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Created first movable type
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Johannes Gutenberg
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long distance walking trail in South Australia. It runs from Parachilna Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges via the Adelaide Hills to Cape Jervis on the Fleurieu Peninsula and is approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) in length.[1]
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Heysen trail
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connects Lake Huron (to its north) with Lake Erie (to its south
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St Clair
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Only country without a Pacific coastline whose flag shows southern cross
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Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias
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Sea of Galilee
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it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake overall
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Sea of Galilee
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Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian"
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Manning Clark
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pioneer Australian aviator (dubbed "Australian Lone Eagle"[1]) and inventor. He designed and built early aircraft before being the first person to fly solo from England to Australia, and the first person to fly solo across the Southern Atlantic Ocean. He married in 1932 at the age of 39, and died less than a year later after crashing into remote countryside near Florence, Italy during a solo flight record attempt.
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Bert hinkler
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Australia best selling beer
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Vb Victoria bitter
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comprise London's ancient and modern trade associations and guilds, almost all of which are styled the "Worshipful Company of..." their respective craft, trade or profession.[
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Livery companies
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building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative
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Guildhall
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They **** you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do
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Philip Larkin
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American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the -Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.
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Albert michelson
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earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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William rontgen
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Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry.
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Jacobus van t'hoff
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Germ physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin. He was widely known as a "saviour of children," as diphtheria formerly was a major cause of child death.[1] He was ennobled in 1901 for services to medicine.
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Emil von Behring
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widely used for many applications in engineering, science, and mathematics. The basic ideas were popularized in 1965, but some algorithms had been derived as early as 1805.[2] In 1994 Gilbert Strang described as "the most important numerical algorithm of our lifetime"[
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Fast Fourier transform
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leading scientist of his time. His work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping. He published major studies of mechanics and optics, and a pioneer work on games of chance.
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Christian huygens
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born probably sometime between AD 201 and 215; died aged 84, probably sometime between AD 285 and 299), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician[1][2][3][4] and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica, many of which are now lost. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations.
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Diophantus
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seventh Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, his mother, to become the youngest Indian prime minister.
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Rajiv Gandhi
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Operation to get rid of mossadegh
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Ajax
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Country invaded by China 1950
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tibet
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Mythical founder of Japan
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Jimmu
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Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812. He played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
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Matthew Perry
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Golda Meir married name
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Goldie myerson
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Golda Meir birth name
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Mabovich
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immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael).
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Aliyah
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first treaty between the United States of America, and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Signed under threat of force, it effectively meant the end of Japan's 220 year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku), by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels [1]
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Kanagawa
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three Hainanese Chinese women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
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Soong sisters
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ruler of Mactan in the Visayas. The Philippines regards him as the first Filipino hero because he was the first native to resist Spanish colonization through his victory over the explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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Lapu lapu
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fought in the Philippines on 27 April 1521, prior to Spanish colonization. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of, overpowered and defeated a small Spanish force fighting for Rajah Humabon of Cebu, under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle. |
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Confucius year in life
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551-479 bc
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Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields (1984). He was portrayed in the film by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor (1940-1996), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
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Dith pran
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island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger populations.
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Sulawesi Celebes
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Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
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Karel Appel
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COBRA (or CoBrA) was a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities:
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Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam
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was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.[2][3] He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector.[
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Henri Rousseau
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French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.[1]
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Andre Derain
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(4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.[1
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Maurice de Vlaminck
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December 1598 - Rome, 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist and a prominent architect[1] who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.[2] In addition, he painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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It is the second largest church in the world, after St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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Basilica of the national shrine of our lady aparecida
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2006 starring Nicole Kidman as iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images.
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Fur
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L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.[1] It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery. |
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paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone.
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Yves tanguy
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in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.
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Chiaroscuro
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May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
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Mary Cassatt
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1840-1916) was a French Impressionist artist described retrospectively by Henri Focillon in 1928 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.[
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Marie bracquemond
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iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda.
