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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492...
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  • Anti-German sentiment (also known as Anti-Germanism, Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is opposition to and/or fear of, hatred of, dislike of, persecution...
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  • Gary Gentile (born 1946) is an American author and pioneering technical diver. Gary Gentile is a wreck diver. It has been suggested that Gary Gentile may...
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    The social attitudes toward and legal status of breastfeeding in public vary widely in cultures around the world. In many countries, both in the Global...
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  • Thumbnail for List of historical acts of tax resistance
    Tax resistance, the practice of refusing to pay taxes that are considered unjust, has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their...
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    The Ioannina Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت یانیه Eyālet-i Yānyâ) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire located in the territory...
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    Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), who...
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    The Hundred of Elmbridge or Elmbridge/Emley Hundred was a geographic subdivision (called a "hundred") in the north of the county of Surrey, England. The...
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  • Baron Basset of Drayton of Drayton in the county of Stafford was a title in the Peerage of England. The barony was created in 1264 for Ralph Basset (died...
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  • Oliver Carlson (1899–1991) was founder of the Young Communist League of America among other Communist organizations and then served as an anti-communist...
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  • Jean-Martin Wendel (22 February 1665 – 25 June 1737) was a Lorraine industrialist, founder of the De Wendel steel making dynasty. The name "Wendel" is...
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    Pat Collier Frank (born November 21, 1929) is an American politician in the state of Florida. Frank was born in Ohio and came to Florida in 1935. She attended...
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  • The Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India...
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    Lucy Bramlette Patterson (August 22, 1865 – June 20, 1942) was a committee woman, author, and activist. She is most known for the Patterson Memorial Cup...
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