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Why Are Some Time Zones 30 Minutes Off Instead of an Hour?

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Major Mass Extinctions

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6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

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Are the Middle East and the Near East the Same Thing?

Paul Revere. "The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.," engraved by Paul Revere. Boston Massacre.

There’s a Riot Goin’ On: Riots in U.S. History (Part One)

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Estimated Battle Casualties During the Normandy Invasion and Campaign to Liberate Paris (June–August 1944)

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Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

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ribā halal bidʿah raḍāʿ ʿāqil fiqh ṭirāz ḥadd taʿzīr taqlīd dietary law Hebraic law riddah Islamic calendar ghanīmah rahbānīyah Islamic arts Khārijite Islamic world canon law

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Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī

journalist and Muslim theologian

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