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2. Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   Appalachia ( / ˌæpəˈlætʃə, - leɪtʃə, - leɪʃə /) [4] is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. It stretches from the western Catskill Mountains of New York state into Pennsylvania, continuing on through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky ...

3. Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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   Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution . The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV ), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.

4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia

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   Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( Persian: محمدرضا پهلوی [mohæmˈmæd reˈzɒː pæhlæˈviː] ⓘ; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah ( محمدرضا شاه ), or just simply The Shah, was the late monarch of Iran. He began ruling the Imperial State of ...

5. King's Lynn Rural District - Wikipedia

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   King's Lynn Rural District. Coordinates: 52.75°N 0.37°E. Boundaries in 1894. King's Lynn Rural District was a rural district in Norfolk from 1894 to 1935. It was situated on the west bank of the River Great Ouse, opposite the town of King's Lynn, and comprised the then single civil parish of West Lynn . The district was split in 1935 with the ...

6. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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   Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...

7. Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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   Mesopotamia [a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and north-eastern Syria. [1] [2] In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran, Turkey, and ...