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    • Confucius
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    • Charles Augustin de Coulomb
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    • Antoine Lavoisier
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    • Alien Vs. Predator pleasant sci-fi surprise
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    • THE PIECE OF STRING [1]
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    • Personality Test
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    • Verse of the week
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    • JINN (Sprites)
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    • The Wise Man
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    • FAMILY HAPPINESS
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    • The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
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    • Hacettepe University
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    • Jean-Leon Gerome
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    • The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM)
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    • Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an
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    • Napoleon Bonaparte
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    • Luigi Pulci
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    • J. Norman Lockyer
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    • Indias Independence Day
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    • Giovanni Battista Benedetti
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    • Gabriel Lippmann
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    • Emile Léger
    • Emile Léger's father was Claude Léger who was a professor of rhetoric at the Lycée de Mayence (the city ofMainz, now in Germany, which was occupied by the French at that time). Emile Léger ...
    • Sri Aurobindo
    • ndo (August 15, 1872-Decemer 5, 1950) For the last 40 years of his life in Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo worked tirelessly for the realisation of his vision of a divine life upon earth. He revealed his new message for ...
    • Wendell Meredith Stanley
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    • Pierre de Fermat
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    • Amos Alonzo Stagg
    • agg (16 Aug 1862-1965) Amos Alonzo Stagg was born in 1862, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was the fifth child of eight and his father was a laborer and cobbler. Early on, Stagg's family instilled moral, religious e...
    • McCARTNEY Plays for Children
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    • Symbolism
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    • Verse of the week
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    • NUH
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    • Multimedia University
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    • Verse of the week
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    • THE COFFEE-HOUSE OF SURAT
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    • AL-HAAQQAH
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    • Not Trying
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    • The Romantic Era
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    • University of Dhaka
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    • Galileo's Daughter:
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