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  • The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...
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  • A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... prima-facie evidence for an indictment, the grand jury offers valuable service ...
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  • The Grand Banks is a large area of submerged highlands southeast of Newfoundland and east of the Laurentian Channel on the North American continental ...
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  • The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is contained largely within ...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised ...
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  • Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after ...
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  • The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S. state of Utah. The area ...
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  • Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна Романов ...
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  • A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... prima-facie evidence for an indictment, the grand jury offers valuable service ...
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  • The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...
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  • ===Tehran's Grand Bazaar=== [[Image:Istanbul grand bazar 1.jpg|thumb|250px|The Grand Bazaar]] ...
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  • Árpád (c. 845 – c. 907) was the second Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 895 – c. 907). Under his rule the Magyar people moved from Etelkoz ...
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  • means either "large" or "grand." In Moscow and St Petersburg ... Petipa's, production of Don Quixote, a Grand Ballet in 4 Acts-8 Scenes ...
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  • in the 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the ... a legendary career. The winner of seven Grand Slams, Lacoste captured the ...
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  • The Grand Banks is a large area of submerged highlands southeast of Newfoundland and east of the Laurentian Channel on the North American continental ...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised ...
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  • Studios (home to two recording studios), its Grand Ballroom, and the Hammerstein Ballroom, one of New York City's most renowned performance venues. ...
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  • Despite missing out on a calendar-year Grand Slam, Hoad and Rosewall stand ... seemed poised to capture the calendar-year Grand Slam in singles play. The ...
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  • from 1934-1938. The winner of eight Grand Slam titles, he is most famously ... By 1933, Perry had won his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Championships ...
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  • , older sister to Grace Abbott, both of Grand Island, Nebraska, began her ... teaching high school in her hometown of Grand Island. After taking correspondence ...
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  • Following the French Grand Prix, Fangio retired from racing in 1958 ... he retired in 1958, following the French Grand Prix. He won 24 Grand Prix ...
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  • Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed ... power, authority, and social customs. A grand narrative or metanarrative ...
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  • the first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell published ... [[Image:John Wesley Powell with Native American at Grand Canyon Arizona ...
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  • renowned Edith Abbott, Grace was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her contributions ... Native Americans throughout the region of Grand Island. Paired with a knowledge ...
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  • The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is contained largely within ...
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  • Bird." His performance of it in his Grand Ole Opry debut was not well ... Acuff performed almost exclusively with the Grand Ole Opry, at Opryland, greatly ...
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  • Three classes of the award were created; Second, First and Grand Cross­ ... *Grand Cross of the Iron Cross ( Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes ...
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  • was the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and ... the first victory was not until the British Grand Prix of 1951. The first championship ...
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  • A canyon or gorge is a deep valley between cliffs, often carved from the landscape by a river. A famous example is the Grand Canyon in Arizona ...
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  • Nicholas II of Russia was born to the Grand Duchess Maria Fyodorovna ... basis for the rule of the Russian Tsars, as grand dukes of Finland, during ...
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  • [[Image:Statue Sejong le Grand.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Statue of King ... style:solid; border-color:#000099;"|Grand PrinceJinan ...
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  • Frizzel, and George Jones. Joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1943, he opened ... brought Tubb to stardom. Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 ...
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  • In 1954, Snow influenced the directors of the Grand Ole Opry to allow ... Ranger," he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950. That same ...
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  • Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography ...
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  • During his playing career, he won three Grand Slam titles. Ashe is also ... tennis circuit. In 1970, he added a second Grand Slam title to his resume ...
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  • and final phase of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza is ... ==Grand Egyptian Museum== The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is sited ...
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  • Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title of Grand Duke, but more correctly High King ...
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  • century. Members of the dynasty were Grand Dukes of Lithuania 1377–1392 ... The later construct for its translation is Grand Duke (for its etymology, ...
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  • choosing the youngest of his eight sons, Grand Prince Euian, as Crown Prince ... # Grand Prince Jin-an (진안대군), born as Yi Bangwoo (이방우 ...
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  • more than 800,000 acres (3,200 km²) of the Grand Canyon as a national monument ... John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for addition to Grand Teton National Park after ...
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  • Croce wrote less music in the grand polychoral style than Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and as a result his music has not maintained the same ...
