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  • A list of torture methods and devices includes: Blackmail Chinese water torture Humiliation Subjection to periods of interrogation Music torture Forced...
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  • Thumbnail for Wczele coat of arms
    Wczele is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. This coat of arms was passed...
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  • The Skopje Summer Festival is an annual cultural event in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. It was established in 1979 and marked its 30th anniversary...
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    Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet (7 April 1705 – 26 November 1765) was an Irish politician and baronet. Born in England in 1705, he was the eldest surviving...
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    The kings or judges (iudices or judikes) of Cagliari were the local rulers of the south of Sardinia during the Middle Ages. Theirs was the largest kingdom...
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  • Portable art (sometimes called mobiliary art) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place, which is especially...
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  • The aois-dàna (Scottish Gaelic, literally "people of the arts", often translated as bards) served as advisers to nobles and chiefs of clans throughout...
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  • Shadow of Suribachi: Raising The Flags on Iwo Jima (1995) is a book released during the 50th anniversary of the flag-raising(s) atop Mount Suribachi on...
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  • Berthold Wulf (July 2, 1926 – June 11, 2012) was a German priest, poet and philosopher. Wulf was born in Hanover, Province of Hanover. He was the third...
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  • John Shaw Crout (July 5, 1899 - October 31, 1987) was the Director of Engineering at Battelle Memorial Institute when, in 1944, Battelle was visited by...
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  • William Wantling (November 23, 1933 – May 2, 1974) was an American poet, novelist, ex-Marine, ex-convict, and college instructor born in East Peoria, Illinois...
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  • The Thanas Ziko Battalion (Albanian: Batalioni "Thanas Ziko"), was a partisan battalion of the Albanian National Liberation Army, founded during the Second...
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  • Lady Alice Egerton CVO (7 August 1923 – 7 October 1977) was a British courtier from the Egerton family. Lady Alice was the youngest child of the 4th Earl...
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  • Rosiah Chik or Rosiah Abdul Manaf (1931–2006) was Malay traditional singer particularly of asli and ghazal songs, made famous in the 1960s–1970s in Malaysia...
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    Prince Jan Kazimierz Lubomirski (1692–1737) was a Polish szlachcic. He was starost of Bolimów, owner of Głogów and Robotycze. "Jan Kazimierz Lubomirski"...
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    Chō Tsuratatsu (長 連龍, September 9, 1546 – March 18, 1619) was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period to early Edo period, who served the Hatakeyama...
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  • 1010 Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia commissioned. Building finished in 1929. Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur, southern India, completed...
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  • Johann Philipp von Hattorf (6 March 1682 – 3 September 1737) was a Hanoverian minister and head of the German Chancery in London from 1723 until 1737....
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  • Hakan Gülsün (1960–2009) was a Turkish art historian, Ph.D. of Art History at the Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul. He had been a curator at the...
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  • King Yanabe Yalangway was the eractasswa (chief) of the Catawba Indian Nation, sometime around the 1740s. Not much is known about him other than the fact...
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