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41Tran Tu Binh — (Vietnamese: Trần Tử Bình [http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n T%E1%BB%AD B%C3%ACnh] ) (1907 1967) was a Vietnamese revolutionary who later became one of the first generals of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1948) and Vietnam’s… …
42HOXB13 — Homeobox B13, also known as HOXB13, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: HOXB13 homeobox B13| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView TermToSearch=10481| accessdate = ] PBB Summary section title =… …
43Tolstoy, Leo — Russian Lev Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy born Sept. 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire died Nov. 20, 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province Russian writer, one of the world s greatest novelists. The scion of prominent aristocrats,… …
44Romans — The Romans, who rose to prominence in Italy and conquered the western Mediterranean sphere between about 600 and 200 b.c., at first had little interest in Mesopotamia, which they saw as a distant region on the fringes of the known world. But… …
45Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, in the years 1712, 13, 14, and 15 — is a record of the travel to Kalmykia, written by Tulišen, a Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty. The book, which was originally written in Manchu, was later translated into Chinese. The title is: in Manchu: Lakcaha jecen de takūraha babe ejehe… …
46The Song of Hiawatha — is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians. Longfellow credited as his source the work of pioneering ethnographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, specifically Schoolcraft s Algic Researches and History …
47Uzbeg Khan — Mikhail of Tver before Uzbeg Khan, by Vasili Vereshchagin. Sultan Mohammed Öz Beg, better known as Uzbeg or Ozbeg (1282–1341, reign 1313–1341), was the longest reigning khan of the Golden Horde, under whose rule the state reached its zenith.[1]… …
48Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby — Conceptual artwork of the CRAF spacecraft The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to… …
49History of tea in China — The history of tea in China is long and complex. The Chinese have enjoyed tea for millennia. Scholars hailed the brew as a cure for a variety of ailments; the nobility considered the consumption of good tea as a mark of their status, and the… …
50The One Tree — infobox Book | name = The One Tree orig title = translator = image caption = Cover of The One Tree author = Stephen R. Donaldson cover artist = Darrell K. Sweet country = United States language = English series = The Second Chronicles of Thomas… …
