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Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
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Heller, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2008, held (5–4) that ... held that a federal law requiring the registration of sawed-off shotguns did not ...
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Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. ... The King is not happy with Gulliver's accounts of Europe, especially upon ... Rather than using armies, Laputa has a custom of throwing rocks down at ...
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The sorrel nag is the Master Horse's servant. When describing horse colors, "sorrel" means reddish brown, and "nag" means run-down or not as good as a ...
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Characters include:Gulliver,The emperor,The farmer,Glumdalclitch,The queen ... They do not care about down-to-earth things like the dilapidation of their own ...
Like Brobdingnag, Houyhnhnm (pronounced "whinim") Land is completely cut off from other nations – no one on Houyhnhnm Land has ever visited another ...
Gulliver Ah… Sir… Now… Don't worry… I'm not going to eat you… But… ... The satnav is down and they've narrowly missed being hit by a container ship.
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J.P. Morgan, in full John Pierpont Morgan, (born April 17, 1837, Hartford, ... Morgan had intimate and highly useful connections with the London financial world, ...
Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, that was destroyed ... The cities had not yet recovered from this catastrophe when final destruction ... and other volcanic debris began pouring down on Pompeii, quickly covering the ...
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In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the ... Arabs of today, however, are not exclusively Muslim; approximately 5 percent of ... Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, ...
Versailles, Palace ofThe Marble Court at the Palace of Versailles, France. ... Landscape artist André Le Nôtre created symmetrical French gardens that included ... North of the terrace, manicured ornamental gardens slope gently down to the ...
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A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China ... It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from ... In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby ...
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose ... Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional ... sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened Turkish incursion in Friuli.
Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet ... Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the ...
The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
Whether or not Wikipedia can solve these demographic problems, it has undoubtedly ... This set off the so-called “UNIX wars” among minicomputer enthusiasts.
23 Jul 2020 ... A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician who was president of ... Unlike scientists, engineers are not free to select the problems that ...
28 Jul 2020 ... There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of ... Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th ...
Secession, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding ... the territories should remain free; i.e., slaveholding should not be permitted in them. ... central government when the rebellion had been put down, and that therefore ...
Rhine River, German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Celtic Renos, Latin Rhenus, river ... Flow down the Rhine River to Wagner's Die Walküre and take in the valley's waterfalls ... No other river in the world has so many old and famous cities on its ... Downstream, the regulated Neckar, after crossing the Oden uplands in a ...
5 Aug 2020 ... Hagia Sophia, place of worship built at Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in the 6th century ... The original wooden minaret did not survive.
The Andes are not a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of ... of the Peru-Chile (Atacama) Trench off the Pacific coast of the continent and the ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian army officer who served as prime minister ... by the Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser cracked down on this extremist Muslim religious ... Even the loss of two wars, with disastrous results for Egypt, did not dim the ...
Alternative Titles: Fuji no Yama, Fuji-san, Fujisan, Fujiyama ... also spelled Fujisan, also called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, highest mountain in Japan. It rises to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast in Yamanashi ... of central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area.
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Christopher Columbus, master navigator whose four transatlantic voyages ... way to one shaped from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Americas themselves. ... Felipa died in 1485, and Columbus took as his mistress Beatriz Enríquez de ... by which down to this day we do not know certainly that anyone has passed; ...
Control group, the standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment. ... to have an effect on the outcome of interest while the control group is not. ... a gravitational field that pulled the ball down or because a cable was yanking the ...
But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informative—technical, ...
31 Jul 2020 ... In a gallop, it pushes off with the hind legs, and the front legs come down almost together, but no two hooves touch the ground at the same time.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry ... She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe. ... lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the ... Richard insulted Leopold V, duke of Austria, by tearing down his banner and ...
