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  • 81colonialism, Western — ▪ politics Introduction       a political economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world.       The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European… …

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  • 82Bath, Somerset — Coordinates: 51°23′N 2°22′W /  …

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  • 83Dionysian Mysteries — Dionysus in Bacchus by Caravaggio The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the… …

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  • 84Newfoundland and Labrador — province of Canada: 143,501 sq mi (371,666 sq km); pop. 552,000; cap. St. John s: abbrev. NL or Nfld & Lab * * * Province (pop., 2001: 512,930), one of the four Atlantic provinces of Canada. Consisting of the island of Newfoundland and Labrador… …

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  • 85Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… …

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  • 86Economy of South Africa — South Africa has a two tiered economy; one rivaling other developed countries and the other with only the most basic infrastructure. It is therefore a productive and industrialised economy that exhibits many characteristics associated with… …

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  • 87Clannad — This article is about the Irish musical group. For the Japanese visual novel of the same name, see Clannad (visual novel). For other uses, see Clannad (disambiguation). Clannad The five original Clannad members together at a rare appearance at… …

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  • 88George Ewart Evans — (1909, Abercynon, South Wales – 1988) was a Welsh born schoolteacher, writer and folklorist who became a dedicated collector of oral history and oral tradition in the East Anglian countryside from the 1940s to 1970s, and produced eleven books of… …

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  • 89Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area — ▪ Japan Introduction Tokyo formerly (until 1868)  Edo   metropolitan complex commonly called Greater Tokyo along the northern and western shores of Tokyo Bay, on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, central Japan. At its centre is the… …

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  • 90Indian cuisine — This article is part of the series …

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