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    and "Oriental"—since the Filipinos at the meeting thought they were "brown" rather than "yellow" and the conference thought the term "Oriental" was Eurocentric...
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    luxury train in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, called the Eastern and Oriental Express. Sherwood also operated a chain of Orient Express-branded luxury...
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  • selected. Had he been selected, Shirley indicated that he would study "oriental languages" at Oxford rather than music. In 1949, he received an invitation...
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    De Venise à Pékin au XIVe siècle : Odoric de Pordenone (with H. Demoulin-Bernard) 1939 – Les sculptures des Indes et de la Chine 1939 – L'empire des steppes :...
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  • Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand. Altogether, it is spoken by 290 million people (including...
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    Dalhart 3621 The Song Of Ages – Christmas Song Metropolitan Quartet 3622 Oriental – Fox Trot Jaudas' Society Orchestra 3623 I'm Waiting For You Liza Jane...
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    historical and philological principles. Vols. I [a]-II [ā-au]". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 35 (2): 378–379. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00109590...
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  • story "introduced many Western readers to an intriguing speculation in Oriental religions", Carl Sagan in 1978 listed "The Nine Billion Names of God" as...
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    Moeran, Brian, "Orientalism and the debris of Western civilisation." In D. Gerstle and A. Milner (eds.), Europe & the Orient. Canberra, AU.: Humanities Research...
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    centuries, alongside the Miaphisite churches (which came to be known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches) and the Chalcedonian Church (whose Eastern branch would...
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  • Andriessen 1939 2021 Dutch minimalism Jon Appleton 1939 2022 American Elinor Armer 1939 American Charles Boone 1939 American Leo Brouwer 1939 Cuban Wendy...
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    School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Veterinary College and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Universities in London outside the University of London...
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    Marie Laforêt (category 1939 births)
    father's family were originally from Olette, a village in the Pyrénées Orientales on the border of Têt. Her father was an industrialist and served in the...
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    Canet-en-Roussillon (category Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales)
    ruseˈʎu]) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania. Canet-en-Roussillon is located in...
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    Matsuzakaya from February–May 2017. Along with Maruei, Meitetsu, and formerly Oriental Nakamura (now Mitsukoshi), Matsuzakaya is one of the four major department...
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    Virginia Woolf's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937. In 1939, her partner at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited...
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    traditional tales. In 1892, Marcel Schwob, at the time secretary to Mendès, published the collection Le roi au masque d'or, which included the story "Le pays...
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    later, Persian. She studied at Bedford College, London and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), both part of the University of London. One...
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    Other Discoveries in the Homeland of the Achaemenians, Oriental Institute Communications, vol. 21, 1939 Roaf, Michael; Boardman, John (1980). "A Greek painting...
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  • at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18–22, 2005, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62, Chicago: The Oriental Institute...
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    1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941...
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    resident of Cronulla when, with his family, he constructed the two-storey 'Oriental Guest House' on land above where today's North Cronulla Hotel sits. The...
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  • Лисицкий Виктор Никитович (1939-2023) (in Russian) Décès de l'homme d'affaire Jean-Pierre Marongiu emprisonné six ans au Qatar (in French) Cormac McCarthy...
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  • Cool Fool (2012) The South Korean opera singer Lim Hyung-joo on his album Oriental Love (2012) Peter Hollens, a famous a capella singer, on his YouTube channel...
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  • non-American Camel contains less Oriental tobacco and a higher proportion of Burley. On July 1, 2000, an "Oriental" variety of Camel was introduced,...
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    "National Trust - Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus moorei )". trusttrees.org.au. Retrieved 9 April 2023. "Where the old things are: Australia's most ancient...
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    Southeast Africa and the Indian Ocean continued as an important region for the Oriental slave trade up until the 19th century. Livingstone and Stanley were then...
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    November 2022. "Timor-Leste's Fourth National Report to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity" (PDF). Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. October 2011...
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    Journées du Patrimoine, Fête de la Musique, Techno Parade, Nuit Blanche, Cinéma au clair de lune, Printemps des rues, Festival d'automne, and Fête des jardins...
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  • Hong Kong singer and actor, leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel Chimalpopoca (1428), Emperor of Tenochtitlan, hanging V. J. Chitra...
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