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  • 101Pantheon, Rome — The Pantheon (Latin Pantheon , [Rarely Pantheum . This rare usage appears in Pliny s Natural History (XXXVI.38) in describing this edifice: Agrippae Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis; in columnis templi eius Caryatides probantur inter pauca …

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  • 102Ténéré — The Ténéré is a desert region in the south central Sahara. It comprises a vast plain of sand stretching from northeastern Niger into western Chad, occupying an area of over 154,440 square miles (400,000 km²). Its boundaries are conventionally… …

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  • 103East German jokes — The jokes of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) frequently included political characters, had an eye towards life in East Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) ( Genossenwitze , party member jokes; Honeckerwitze , jokes about… …

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  • 104Humanzee — The humanzee (also known as the Chuman or Manpanzee) is a hypothetical chimpanzee/human hybrid. Chimpanzees and humans are closely related (95% of their DNA sequence, and 99% of coding DNA sequences are in common[1]), leading to contested… …

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  • 105Sicilian School — The Sicilian School was a small community of Sicilian, and to a lesser extent, mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his court, the Magna Curia . Headed by Giacomo da Lentini, they produced more than three …

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  • 106Afar Depression — The Afar Depression (also called the Danakil Depression or the Afar Triangle) is a geological depression in the Horn of Africa, where it overlaps Eritrea, the Afar Region of Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Afar is well known as one of the cradles of… …

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  • 107Plenary Councils of Baltimore — The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884) The Plenary Councils of Baltimore were three national meetings of Roman Catholic bishops in the 19th century in Baltimore, Maryland. During the early history of the Roman Catholic Church in the United …

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  • 108Dinkelsbühl — The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Dinkelsbuehl. Dinkelsbühl View of th …

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  • 109Oslo Report — The Oslo Report was one of the most spectacular leaks in the history of military intelligence. Written by German mathematician and physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer on November 1 and 2, 1939 during a business trip to Oslo, Norway, it described… …

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  • 110Geology of Scotland — The geology of Scotland is unusually varied for a country of its size, with a large number of differing geological features. [Keay Keay (1994) op cit page 415.] There are three main geographical sub divisions: the Highlands and Islands is a… …

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