| Agriculture Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and the raising of domesticated animals. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. Agriculture
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| Andrei Tarkovsky | birthplace = Zavrazhye, Soviet Union Andrei_Tarkovsky
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| Alexander the Great Alexander the Great (}} or , Mégas Aléxandros; July 20, 356 BC June 10 or June 11, 323 BC),Leo Depuydt, 'The Time of Death of Alexander the Great: 11 June 323 BC, ca. 4:00-5:00 PM' in: Die Welt des Orients 28 (1997) 117-135. Alexander_the_Great
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| Attila the Hun Attila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, was leader of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea (see map below). Attila_the_Hun
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| Abu Bakr Abū Bakr (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634/13 AH) was an early convert to Islam and a senior companion (Sahaba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Abu_Bakr
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| Asbestos Asbestos is a group of minerals with long, thin fibrous crystals. The word "asbestos" (῾ἀσβεστος) is derived from a Greek adjective meaning inextinguishable. Asbestos
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| Anthroposophy Anthroposophy is a spiritual philosophy based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) which postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development — more specifically through cultivating conscientiously a form of thinking independent of sensory experience.Robert McDermott, The Essential Steiner, ISBN 0-06-065345-0, pp. Anthroposophy
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| Archaeopteryx Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx
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| Burgess Shale The Burgess Shale is famous for the exceptional preservation of the fossils found within it, in which the soft parts are preserved. A Cambrian black shale formation, it crops out in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Burgess_Shale
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| Christopher Columbus | death_place = outside Valladolid, Spain Christopher_Columbus
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| Cannibalism Cannibalism (from Spanish , in connection with cannibalism among the Antillean Caribs)cannibalism, or anthropophagy (human behaviour), Encyclopædia Britannica, also called anthropophagy (from Greek: ἄνθρωπος, anthropos, "human being"; and φαγειν, phagein, "to eat") is the act or practice of humans eating flesh of other humans. In zoology, the term "cannibalism" is extended to refer to any species consuming members of its own kind (see cannibalism (zoology)). Cannibalism
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| Canary Islands The Canary Islands (English pronunciation: ; Spanish: Islas Canarias, ) are a Spanish archipelago. The archipelago consists of seven major islands, one minor island, and several small islets. Canary_Islands
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| Color blindness | ICD9 = Color_blindness
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| Jews as a chosen people In Judaism, chosenness is the belief that the Jews are the chosen people: chosen to be in a covenant with God. This idea is first found in the Torah (five books of Moses) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible. Jews_as_a_chosen_people
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| Coin A coin is usually a piece of hard material, usually metal or a metallic material, usually in the shape of a disc, and most often issued by a government. Coins are used as a form of money in transactions of various kinds, from the everyday circulation coins to the storage of vast numbers of bullion coins. Coin
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| Cult suicide A cult suicide is a term used to describe the mass suicide by the members of groups that have been considered as cults. Cult_suicide
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| Diocletian Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (ca. December 22 244 – December 3 311), born Diocles (Greek: Διοκλής) and commonly known as Diocletian (), was Roman Emperor from November 20 284 to May 1 305. Diocletian
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| Deque |prependwidth=auto;}} Deque
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| Earley parser The Earley parser is a type of chart parser mainly used for parsing in computational linguistics, named after its inventor, Jay Earley. The algorithm uses dynamic programming. Earley_parser
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| Goths The Goths (Gothic: , Gutans) were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, harried the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy, respectively. Goths
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| Book of Genesis Genesis (Greek: "birth", "origin") is the first book of the Bible of Judaism and of Christianity, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah. It recounts Judeo-Christian beliefs regarding the world from creation to the descent of the children of Israel into Egypt, and contains some of the best-known stories of the Old Testament, including Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the biblical Patriarchs. Book_of_Genesis
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| Grammatical gender In linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called noun classes, are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at once.Hockett, Charles F. Grammatical_gender
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| History of Spain The History of Spain spans the period from Prehistoric Iberia, through the rise and fall of the first global empire, to Spain's current position as a member of the European Union. At numerous times Spain's political and military history was tumultuous and violent, marked by the Reconquista and repeated attempts to deal with differences among social strata. History_of_Spain
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| Muslim history Muslim history began in Arabia with the Muhammad's first recitations of the Qur'an in the 7th century. Islam's historical development has affected political, economic, and military trends both inside and outside the Islamic world. Muslim_history
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| Hypertext Hypertext most often refers to text on a computer that will lead the user to other, related information on demand. Hypertext represents a relatively recent innovation to user interfaces, which overcomes some of the limitations of written text. Hypertext
