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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Wa...

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

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Stuart Ignatius Long (July 26, 1963 – June 9, 2014) was an American boxer and Catholic priest who de...

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Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Eliza...

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

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Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He ga...

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professional...

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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from...

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