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These topics were discussed across many cultures in ancient times by philosophers, but they had no means to distinguish causes of natural phenomena from superstitions.

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In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries AD.

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He did not marry or have children, which – along with contemporary accounts – has led some historians to speculate on his sexuality.

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The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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480 – 524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.

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The Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.

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The content and function of dreams have been topics of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history.

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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Latin-speaking Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but continued to thrive in the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire.

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6, with a main period near 400 days, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star.

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Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living, and reportedly used a talking board very similar to the modern Ouija board at their camps in Ohio during 1886 with the intent of enabling faster communication with spirits.

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=== Lower Paleolithic === The Lower Palaeolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which many human-like species evolved, including, toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.

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It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the 16th century.

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He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry.

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In the late 19th century, wrestlers dealt with this by quietly fixing their matches so that they could display more entertaining action.

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== History == === Hardware developer (1991-1996) === Trip Hawkins wanted to get into the hardware market after the software market exploded with interest thanks to his involvement at Electronic Arts.

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Comets have been observed and recorded since ancient times by many cultures and religions.

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His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

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Despite the eventual recovery of Constantinople and re-establishment of the Empire in 1261, Byzantium remained only one of several small rival states in the area for the final two centuries of its existence..

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The landlocked petty state began its rise in the 1530s under Tabinshwehti who went on to found the largest polity in Myanmar since the Pagan kingdom by 1550..

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In January 1965, the Jets signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath to a then-record contract..

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The Hunt–Lenox Globe or Lenox Globe, dating from about 1508, is the second-oldest known terrestrial globe after the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim (1492) or, according to a fringe theory, the third-oldest after the Erdapfel and the Ostrich Egg Globe (claimed 1504)..

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As of July 2026, the first eight books have sold over fourteen million copies, with its popularity aided by the audiobook, performed by Jeff Hays of Soundbooth Theater..

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Robertson took on major responsibilities at the company prior to its collapse, including becoming its first board member, engaging with venture capitalists, and recruiting biochemist Ian Gibbons..

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Hypothesized social causes are supported by only weak evidence, distorted by numerous confounding factors.

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sitcom The Flying Nun, originally broadcast on ABC-TV from September 7, 1967, to April 3, 1970.

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Toronto, Canada's largest city, was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase.

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Each part of the kris is considered a piece of art, often carved in meticulous detail and (or) made from various materials: metal, precious or rare types of wood, or gold or ivory..

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He opposed, with varying success, Caesar's legislative programme during Caesar's first consulship in 59 BC..

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In 1979, he joined British new wave heavy metal band Samson, with whom he gained some popularity under the stage name "Bruce Bruce" and performed on two studio records.

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In early 2010, Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller founded the group Berkeley Earth, an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit aimed at addressing some of the major concerns of the climate change skeptics, in particular the global surface temperature record..

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Yoga pants are high-denier hosiery reaching from ankle to waist, originally designed for yoga as exercise and first sold in 1998 by Lululemon, a company founded for that purpose..

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In the early Middle Ages, clothing was typically simple and, particularly in the case of lower-class peoples, served only basic utilitarian functions such as modesty and protection from the elements..

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In the late ninth century of the Heian period (794–1185), Japanese clothing began to diverge from Chinese styles, giving rise to uniquely Japanese garments such as the jūnihitoe..

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Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office..

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Women have typically been underrepresented in history as both writers and subjects, and lesbianism has been correspondingly under-recorded..

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In the 18th century, doctrinal changes led to schisms, and by the 1970s, only a few isolated groups remained..

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The first insulation was asphalt-saturated cotton cloth, then rubber became common.

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Because of this, artificial cranial modification most commonly occurs during the first three years of the individual's life..

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Labeling can be mandatory up to a threshold GM content level (which varies between countries) or voluntary..

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Although the origin of birds has historically been a contentious topic within evolutionary biology, only a few scientists still dispute the dinosaurian origin of birds, suggesting descent from other types of archosaurian reptiles.

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In restaurants, soups can be followed by an appetizer such as herring (prepared with either cream, oil, or in aspic), or other cured meats and chopped raw vegetable salads..