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  • The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S. state of Utah. The area ...
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  • wrote settings of the Magnificat in the grand Venetian polychoral style ... humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down to the death of ...
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  • Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand Officier (Grand Officer) ... XIV founded it in 1693. It was comprised of grand crosses, commanders and chevaliers ...
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  • into ruin. Sima Qian, in his Records of the Grand Historian, ... matched those in the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, ...
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  • After Galileo's death on January 8, 1642, Grand Duke Ferdinando ... practical problem. Pump-makers of the Grand Duke of Tuscany attempted ...
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  • Gibson honed her talent to capture eleven Grand Slam championships during ... and in 1956, she won her first Grand Slam titles, capturing the ...
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  • In 1891, the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Georgia, bought ... * Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Georgia. Roster and History ...
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  • his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. ... some of his predecessors, Alexander had no grand, original schemes of his ...
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  • #039;s, he was able to develop his unique, grand ceremonial style, which was ... textures at climaxes, foreshadowing the grand style of his later years ...
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  • Crucial Considerations for Choosing Life. Grand Rapids: Kregel. ISBN 0825423554 Future of Medicine: A Christian Appraisal. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. ...
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  • **Abies grandis - Grand Fir or Giant Fir ***Abies grandis var. idahoensis - Interior Grand Fir or Giant Fir ...
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  • [[Image:Duttonnp000077AAA2.jpg|thumb|left|300 px|The Grand Canon at ... illustrative material in an atlas of the Grand Canyon. During these years ...
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  • Green River in Utah was known as the "Grand River," the origin of ... the headwaters of the Colorado River. The Grand River in Colorado was later ...
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  • during time he spent on the European "grand tour." The furniture ... Their first major commission was the decoration of the grand state ...
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  • sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning grand-uncle Alexander I of Russia ... and inadequate training of an ordinary grand-duke of that period, which ...
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  • can be found in its greater successor, the Grand testament. ... In 1461, at the age of only thirty years old, Villon wrote the Grand ...
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  • the Conservatoire there. In 1862, he won a Grand Prix de Rome and spent three ... *La grand'tante - 1867 *Don César de Bazan - 1872 ...
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  • #039;s father Ezra declined offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the family ... In 1968, 12 years after they had first met backstage at the Grand ...
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  • * Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans ... Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1999 ...
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  • as the naming rights sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix in a three-year deal; the "ING Australian Grand Prix" ...
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  • that time on. Parsons advocated the "grand theory" approach, encompassing ... Parsons was an advocate of "grand theory," an attempt to ...
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  • ===Grand Central Depot=== at one terminal at West 42nd Street called Grand Central Depot, which was ...
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  • Tianqi Emperor, who later made Wei his Grand Secretary of the State, giving ... partisans found themselves opposed to the Grand Secretary Wen Tiren, and ...
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  • === Grand unification === grand unification theory the strong interaction into a single 'grand unified theory' (GUT ...
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  • becoming the first player to complete the Grand Slam of golf in 1930. Jones ... still the only player ever to have won the Grand Slam, or all four major championships ...
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  • Surrounding the square are the Town Hall, Grand Hotel, Nancy Opera House ... the Hôtel de Ville, now centered on its grand square, and the Hôtel du ...
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  • works included voluminous notes on the Grand Tour of Europe that Boswell ... * Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764 ...
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  • Among his numerous achievements were ten Grand Slam singles titles ... His last Grand Slam victory was in 1930, when at age 37, he was Wimbledon ...
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  • Among his remaining sons, the third son, Grand Prince Chungnyeong ... :# Grand Prince Yangnyeong (양녕대군) :# Grand Prince Hyoryeong ...
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  • the four major tournaments that compose the Grand Slam, a feat he accomplished ... he became the first player ever to win the Grand Slam in tennis. ...
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  • |country =Duchy of Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |titles = ... (Cosimo I the Great) (1519 – 1574), First Grand Duke of Tuscany who restored ...
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  • were the first Europeans to view the Grand Canyon. In 1544, after his ... this river. This expedition did find the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River ...
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  • [[Image:Court of Honor and Grand Basin.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Court ... nation, the fairground was complete with grand boulevards, classical building ...
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  • (May 30, 1220 – November 14, 1263) was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the country's ...
