Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yehuda Bauer - Biography. Born and raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, young Yehuda Bauer acquired fluency in the Czech, Slovak and German languages. Later in life he learned Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French and Polish. His father had strong Zionist convictions and during the 1930s tried to raise money to get ...

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• Yehuda Bauer - Views
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• Yehuda Bauer - Bibliography

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Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці; Romanian: Cernăuţi; German: Czernowitz or Tschernowitz; Polish: Czerniowce; Hungarian: Csernovic; Yiddish: Tshernovits; Russian: Черновцы́, Chernovtsy) is a city in Northern Bukovina, Ukraine, capital of the Chernivtsi Oblast. Chernivtsi - History. See also Bukovina#History Archeological data prove that the Chernivtsi area was populated from neolithi ...

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Yasukuni Shrine (literally "peaceful nation shrine") is a controversial Shinto shrine located in Tokyo, Japan dedicated to the spirits of soldiers who died fighting on behalf of the Japanese emperor. The name of the shrine was originally written 靖國神社 (Yasukuni Jinja). But with the designation of the jōyō kanji, the name is now written in the simplified 靖国神社. As of October 2004, its Book of Souls lists the names of 2,466,532 Japanese and former colonial soldiers (mostly Korean and Taiwanese) kille ...

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• Yasukuni Shrine - Kami
• Yasukuni Shrine - Controversy
• Yasukuni Shrine - Political impact
• Yasukuni Shrine - Debate in Japan
• Yasukuni Shrine - Recent events
• Yasukuni Shrine - External link

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The Joseon Dynasty (also Chosŏn, Hangul: 조선왕조, Hanja: 朝鮮王朝) was the final ruling dynasty of Korea, lasting from 1392 until 1910. It was founded by the Jeonju Yi family, and was preceded by the Goryeo dynasty. It was officially founded by Yi Seonggye (later known as Taejo of Joseon), a general who originally distinguished himself by repelling Japanese pirates who were marauding the peninsula for mainland technology. Later, General Yi would lead the overthrow or coup d'etat of the last king o ...

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• Joseon Dynasty - Overview
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• Joseon Dynasty - Early Japanese invasions
• Joseon Dynasty - Subsequent history
• Joseon Dynasty - Decline and collapse
• Joseon Dynasty - Japanese occupation
• Joseon Dynasty - The family today
• Joseon Dynasty - The Imperial Family
• Joseon Dynasty - About titles
• Joseon Dynasty - About references

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Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee, and the seat of Hamilton CountyGR6, Tennessee in the United States of America. According to data from the 2000 census, Chattanooga had a population of 155,554 in the city proper and 476,531 in the metropolitan area. Located in Southeast Tennessee on the Tennessee River, near the border of Georgia, and at the junction of three interstate highways, transportation has ...

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• Chattanooga Tennessee - Neighborhoods of Chattanooga
• Chattanooga Tennessee - Important suburbs
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• Chattanooga Tennessee - Principal highways
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• Chattanooga Tennessee - Notable citizens
• Chattanooga Tennessee - Sister cities

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Charles Lindbergh - Early life. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Swedish immigrants. He grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. His father, Charles August Lindbergh, was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman who opposed the entry of the U.S. into World War I; ...

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• Charles Lindbergh - Marriage children kidnapping
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• Charles Lindbergh - Rise of fascism
• Charles Lindbergh - Lindbergh and the Munich Crisis
• Charles Lindbergh - Outbreak of war
• Charles Lindbergh - Later life
• Charles Lindbergh - Lindbergh in fiction
• Charles Lindbergh - See Also
• Charles Lindbergh - Sources

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Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer who is arguably best known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion, although his contributions to straight-ahead jazz have been tremendous. He participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement as a member of Miles Davis's band in the 1960s, and in the 1970s formed Return to Forever. He continued to pursue other collaborations and explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among jazz pian ...

