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  • 71New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2005 — New Zealanders in Zimbabwe in 2005 Date 25 July 2005 t …

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  • 72AḤAD HA-AM — (Asher Hirsch Ginsberg; 1856–1927), Hebrew essayist, thinker, and leader of Ḥibbat Zion movement. Aḥad Ha Am was born in Skvira, Kiev Province in Russia. He received a traditional Jewish education in the home of his father, a Ḥasid who was a… …

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  • 73GERMAN LITERATURE — Biblical and Hebraic Influences Before the Aufklaerung (Age of Enlightenment), Jewish influences in German literature were essentially biblical and Hebraic. The medieval miracle or mystery plays, in Germany as in England and France, dramatized… …

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  • 74HERZL, THEODOR — (Binyamin Ze ev; 1860–1904), founder of political Zionism and the World Zionist Organization. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, to an affluent family and educated in the spirit of German Jewish enlightenment. In 1878 he entered the law faculty …

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  • 75HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 76Frédéric Chopin — Chopin redirects here. For other uses, see Chopin (disambiguation). Chopin at 25, by Maria Wodzińska, 1835 Frédéric François Chopin (French pronunciation: [fʁe.de.ʁik ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Ch …

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  • 77John Milton — For other people named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation). John Milton Portrait of John Milton in National Portrait Gallery, London c. 1629. Unknown artist (detail) Born 9 December 1608(1608 12 09) Bread Street …

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  • 78Passover — This article is about the Jewish holiday. For other uses, see Passover (disambiguation). Passover Seder plate with symbolic foods Official name Hebrew: פסח (Pesach) Obs …

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  • 79V-1 flying bomb — Buzzbomb redirects here. For the song by the Dead Kennedys, see Buzzbomb (song). For other uses, see V1 (disambiguation). V 1 flying bomb Fieseler Fi 103 Flakzielgerät 76 (FZG 76) V 1 flying bomb …

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  • 80African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) — American Civil Rights Movement redirects here. For the earlier period, see African American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954). Prominent figures of the African American Civil Rights Movement. Clockwise from top left: W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X,… …

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