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213 BCE

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177

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258

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303

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529

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845

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1096

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1182

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1208

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1233

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1244

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1290

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1302

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1310

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1348

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1415

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1492

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1516

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1520

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1521

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1522

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1525

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1545

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1546

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1547
1555
1567

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1572

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c. 1585

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1608

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1628
1632

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1661

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1662
1664

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1665

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1672
1673

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1678
c. 1680

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1685

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1692

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Go to Salem witch trials (1692) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1794

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1819
1829

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1831

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1847

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1849

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1865
1876
1881

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1890
1893
1917

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1918

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1919

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1921

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Go to Tulsa Riot in Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present (1 ed.)

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1927

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1928

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c. 1931

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1933

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1935

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1937

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1938

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1939

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1941

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Go to zyklon-B in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.)

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Go to Eichmann, Karl Adolf (b. 19 Mar. 1906) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1942

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1943

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1944

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Go to Wallenberg, Raoul (1912–c. 1947) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1945

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Go to Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (1918–2008) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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Go to Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906–45) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Eugenics in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.)

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1947

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1948

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1956

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1957

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1960

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1964

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1966

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1968

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1970

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1971

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1975

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1977

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1979

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1982

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1988

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1989

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1992

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1994

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Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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1995

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1998

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2003

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2004

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2006

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2007

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c. 2010

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2011

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Go to Facebook in A Dictionary of Computing (6 ed.)

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Go to Gaddafi, Muammar al- (b. Sept. 1942) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to United Nations Security Council in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Gaddafi, Muammar al- (b. Sept. 1942) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Hama in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.)

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Go to NATO in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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