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    The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. The belief in the evil eye among humans...
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  • Hip hop activism is a term coined by the hip hop intellectual and journalist Harry Allen. It is meant to describe an activist movement of the post- baby...
    8 KB (1,025 words) - 01:23, 19 April 2023
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    The Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond" spacecraft was designed to launch cosmonauts from the Earth to circle the Moon without going into lunar orbit in the context of...
    14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:05, 10 January 2023
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    Rugby union in the Soviet Union was a moderately popular sport. It was most popular in the Georgian SSR; parts of the Russian SFSR such as Moscow and certain...
    50 KB (6,213 words) - 06:41, 16 April 2023
  • Many laws in the history of the United States have addressed marriage and the rights of married people. Common themes addressed by these laws include polygamy...
    14 KB (1,827 words) - 23:04, 11 January 2023
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    Soletsky District (Russian: Солецкий район) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is...
    13 KB (1,763 words) - 10:03, 1 November 2022
  • The Charles S. Mott Prize was awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation as one of a trio of scientific prizes entirely devoted...
    4 KB (210 words) - 16:00, 4 December 2022
  • Moment (Russian: Момент, from Latin: momentum, meaning in English: short time) is a Russian military space surveillance complex. It is used to monitor...
    6 KB (508 words) - 03:55, 27 May 2023
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    Huang Yu-shan (Chinese: 黃玉珊; pinyin: Huang Yushan; born 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. She has made significant contributions to Chinese cinema in the...
    24 KB (3,357 words) - 04:13, 23 April 2023
  • John Buettner-Janusch (December 7, 1924 – July 2, 1992), often called "B-J", was an American physical anthropologist who pioneered the application of molecular...
    6 KB (596 words) - 05:07, 17 November 2022
  • The New York City Gay Hockey Association (NYCGHA) is an LGBT sports league based in New York City. Jeff Kagan and Jeff Minck founded the NYCGHA in 1999...
    8 KB (806 words) - 21:17, 8 August 2022
  • Baysayeva v. Russia was an April 5, 2007, European Court of Human Rights ruling in the case of forced disappearance of a Chechen man Shakhid Baysayev,...
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  • Novopokrovka (Russian: Новопокровка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Krasnoarmeysky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located...
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