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Guerrillero heroico
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Took photo of che guevara
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Alberto Korda
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Sea east of Korea
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Sea of japan
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beverage of fermented camel milk, sparkling white with a sour flavor, popular in Central Asia — particularly in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
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Chal or shubat
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domestic cats with a spotted or parti-colored coat that is predominantly white, with patches of two other colors (often, the two other colors are orange tabby and black). Outside of North America, the pattern is more usually called tortoiseshell-and-white.
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calico
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Barney Clark first to receive what
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Artificial heart
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Franz Ferdinand wife
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sophie duchess of hohenberg
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led the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May-1 June 1916, one of the largest naval battles in history.
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Reinhard scheer
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10 June 1819 - 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists.
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Gustave courbet
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made his film debut in 1938 alongside Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in Alfred Santell's Having Wonderful Time, and he went on to appear in numerous musical and comedy films throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, such as I Dood It (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946) and The Clown (1953). Painted clowns
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Red Skelton
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name from the village of France, near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Realism 1830-70
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Barbizon
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produced over 500 paintings, 4000 lithographs, 1000 wood engravings, 1000 drawings and 100 sculptures. A prolific draftsman, he was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen, although posthumously the value of his painting has also been recognized. 1808-79
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Honore daumier
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was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects
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Cesar
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Sculptures of naked people
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Spencer tunick
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Duchamp started what art movement
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Dadaism
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Picasso father name unused
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Ruiz
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English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour, and include photography, collage and found objects.
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Sarah Lucas
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Marie Tussaud first wax figure
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Voltaire
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The scream art genre
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Expressionism
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Only ten paintings—several consisting of many panels—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea in the Baltic on their way to Sweden as war booty. His reputation was obscured until the late nineteenth century, and many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis. His largest and most famous work is the Isenheim Altarpiece created 1506 to 1515 or perhaps 1512 to 1516.[
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Matthias grunewald
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Austrian-born American sculptor. His most famous piece is the Marine Corps War Memorial of five U.S. Marines and one sailor raising the flag of the United States on Iwo Jima during World War II, and the National Monument (Malaysia).
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Felix de weldon
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It lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia: the Indus River, the Sutlej River (a major tributary of the Indus River), the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River (a tributary of the River Ganga). It is considered a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. The mountain lies near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal in Tibet.
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Kailash
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was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece:[1] His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Phidias
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one of the largest rock-cut ancient Hindu temples located in Ellora, Maharashtra, India. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I as attested in Kannada inscriptions.
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Kailash
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Berlin blockade years
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1948-49
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born 1 April 1965) was nanny, later companion, to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, and a personal assistant to The Prince of Wales, between 1993 and 1999.
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Tiggy legge Burke
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air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War
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Royal flying corps
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Rfc merged with what to form raf
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Royal naval air service
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Three day week in UK year
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1974
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Ira member carried out grand hotel Brighton bomb
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Patrick Magee
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Patron saint of England before George
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Edmund
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Peoples budget year
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1909-10
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abolished in 1959 and its responsibilities passed to the Ministry of Aviation, the War Office and the Air Ministry. The latter two ministries were subsequently merged with the Admiralty to form the Ministry of Defence.
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Ministry of supply
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united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[2] with effect as of
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1st jan 1801
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First woman inducted into rock n roll hall of fame
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Aretha Franklin
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A heavy anchor, such as a concrete block or a log, usually buried underground and used for securing the end of a tie or guy. This deviceis frequently used with sheeting and retaining walls.
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Deadman
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Munich river
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Isar
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Toys r us giraffe mascot
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Geoffrey
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rare genetic disorder due to a missing part (deletion) of chromosome 5. Its name is a French term (cat-cry or call of the cat) referring to the characteristic cat-like cry of affected children.
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Lejeunes syndrome
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used in modern automobiles to charge the battery and to power the electrical system when its engine is running.
