| Anarchism Anarchism(anar-kisim)(from Greek ἀν (without) + ἄρχειν (to rule) + ισμός (from stem -ιζειν), "without archons," "without rulers")Anarchy Merriam-Webster's Online dictionary is a political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which reject compulsory governmentMalatesta, Errico, Towards Anarchism. (the state) and support its elimination,"Anarchism". Anarchism
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| Abu Dhabi (city) Abu Dhabi ( , literally Father of gazelle) is the capital and second most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is also the seat of government for the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu_Dhabi_(city)
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| Academy Award | year = May 16, 1929 (to honor achievements of 1927/1928) Academy_Award
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| Altruism Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. Altruism
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| Andre Agassi |country = Andre_Agassi
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| Andorra |conventional_long_name = Principality of Andorra Andorra
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| Astronaut An astronaut or cosmonaut ( ) is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft Astronaut
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| Alphabet An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable, but alphabets are the most widespread writing system. Alphabet
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| Aardvark The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) ("Digging foot") is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. Aardvark
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| Asia Asia Asia
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| Angola (Latin)"Unity Provides Strength" Angola
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| Foreign relations of Angola The foreign relations of Angola are based on Angola's strong support of U.S. Foreign_relations_of_Angola
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| Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located in the northern hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five major oceanic divisions and the shallowest. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers may call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Arctic_Ocean
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| Android An android is a robot designed to resemble a human, usually both in appearance and behavior. The word derives from the Greek andr-, meaning "man, male", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" (from eidos "species"). Android
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| Albert Einstein | birth_place = Ulm, Württemberg, Germany Albert_Einstein
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| Afghanistan |demonym = Afghan (most common)Other terms that can be used as demonyms are Afghani and Afghanistani: Afghanistan
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| Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica
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| Argentina |common_name = Argentina Argentina
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| Actor An actor, actress, player or rarely thespian (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an actor, hypokrites, when rendered as a verb means "to interpret";Hypokrites (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. Actor
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| Abortion An abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. The spontaneous expulsion of a fetus or embryo before the 20th week is commonly known as a miscarriage. Abortion
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| American football American football, known in the United States simply as football,In the United States and Canada, the term "football" may refer to either American football or to the similar sport of Canadian football, the meaning usually being clear from the context. This article describes the American variant. American_football
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| Alexander the Great Alexander the Great (Greek: or ,The name derives from the Greek words (to repel, shield, protect) and (man; genitive case ), and means "protector of men."Online Etymology Dictionary, Alexander, Retrieved on 2007-06-09 Megas Alexandros; July 20 356 BC – June 10 323 BC),bbc. Alexander_the_Great
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| Apocalypse Now | language = EnglishFrenchVietnameseKhmer Apocalypse_Now
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| Afghanistan Talk:Afghanistan
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| Aphex Twin Limerick, Ireland Aphex_Twin
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| Apple Inc. , , ) Apple_Inc.
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| Anschluss The Until the German spelling reform of 1996, Anschluss
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| Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was a civilization in eastern North Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River. The civilization began around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next Ancient_Egypt
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| Arthur C. Clarke | birthplace = Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom Arthur_C._Clarke
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| Atom |- Atom
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| Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". Albert_Speer
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| Ada Lovelace |birth_place = Piccadilly Terrace, London, England Ada_Lovelace
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| Agatha Christie | birthplace = Torquay, Devon, England Agatha_Christie
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| Adolf Eichmann – Adolf_Eichmann
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| Ale Ale is a type of beer brewed from malted barley using a top-fermenting brewers yeast. This yeast ferments the beer quickly, giving it a sweet, full bodied and fruity taste. Ale
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| Anthony Eden | birth_place = West Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom Anthony_Eden
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| Antisemitism Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism, also known as judeophobia) is prejudice and hostility toward Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group. While the term's etymology indicates that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, since its creation it has been used exclusively to refer to hostility towards Jews. Antisemitism
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| August 13 ==Events== August_13
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| The Ashes | most successful = (31 titles) The_Ashes
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| Anne Rice | death_date = Anne_Rice
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| Ardipithecus Ardipithecus is a very early hominin genus (subfamily Homininae) which lived about 4.4 million years ago during the early Pliocene. Ardipithecus
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