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c. 5000 BCE

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c. 1500 BCE

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c. 1200 BCE

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c. 1000 BCE

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c. 900 BCE

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c. 600 BCE

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c. 400 BCE

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c. 300 BCE - CE 100

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c. 150 BCE

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c. 50 BCE

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c. 100

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c. 500

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c. 950

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c. 960

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987

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c. 1150

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c. 1345

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1434

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1487

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1513
1519

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1520
1521
1525
1530
1531

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1542

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c. 1550

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c. 1570

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1698

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1810
1813
1815
1821
1822
1823
1826

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1833

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1838

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1846

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1848

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1852

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1855

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1856

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1858

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1860

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1861

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1862

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1863

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1864

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1866

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1867

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1879

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1884

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1889

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Go to Pan American Union. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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1903

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1904

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1906

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1909

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1910

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1911

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1912

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1914

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1920

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1922

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1927

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1928

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1929

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1933

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1934

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1937

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1938

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1940
1944

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1950

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1951

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Go to Djerassi, Carl (1923–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.)

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1954

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1956

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1960

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Go to Domingo, Placido (1941– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1962

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1968

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1977

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1978

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1979

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Go to Shaffer, Peter Levin (1926) in The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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1980

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Go to Romero, Oscar Arnulfo (1917–80) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.)

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1982

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1983

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1984
1985

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1989
1990

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Go to Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de (b. 18 Oct. 1929) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1992

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1994

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Go to Ardipithecus ramidus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.)

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1996

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1997

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1999
2000

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2010

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