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1A Thousand Splendid Suns — Infobox Book | name = A Thousand Splendid Suns title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Khaled Hosseini cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Riverhead Books(and …
2The Mysterious Affair at Styles —   …
3Juliana of the Netherlands — For the airport of the same name, see Princess Juliana International Airport. Juliana Juliana in 1963 Queen of the Netherlands Reign …
4Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia — Infobox Monarch name = Haile Selassie I title = Emperor of Ethiopia caption = religion = Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christian reign = 2 November 1930 – 12 September 1974 (age|1930|11|2|1974|9|12 years) coronation = othertitles = Conquering Lion… …
5ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
6literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
7performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
8France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
10Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
