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10 hours ago · The Mother. Eliza had been brought up by her mistress, from girlhood, as a petted and indulged favorite. The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women.
8 hours ago · Kansas. Kansas ( / ˈkænzəs / ⓘ KAN-zəss) [9] is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. [10] It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people.
8 hours ago · The OECD is the successor organization to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), [15] established in April 1948 among the European recipients of Marshall Plan aid for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. [16] [17] [18] Only Western European states were members of the OEEC, whose primary function was the ...
1 day ago · Gilgit-Baltistan (/ ˌ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ɪ t ˌ b ɔː l t ɪ ˈ s t ɑː n,-s t æ n /; Urdu: گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان listen ⓘ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and ...
1 day ago · Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. It is variously defined as a cult, a business, a religion, a scam, or a new religious movement. [11] Hubbard initially developed a set of ideas that he called Dianetics, which he represented as a form of therapy.
