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  • 1All That Fall — is a one act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request [It has been reported that Beckett wrote this play following a commission from the BBC. This is not correct. Hugh Kenner advises that Beckett had written only some of his… …

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  • 2The Name of Mary —     ♦ The Name of Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Name of Mary     (in Scripture and in Catholic use)     New Testament, Mariam and sometimes Maria it seems impossible, in the present state of the text, to say whether the form Mariam was… …

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  • 3ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… …

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  • 4History of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute — The territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru was one of the most persistent and seemingly most resistant to resolution of any in the Western Hemisphere. The conflict arose virtually at the birth of these two nations from the Spanish Empire in …

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  • 5McConway — If ever a surname was liable to cause dissension it is this one! It is generally accepted that Conway is of pure Irish origins and an angisiation of the ancient O Conbhuidhe, which tranlates as The descendant of the head smasher . Given such a… …

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  • 6Gododdin, Y — (The Gododdin)    by Aneirin (ca. 600)    Y Gododdin is a poem in the ancient Brithonic dialect of Cumbric (an ancestor of modern Welsh), spoken by the tribe known to the Romans as Vōtadīnī, but to themselves as the Gododdin. From their capital… …

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  • 7Sinisation du Tibet — La sinisation du Tibet est, selon les milieux exilés tibétains et des observateurs occidentaux, la transformation de la société tibétaine de la région autonome du Tibet, du Kham et de l Amdo sur la base de normes chinoises, au moyen de l… …

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  • 8Pars triangularis — Infobox Brain Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Lateral surface of left cerebral hemisphere, viewed from the side. (Pars triangularis visible near bottom left). Caption2 = Inferior frontal gyrus. Pars triangularis is not… …

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  • 9Rudeness — (also called impudence or effrontery) is the disrespect and failure to behave within the context of a society or a group of people s social laws or etiquette. These laws have already unspokenly been established as the essential boundaries of… …

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  • 10Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener — Infobox Military Person name=Field Marshal The Earl Kitchener lived= 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916 caption= nickname= placeofbirth= Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland placeofdeath= HMS Hampshire , sunk west of the Orkney Islands, Scotland (aged… …

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