| Georges Valois Georges Valois (real name Alfred-Georges Gressent; 1878French journalist and politician. Georges_Valois
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| Bishonen/Archive 1 User:Bishonen/Archive_1
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| Bombay (film) Bombay (1995) is an award-winning Tamil feature film drama directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film met with a strong reception upon release.The film is centred on events, particularly during the period of December 1992 to January 1993 in India, and the controversy surrounding the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Bombay_(film)
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| Susto Susto is a cultural illness, specifically a "fright sickness" with strong psychological overtones. Susto comes from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "fright" (i.e. Sudden intense fear, as of something immediately threatening). A more severe and potentially fatal form of susto is called espanto (also from Spanish and Portuguese , meaning terror or intense fright). Susto
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| The massacre in the Main Temple Talk:The_massacre_in_the_Main_Temple
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| Genny Smith Genny Smith has been a publisher and editor of guidebooks about the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Owens Valley of California, USA. She received a B.A. degree from Reed College. She a resident of Cupertino, California, while spending her summers in Mammoth Lakes, California. Genny_Smith
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| Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/archive dash discussion Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/archive_dash_discussion
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| Wamsutta Oil Refinery Wamsutta Oil Refinery was established around 1861 in McClintocksville in Venango County near Oil City, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the first business enterprise of Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909), who became a famous capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. Wamsutta_Oil_Refinery
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| Abbie G. Rogers Abbie Gifford Rogers (January 20 1841 May 21 1894), was the first wife of Henry Huttleston Rogers, (1840-1909), a United States capitalist, businesswoman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. As children, Abbie and "Hen", each of Mayflower lineage, grew up and went to school together in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a small coastal fishing town with a whaling heritage. Abbie_G._Rogers
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| Nuu-chah-nulth Talk:Nuu-chah-nulth
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| Collective memory Collective memory is a term coined by Maurice Halbwachs, separating the notion from the individual memory. The collective memory is shared, passed on and also constructed by the group, or modern society. The debate was taken up by Jan Assmann, who wrote Das kulturelle Gedächtnis (The Cultural Memory). Collective_memory
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| Wang Daohan Wang Daohan (), (March 1915 December 24, 2005) was the former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). Wang_Daohan
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| Sake Dean Mahomed Sake Dean Mahomed ( Shekh Din Muhammôd; Arabic:Shaykh Din Muhammad; Anglicized:Sake Dean Mahomet) (1759–1851) was a Bihari traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who introduced shampooing and the Indian take-away curry house restaurant in Britain, and was the first Indian to have written a book in the English language. He was also one of the most notable early Bengali, Indian and Muslim immigrants to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sake_Dean_Mahomed
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| Building the Virginian Railway Building the Virginian Railway began as a project to create an -long short line railroad to provide access for shipping of untapped bituminous coal reserves in southern West Virginia early in the 20th century. After facing a refusal of the big railroads (who had their own coal lands) to negotiate equitable rates to interchange and forward the coal for shipping, the owners and their investors expanded their scheme and built a U.S. Building_the_Virginian_Railway
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| Jonathan Rosenbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943) is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65. He has published and edited numerous books and has contributed to most of the world's notable film publications, including Cahiers du Cinema and Film Comment.He is considered an important figure in American film journalism because he openly promotes the dissemination and discussion of foreign film. Jonathan_Rosenbaum
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| Janet Parker Janet Parker (1938smallpox. She was a medical photographer and worked in the Anatomy department of University of Birmingham Medical School. Parker died after being exposed to the smallpox virus which was grown in a research laboratory, on the floor below the Anatomy department. Janet_Parker
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| The Fiery Angel (opera) The Fiery Angel (Russian:Огненный ангел — Ognenny angel in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the novel The Fiery Angel (1908) by Valery Bryusov. The_Fiery_Angel_(opera)
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| Nanking Safety Zone Talk:Nanking_Safety_Zone
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| War of Canudos The War of Canudos (1893–1897) was a conflict between the state of Brazil and a group of some 30,000 settlers who had founded their own community in the northeastern state of Bahia, named Canudos. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at military suppression, it came to a brutal end in October 1897, when a large Brazilian army force overran the village and killed most of the inhabitants. This was the deadliest civil war in Brazilian history. War_of_Canudos
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| Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy was a secretive committee created on February 12 1942, to prepare recommendations for President Franklin D. Roosevelt on post World War II foreign policy. Predecessors included the similar Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations and the Division of Special Research. Advisory_Committee_on_Postwar_Foreign_Policy
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