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alternator
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Latin America's largest mobile-phone carrier in 2010, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of that year.[16] His net worth as of March 2015 is estimated at US$71.2 billion.[1]
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America movil
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borrowed from the Ancient Greek word, which means shadow-tailed
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Squirrel
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Squirrel family Latin name
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Sciuridae
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(Sotalia fluviatilis), alternatively in Peru bufeo gris or bufeo negro, is a species of freshwater dolphin found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin.
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Tucuxi
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Acinonyx jubatus
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Cheetah
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Animal name derived from Hindi for spotted
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Cheetah
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Dynasty built Great Wall of China
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Ming
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term used in English to identify the throne of the Emperor of Japan
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Chrysanthemum Throne
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City previously called Chang an
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Xi an
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Largest city in the world 6500-6000 bc
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Catalhuyuk
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Largest city 1400bc
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Thebes
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Largest city 0-400ad
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Rome
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Largest city 700-800ad
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Chang an Xi an
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Largest city 1500-1900ad
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Beijing
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Largest cities 1900-1925 and after 1925 before Tokyo
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London and New York
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also the birthplace and final resting place of the scientist Shen Kuo (1031-1095 AD), his tomb being located in the Yuhang district.[27] biggest city in the world 1200-1300
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Hangzhou
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It was the host city of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.name means southern capital
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Nanjing
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Four ancient capitals of China
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Beijing Luoyang Changan nanjing
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2200 - 2100 BC)[1] was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by founding the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character.[2][
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Yu
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February 25, 1304 - 1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan explorer of Berber descent.[1] He is known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. "Journey"). Over a period of thirty years, visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. His journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China
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Ibn battuta
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Taliban means
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students
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had about 500,000 inhabitants (supporting 0.1% of the global population during 1440-1540), making it the second largest city in the world after Peking-Beijing and almost thrice the size of Paris.[1][2][3] The ruins are now a World Heritage Site. in Bellary District, northern Karnataka. It is the name of the now-ruined capital city that surrounds modern-day Hampi,
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Vijayanagara
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In the 14th century it became the capital of the empire of Timur (Tamerlane) and is the site of his mausoleum (the Gur-e Amir).
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Samarkand
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was the only female emperor of China in more than four millennia.
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Wu zetian
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former subdivision of French Indochina, now the central region of Vietnam
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Annam
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region encompassing the southern third of Vietnam whose principal city is Saigon or Prey Nokor in Khmer. It was a French colony from 1862 to 1954.
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Cochinchina
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northernmost part of Vietnam, south of China's Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces, east of northern Laos
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Tonkin
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Largest city 600-500bc
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Babylon
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name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike. In 1991, South Yorkshire Police were forced to pay out £500,000 to 39 miners who were arrested in the events a
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Orgreave
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First Olympics in Southern Hemisphere
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Melbourne 1956
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Largest catholic country in Asia
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Philippines
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signed on the 29 August 1842 to mark the end of the First Opium War (1839-42) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Qing dynasty of China. It was the first of the unequal treaties against the Chinese, as Britain had no obligations in return. Britain got Hong Kong
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Treaty of nanjing
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capital of the Yuan dynasty, the main center of the Mongol Empire founded by Kublai Khan and in what is now Beijing, also the capital of China today.
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Khanbaliq or dadu
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First and last European colony in Asia
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Macau
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City Ancient Greek for 'new city'
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Naples
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Sometimes referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands", he tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. He was one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers in history.
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Ivan iii vasilyevich 'the great'
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Soho cholera epidemic year, where
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1854 broad street
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First female leader Philippines
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Corazon aquino
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Gaining its independence from Britain in 1919, first country to recognise Soviet Union
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Afghanistan
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founder of the Maurya Empire and the first emperor to unify most of Greater India into one state. He ruled from 322 BC until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favour of his son Bindusara in 298 BC.[2][3][4
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Chandragupta maurya
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existed at its zenith from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.[1] The peace and prosperity created under the leadership of the enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavours.[2] This period is called the Golden Age of India[3] and was marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Hindu culture.[
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Guptas
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conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor
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Babur
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Indian dynasty before Mughals
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Lodi
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Lib dems only Scottish mp
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Alistair Carmichael
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Chinese dynasty after warring States period
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qin
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Year in reign Attila the Hun
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434-453 ad
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Saved Paris from Attila the Hun
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Saint genevieve
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part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.
