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What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

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Timeline of the 1990s

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Timeline of the 1970s

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Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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New Seven Wonders of the World

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Wolfgang Köhler

German psychologist

Édouard Claparède

Swiss educator and psychologist