • a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should ... unusual species that inhabit caves, some of which are not found outside ...
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  • Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...
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  • writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...
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  • The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has ... Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ...
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  • The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...
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  • The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...
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  • a British economist, famous for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of ... an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British ...
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  • Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...
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  • religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...
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  • A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... As a body of qualified individuals who hear complaints of an offense ...
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  • Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated ... in 1877. These dinosaurs also reflect upon the changing history of life, ...
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  • A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally ... Marching bands are generally categorized by function and by the style ...
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