| Alexander Jannaeus Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai), king of Judea from (103 BCE to 76 BCE), son of John Hyrcanus, inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus, and appears to have married his brother's widow, Shlomtzion or "Shelomit", also known as Salome Alexandra, according to the Biblical law of Yibum ("levirate marriage"), although Josephus is inexplicit on that point. Alexander_Jannaeus
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| Chromium Chromium () is a chemical element which has the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is a steely-gray, lustrous, hard metal that takes a high polish and has a high melting point. It is also odourless, tasteless, and malleable. The name of the element is derived from the Greek word "chrōma" (χρωμα), meaning color, because many of its compounds are intensely colored. Chromium
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| Fujiwara clan The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏 Fujiwara-shi), descending from the Nakatomi clan, was a powerful family of regents in Japan. The clan originated when the founder, Nakatomi no Kamatari (614-669), was given the surname Fujiwara by Emperor Tenji. The Fujiwara dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period (794–1185) through the monopoly of regent positions, Sesshō and Kampaku.As abdicated Emperors took over power by excersing insei () at the end of 11th century, then followed by the rise of warrior class, the Fujiwara gradually lost its control over main stream politics. Fujiwara_clan
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| Google search Google search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.Beyond the original word-search capability, Google_search
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| Oda Nobunaga 'daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo (military governor) with land holdings in Owari province. Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japanese daimyo before his death in 1582. His successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a loyal Oda supporter, would eventually become the first man to conquer all of Japan. Oda_Nobunaga
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| Vulva Talk:Vulva
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| Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. Woodrow_Wilson
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| Osaka is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū.Osaka is a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture. Osaka has historically been the commercial capital of Japan, and is at the heart of Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Keihanshin (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), whose population is 18,643,915. Osaka
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| Sakhalin Sakhalin (, ; Japanese:Sàhālín), also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24'Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. The indigenous peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs. Sakhalin
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| Kamakura, Kanagawa city located in Kanagawa, Japan, about south-south-west of Tokyo. It used to be also called (short for ). Although Kamakura proper is today rather small, it is sometimes considered a former de facto capital of Japan as the seat of the Shogunate and of the Regency during the Kamakura Period. (In reality its independence from Kyoto was never complete) Kamakura,_Kanagawa
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| Osmium tetroxide Osmium tetroxide is the chemical compound with the formula OsO4. The compound is noteworthy for its many uses, despite the rarity of osmium. It also has a number of interesting properties, one being that the solid is volatile. Osmium_tetroxide
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| Father Damien Damien de Veuster, SS.CC. (January 3, 1840April 15, 1889), born Jozef de Veuster and also known as Blessed Damien of Molokai ( or 'Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. Father_Damien
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| Toyotomi Hideyoshi Talk:Toyotomi_Hideyoshi
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| Japanese tea ceremony Japanese tea ceremony is called sadō or chadō (, "the way of tea"), or chanoyu (茶の湯, literally "hot water for tea") in Japanese. It is a multifaceted traditional activity in which matcha (), powdered green tea, is ceremonially prepared and served. Zen Buddhism was integral to its development, and this influence pervades many aspects of tea ceremony. Japanese_tea_ceremony
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| Kofun period The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era. The Kofun period follows the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes referred to collectively as the Yamato period. Kofun_period
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| Culture of Japan Talk:Culture_of_Japan
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| Sinocentrism Sinocentrism is any ethnocentric perspective that regards China to be central or unique relative to other countries. In pre-modern times, this took the form of viewing China as the only civilization in the world, and foreign nations or ethnic groups as "barbarians" of dif Sinocentrism
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| Kenmu restoration The (1333 - 1336) is the three year period of Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period and the political events that took place in it. The restoration was an effort made by Emperor Go-Daigo to bring the Imperial House and the nobility it represented back into power, thus restoring a civilian government after almost a century and a half of military rule Kenmu_restoration
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