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  • 31Khwarezm — For other uses, see Khwarezmian (disambiguation). The Khwarazm oasis on a satellite image from 2009 Khwarezm, or Chorasmia, is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, which borders to the north the (former) Aral …

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  • 32Nikolay Karamzin — Portrait of Karamzin by Vasily Tropinin, painted in 1818 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Карамзин) (1 December 1766 – 3 June 1826) was a Russian writer, poet, historian, and critic. He is best remembered for his History …

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  • 33Ibn Juzayy — Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al Kalbi (1321 1357) (in Arabic, محمد بن محمد بن أحمد بن عبد الله بن يحيى بن يوسف بن عبد الرحمن بن جزي الكلبي الغرناطي) was a scholar, writer of poetry, history, and law from Al Andalus. He …

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  • 34Tintin and the Golden Fleece — Infobox Film name = Tintin and the Golden Fleece image size = 200px caption = Theatrical poster director = producer = writer = starring = Jean Pierre Talbot Georges Wilson music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 1961 runtime …

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  • 35Brezhnev stagnation — Period of stagnation ( ru. застой, transliterated zastoy ), also known as Brezhnevian Stagnation, the Stagnation Period, or the Era of Stagnation ( ru. Эпоха застоя, Период застоя), refers to a period of socio economic slowdown in the history of… …

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  • 36Late Antiquity — (c. 300 600) is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire s Crisis of the …

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  • 37Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini — (Gian Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini (February 11, 1380 – October 30, 1459) was one of the most important Italian humanists. He recovered a great number of classical texts, mostly lying forgotten in German and French monastic libraries, and… …

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  • 38Korba (Dune) — Korba is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He was one of Paul Muad Dib Atreides Fedaykin death commandos in the original novel Dune , and later one of the chief priests (Court Qizara) of the religion of Muad Dib …

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  • 39Eumenius — (born c. 260 at the latest, more probably between 230 and 240), was one of the Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini (Pan. Lat. IX [In manuscript order. In chronological order, his speech… …

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  • 40Ubayd Zakani — Nezam od Din Ubeydollah Zâkâni (Persian: خواجه نظام‌الدین عبیدالله زاکانی), or simply Ubayd i Zākāni (Persian: عبید زاکانی d. 1370 CE), was a Persian poet and satirist of the 14th century (Timurid Period) from the city of Qazvin. He studied in… …

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