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21Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
22France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
23Denmark — • History includes politics, religion, literary, and art Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Denmark Denmark † …
24Irish Literature — • It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of letters. It may have been through direct commerce with Gaul, but it is more probable, as McNeill has shown in his study of Irish oghams, that it was from the… …
25Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099) — Jerusalem (A.D. 71 1099) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jerusalem (A.D. 71 1099) I. TO THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE (71 312) When Titus took Jerusalem (April September, A.D. 70) he ordered his soldiers to destroy the city (Josephus, De… …
26United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
27Tradition and Living Magisterium — • The word tradition refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Tradition and Living… …
28List of Happy Tree Friends characters — This is a list of fictional characters from Happy Tree Friends. There are 22 main characters, and some other supporting characters. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series in 2010, the creators of Happy Tree Friends announced that there… …
29Imagin — For the animation studio of the same name, see Imagin (studio). The Imagin (イマジン, Imajin?) are a fictional race that serve as the antagonists in the Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Den O. The name Imagin comes from several words in the English,… …
30History of Buda Castle — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue State Party = HUN Type = Cultural Criteria = ii, iv ID = 400 Region = Europe and North America Year = 1987 Session = 11th… …