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• Chick Corea - Jazz fusion
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• Chick Corea - Scientology
• Chick Corea - Awards
• Chick Corea - Discography
• Chick Corea - Solo and collaborative releases
• Chick Corea - With Gary Burton
• Chick Corea - Circle
• Chick Corea - Return to Forever
• Chick Corea - Chick Corea Elektric Band
• Chick Corea - Chick Corea & Origin

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Złoty (literally meaning "golden", plural: złote or złotych, depending on the number) is the Polish currency unit. ISO 4217 currency code: PLN Exchange rate (December 25, 2005): 1 USD = 3.23 PLN; 1 Euro = 3.84 PLN As a result of hyperinflation in the early 1990s, the decimal point on the currency was moved by four places. Thus, on January 1, 1995, 10,000 old złotych (PLZ) became one new złoty (PLN). Polish złoty - Historical Currencies. Including:

• Polish złoty - Historical Currencies
• Polish złoty - Złoty in the Kingdom of Poland and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Polish złoty - Złoty in the Duchy of Warsaw
• Polish złoty - Złoty in the Congress Kingdom 1815-1850
• Polish złoty - Ruble and Marka 1850-1924
• Polish złoty - Złoty 1924-1939
• Polish złoty - Złoty of General Government 1939-1944
• Polish złoty - Post-War Złoty 1944-1950
• Polish złoty - Złoty PLZ 1950-1994
• Polish złoty - New Złoty
• Polish złoty - Future

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Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and such later avant garde groups as the Beats and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He was also one of the coiners of the term postmodern. Charles Olson - Early Life and Politics. Olson was born and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts and studied at Wesleyan University and Harvard. Attracted by the social and political id ...

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• Charles Olson - The Maximus Poems
• Charles Olson - Selected bibliography

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Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was a twentieth-century movie star, sex symbol and pop icon. Known for her comedic skills and remarkable screen presence, many now consider her a legendary screen actress. Marilyn Monroe - Early life. Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her registered name was Norma Jeane Mortenson, but her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized as Norma Jeane Ba ...

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• Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe in popular culture
• Marilyn Monroe - Depictions/Movie References
• Marilyn Monroe - Films
• Marilyn Monroe - Television

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Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-Hawaiian detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly in part under inspiration from the career of Chang Apana. Chan is the hero of a number of books and dozens of movies. At first a sergeant (but later promoted) in the Honolulu Police Department, he and his wife have eleven children and live in a house on Punchbowl Hill. He is a large man but moves gracefully. Charlie Chan - Progress of the Chan literature. Charlie Chan appeared in six novels by Earl Derr Biggers f ...

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• Charlie Chan - With Warner Oland
• Charlie Chan - With Sidney Toler
• Charlie Chan - With Roland Winters

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Konrad Zuse's Z3 was the first working freely programmable, fully automatic machine, whose attributes have often been the exact ones used as criteria in defining a computer. The Z3 was built with 2,200 relays, had a clock frequency of ~5–10 Hz, and a word length of 22 bits. Calculations on the computer were performed in full binary floating point arithmetic. The machine was completed in 1941 (on May 12 that year, it was successfully presented to an audience of scientists in Berlin). The original Z3 was destroyed in ...

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• Z3 - How the Z3 relates to other work
• Z3 - The Z3 in the context of previous and later designs
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Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States. Hughes was a precocious youngster. At age 6 he found public school boring and confining, and submitted to his parents a plan of study for home schooling, which his parents accepted. Shortly before his 12th birthday, his family moved from Glens Falls, New York to New York City, where his parents enrolled him in public school, and he graduated from high school at age 13, second in his class. His father was a Baptist mi ...

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Yogi Bear is a cartoon character (an upright bear) created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Yogi debuted in 1958 as a supporting character on The Huckleberry Hound Show. He became very popular, and in 1961 was given his own show, which also included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. There was even a musical animated feature film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, in 1964. Over the years he would appear in many other spin-off series as well, including Yogi's Gang (1973), Yogi's Space Race (1978), Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978), Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985), The New Yogi ...

