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  • 31John the Baptist (Caravaggio) — John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness ) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 ndash;1610).The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John… …

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  • 32Brian Cleeve — Infobox Person name = Brian Cleeve image size = 180px caption = Brian Cleeve 1962 birth date = birth date|1921|11|22|mf=y birth place = Southend, Essex, England death date = death date and age|2003|3|11|1921|11|22|mf=y death place = Shankill,… …

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  • 33Marilyn Ferguson — Marilyn Ferguson, circa 1980. Marilyn Ferguson (April 5, 1938 – October 19, 2008) was an American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy and its affiliation with the New Age Movement in popular… …

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  • 34Carnaval (ballet) — Carnaval (Russian: Карнавал) is a ballet of the Ballets Russes, based on the music of Robert Schumann s, Carnaval, for piano, as orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, Alexander Tcherepnin. It was… …

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  • 35ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …

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  • 36HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 37electromagnetic radiation — Physics. radiation consisting of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x rays, and gamma rays. [1950 55] * * * Energy propagated through free space or through a material medium in the form of… …

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  • 38UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …

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  • 39ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …

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  • 40Polaron — A polaron is a quasiparticle composed of a charge and its accompanying polarization field. A slow moving electron in a dielectric crystal, interacting with lattice ions through long range forces will permanently be surrounded by a region of… …

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