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    In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers...
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    Bentley (eds.), East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation (London: Cassell) With Steve Cox, Generations of Resistance: East Timor London: Cassell...
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    Dili (redirect from Dili, East Timor)
    Díli) is the capital and largest city of East Timor. It lies on the northern coast of the island of Timor, in a small area of flat land hemmed in by mountains...
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  • Nations refers to Taiwan as Taiwan, Province of China. Timor-Leste was previously known as East Timor. Türkiye was previously known as Turkey. Although the...
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    Lin Chi-ling (category 1974 births)
    Chi-ling (born 29 November 1974) is a Taiwanese actress, model, and television personality. Lin Chi-ling was born on 29 November 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan. Lin's...
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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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    of Education and Culture of East Timor), UNDP Timor-Leste: Literacy in East Timor Current Language Issues in East Timor: Text of a public lecture given...
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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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    Russian speaker at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and began a career as a journalist. He met fellow author Henry de Montherlant...
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    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year. The famine is considered one of the worst in the 20th century;...
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    Elke Sommer (category All articles with vague or ambiguous time)
    as an au pair for the family of now actress Vicki Michelle and to attend an English language institute three times a week. This was her first time away...
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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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    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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    fortification wall that preserved the tablets until their recovery by the Oriental Institute's archaeologists. In 316 BC, Persepolis was still the capital...
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    and been successful. In 1848, the Parsi community in Mumbai formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians. After...
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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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    headquarters in Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa was also the site of the Council of the Oriental Orthodox Churches in 1965. According to Pankhurst (1962) survey, 212 square...
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    Family Business, broadcast on Netflix. Of great popularity were his 1960s Oriental-influenced songs like "Adieu mon pays" (also known as "J'ai quitté mon...
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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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  • rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor...
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  • Sidotti. By Furui Tomoko. 2010. ISBN 978-4404038562. Matthew Jones, "The Oriental Irish", History Ireland, Volume 22, Issue 1 (January/February 2014) Glynn...
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    Cuvier in 1807 were 23 saltwater crocodile specimens from India, Java and Timor. Crocodilus biporcatus raninus proposed by Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel...
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    agriculture at Chogha Mish. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. ISBN 978-1-885923-01-1...
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  • Delage 1879 1961 French Quatre poèmes hindous; Sept haï-kaïs impressionism, oriental-influenced Stefano Donaudy 1879 1925 Italian Percy Fletcher 1879 1932 English...
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    portray the degraded Turkish court, using "the harem, the Sultan court, oriental despotism, luxury, gems and spices, carpets, and silk cushions" as an unfavorable...
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  • Thai Airlines ORIENT THAI Thailand NGK Oriental Air Bridge ORIENTAL BRIDGE Japan OAC Oriental Airlines ORIENTAL AIR Nigeria QO OGN Origin Pacific Airways...
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    1966–1971 The site of Collins Place (including the Masonic Hall, the Oriental Hotel and Lister House), Collins Street, 1971–72 The old Melbourne Hospital...
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  • Mureybet (1971-1974) et leur signification pour les origines de la sedentarisation au Proche-Orient", The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research...
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  • Strongman". TIME. 13 April 1959. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. "ParlInfo - Is West Papua another Timor?". parlinfo.aph.gov.au. Retrieved...
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    Antioch and All the East, and informally as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch. The bishop of...
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