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  • 101Rocket — This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. For other uses, see Rocket (disambiguation). A Soyuz U, at Baikonur Site 1/5 A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engi …

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  • 102List of characters in The Sandman — This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman comic book, published by DC Comics Vertigo imprint. This page discusses not only events which occur in The Sandman , but also some occurring in spinoffs of The Sandman and in stories The… …

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  • 103George Ernest Morrison — G. E. Morrison, in a 1902 portrait by Frederic Whiting. George Ernest Morrison (4 February 1862 – 30 May 1920), also known as Chinese Morrison, was an Australian adventurer and The Times Peking correspondent. Contents …

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  • 104Judah Leon Abravanel — (or Abrabanel, otherwise known as: in Latin, Leo Hebraeus ; in Portuguese, Leão Hebreu ; in Spanish, León Hebreo ; in Italian, Leone Ebreo ; in English, Leo the Hebrew ; and in Hebrew, יהודה בן יצחק אברבנאל [ Yehuda ben Yitzhak Abravanel ] ) (c.… …

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  • 105animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction       the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn.       That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …

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  • 106Manet, Édouard — born Jan. 23, 1832, Paris, France died April 30, 1883, Paris French painter and printmaker. His father, a prosperous civil servant, wanted him to pursue a naval career, but he was a poor student interested only in drawing. After having a few… …

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  • 107Post-Confederation Canada (1867-1914) — Confederation In the 1860s, the British were concerned with the possibility of an American assault on Canada in the wake of the American Civil War. Britain also feared that American settlers might expand to the north, into land that was… …

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  • 108Classificatory disputes about art — Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musee Marmottan Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of… …

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  • 109Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute — The former Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute, today Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute was a public high school in Scarborough, Ontario. It opened in 1962 for the then Scarborough Board of Education… …

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  • 110Sioux Indians — • Provides information about their history, language, population, culture and religion Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sioux Indians     Sioux Indians      …

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