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  • William Sinclair of Roslin became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge ... * Cooper, Robert L.D. (ed.) An Account of the Chapel of Roslin. Grand ...
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  • descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein ... could devolve either on a Brunswick grand-nephew of Anna (Ivan VI of ...
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  • to Gojoseon. Similarly, the Records of the Grand Historian, written soon after ... Records of the Grand Historian (Hong Kong: Renditions-Columbia University ...
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  • Parma, it has to be said, was hardly an important place in the grand ... the general stylistic influence in terms of grand scenic effects, and from ...
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  • to join radio station WSM's famous Grand Ole Opry until 1955. In the ... Flatt and Scruggs to join its flagship Grand Ole Opry radio show, possibly ...
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  • == Grand Duchy of Tuscany == For most of the 16th century the Medici ... eighteenth century under a series of inept grand dukes. ...
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  • Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after ...
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  • ed. Philip Clayton and Arthur Peacocke (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans ... ed. Philip Clayton and Arthur Peacocke (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdsman ...
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  • and uncle, traveled in Europe—the "grand tour" was a tradition ... first as the master of ceremonies, later as grand master of Royal Hunting, ...
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  • , Kiliwa, and Paipai tribes, lived near the Grand Canyon and areas of Southern ... who inhabit a spectacular area within the Grand Canyon complex, tourism and ...
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  • famous features, including the Minaret, the Grand Column and the Queen's ... *Nettle Cave: The Nettle Cave lies between the Grand Arch and the ...
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  • Wendi saw the beginning of the construction of the Grand Canal. This huge project had the purpose of uniting northern and southern China with ...
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  • Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (May 24, 1899 – July 4, 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam titles from 1914 through 1926. ...
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  • Joseon's 24th king. Cheoljong was the grand-nephew of King Jeongjo, Joseon ... Cheoljong's father, Grand Prince Jeonggye, had been one of three ...
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  • Conservatoire. However, he did not win the Grand Prix de Rome and his father ... :Le grand prix ou Le voyage à frais communs (1831) :Casimir ou Le ...
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  • along the banks of Kaveri. He built the Grand Anaicut, the oldest dam in ... of forest land. He also built the Grand Anaicut, one of the oldest ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the western Caribbean Sea. It is comprised of three islands, Grand ...
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  • as a serious artist. He won the elite Grand Prix de Rome in 1723. The ... 17, 1986; Reunion des musées nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris, September ...
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  • Louisa of Spain (1745-1792); had issue. Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 ... * Opfell, Olga S. Queens, Empresses, Grand Duchesses, and Regents: ...
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  • 1301). The dynasty was named after Grand Prince Árpád, who was the ... The list of the Grand Princes of the Magyars in the first half of ...
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  • Pym, Parliament presented the King with the Grand Remonstrance which was passed ... * Grand Remonstrance, November 22, 1641 * Militia Bill, December, 1641 ...
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  • country comedienne who became an institution at the Grand Ole Opry for 50 years and also reached a wide audience on the television show Hee Haw from ...
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  • kingdom was bordered by Black Ruthenia, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Principality ... with the rising powers of centralized Grand Duchy of Lithuania and The ...
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  • *Noe, Alva. "Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities)." ...
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  • *Noe, Alva. "Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities)." ...
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  • Following the Golden Bull of Rimini, Grand Master Hermann von Salza ... Order steadily declined until 1525, when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg ...
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  • Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – July 15, 1015, Berestovo), also known as Saint Vladimir of Kiev, was the grand prince of Kiev who ...
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  • Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in present ... a notable incident during the Union's Grand Review of the Armies had ...
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  • He also held what has become known as the "Grand Consistory" on February 18, 1946, which yielded the elevation of a record 32 new cardinals ...
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  • , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ... Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania ...
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  • rare and has not been observed experimentally. Some grand unified theories of particle physics also predict that a single proton can decay, changing the ...
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  • Howarth describes how, in 1187, the Grand Master of the Hospital disagreed ... enmeshed in Cypriot politics, their Grand Master Guillaume de Villaret ...
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  • image:The Grand One_-_a._holdrinet.jpg|The Giant Buddha seen from above Image:Leshan DaF0 Grand Buddha.JPG|Giant Buddha seen from stairs ...
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