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1998: Encyclopedia - 1998
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean....
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1971: Encyclopedia - 1971
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar).
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1913: Encyclopedia - 1913
1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar)
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1978: Encyclopedia - 1978
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar).
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Caron: Encyclopedia - Caron
accent
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Constantinople: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantinople - Names
The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Constantine establish...
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Bbc World Service: Encyclopedia - Bbc World Service
The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages ...
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Balkans: Encyclopedia - Balkans
The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,...
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Bahri Dynasty: Encyclopedia - Bahri Dynasty
The Bahri dynasty or Bahriyya Sultante المماليك البحرية was a Mamluk dynasty of Kipchak Turk origin that ruled Egypt from ...
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Axis Powers: Encyclopedia - Axis Powers
The Axis Powers were those opposed to the Allies. The 3 major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Empire of Japan, referred...
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Baba Yaga: Encyclopedia - Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga (Czech Baba Jaga, Polish Baba Jaga, Slovene Jaga Baba, Macedonian Баба Рога, Russian Бáба-Ягá, Bulgarian Баб...
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Banjska Monastery: Encyclopedia - Banjska Monastery
Banjska Monastery (pronounced Bine-ska to rhyme with Mine-ska) is a Serb Orthodox Monastery near Zvečan in the north of Kosovo and Metoh...
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Bark Dog: Encyclopedia - Bark Dog
Barking is the one of the noises most commonly produced by dogs.
Bark dog - Why dogs bark.
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Balkan Linguistic Union: Encyclopedia - Balkan Linguistic Union
Balkan linguistic union or Balkansprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the...
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Battle Of Manzikert: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Manzikert
The Battle of Manzikert occurred on August 26, 1071 between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turkish forces led by Alp Arslan, resulting i...
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Book Of Veles: Encyclopedia - Book Of Veles
The Book of Veles (also: Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook, Isenbeck's Planks, Велесова книга, Влес книга, Влеск...
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Boris And Gleb: Encyclopedia - Boris And Gleb
Boris and Gleb, Christian names Roman and David, were the first Russian saints. According to two 11th century Lives of Boris and Gleb (as...
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Boris I Of Bulgaria: Encyclopedia - Boris I Of Bulgaria
Boris I Michail or Boris I Michael (Bulgarian Борис I Михаил)(died May 2, 907) was the khan from 852 to 889 and first Christia...
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Brother Bear: Encyclopedia - Brother Bear
Brother Bear is the forty-third film in the Disney animated feature canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida and r...
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Bulgaria: Encyclopedia - Bulgaria
The Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България), or Bulgaria, is a country in the southeast of Europe. It borde...
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and b...
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Boris: Encyclopedia - Boris
Boris is a Bulgarian name, also common in Russia and Slovenia.
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2006: Encyclopedia - 2006
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5766-5767 in the Hebrew Calendar,...
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Bianka Panova: Encyclopedia - Bianka Panova
Bianka Panova (Bulgarian: Бианка Панова) (born May 27, 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She was th...
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Yus: Encyclopedia - Yus
Little Yus (Ѧ, ѧ) and Big Yus (Ѫ, ѫ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic an...
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Bitola Inscription: Encyclopedia - Bitola Inscription
The Bitola inscription is an inscription made by order of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav in 1015 or 1016 in connection with the fortificat...
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Black Sea: Encyclopedia - Black Sea
The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the ...
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Belgrade: Encyclopedia - Belgrade
Belgrade (listen ▶ (help·info)), is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present). It is one of the oldest cities in Europe se...
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Tea: Encyclopedia - Tea
Tea is a product made from the leaves or buds of the tea bush Camellia sinensis. It is commonly consumed in the form of a beverage made b...
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Danube: Encyclopedia - Danube
The Danube (Donau in German; Dunaj in Slovak; Duna in Hungarian; Dunav in Croatian; Дунав/Dunav in Serbian; Дунав in Bulgarian...
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Joseph: Encyclopedia - Joseph
Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, and Tiberian Hebrew...
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Pine: Encyclopedia - Pine
About 115.
Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different...
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Region: Encyclopedia - Region
Region can be used to mean either:
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Easter: Encyclopedia - Easter
History of Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth
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Bagpipes: Encyclopedia - Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, altho...
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Decapitation: Encyclopedia - Decapitation
Decapitation, or beheading, is the removal of a living organism's head. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation...
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Bogomilism: Encyclopedia - Bogomilism
Bogomilism is the Gnostic dualistic sect, the synthesis of Armenian Paulicianism and local Slavonic Church reform movement in Bulgaria be...
