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Revision (demoparty) |
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Setsubun |
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Summer Esperanto Study |
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Super Tuesday |
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Taiwan Pride |
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World Urbanism Day |
Historian |
List of European historians |
List of historians |
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Amzat Boukari-Yabara |
Helen Antoniadis-Bibicou |
Jose Arraño |
Francesc Badia Batalla |
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Peter von Bagh |
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Alejandro Betts |
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Sharaf Khan Bidlisi |
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Kamau Brathwaite |
Jevrem Brkovic |
Angeliki Chadzimichali |
Aeneas Chigwedere |
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Jovan Cirilov |
Louis Cullen |
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Miomir Dasic |
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Bozhidar Dimitrov |
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Max Engman |
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Samir Farid |
Gao Wenbin |
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Teresa Gisbert Carbonell |
Anatol Hrytskievich |
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Ivan Katardziev |
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Ibn Khaldun |
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Asghar Khan |
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Khoo Kay Kim |
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Dinh Xuan Lam |
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Li Ao |
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Manetho |
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George Metallinos |
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Rade Mihaljcic |
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Armando Nieto |
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Bazilije Pandzic |
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Phan Huy Lê |
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Henri Pirenne |
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Janko Prunk |
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Felipe Quispe |
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Dick Scott (historian) |
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Oleksandr Shevchenko |
Karel Schoeman |
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Mario Soares |
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Teotonio de Souza |
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Salah Stetie |
Aleksandar Stipcevic |
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Su Beng |
Gyorgy Szabad |
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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari |
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Mohamed Talbi |
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Abdelhadi Tazi |
Iba Der Thiam |
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Ramon Jose Velasquez |
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Demetrius Vikelas |
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Harry Villegas |
Wang Jiafan |
Andrew of Wyntoun |
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Ehsan Yarshater |
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Zigmas Zinkevicius |
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Monument |
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Memorial |
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Afrikaans Language Monument |
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Angel of Independence |
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Arc de Triomphe |
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Australian War Memorial |
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Delhi gate |
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Effigy |
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Grande Arche |
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Independence Square (Ukraine) |
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Juche Tower |
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Khachkar |
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Kidron Valley necropolis |
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Monas |
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National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall |
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National Monument (Indonesia) |
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Obelisk |
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Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque |
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Sung Wong Toi |
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Taj Mahal |
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The Monument to the Unknown Soldier |
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Tsitsernakaberd |
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Yonaguni monument |
Interregnum |
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Copper Age |
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