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The consolidation of industry, which so agitated a large segment of th

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By the mid-fourteenth century, professional associations of canon lawy

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Scholars often fail to see that music played an important role in the

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Every culture that has adopted the cultivation of maize—also known as

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There is substantial evidence that by 1926, with the publication of

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Public health officials are becoming concerned about chlorine, a chemi

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The sensation of pain cannot accurately be described as “located”

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Most people acknowledge that not all governments have a moral right to

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Though he left us with numerous great works and, to be sure, is widely

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The uniqueness of the Japanese character is the result of two seeming

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The phenomenon of college basketball's surging popularity remains a

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The Western Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), sometimes known as the Eurasian

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The National Bank Act was passed in 1864 to provide a uniform currency

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Intellectual authority is defined as the authority of arguments that p

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The movement for women’s rights traces its origin to the first half of

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The recruitment and development of talent is a growing priority for

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Polygamy in Africa has been a popular topic for social research over t

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Antibiotics are chemical substances that kill or inhibit the growth of

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The Seventh Symphony (1812) was, at the time, Beethoven’s last

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Far from being fixed on Earth, scientists now know that Australia has

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On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler summoned his top military generals to

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Because of the proximity and likeness of Mars to Earth, scientists hav

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One of the greatest challenges facing medical students today, apart fr

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Despite their acronymic similarity, LEDs and LCDs represent distinct

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Although websites such as Facebook and MySpace experienced exponential

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Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing effic

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The first and most important rule of legitimate or popular government,

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Marketing executives in television work with a relatively stable adver

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White tigers are neither a species nor a subspecies, but appear as

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Those examples of poetic justice that occur in medieval and

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Thomas Hardy’s impulses as a writer, all of which he indulge

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Suspicious as they are of American intentions, and bolstered by court

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Three basic adaptive responses—regulatory, acclimatory, and developmen

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That placebos can cure everything from dandruff to leprosy is well kno

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In response to the increasing environmental damage wrought by poachers

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Newton’s surprising success at developing the laws of motion, as well

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First identified in 1969, komatiites are Earth’s oldest known

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The refusal of some countries to extradite persons accused

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Unlike the United States with its generalissimo politicians - Washingt

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The student of mythology must embrace the contradiction between chaoti

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Given his luminous treatment of light, sky, and water, J.M.W. Turner

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In archaeology, as in the physical sciences, new discoveries frequentl

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18 Nov 2012, 03:55

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Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped

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Theoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for

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Though most tennis players generally strive to strike the ball on the

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At the time Jane Austen's novels were published-between 1811 and 1818

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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and

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A recent ball-catching experiment conducted in space by astronauts on

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