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The Arnolfini Portrait, painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck
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Dmitry Shostakovichs first visit to the United States was an appearan
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In the third decade of the nineteenth century, Americans beg
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QOTD #14 Matisse and Picasso; Picasso and Matisse. Throughou
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A clutch of new studies in the field of the psychology of emotion
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Two relatively recent independent developments stand behind
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Surprisingly enough, modern historians have rarely intereste
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For much of the twentieth century, paleontologists theorized
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Og_VPR # 22-23-24 Experts have differed about where the genu
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Given the persistent and intransigent nature of the American
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The tenn " Ice Age" may give a wrong impression. The epoch t
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QOTD # 1 That sales can be increased by the presence of sunl
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NewTech clothes dryers, a new line of dryers that uses 1/3 t
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Kleptoplasty (from the Greek kleptes, meaning thief) is a phenomenon
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Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) a great composer?
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Islamic law is a particularly instructive example of "sacred
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Historically, Country A has imported much of its wheat from foreign so
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Geologists have long known that the Earth's mantle is hetero
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Consumer Advocate: Happy Smiles Daycare, a popular child-car
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In Greco-Roman societies, women applied white lead and chalk
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Classical physics defines the vacuum as a state of absence:
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It is no revelation that people prefer immediate rewards. What is less
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QOTD # 1 During an economic depression, it is common
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The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the Unite
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In response to the increasing cost of producing energy throu
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Country X imposes heavy tariffs on imported manufactured goods. Compan
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Whether the languages of the ancient American peoples were u
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In 1996, scientists caused an experimental flood of the Colo
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Saturn’s giant moon Titan is the only planetary
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Although multi-organ transplants have become more common, scientists a
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Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afr
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Surveying paradigmatic works of tragic literature from antiq
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Creativity is a frequent element in the mythology, philosophy, or reli
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In the recent past, few central banks would have placed
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During World War I, the issue of neutral rights on the seas
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For some time scientists have believed that cholesterol pla
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"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define
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OG_VPR # 8-9-10 The binary planet hypothesisthat Earth and
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"Solar wind" is the term scientists use to describe the stream of part
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Polygamy in Africa has been a popular topic for social resea
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The number of stray dogs picked up in Ford City last year by
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Recent research has indicated that married people are not on
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QOTD #15 Stars create energy through the process of fusion.
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