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Branch Davidian: Encyclopedia - Branch Davidian
The Branch Davidians are a religious group originating from the Seventh-day Adventist church. They are best known because of the 1993 sie...
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Bulgarians: Encyclopedia - Bulgarians
Albania: 5,000
Argentina: 30,0004
Austria: 50,0003
Canada: 15,1951 (2001) - 150,0004
Czech Republic: 10,0003
France: 20,0003
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Quotation Mark: Encyclopedia - Quotation Mark
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Albanian Language: Encyclopedia - Albanian Language
Albanian (gjuha shqipe /ˈɟuˌha ˈʃciˌpɛ/) is a language spoken by over 6 million people primarily in Albania, but also by smaller n...
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Alexandroupoli: Encyclopedia - Alexandroupoli
Alexandroupoli (also Alexandroupolis, Greek: Αλεξανδρούπολη - Alexandroúpoli) is a city of Greece and the capital of the E...
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Analytic Language: Encyclopedia - Analytic Language
An analytic language (or isolating language) is a language in which the vast majority of morphemes are free morphemes and considered to b...
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André The Giant: Encyclopedia - André The Giant
André the Giant (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993) was a professional wrestler and actor, born André René Roussimoff in Molien, Franc...
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1912: Encyclopedia - 1912
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julia...
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Skopje: Encyclopedia - Skopje
Skopje (Macedonian: Скопје, Albanian: Shkupi, Serbian/Croatian: Skoplje, Bulgarian: Скопие; Ottoman Turkish: Üsküb, Greek: ...
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1835: Encyclopedia - 1835
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S.
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1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see...
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1876: Encyclopedia - 1876
1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday.
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S.
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World Chess Championship: Encyclopedia - World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to conte...
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William Ewart Gladstone: Encyclopedia - William Ewart Gladstone
The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister...
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Colin Campbell Geologist: Encyclopedia - Colin Campbell Geologist
Colin J. Campbell, Ph.D., (born 1931) is a retired petroleum geologist who predicts that oil production will peak by 2007. The consequenc...
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Wikinews: Encyclopedia - Wikinews
Wikinews is a free content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikinews allows anyone to report news on a wide variety...
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Vidin: Encyclopedia - Vidin
22° 52' east
Vidin (Bulgarian: Видин, Romanian: Vidin) is a town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is...
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Close-mid Front Unrounded Vowel: Encyclopedia - Close-mid Front Unrounded Vowel
The close-mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alp...
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Close-mid Back Unrounded Vowel: Encyclopedia - Close-mid Back Unrounded Vowel
The close-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alph...
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Vit: Encyclopedia - Vit
Vit (Bulgarian Вит) is a river in Northern Bulgaria with a length of 189 km. The source of Vit is in Stara Planina at an altitude of 2...
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Viswanathan Anand: Encyclopedia - Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand (pronounced Vis'wah'nəh'thən Ah'nənd) (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In the January 2006 F...
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Vinga: Encyclopedia - Vinga
Vinga is a small town in Arad county, Romania. Even before arriving into the town, one notices the imposing Catholic church.
The people i...
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Clement Of Ohrid: Encyclopedia - Clement Of Ohrid
Saint Clement of Ohrid (ca. 840–916), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar and writer, the first Bulgarian archbishop. Evidence about his l...
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List Of Poisonings: Encyclopedia - List Of Poisonings
This is a List of poisonings in alphabetical order of victim. It also includes confirmed attempted and fictional poisonings. Many of the ...
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List Of Common Phrases In Various Languages: Encyclopedia - List Of Common Phrases In Various Languages
This is a list of common phrases in various languages, for a general overview of ten to fifteen basic phrases in all of the major world l...
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Cyrillic Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Cyrillic Alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Bela...
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Tsar: Encyclopedia - Tsar
Tsar (Bulgarian and Serbian цар, Russian царь ▶ (help·info)), often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English),...
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Vârcolac: Encyclopedia - Vârcolac
A vârcolac in Romanian folklore may refer to several different figures. In some versions, a vârcolac is a wolf demon. Like the Norse Fe...
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Veselin Topalov: Encyclopedia - Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov (Bulgarian: Веселин Топалов; born Ruse, Bulgaria, March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. He became th...
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Venice: Encyclopedia - Venice
Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venessia in the local dialect), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the provinc...
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Slavic Mythology: Encyclopedia - Slavic Mythology
Slavic mythology and Slavic religion evolved over more than 3,000 years. It is conjectured that some parts of it are from neolithic or po...
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Constantine Of Preslav: Encyclopedia - Constantine Of Preslav
Constantine of Preslav (Konstantin Preslavski) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of ...
