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Hirsau Reform
William of Hirsau (German: Wilhelm von Hirschau; c. 1030 – 5 July 1091) was a Benedictine abbot a…

Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (/ˈ m æ n d ər ɪ n / MAN -dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话 ; traditional Chinese: 官話 ; pin…

Scandinavian languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-fa…

Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essa…

Italian Neorealism
Italian Neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a …

Literary realism
Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ord…

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land ) i…

Western Stars
Western Stars is the nineteenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen,…

Trevor Phillips
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