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  • 11cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… …

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  • 12Japan — • Called in the language of the country Nihon or Nippon (Land of the Rising Sun), and Dai Nihon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan), situated north west of the Pacific Ocean and east of the Asiatic continent Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 13List of ThunderClan cats — Main article: List of Warriors characters Warriors is a novel series written by Erin Hunter, who is really 4 people: Victoria Holmes, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, and Tui Sutherland. The following is a list of cats in ThunderClan , shown in the… …

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  • 14Sally Hemings — Infobox Person name = Sally Hemings image size = caption = birth name = birth date = circa 1773 birth place = Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia death date = 1835 death place = Charlottesville, Virginia death cause = resting place = resting… …

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  • 15Genghis Khan — This article is about the person. For other uses, see Genghis Khan (disambiguation). Temujin redirects here. For the video game, see Temujin (video game). Genghis Khan Khagan of the Mongol Empire (Supreme Khan of the Mongols) King of Kings… …

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  • 16David Ward King — David Ward King, Inventor of the King Road Drag David Ward King (October 27, 1857 – February 9, 1920), a farmer who lived near Maitland, Missouri, was the inventor of the King road drag. His invention, which was the horse drawn forerunner of the… …

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  • 17Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …

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  • 18Schools — • History and development of education as related to the church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Schools     Schools     † …

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  • 19Indo-China — • The most easterly of the three great peninsulas of Southern Asia, is bounded on the north by the mountains of Assam, the Plateau of Yun nan, and the mountains of Kwang si; on the east by the province of Kwang si (Canton), the Gulf of Tong king …

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  • 20Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… …

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