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Citroën Traction Avant: Encyclopedia - Citroën Traction Avant
The Citroën Traction Avant was a automobile produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1935 to 1957. It is one of the most famous...
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Voiced Postalveolar Fricative: Encyclopedia - Voiced Postalveolar Fricative
The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The s...
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Yoghurt: Encyclopedia - Yoghurt
Yoghurt or yogurt, less commonly yoghourt or yogourt, is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. Any sort of milk may...
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Yevanic Language: Encyclopedia - Yevanic Language
Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Gree...
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Yer: Encyclopedia - Yer
The letter (Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак /'tvʲor.dɨj znak/) in the modern Russia...
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Yelena Davydova: Encyclopedia - Yelena Davydova
Yelena Victorovna Davydova (Russian:Еле́на Ви́кторовна Давы́дова) (born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh, 400 miles s...
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Yugoslavia: Encyclopedia - Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successi...
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Article Grammar: Encyclopedia - Article Grammar
An article is a word that is put next to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.
Articles can have various funct...
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Caesar Title: Encyclopedia - Caesar Title
Caesar (p. Caesares) is a title of imperial character. It derives from the cognomen of Gaius Julius Caesar ("Julius Caesar"), the Roman d...
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Casablanca Film: Encyclopedia - Casablanca Film
Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael ...
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Zhe Cyrillic: Encyclopedia - Zhe Cyrillic
Zhe (Ж, ж) is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ (listen), similar to the "s" in t...
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Ye Cyrillic: Encyclopedia - Ye Cyrillic
Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks exactly like the Latin letter E. In Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and...
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Yat: Encyclopedia - Yat
Yat or Jat (Ѣ, ѣ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and name of the sound represented by it. Its name in Old Ch...
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Christopher: Encyclopedia - Christopher
Christopher is the name that corresponds to the Greek name/word Christophoros. The latter consists of words for 'Christ' and "to bear" (p...
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Word Order In Latin: Encyclopedia - Word Order In Latin
Latin differs from languages like English in that it uses many noun cases which are declined in such a way that they are nearly all diffe...
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Church Slavonic Language: Encyclopedia - Church Slavonic Language
The Church Slavonic language (Macedonian: црковнословенски јазик, tsrkovnoslovenski yazik; Bulgarian: църковн...
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Voiceless Postalveolar Affricate: Encyclopedia - Voiceless Postalveolar Affricate
The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The...
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Christo And Jeanne-claude: Encyclopedia - Christo And Jeanne-claude
Christo (born Hristo Yavashev, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев) and Jeanne-Claude are an artistic duo known best for wrapping object...
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Vrykolakas: Encyclopedia - Vrykolakas
The vrykolakas (Greek βρυκόλακας pronounced "vree-KO-la-kahss", IPA [vri'kolakas]) is a monster from modern Greek folklore. It ...
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Yambol: Encyclopedia - Yambol
Yambol (Bulgarian: Ямбол, also transliterated as Jambol) is the principal town in Yambol Province, Bulgaria, located on the Tundzha ...
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Yalta Conference: Encyclopedia - Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February...
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European Dragon: Encyclopedia - European Dragon
In European mythology, a dragon is a serpent-like legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in the constellation Draco, comes directly...
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Constantinople: Encyclopedia - Constantinople
Constantinople1 (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις) was the earlier name of the modern city of İstanbul in Turkey in its role ov...
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Jiu River: Encyclopedia - Jiu River
The Jiu (Hungarian: Zsil) is a river of southern Romania. It is formed near Petroşani by the confluence of two streams: the western and ...
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Abd-ul-aziz: Encyclopedia - Abd-ul-aziz
Abd-ul-aziz (Arabic: عبد العزيز ) (February 9, 1830 – 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to May 30, 1876. He...
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Mico: Encyclopedia - Mico
Mico may refer to:
a Bulgarian tsar - see Mitso Asen
a type of monkeys - see Marmoset
a Canadian melodic rock band - see Mico (band)
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Peter: Encyclopedia - Peter
Peter is a popular male given name.
Peter comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock.
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Varna: Encyclopedia - Varna
This article is about a city in Bulgaria. See Varna (caste) for the Indian caste system.
Varna (Bulgarian: Варна) is the third larg...
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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas
Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin", and ...
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A Cyrillic: Encyclopedia - A Cyrillic
А (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. In the Early Cyrillic Alphabet i...
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1988 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia - 1988 Summer Olympics
The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japa...
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Ă: Encyclopedia - Ă
Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case) is a letter used in standard Romanian language and Vietnamese language orthographies. In Romanian, it ...
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At Sign: Encyclopedia - At Sign
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