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| History of India The history of India begins with the Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE. History_of_India
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| History of Christianity The History of Christianity concerns the Christian religion and the Christian Church, from the ministry of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles, to contemporary times and denominations. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion. History_of_Christianity
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| Hussite The Hussites were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus or John Huss (c. 1369–1415), who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. Hussite
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| Iran "Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic" Iran
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| Inca Empire The Inca Empire (or Inka Empire) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.Terence D'Altroy, The Incas, pp. Inca_Empire
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| Judaism Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, "Judah";AskOxford: Judaism in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, Yahedut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean eáqnovShaye J.D. Judaism
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| Jordanes Jordanes (also Jordanis or even Iornandes), was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat "If Jordanes was a bishop (as is frequently assumed) and if he lived in Italy (also frequently assumed), those elements of his background have left no trace in his two histories" (, who turned his hand to history later in life. Jordanes
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| Rumi Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلالالدین محمد رومی), but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi,NOTE: Transliteration of the Arabic alphabet into English varies. One common transliteration of this person's name is Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi; the usual brief reference to him is simply Rumi or Balkhi. Rumi
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| Leet Leet or Eleet (sometimes rendered l33t, 1337, or 31337), also known as Leetspeak, is an alphabet used primarily on the Internet, which uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet
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| Lilith Lilith (Hebrew ) is a mythological female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. Lilith
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| Myelin Myelin is an electrically-insulating dielectric phospholipid layer that surrounds only the axons of many neurons. It is an outgrowth glial cell: Schwann cells supply the myelin for peripheral neurons, whereas oligodendrocytes supply it to those of the central nervous system. Myelin
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| Multimedia Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. Multimedia
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| Motet In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. Motet
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| Mecca Mecca , also spelled Makkah (in full: Makkah Al-Mukarramah ; , literally: Honored Mecca) is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Grand Mosque. The city is known for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which being one of the five pillars of Islam, attracts close to 3 million pilgrims every year. Mecca
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| Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary definitionThe Northwest Passage Thawed The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages or Northwestern Passages. Northwest_Passage
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| Nahum Nahum (Hebrew: נַחוּם Naḥūm) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. Nahum
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| North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface. It should not be confused with the North Magnetic Pole. North_Pole
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| Ostrogoths The Ostrogoths () were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in the political events of the late Roman Empire. The other branch was the Visigoths. Ostrogoths
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| Orthodox Judaism Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts ("Oral Torah") and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. Orthodox_Judaism
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| Old English Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon,The term Anglo-Saxon came to refer to all things of the early English period by the 16th century, including language, culture, and people. While this is still the preferred term for the latter two aspects, the language starting from the 19th century began to be called Old English. Old_English
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| Programming language A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer.ISO 5127—Information and documentation—Vocabulary, clause 01. Programming_language
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| Polar bear Database entry includes a lengthy justification of why this species is listed as vulnerable. Polar_bear
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| Proto-Indo-Europeans The Proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE) were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, who likely lived around 4000 BC, during the Copper Age and the Bronze Age, or possibly earlier, during the Neolithic or Paleolithic eras. Knowledge of them comes chiefly from the reconstruction of their language, which was the ancestor of the Indo-European languages, including English. Proto-Indo-Europeans
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| Renaissance The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born")Renaissance, Online Etymology Dictionary was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historic era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform, this is a very general use of the term. Renaissance
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| Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner (25 February 1861Steiner's date of birth is often given as the 27th of February; this was actually his baptism day. See Christoph Lindenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Rowohlt 1992, ISBN 3-499-50500-2, p. Rudolf_Steiner
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