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• Yogi Bear - Cast from the Yogi Bear classical period 1958-62
• Yogi Bear - Yogi Bear in other languages

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Yin Chengzong (born 1941) (Chinese: 殷承宗; pinyin: Yīn Chéngzōng) is a pianist. Born on the "Piano Island" of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in the People's Republic of China. Although trained as a classical pianist, he is perhaps best known to the West through the Yellow River Concerto he arranged based on the Yellow River Cantata and performed in many Western theaters since 1980s. Yin started learning the piano in 1948 when he was seven years old, and gave his first recital at the age of nine. At twelve, h ...

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Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs (jug in the word Jugoslavija means south). The first was a kingdom formed in December 1, 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was re-named the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in ...

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• Yugoslavia - Origins
• Yugoslavia - The First Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia during the Second World War
• Yugoslavia - The Second Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Breakup
• Yugoslavia - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Legacy
• Yugoslavia - Miscellaneous

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Cheerios, the first oat-based and ready-to-eat without cooking cereal, is a brand of breakfast cereal created in 1941 and marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota. In some other countries (including the UK), it is sold by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand. These products marketed as "Cheerios" differ from the US - for example, in the UK and Ireland, consisting of "four grains" (actually five, but four colours of 'O's): maize, oats, barley, wheat and rice. Cheerios - History. Including:

• Cheerios - History
• Cheerios - Health appeal
• Cheerios - Marketing promotions and cultural association
• Cheerios - Taglines
• Cheerios - Related cereals

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The Chełmno concentration camp was a Nazi extermination camp that was situated 70 km from Łódź near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr, in German), in Greater Poland (which was, in 1939, annexed and incorporated into Germany under the name of Reichsgau Wartheland). It was the first extermination camp, opened in 1941 to kill the Jews of the Łódź ...

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Charles Crane, formally Charles Spencer Crane, was Mayor of Honolulu from 1938 to 1941. ...

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Charente-Maritime is a département on the west coast of France named after the Charente River. Charente-Maritime - History. Charente-Inférieure was one of the 83 original départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. On September 4, 1941, it was renamed Charente-Maritime. Charente-Maritime - Geography. The land area is 6864 km2. Charente-Maritime is surrounded by the départements of Giro ...

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• Charente-Maritime - Geography
• Charente-Maritime - Climate
• Charente-Maritime - Economy
• Charente-Maritime - Demographics
• Charente-Maritime - Tourism

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William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 Paris, France – December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, reputedly the highest paid author of the 1930s. W. Somerset Maugham - Childhood and education. Maugham was born to English parents living in France, who arranged in advance for their child's birth to occur at the British embassy in Paris, so that it would be technically true - as a legal nicety, despite geography - that he was born in Britain. His father, ...

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• W. Somerset Maugham - Childhood and education
• W. Somerset Maugham - Career
• W. Somerset Maugham - Achievement
• W. Somerset Maugham - Significant works
• W. Somerset Maugham - Influence
• W. Somerset Maugham - Selected Bibliography
• W. Somerset Maugham - Novels & Books Fiction and Non-Fiction
• W. Somerset Maugham - Plays
• W. Somerset Maugham - Contributions to Periodicals
• W. Somerset Maugham - Short Stories
• W. Somerset Maugham - Short Story Collected Editions
• W. Somerset Maugham - Other Collected Editions
• W. Somerset Maugham - Maugham on film

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The Hong Kong City Hall (Chinese: 香港大會堂) is a building located at Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong does not designate itself or any part of itself as a city, there is no mayor or city council; therefore, the City Hall does not hold the offices of a city government, unlike most city halls around the world. Instead, it is a complex providing mun ...

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• City Hall Hong Kong - Overview
• City Hall Hong Kong - External link

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