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Kokoda track campaign
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largest branch of Shi'a Islam.
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Twelver
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Jordan's name before 1949
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Transjordan
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11th King of Nepal and a South Asian statesman. The eldest son of King Mahendra, whom he succeeded in 1972, he reigned until his death in the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre.
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Birendra
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authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthaśāstra (Economics).[3] As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of political science and economics in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to classical economics.[4][5][6][7] His works were lost near the end of the Gupta Empire and not rediscovered until 1915.[5]
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Chanakya
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chief Ottoman architect and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures and other more modest projects, such as his Islamic primary schools (sibyan mektebs). His apprentices would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Stari Most in Mostar, and help design the Taj Mahal in the Mughal Empire.
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Mimar sinan
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thirteenth King of Nepal. He reigned from 1 to 3 June 2001[1] whilst in a coma following an incident in which he fatally shot his father (the reigning king) and other family members.
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Dipendra
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prominent Iraqi Kurd,[1] serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
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Taha ramadan
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rare, eastward moving at low-latitude strong tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar.[1] The cyclone made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008, sending a storm surge 40 kilometres up the densely populated Irrawaddy delta, causing catastrophic destruction and at least 138,000 fatalities.
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Nargis
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They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes. The gang's leading figure was Mao Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing.
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Gang of four
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longest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination.[
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Grand canal China
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Grand canal China built during what dynasty
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Sui
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January 23, 1828 - September 24, 1877) was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history, living during the late Edo Period and early Meiji Era. He has been dubbed the last true samurai.
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Saigo takamori
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New Barcelona mayor
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Ada colau
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least populous of Australia's eight major states and territories
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Northern Territory
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to the east by the Arafura Sea, to the south by Australia and to the west by the Indian Ocean.
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Timor sea
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large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea)
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Gulf of carpentaria
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Plays Tracey Stubbs in birds of a feather
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Linda robson
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Plays Sharon theodopolopodos in birds of a feather
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Pauline quirke
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Plays Dorien green in birds of a feather
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Lesley Joseph
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Played by Diana rigg in avengers
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Emma peel
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Played Cathy gale in avengers
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Honour blackman
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Played David keel in the avengers
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Ian hendry
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Played Tara king in avengers
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Linda thorson
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Played john steed in avengers
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Patrick macnee
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Secretary of State for business innovation and skills
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Sajid javid
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Health secretary
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Jeremy hunt
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Foreign secretary
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Philip hammond
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Justice secretary
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Michael gove
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Lord chancellor
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Michael gove
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Defence secretary
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Michael fallon
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Communities and local government
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Greg Clark
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International development secretary
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Justine greening
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Transport secretary
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Patrick McLoughlin
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Scotland secretary
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David mundell
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Northern Ireland secretary
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Theresa villiers
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Leader of the House of Commons, Lord president of the council
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Chris grayling
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Leader of House of Lords, Lord privy seal
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Baroness stowell
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury
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Greg hands
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Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster
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oliver letwin
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Chief whip in House of Commons, parliamentary secretary to the treasury
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Mark harper
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Minister for the cabinet office, paymaster general
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matthew hancock
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Attorney general
