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The three-age system is the division of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, although the concept may also refer to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods.

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The Island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, whose name is the origin of the word cannibal, acquired a long-standing reputation as eaters of human flesh, reconfirmed when their legends were recorded in the 17th century.

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Louis Pasteur (; French: [lwi pastœʁ] ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

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Historiography of science is the history and analysis of the sub-discipline of history known as the history of science, including its disciplinary aspects and practices (methods, theories, schools), and controversies.

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Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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Ancient Egypt was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the eastern part of North Africa.

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Given first pick Schiff chose to create one from the future, Space Ranger.

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Additionally, the novel was adapted as a 2000 television miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune, and the first two sequels were also adapted as a single miniseries, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, in 2003.

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Mahjong was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.

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The Spiel des Jahres (German: [ˈʃpiːl dəs ˈjaːʁəs], "Game of the Year") is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design and promoting excellent games in the German market.

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The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, or American New Wave, was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.

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The present-day United Arab Emirates is located within the historical region of Eastern Arabia, which was oriented to maritime trade and seafaring.

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During missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes (Mach 3.

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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church hierarchy.

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In 962, Otto I became the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

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The study of early Islamic history —spanning the period up to the rise of the Abbasids— based on insufficient objective data, combined with varying methodological approaches to traditional sources, has given rise to revisionist historical theses.

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Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for $1 million a year (equivalent to $16.

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Public perceptions of the disorder were popularized by allegedly true stories in the 20th century; Sybil influenced many elements of the diagnosis, but was later found to be fraudulent.

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His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics.

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Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 November 1290) was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I.

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Traditional dowry is an ancient custom that is mentioned in some of the earliest writings, and its existence may well predate records of it.

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During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), in which online predators would be caught using sting operations.

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1018 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.

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Comics exploring cyberpunk themes began appearing as early as Judge Dredd, first published in 1977 in the British comics anthology 2000 AD.

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: On Race, Law, History, and Culture.

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The Old City's modern walls and city gates were built by the Ottoman Empire from 1535 to 1542 under Suleiman the Magnificent.

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It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century.

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" Controversy arose around Project Camelot when professors in South America discovered its military funding and criticized its motives as imperialistic.

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== Origin of the leather subculture == Although sadomasochism has been practiced for many centuries, the USA gay leather scene gained impetus in 1945 when thousands of gay servicemen were given blue discharges from service after World War II and came to the major port cities of the United States to live in gay ghettos.

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== History == === Early history (1775–1914) === The first submarine used in combat was the USS Turtle.

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The name Datura originates from the Sanskrit word for "thorn-apple," with historical and cultural significance in Ayurveda and Hinduism, while the American term "jimsonweed" derives from its prevalence in Jamestown, Virginia, where it was called "Jamestown-Weed.

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They first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.

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These migrants became the Kalina and Lokono tribes, who met Alonso de Ojeda's first expedition from Spain in 1499 at the Essequibo River.

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1323 BC), was the third to last pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c.

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Teeth blackening is usually done during puberty, signalling a transition into adulthood.

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures.

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The team at Bletchley Park, 75% women, devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.

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It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network.

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Sand, that was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

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Parapsychology has been criticized for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide reproducible evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.

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Its invention was a discovery made independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden (Leyden), Netherlands, in 1745–1746.

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Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

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The period has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850.

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== History == Anthropologists disagree on whether kissing is an instinctual or learned behaviour.

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The first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic operation, then manipulate the device to obtain the result.

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During the reign of king Philip II (359–336 BC), Macedonia with its capital in Pella, subdued mainland Greece, Paeonia, and the Thracian Odrysian kingdom through conquest and diplomacy.

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Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa by 55,000 years ago.

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MIT's transformation as a research enterprise began during World War II, when projects like the Radiation Laboratory made it the nation's largest non-industrial R&D contractor.

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== History == === Hassenfeld Brothers === Three Polish-Jewish brothers, Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld, founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island, in late 1923, a company selling textile remnants.

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The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.

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Leprosy symptoms may begin within one year or take 20 years or more.

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Henrietta Lacks (née Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

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In 27 BC, the Roman Senate granted Octavian overarching military power (imperium) and the new title of Augustus, marking his accession as the first Roman emperor.

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OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a discontinued proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers created and initially developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft, under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci, intended as a replacement for DOS.

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"O Canada" had served as a de facto national anthem since 1939, officially becoming the country's national anthem in 1980 when Canada's National Anthem Act received royal assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's Dominion Day (today's Canada Day) celebrations.

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"The Injury" first aired in the United States on January 12, 2006, on NBC.

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Morse uses Lewis’ first name, Robbie for the first time in S5, E5 "Promised Land" before going to face a kidnapper and potential killer.

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In 1814 Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812.

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Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries.

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Stranger in a Strange Land won the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel and became the first science fiction novel to enter The New York Times Book Review's best-seller list.

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He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years.

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A local band of the Ohlone tribe inhabited the region for more than 3,000 years.

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The Peranakan Chinese () are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit.

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Alexander spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Asia and Egypt, and by the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.

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Today, it has a dedicated building on Lime Street, a Grade I historic landmark.

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was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.

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Included on the list are charts of the top box-office earners (ranked by both the nominal and real value of their revenue), a chart of high-grossing films by calendar year, a timeline showing the transition of the highest-grossing film record, and a chart of the highest-grossing film franchises and series.

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Although individuals have been renouncing the consumption of products of animal origin since ancient times, the term "veganism" itself was coined in 1944 by Donald and Dorothy Watson.

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According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.

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Specimens are sometimes considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old.

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Unlike the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, which were built on shores and not inundated until later, crannogs were built in the water, thus forming artificial islands.

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They also explored the Indian Ocean and established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia, sending the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to Ming China and to Japan, at the same time installing trading posts and the most important colony: Portuguese Macau (Only in East Asia).

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Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago.

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Following the First World War and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Croatian lands were incorporated into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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Natural law (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles that are discoverable through reason.

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== History == === 1840 to 1864 === Cards with messages have been sporadically created and posted by individuals since the beginning of postal services.

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== History == The effect is named for ELIZA, the 1966 chatbot developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.

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The first inspection station opened in 1892 and was destroyed by fire in 1897.

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Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

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Examples include 300, which blends ancient Greek history with mythology, or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which reimagines the legendary heroic figure in a stylized medieval setting.

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