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  • 22Charlie Wilson (singer) — Charlie Wilson Charlie Wilson performs at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago (April 2010) (photo by Raymond Boyd) Background information Birth name Charles Kent Wilson …

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  • 23List of German expressions in English — This is a list of German expressions used in English; some relatively common (e.g. hamburger ), most comparatively rare. In many cases, the German borrowing in English has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear.English …

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  • 24Religion — • The voluntary subjection of oneself to God Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Religion     Religion     † …

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  • 25Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction  history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… …

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  • 26HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization …

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  • 27Eastern Orthodox Church — Orthodox Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian Church redirect here. For other uses of the term, see Orthodox (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Oriental Orthodox Churches. See also: Eastern Christianity and Orthodoxy by country The… …

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  • 28Stanley Kubrick — Infobox Actor name = Stanley Kubrick imagesize = 300px caption = Self Portrait of Kubrick with a Leica III camera, when he worked for Look (from the book Drama and Shadows ). birthdate = July 26, 1928 location = New York City, New York, U.S.… …

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  • 29Mircea Eliade — Eliade redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Eliade (surname). Mircea Eliade Born March 13, 1907(1907 03 13) Bucharest, Romania Died April 22, 1986( …

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  • 30New York City — City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and an important seaport, it consists of five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The site of a… …

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