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Jeremy Wright
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Minister of state for employment
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Priti patel
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Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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hugo swire
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Minister without portfolio
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Robert halfon
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Minister of state for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise
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Anna soubry
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Naval watch 2000-0000
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First
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Naval watch 0000-0400
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Naval watch 0400-0800
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Morning
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Naval watch 0800-1200
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Forenoon
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Naval watch 1200-1600
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Afternoon
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Naval watch 1600-1800
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First dog
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Naval watch 1800-2000
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Second dog
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Naming and circumcision of Christ day
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Jan-01
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Epiphany date
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January 6th
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Fire zodiac
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Aries Leo sagittarius
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Earth zodiac
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Taurus Virgo capricorn
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Air zodiac
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Gemini libra Aquarius
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Water zodiac
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Cancer Scorpio Pisces
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EU council president
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Donald tusk
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Candlemas date
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Feb-02
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Candlemas date
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Feb-02
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St David's day
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Mar-01
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Minister without portfolio
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Robert halfon
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Minister of state for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise
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Anna soubry
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Naval watch 2000-0000
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Naval watch 0000-0400
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Naval watch 0400-0800
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Morning
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Naval watch 0800-1200
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Forenoon
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Naval watch 1200-1600
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Afternoon
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Naval watch 1600-1800
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First dog
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Naval watch 1800-2000
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Second dog
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Naming and circumcision of Christ day
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Jan-01
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Epiphany date
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January 6th
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Fire zodiac
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Aries Leo sagittarius
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Earth zodiac
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Taurus Virgo capricorn
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Air zodiac
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Gemini libra Aquarius
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Water zodiac
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Cancer Scorpio Pisces
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Shakespeare's birthday
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april 23rd 1564
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Celtic festival of fire, which celebrates fertility and marks the start of summer. With its roots in ancient Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man, modern versions of the event are becoming more popular - some of the largest are in Edinburgh, Thornborough in Yorkshire and Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, where the traditional 30-foot Wicker Man is burned at sunset.
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beltane
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Queens real birthday
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21st april
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Burns night
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Jan-25
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Mothering Sunday
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Fourth Sunday in lent
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Welsh festival of literature, music and performance.
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Eisteddfod
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Alton towers ride injured people
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smiler
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Eid al fitr on first day of which Islamic month
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Shawwal
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Raphael last name
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Sanzio
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At about 60 miles (100 km) wide, over 250 miles (400 km) long, and about 2,500 m deep, it holds the Guinness world record for the world's largest glacier.
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Lambert glacier
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Eid al fitr on first day of which Islamic month
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shawwal
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EU council president
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Donald tusk
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Minister without portfolio
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Robert halfon
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Minister of state for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise
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Anna soubry
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was a Renaissance artist born in Florence, Italy. He was famous for his artwork in bas relief, a type of shadow relief sculpture.St. MarkZucconeThe Feast of HerodDavidEquestrian Monument of GattamelataJudith and Holofernes
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Donatello
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FortitudeAdoration of the MagiPrimaveraCestello AnnunciationSt. AugustineVenus and MarsMystical Nativity
