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  • Thumbnail for Babylonian law
    Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study due to the large amount of archaeological material that has been found for...
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    Linn's World Stamp Almanac defines a provisional stamp as "a postage stamp issued for temporary use to meet postal demands until new or regular stocks...
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    Giggs Hill Green is a triangular park in Thames Ditton bordered on one side by the Portsmouth Road which has, since 1833, contained as a major part of...
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    The Moldovița Monastery (Romanian: Mânăstirea Moldovița) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery situated in the commune of Vatra Moldoviței, Suceava County,...
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    The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571)...
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    Anne Wilkes Tucker is an American retired museum curator of photographic works. She retired in June 2015. Tucker was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She...
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    Marchienne-au-Pont (Walloon: Mårciene) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium...
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  • Governors of the city of Worcester, England, include: The historian J.W. Willis-Bund gives contradictory information as to when Gerard ceased to be Governor...
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    A wale is one of the strakes of wooden planking that forms the outer skin of the hull of a ship, but substantially thicker than the other strakes. It provides...
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  • In Greek mythology, the name Eurythemista /jʊərɪθɪˈmɪstə/[citation needed] or Eurythemiste /-ˈmɪstiː/ (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυθεμίστη) may refer to: Eurythemista...
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  • Mark Paul Leone (born 1940) is an American archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in...
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    Sisy Chen or Chen Wen-hsien (Chinese: 陳文茜; pinyin: Chén Wénqìan; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Wen-ch'ien; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Bûn-chhiàn; born 25 March 1958) is a Taiwanese...
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  • Čučuk Stana (Serbian Cyrillic: Чучук Стана, "Little Stana") was a Serbian female hajduk, the second wife of Hajduk Veljko and later married the Greek fighter...
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    The Festival of Archaeology is a fortnight-long festival coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA). It is an annual UK-wide festival, during...
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  • Carol Anne Gotbaum was a South African-born air traveler who died, at age 45, on September 28, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona in Sky Harbor International Airport...
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  • The Abbassia Pluvial was an extended wet and rainy period in the climate history of North Africa, lasting from c. 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. As such...
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  • Gayle Reaves is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award. She was editor of the Fort Worth Weekly, an alternative newspaper...
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  • Eleanor Knowles Laney (February 28, 1932 – July 17, 2010) was a vice president of Deseret Book and an author and editor who wrote many Mormon-related books...
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