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  1. 18 hours ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.

  2. 18 hours ago · The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1917. Before the advent of film, Japan already had a rich tradition of entertainment with colourful painted figures moving across the projection screen in utsushi-e (写し絵), a particular Japanese type of magic lantern show popular in the 19th century.

  3. 18 hours ago · Peter was played by Jan Niklas and Maximilian Schell in the 1986 NBC miniseries Peter the Great. The 2007 film The Sovereign's Servant depicts the unsavoury brutal side of Peter during the campaign. A character based on Peter plays a major role in The Age of Unreason , a series of four alternate history novels written by American science ...

  4. 18 hours ago · The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). It is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world.

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    18 hours ago · UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

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    18 hours ago · Names. The name Abyla has been said to have been a Punic name ("Lofty Mountain" or "Mountain of God") for Jebel Musa, the southern Pillar of Hercules. The name of the mountain was in fact Habenna (Punic: 𐤀𐤁‬𐤍‬, ʾbn, "Stone" or "Stele") or ʾAbin-ḥīq (𐤀𐤁‬𐤍𐤇‬𐤒, ʾbnḥq, "Rock of the Bay"), about the nearby Bay of Benzú.

  7. 18 hours ago · Group B (4WD): 1982 - 1986. As the World Rally Championship rolled into the 1980s, the rear-wheel-drive cars such as the Ford Escorts, Fiat 131s and Lancia Stratos were pushed aside to make way for a new era: Group B. Group B welcomed some of the most spectacular rally cars the world had ever seen, boasting four-wheel-drive and in some cases ...

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