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Sandro Botticelli
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AnnunciationLady with an ErmineGinevra de' BenciAdoration of the MagiSt. Jerome in the Wilderness
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Leonardo da vinci
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The Last JudgmentDoni TondoThe Torment of Saint AnthonyThe Conversion of SaulPietàBacchus
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Michelangelo
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School of AthensThe TransfigurationThe Marriage of the VirginResurrection of ChristSelf-portraitLa belle jardinièreEzekiel's VisionThe Sistine MadonnaMadonna and Child
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Raphael sanzio
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Rape of Europa Sacred and Profane LovePastoral ConcertAssumption of the VirginChrist Carrying the CrossThe Flaying of MarsyasAllegory of Prudence
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titian
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Young HareRhinocerosAdam and EvePraying HandsKnight, Death and the DevilApocalypseSelf-PortraitMelencolia IAdoration of the Trinity
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Albrecht durer
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Dormition of the VirginThe Burial of the Count of OrgazView of ToledoThe Adoration of the ShepherdsChrist Healing the Blind
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El greco
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Ecce HomoNarcissusJudith Beheading HolofernesSupper at EmmausSacrifice of IsaacConversion of St. Paul
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Caravaggio
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Samson and DelilahThe Descent From the CrossPrometheus BoundThe Raising of the CrossAdoration of the Magi
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Apollo and DaphneDavidEcstasy of Saint TeresaBust of Louis XIVFontana dei Quattro FiumiMedusa
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Bernini
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Return of the Prodigal SonSelf-PortraitThe Jewish BrideDanaëThe MillThe Storm on the Sea of GalileeThe Blinding of SamsonThe Three Trees
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Rembrandt
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Saturn Devourinv His SonLa Maja DesnudaThe Sleep of Reason Produces MonstersLa Maja VestidaWitches' SabbathLa CometaThe ForgeThe Dog
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Goya
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goya painting date
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3rd may 1808
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Two Women Chatting By The SeaLe cheminJallais Hill, PontoiseOld Chelsea Bridge, LondonThe garden of PontoiseThe Côte des Bœufs at L'HermitageWasherwoman, StudyConversation
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Camille Pissarro
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NanaThe BalconyThe FiferThe RailwayThe Spanish SingerThe Old Musician |
Edouard manet |
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A Cotton Office in New OrleansL'AbsinthePlace de la ConcordeMiss Lala at the Cirque FernandoAt the RacesInteriorThe Bellelli FamilyYoung Spartans Exercising
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Edgar degas
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Pyramid of SkullsThe BathersRideau, Cruchon et CompotierA Modern Olympia
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Paul cezanne
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The MagpieWoman with a ParasolSan Giorgio Maggiore at DuskSnow at ArgenteuilWomen in the GardenBeach in Pourville
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Claude Monet
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Le déjeuner des CanotiersBal du moulin de la GaletteLa GrenouillèreThe Swing (La Balançoire)Two Sisters (On the Terrace)Young Girls at the PianoA Girl with a Watering Can
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Renoir
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Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the AntelopeThe DreamA Carnival EveningThe Sleeping GypsyThe Football PlayersThe Snake CharmerBoy on the RocksExotic Landscape
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Henri Rousseau
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His best paintings depict jungle scenes despite the fact that he never left France or saw a jungle.
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Henri Rousseau
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Spirit of the Dead WatchingThe Yellow ChristThe Green Christ
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Paul Gauguin
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Adele Bloch-Bauer IThe Three Ages of WomanAdele Bloch-Bauer IIBeethoven FriezeDanaë
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Gustav Klimt
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L'Atelier RougeThe ConversationWoman Reading
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Henri Matisse
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Twittering MachineCat and BirdSenecioAd ParnassumCastle and SunRed BalloonFish MagicInsula DulcamaraDream City
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Paul Klee
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Der Blaue ReiterComposition IVComposition VIIOn White IIComposition VIComposition VIIIYellow, Red, BlueBlack and VioletComposition X
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Man, Controller of the UniverseLa mujer del pozoEn el ArsenalFrozen AssetsThe Flower CarrierAgrarian Leader Zapata
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Diego Rivera
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I and the VillageThe BirthdayThe FiddlerLa MariéeOver the TownWhite Crucifixion
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Marc Chagall
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Cow's Skull:Red, White, and BlueBlue and Green MusicPineapple BudBlack IrisRed CannaBlue Morning GloriesI and the VillageThe BirthdayThe FiddlerLa MariéeOver the TownWhite Crucifixion
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Georgia okeefe
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The Tilled FieldThe FarmStill Life with Old ShoePortrait of Vincent Nubiola
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Joan miro
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GolcondaThe Listening RoomThe False MirrorElective AffinitiesThe Mysteries of the HorizonThe Empty Mask
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Rene Magritte
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WaterfallRelativityAscending and DescendingDrawing HandsSky and Water IThree WorldsHouse of StairsBelvedereAnother World
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M c Escher
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was an American photographer best known for his photographs of the American West, particularly in Yosemite.In Glacier National ParkChurch, Taos PuebloEvening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National ParkThe Tetons and the Snake River
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Ansel adams
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The suicide of Dorothy haleRootsThe BusThe Wounded DeerMosesThe Broken ColumnWithout HopeWhat the Water Gave Me
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Frida kahlo
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Male and FemaleBlue PolesMuralThe She-WolfThe KeyStenographic Figure
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Jackson pollock
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The Singing ButlerThe Picnic PartyDance Me to the End of Love
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Jack Vettriano
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