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  • 61United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 62JUDEO-PERSIAN — JUDEO PERSIAN, a form of Persian used by Jews and written in Hebrew characters. The oldest Judeo Persian texts are the earliest known records in the Persian language (see judeo persian Literature below). These consist of the inscriptions of Tang… …

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  • 63Noam Chomsky — Chomsky redirects here. For other topics with the same name, see Chomsky (disambiguation). Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky visiting Vancouver, Canada in 2004 …

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  • 64Indus script — Type Undeciphered Bronze Age writing …

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  • 65Sarakatsani — (Σαρακατσάνοι) Karakachani (Каракачани) Sarakatsani children in Kotel, Bulgaria. Total population unknown Regions with significant populatio …

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  • 66GENIZAH, CAIRO — Introduction The term genizah is a word shortened from the rabbinical Hebrew phrase bet genizah (see also genizah ). Its counterpart in late biblical Hebrew is genez (pl. genazim, ginzei) which in Esther evidently means a treasury, as well as the …

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  • 67MEMORY — holocaust literature in european languages historiography of the holocaust holocaust studies Documentation, Education, and Resource Centers memorials and monuments museums film survivor testimonies Holocaust Literature in European Languages The… …

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  • 68SAADIAH (Ben Joseph) GAON — (882–942), greatest scholar and author of the geonic period and important leader of Babylonian Jewry. Saadiah was born in Pithom (Abu Suweir), in the Faiyum district in Egypt. Little is known about his family except that his opponents slandered… …

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  • 69LITERATURE, JEWISH — Literature on Jewish themes and in languages regarded as Jewish has been written continuously for the past 3,000 years. What the term Jewish literature encompasses, however, demands definition, since Jews have lived in so many countries and have… …

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  • 70Québécois — Infobox Ethnic group group = Québécois pop = 7,546,131 regions = flag|Quebec langs = French rels = Predominantly Roman Catholic related = French Canadians, French, Acadians, Cajun, Metis, Franco Ontarian, Franco Manitoban, French American, Brayon …

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