| Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, KCMG () (born January 28, 1950 in Riffa, Bahrain) is the current King of Bahrain (since 2002), having previously been its Emir (from 1999). He is the son of Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, the previous emir.For his secondary schooling, he attended the Leys School in Cambridge, England, and later at military colleges in the United Kingdom (including Sandhurst) and United States (including Fort Leavenworth). Hamad_ibn_Isa_Al_Khalifah
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| History of the world The history of the world is the recorded memory of the experience, around the world, of Homo sapiens. Ancient human history begins with the invention, independently at several sites on Earth, of writing, which created the infrastructure for lasting, accurately transmitted memories and thus for the diffusion and growth of knowledge.Human history is marked both by a gradual accretion of discoveries and inventions, as well as by quantum leaps—paradigm shifts, revolutions—that comprise epochs in the material and spiritual evolution of humankind. History_of_the_world
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| Cultural identity Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics. Cultural_identity
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| Kipchaks Kipchaks (also spelled as Kypchaks, Kipczaks, Qipchaqs, Qypchaqs) (Turkic:Kypchak,Kıpçak) were an ancient Turkic people who originally formed part of the group of Kimäks in Siberia along the middle reaches of Irtysh or along the Ob. Around the middle of the eleventh century they split off from the bulk of the Kimaks and departed in the direction of Europe. Kipchaks
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| Gilded Age American history, the Gilded Age refers to substantial growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, in the late 19th century (1865-1901). Gilded_Age
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| World War II evacuation and expulsion World War II. These were caused both by the direct hostilities between Axis and Allied powers, and the border changes enacted in the post-war settlement. The crisis in former Axis-occupied territories after liberation provided the context for much of the new international refugee and human rights architecture that survives today. World_War_II_evacuation_and_expulsion
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| Kelvinside Academy Kelvinside Academy is a private school in the City of Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1878. As of 2006 it has a capacity of 760 pupils and spans two years of Junior Start (Nursery), six years of Junior School (primary school), and seven years of Senior School (secondary school), comprising fifteen years in all. Kelvinside_Academy
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| European Latsis Prize European Latsis Prize is awarded annually by the European Science Foundation for "outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research". The prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded within a different discipline each year. The prize was inaugurated in 1999 by the Latsis Foundation. European_Latsis_Prize
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| Hasan Bülent Paksoy Hasan Bülent Paksoy is a Turkish historian (b. 1948 in Ödemiş) who earned his doctoral degree at the St. Antony's College of the Oxford University in England with a grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom. Hasan_Bülent_Paksoy
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| Organised persecution of ethnic Germans The Organised persecution of ethnic Germans refers to systematic activity against groups of ethnic Germans based on their ethnicity. Historically, this has been due to two causesNazis or Kaiser Wilhelm. This was the case in the World War I era persecution of Germans in the United States, and also in Eastern and Central Europe following the end of World War II. Organised_persecution_of_ethnic_Germans
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| German exodus from Eastern Europe The German exodus from Eastern Europe describes the dramatic reduction of ethnic German populations in lands to the east of present-day Germany and Austria. The exodus began in the aftermath of World War I and was implicated in the rise of Nazism. It culminated in expulsions of Germans from Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War II. German_exodus_from_Eastern_Europe
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| Basmachi Revolt The Basmachi Revolt (), or Basmachestvo (Басмачество), was a Muslim and largely Turkic uprising against Russian Empire and Soviet Russia rule in Central Asia.The movement started in 1916 during World War I as an anti-tsarist and anti-Russian revolt and it developed into a long-time civil war against the Soviets. Basmachi_Revolt
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| Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer. Alcide_De_Gasperi
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| History of Pomerania Pomerania started by the end of the Vistula Glacial Stage, about 13,000 years ago. History_of_Pomerania
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| Iestyn ap Gwrgant Iestyn ap Gwrgant or Jestyn ap Gwrgant ( Iestyn_ap_Gwrgant
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| Axial Age German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term the axial age (Ger. Achsenzeit, "axistime") to describe the period from 800 BC to 200 BC, during which, according to Jaspers, similar revolutionary thinking appeared in China, India and the Occident. The period is also sometimes referred to as the axis age.Jaspers, in his Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (The Origin and Goal of History), identified a number of key axial age thinkers as having had a profound influence on future philosophy and religion, and identified characteristics common to each area from which those thinkers emerged. Axial_Age
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| National epic national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation-state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy. National_epic
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| Turanism Turanism, or Pan-Turanism, is a political movement for the union of all Turanian peoples. It implies not merely the unity of all Turkic peoples (as in Pan-Turkism), but also the unification of a wider Turanid race, also known as the controversial Uralo-Altaic race, believed to include all peoples speaking "Turanian languages".Turkish proponents of scientific racism purported that this racial group embraced The Ural-Altaic linguistic hypothesis, now often disputed, inspired the emergence of Hungarian and Japanese branches of the Turanian Society in the 1920s and 1930s. Turanism
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