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  • 61United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 62Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 63Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …

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  • 64Ernest Shackleton — Infobox Person name = Ernest Henry Shackleton image size = 180px caption = Ernest Shackleton birth date = birth date|1874|2|15|df=yes birth place = Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland death date = dda|1922|1|5|1874|2|15|df=yes death place = South… …

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  • 65Elbridge Streeter Brooks — Infobox Writer name = Elbridge Streeter Brooks imagesize = caption = birthdate = birth date|1846|4|14|mf=y birthplace = Lowell, Massachusetts deathdate = death date and age|1902|1|7|1846|4|14|mf=y deathplace = Somerville, Massachusetts occupation …

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  • 66dramatic literature — Introduction       the texts of plays that can be read, as distinct from being seen and heard in performance.       The term dramatic literature implies a contradiction in that literature originally meant something written and drama meant… …

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  • 67Presidential Unit Citation (United States) — Presidential Unit Citation Army and Air Force P.U.C …

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  • 68Hero of Ukraine — Ukrainian Order of the State (left) and Order of the Gold Star …

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  • 69Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 70ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …

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