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  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in...
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    Drown. Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius...
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  • serialized in V Jump from February 21, 1993, to September 1996 under the title The Brief Return of Dr. Slump (ちょっとだけかえってきたDr.スランプ, Chotto Dake Kaettekita Dokutā...
    53 KB (5,353 words) - 02:38, 20 July 2024
  • upon. The brief may also contain suggestions for the use of counsel when cross-examining witnesses called by the other side. Accompanying the brief may...
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    mayflies is Rhithrogena germanica, the fisherman's "March brown mayfly". The brief lives of mayfly adults have been noted by naturalists and encyclopaedists...
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    co-rulers, Phraates V and Musa (r. 2 BC – 4 AD). Information regarding the brief reign of Orodes III is lacking. He was killed after a reign of 2 years...
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  • growers. John R. Jordan, Jr., argued the cause for Hunt. With him on the brief were Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of North Carolina, and Millard...
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    independence, which it formally declared on 25 June 1991 and achieved after the brief Ten-Day War. The republic was first officially named Federal Slovenia...
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  • design project developed by a designer in consultation with a client. The brief outlines the deliverables and scope of the project, including any products...
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  • Thumbnail for Sher Singh
    began on 18 January 1840 following his assault on Lahore which ended the brief regency of Maharani Chand Kaur. He was assassinated on 15 September 1843...
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  • Thumbnail for Händel-Gesellschaft
    the score (on 136 pages) for the serenade Parnasso in Festa (HWV 73). The brief foreword is also in English. Contains the text of the work (also in English)...
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  • metafictional works, including novels and short stories by Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Sandra Cisneros (Caramelo), Salvador Plascencia...
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  • Thumbnail for Muromachi period
    1338 by the first Muromachi shōgun, Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336) of imperial rule was brought to a close...
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  • Thumbnail for Council of People's Commissars
    which had representatives of various political parties, and except for the brief two-party cabinet with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries from December...
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  • Thumbnail for Thailand in World War II
    December 1941 (the day of both the brief Japanese invasion and the failed British assault on the Ledge), and 100 during the brief Franco-Thai War. Thailand...
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  • on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The brief [19 page] play addresses the issues of robotics and the ethical dilemmas...
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  • Thumbnail for South Carolina Declaration of Secession
    explain its reasons for seceding from the United States. It followed the brief Ordinance of Secession that had been issued on December 20. The declaration...
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  • Thumbnail for Vologases V
    marked by war with the Roman Empire, lasting from 195 to 202, resulting in the brief capture of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon, and reaffirmation of Roman...
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  • The Weilüe (Chinese: 魏略; lit. 'A Brief [History] of Wei') was a Chinese historical text written by Yu Huan between 239 and 265. Yu Huan was an official...
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  • and Tammaritu escaped to Nineveh in either 650 or 649 BC. Thus began the brief rule of Indabibi over Elam. Assyrian records give contradictory reports...
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