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Enacted on March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease Act authorized

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

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

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With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary fig

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One of the foundations of scientific research is that an experimental

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Although numbers of animals in a given region may fluctuate from year

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07 Jun 2023, 02:32

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Galaxy clusters are vast groups of galaxies. Extremely hot, thin gas

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Are the lines in the GMAT Reading Comprehension texts are numbered?

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04 Aug 2021, 08:56

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Careful observers of wildlife along unspoiled freshwater shorelines in

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28 Jul 2014, 06:19

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Amsden has divided Navajo weaving into four distinct styles. He argues

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To account for the conformation of the Alps, two hypotheses have been

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24 Mar 2021, 18:08

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For years scholars have contrasted slavery in the United States and in

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19 Aug 2013, 09:15

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The Pan-American land bridge, or isthmus, connecting North and South

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In recent years, teachers of introductory courses in Asian American st

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In April 1841, medical missionary Reverend Peter Parker, M.D., address

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The debt crisis affecting many developing countries has had three caus

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28 Oct 2012, 11:25

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Desert plant populations have evolved sophisticated physiological beha

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28 Oct 2012, 11:41

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06 Apr 2023, 00:27

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Lysosomal storage diseases form a category of genetic disorders result

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18 Jul 2010, 04:48

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In the two decades between 1910 and 1930, over ten percent to the blac

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While space looks empty, it is in fact filled with matter. In 1933, Sw

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30 Sep 2016, 09:47

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Many researchers regard Thailand's recent economic growth, as reflecte

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Many scholars have theorized that economic development, particularly i

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The transfer of heat and water vapor from the ocean to the air

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In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry does not reject integration

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Upwards of a billion stars in our galaxy have burnt up their internal

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Marketing executives in television work with a relatively stable adver

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06 Nov 2012, 19:19

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Shortly after September 11, 2001, the United States began requesting

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Modern architecture has been criticized for emphasizing practical and

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The modern multinational corporation is described as having

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Since 1980, the notion that mass extinctions at the end of the

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An important feature of the labor market in recent years has been the

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A regimen of intrauterine AZT (zidovudine) as a means of reducing the

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The United States government has a long-standing policy of using feder

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Two years ago, a farmer in north-eastern China, found a beautiful foss

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The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the mountain lion, puma, pan

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One type of violation of the antitrust laws is the abuse of monopoly p

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22 Sep 2009, 12:57

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Governments of developing countries occasionally enter into economic

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Art historians approach to French Impressionism has changed significa

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12 Sep 2009, 13:00

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Legal cases can be termed “hard” cases if they raise issues that are

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27 Jan 2013, 17:58

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Common sense suggests that we know our own thoughts directly, but that

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The new school of political history that emerged in the 1960’s and

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Many musicologists consider jazz the only purely American form of

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REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, also called "paradoxical" sleep

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13 Feb 2019, 02:56

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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, America

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29 Sep 2018, 23:29

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The majority of white abolitionists and the majority of suffragists

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13 Feb 2019, 04:36

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The recurring theme of equality in the United States has flared

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13 Oct 2018, 04:53

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As formal organizations, business corporations are distinguished by

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03 Sep 2018, 09:13

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19 Feb 2024, 23:02

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Like any industry, the gaming industry has seen several cycles of expa

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From the beginning, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was convinced that

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For better or for worse, race places a very large part in people‘s per

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