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  • ...d the year before. As for his colleagues, the transit was not visible from Europe, and nobody bothered to cross the globe to see it, even though Kepler had w ...ransit was a public sensation. Unlike that of 1874, it was visible in both Europe and the United States. Thomas Hardy wrote a novel about it. John Philip Sou
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  • ...e identical citation and recounted the spread of Roget's theory throughout Europe. He listed a number of parlor toys that served to establish the "basic tru ...ere espousing? Not entirely, for even if such notions were fashionable in Europe, one could legitimately ask why American scholars were willing to ignore th
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  • ...colour of life and warmth in China, white the colour of death and cold. In Europe, it was the opposite. Saffron and black are the colours of hell in Pakistan
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  • ...he was the moment he landed in Bombay. The war was being waged in faraway Europe but the Indians were in totalpanic. Reaching home he discovered that his fi
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  • ...this is the work of an Indian. It can compete with some fine specimens of Europe you know His Highness: Yes, fine specimen of Europe.
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    After World War I circumstances of filmmaking in Europe greatly changed. American films by then predominated in a number of Europea Throughout the 1920s Germany had the strongest film industry in Europe, even as American films made inroads there and Hollywood lured top talent.
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  • Numerous inventors in Europe and the U.S. worked on typewriters in the 19th century, but successful comm
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  • ...l, screw-type press that had been in use for hundreds of years, throughout Europe and Asia. The adaptation of block-print technology - known in Europe since the return of Marco Polo from Asia at the end of the 13th century.
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  • ...ally reached India. Soon the Indian paper was being exported to West Asia, Europe and Turkey. ...ia, but in early and medieval times is was predominant in western Asia and Europe. Al-Biruni also notes, "The Hindus are not in the habit of writing on hides
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  • ...s were locally considered to be superior in quality to those imported from Europe, being both much denser and finer-grained. When lithographic presses were i One final point about lithography’s use in India must be mentioned. In Europe lithography always remained on the fringes of book production—one in a li
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  • ~1 mya Homo erectus begins to migrate to Europe and Asia 100,000-40,000 Neanderthal Man, in Africa and Europe
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  • '''Europe''' c.880-911 High point of Viking raids in Europe
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  • ...gods for everything. But this was a common belief in several countries in Europe as well. Then I started making associations and finding common factors betw
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  • ...st specifically Indian Film' by Osten and was fairly successful in Central Europe.
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  • ...into the British European armies. (Tens of thousands of Indians fought in Europe, and India paid over to England a total sum of 240 million pounds.) After t
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  • ...- Archibald MacLeish produced an allegory on the growing threat of war in Europe with his radio play "The Fall of the City" on CBS, Arch Oboler produced "Li
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  • ...almost entirely on the philosophy of life and action of nineteenth century Europe. They were truly more the products of Western civilization than Indian. Til ...e was released from jail in 1914, the year in which World war I started in Europe.
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  • This was followed by series of recording expeditions in Europe, Russia and Asia - including India. Michael Kinnear has given detailed his ...abel. Fees as a rule, were very reasonable in comparison to those paid in Europe, but recording expenses were heavy, since most of the artists had to be tra
    53 KB (8,415 words) - 01:32, 5 July 2006
  • Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe secretarial help produced this article based on documented historical infor
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  • ...e People of India. That fetish for numbers which had overtaken England and Europe earlier in the nineteenth century was soon to inflect the work of the colon ...n as the world's finest police organization, will be the laughing stock of Europe if it insisted on trying to trace criminals by odd ridges on their own skin
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