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  2. Portal:History - Wikipedia

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    Historia by Nikolaos Gyzis. History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the systematic study and documentation of the human past . The period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as ...

  3. East Spring Secondary School - Wikipedia

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    East Spring Secondary School was founded in January 1999. Due to reduced demand and falling enrolment rate, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on 20 April 2017 that East Spring Secondary would be merged with East View Secondary School by 2019. The merged school will be located at the current site of East Spring Secondary School.

  4. Portal (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Portal. (video game) Portal is a 2007 puzzle - platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (via Nvidia Shield ), and Nintendo Switch .

  5. Portal:Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Portal. : Christianity. Christianity ( / krɪstʃiˈænɪti / or / krɪstiˈænɪti /) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population. Its adherents, known as ...

  6. Nan Chiau High School - Wikipedia

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    www .nanchiauhigh .moe .edu .sg. Nan Chiau High School ( NCHS) ( traditional Chinese: 南僑中學; simplified Chinese: 南侨中学; pinyin: Nánqiáo Zhōngxué; Wade–Giles: Nan2Ch'iao2 Chung1hsüeh2) is a co-educational government-aided institution in Sengkang, Singapore affiliated to the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan. It offers the four ...

  7. United States - Wikipedia

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    The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.

  8. Portal:Religion - Wikipedia

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    The Religion Portal. Religion is a range of social - cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over ...

  9. Portal:Current events - Wikipedia

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    The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas on Saturday and Sunday increases to 21. (Reuters) Law and crime. A teenager is killed and six other people are injured in a shooting in downtown Lansing, Michigan, United States.