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  • 11Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Isayevich and the family name is Solzhenitsyn. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn After returning to Russia from exile in 1994. Born Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 11 December 1918( …

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  • 12Externism — is a fictional pseudo philosophical theory proposed by the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman. This character appears in many plays by authors from the Jára Cimrman Theatre in Prague. The first act of the theatre performances is usually… …

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  • 13Nikolai Leskov — Portrait of Leskov by Valentin Serov, 1894 Born February 16, 1831(1831 02 16) Oryol, Russia Died March 5, 1 …

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  • 14Hans-Ulrich Wehler — (born September 11, 1931) is a left wing German historian. He was born in Freudenberg and was educated at the universities of Cologne and Bonn and at Ohio University between 1952–1958. He married Renate Pfitsch in 1958, by whom he has two… …

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  • 15Dühring, Eugen — ▪ German philosopher and economist born Jan. 12, 1833, Berlin, Prussia [Germany] died Sept. 21, 1921, Nowawes, Ger.  philosopher, political economist, prolific writer, and a leading German adherent of positivism, the philosophical view that… …

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  • 16Burmese Road to Socialism —    The ideology of Burma s ruling party, the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), during the Revolutionary Council (1962 1974) and Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974 1988) periods. It is embodied in two documents, The Burmese Road… …

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  • 17UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …

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  • 18Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 19Marxist philosophy — Part of a series on Marxism …

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  • 20Berkeley, George — George Berkeley David Berman BACKGROUND AND EARLY WORK George Berkeley was born on 12 March 1685 in Co. Kilkenny, where he spent his early years. His father was from England, his mother (very probably) was born in Ireland.1 After attending… …

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