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  • 31Helots — The helots (in Classical Greek polytonic|Εἵλωτες / Heílôtes ) were an unfree population group that formed the main population of Laconia and the whole of Messenia. Their exact status was already disputed in Antiquity: according to Critias, they… …

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  • 32Lumbee — Infobox Ethnic group group = Lumbee pop = 53,000Fact|date=August 2008 regions = flagcountry|United States region1 = flagicon|North Carolina North Carolina pop1 = region2 = flagicon|Virginia Virginia pop2 = langs = English rels = related =The… …

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  • 33Novo Hamburgo — City of Novo Hamburgo From upper left: Ernesto Frederico Scheffel Foundation, Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Gonzaga, Monument to the Shoemaker, Friedrich Museum, Schmitt Presser Museum, and Panoramic view of Novo Hamburgo …

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  • 34Emancipist — An emancipist was any of the convicts sentenced and transported under the convict system to Australia, who had been given conditional or absolute pardons. The term was also used to refer to those convicts whose sentences had expired, and could… …

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  • 35Abolition of slavery timeline — Abolition of slavery occurred as abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires. Each of these steps was usually the result of a separate law or action.Early timelineIt should be noted that many …

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  • 36Cherokee freedmen controversy — A Cherokee Nation political advertisement (2007) The Cherokee Freedmen Controversy is an ongoing political and tribal dispute between the Cherokee Nation of …

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  • 37Freedman's Savings Bank — The Freedman s Saving and Trust Company, popularly known as the Freedman s Savings Bank, was a financial organization created by the U.S. government to encourage and guide the economic development of the newly emancipated African American… …

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  • 38land reform — any program, esp. when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its… …

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  • 39Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …

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  • 40French literature — Introduction       the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …

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