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  • 71Mata'uvave — Mata’uvave was the name given to a dynasty of male chiefs presiding over the Ha’apai Island Group of Tonga from the 15th century until the mid 1980s. The first Mata’uvave was appointed to a gubernatorial role by Tu’i Tonga Kau’ulufonua I to… …

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  • 72Government of the Carolingian Empire — The government, administration, and organisation of the Carolingian Empire were forged in the court of Charlemagne in the decades around the year 800. In this year, Charlemagne was crowned emperor and adapted his existing royal administration to… …

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  • 73Wilson, Edith — ▪ American first lady née  Edith Bolling,  also called (1896–1915)  Edith Bolling Galt  born October 15, 1872, Wytheville, Virginia, U.S. died December 28, 1961, Washington, D.C.  American first lady (1915–21), the second wife of Woodrow Wilson… …

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  • 74football — /foot bawl /, n. 1. a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent s goal line and by place… …

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  • 75Laryngeal theory — The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more) consonant sounds that appear in most current reconstructions of the Proto Indo European language (PIE). These… …

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  • 76Nizami Ganjavi — Nizami (Ganjavi) A 20th century woven depiction of Nezami Born 1141 (app …

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  • 77Scientific management — Taylorism redirects here. For other uses, see Taylorism (disambiguation). Frederick Taylor (1856 1915), lead developer of scientific management Scientific management, also called Taylorism,[1] was a theory of management that …

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  • 78Bruno Gollnisch — (born January 28, 1950 in Neuilly sur Seine) is a French academic and politician, member of the National Front (FN) far right party and a MEP.He was chairman of the European Parliamentary group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty in 2007, which was… …

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  • 79Abbey of Kells — The Abbey of Kells ( Mainistir Cheanannais in Irish) is a former monastery located on Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 40 miles north of Dublin. It was founded in the early ninth century AD and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later… …

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  • 80Nikolaev, Leonid — (1904–1934)    The most infamous assassin in Russian history, Leonid Nikolaev killed Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov, a murder that provided Joseph Stalin with justification to ramp up state terror. Nikolaev was a minor party official who… …

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