| Algeria (Arabic)The Pledge Algeria
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| Apollo In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn), is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo
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| Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, northern West Africa, northern Central Africa, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| Abortion An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion
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| Algorithm In mathematics, computing, linguistics and related subjects, an algorithm is a sequence of finite instructions, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task will, when given an initial state, proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state. Algorithm
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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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| Ankara |subdivision_type1=Region Ankara
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| Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BCOnly after 664 BC are dates secure. Ancient_Egypt
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| Atom |- Atom
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| Applied ethics Applied ethics is, in the words of Brenda Almond, co-founder of the Society for Applied Philosophy, "the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment". It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life. Applied_ethics
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| Anaximander Anaximander (Ancient Greek: ) (c. 610 BC–c. Anaximander
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| Aleister Crowley | birth_place = Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Aleister_Crowley
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| Athena In Greek mythology, Athena (also called Athene, Attic: , Athēnâ, or , Athḗnē; Doric: , Asána; Latin: Minerva) is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her. Athena
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| Antoninus Pius | place of birth = near Lanuvium Antoninus_Pius
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| Augustus Augustus (Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS; September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14), born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was adopted by his great uncle Julius Caesar in 44 BC, and was thenceforth known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Latin: GAIVS·IVLIVS·CAESAR·OCTAVIANVS). After his adoption, he became the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. Augustus
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| Abydos, Hellespont Abydos (Greek: Άβυδος), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont. Across Abydos lies Sestus on the European side marking the shortest point in the Dardanelles, scarcely a mile broad. Abydos,_Hellespont
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| Alamanni The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Main river (Germany). One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211-217 and claimed thereby to be their defeater. Alamanni
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| Agrippina the Younger Julia Agrippina; known as Agrippina Minor (Latin for the ‘younger’, Classical Latin: IVLIA•AGRIPPINA; from the year 50, called IVLIA•AVGVSTA•AGRIPPINA (edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III (PIR), Berlin, 1933 - I 641, Greek: η Ιουλία Αγριππίνη, November 6 15 - between 19 March-23 March 59), was a Roman Empress. Agrippina_the_Younger
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| Alexander Severus | place of birth = Arca Caesarea, Syria Phoenicia Province (modern Akkar, Lebanon) Alexander_Severus
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| Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of Pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name, formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and an ingenious system for expressing very large numbers. Archimedes
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| Antibiotic resistance Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of antibiotics. It is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic_resistance
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| Aluminium Talk:Aluminium
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| African American African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the term is generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry. African_American
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| Arabic alphabet The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. After the Latin alphabet, it is the second-most widely used alphabet around the world. Arabic_alphabet
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| Anal sex Anal sex most often refers to the sex act involving insertion of the penis into the rectum.WordNet Search - 3. Anal_sex
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| Automated theorem proving Automated theorem proving (ATP) or automated deduction, currently the most well-developed subfield of automated reasoning (AR), is the proving of mathematical theorems by a computer program. Automated_theorem_proving
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| Artemis In Greek mythology, Artemis [(Greek: (nominative) , (genitive) )] was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests, hills, virginity/fertility, and the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. Artemis
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| AOL Instant Messenger | latest preview version = 6.9. AOL_Instant_Messenger
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| Constructed language Talk:Constructed_language
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| Bertolt Brecht | birthplace = Augsburg, Germany Bertolt_Brecht
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| Bagpipes Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Caucasus. Bagpipes
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| Barnard's Star | dec = Barnard's_Star
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| Bengali language |rank=6, 5, Bengali_language
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| Baptism In Christianity, baptism (Greek, "immersing", "performing ablutions")Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is the sacramental act of cleansing in water that admits one as a full member of the Church. The majority of Christians, including Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Methodists are baptized as infants. Baptism
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| Book of Revelation thumb|right|Visions of [[John of Patmos, as depicted in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Four seraphim surround the throne; the twenty-four elders sit to the left and right. Book_of_Revelation
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| Biotechnology Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as:"The Convention on Biological Diversity (Article 2. Biotechnology
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| Boudica Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, formerly known as Boadicea, and known in Welsh culture and legends as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Boudica
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| Bacterial vaginosis | Image = Bacterial_vaginosis
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| Black hole A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. Black_hole
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| Bat | ordo = Chiroptera Bat
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| Black people The term black people usually refers to a racial group of humans with dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group. Some definitions of the term include only people of relatively recent Sub Saharan African descent (see African diaspora), while others extend the term to any of the populations characterized by dark skin color, a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Black_people
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| Bestiary A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. Bestiary
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| Behistun Inscription (Islamic Republic of) Behistun_Inscription
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| Basel Basel (, also Basle Bâle TourismeWhat's the correct spelling of Basle? Basle or Basel? Basel
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| Battle of Actium The Battle of Actium was the decisive engagement in the Final War of the Roman Republic between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. It was fought on September 2, 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the Roman colony of Actium in Greece. Battle_of_Actium
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| Constructed language A constructed or artificial language known colloquially or informally as a conlang is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally. There are many possible reasons to create a constructed language: to ease human communication (see international auxiliary language and code); to bring fiction or an associated constructed world to life; linguistic experimentation; celebration of one's aesthetic tastes in language; and language games. Constructed_language
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| Physical cosmology Physical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology involves itself with studying the motions of the celestial bodies and the first cause. Physical_cosmology
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| Constantinople Constantinople (, Konstantinoúpolis, or hē Polis, Latin: , in formal Ottoman Turkish: Konstantiniyye) was the capital of the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Roman Constantinople had been the capital of a Christian empire, see Christendom, successor to ancient Greece and Rome. Constantinople
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| Codex A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures. Codex
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| Comet A comet is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere) or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus. Comet nuclei are themselves loose collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles, measuring a few kilometres or tens of kilometres across. Comet
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