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A great power is a nation, state or empire that, through its economic, political and military strength, is able to exert power and influence not only over its own region of the world, but beyond to others.

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In legal terminology, the assured clear distance ahead (ACDA) is the distance ahead of any terrestrial locomotive device such as a land vehicle, typically an automobile, or watercraft, within which they should be able to bring the device to a halt..

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Virginia's extensive network of highways and railroads were developed and built over a period almost 400 years, beginning almost immediately after the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and often incorporating old established trails of the Native Americans..

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The county seat and the largest city in the county is Santa Rosa..

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The then-city-state is considered to have been the first real international financial centre, emerging in the 9th century and reaching its greatest prominence in the 14th century.

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The state is home to the world's longest known cave system in Mammoth Cave National Park, and the nation's two largest artificial lakes east of the Mississippi River..

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It is the 26th-most populous city in the United States and the largest U..

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It has had unique trajectories of development in the Western world, the Soviet Union, and in India, as well as in the pan-Africanist and African-American traditions, adapting to these specific regional and political conditions in different ways..

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The Byzantine book octoechos (9th century) was one of the first hymn books with musical notation and its earliest surviving copies date from the 10th century..

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According to classical Islamic theories, the sunnah is primarily documented by hadith—which are the verbally-transmitted record of the teachings, actions, deeds, sayings, and silent approvals or disapprovals attributed to Muhammad—and alongside the Qur'an (the book of Islam) are the divine revelation (wahy) delivered through Muhammad that make up the primary sources of Islamic law, beliefs, and theology..

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written and published in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe..

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On April 21, 2013, the first John Muir Day was celebrated in Scotland, which marked the 175th anniversary of his birth, paying homage to the conservationist..

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Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a popular figure in London high society first for his theatrical work and later for his History of Witchcraft and Demonology, published in 1926..

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Reports of the Nestorian Christians' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the narrative..

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The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011..

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Some recorded materials, such as compilations of data (e..

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Just as among Japanese dialects, which can have low mutual intelligibility, the Ryukyuan and mainland Japanese languages are not mutually intelligible..

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It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide..

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Because only a tiny fraction of a star's energy emissions reaches the surface of any orbiting planet, building structures encircling a star would enable a civilization to harvest far more energy..

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Since the 17th century, Chinese arts and aesthetic were sources of inspiration to European artists, creators, and fashion designers when goods from oriental countries were widely seen for the first time in Western Europe..

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Vinylon was first developed in Japan in 1939 by Ichiro Sakurada, Ri Sung-gi, and H..

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He was the only son of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell (c..

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Her claims were not recognized by the French king Louis XI, who quickly seized various Valois-Burgundian domains, not only those that belonged to the French realm (such as the Duchy of Burgundy), but also some that belonged to the Holy Roman Empire (such as the Free County of Burgundy)..

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661–680), a quadrangular mosque with capacity for 3,000 worshipers is recorded on the compound..

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It is the only ancient Latin novel that has survived in its entirety..

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Engraved shells created by Homo erectus dating as far back as 500,000 years ago have been found, although experts disagree on whether these engravings can be properly classified as 'art'..

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Amharic is the largest, most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia.

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It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literature dates from the mid-7th century..

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The concept of Germany as a distinct region can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the area east of the Rhine as Germania, meaning the land where the Germani live.

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Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries.

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The earliest records of vegetarianism as a concept and practice amongst a significant number of people are from ancient India, especially among the Hindus and Jains..

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Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal.

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The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816..

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Dire wolf fossils have rarely been found north of 42°N latitude; there have been only five unconfirmed records above this latitude..

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Univers was one of the first typeface families to fulfil the idea that a typeface should form a family of consistent, related designs..

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The largest sector the Finnish economy is its service sector, which contributes 72..

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Christie's, which sold the work in 2017, stated that most leading scholars consider it an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by some leading specialists who propose that he only contributed certain elements; others believe that the extensive restoration prevents a definitive attribution..

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The oldest parts of the Bible may be as early as c..

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Those devices were used in the institutions of Mesopotamia and western Iran during the 4th millennium BC, in order to record administrative operations..

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