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In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act..

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Tashkent ( ), also known as Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years..

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Recognized as one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, Kathmandu's history dates back to the 2nd century AD..

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The early Middle Ages preserves only a small number of legends in writing, mostly from England, including the only surviving early medieval heroic epic in the vernacular, Beowulf..

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Notable examples are the 1001 Nights and The Decameron.

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Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined.

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The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings..

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4 million, making it the twelfth-largest city in the European Union..

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33 million, making it the 19th largest city in India..

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Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country by area, ninth-most densely populated, and 166th most populated.

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The Kazakhs are the second-largest Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia and were previously the most influential of the various Central Asian ethnic groups..

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This would include areas where Spanish, Portuguese, and various other Romance languages, which can trace their origin to the Vulgar Latin spoken in the late Roman Empire, are natively spoken..

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Winterval was a season of public events in Birmingham, England, organised by Birmingham City Council in each of two consecutive winters: first from 20 November to 31 December 1997, and then again from mid-October 1998 to mid-January 1999..

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This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel, Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four..

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In 2021, the region was home to an estimated 26.

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The name "Cthulhu" derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928..

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Māori are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (commonly known by the Māori name Pākehā)..

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Phraya Anuman Rajadhon (1888–1969) was the first Thai scholar to seriously study local folkloristics..

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As the ingredients were expensive, the pies were only eaten on feast days; this changed to their becoming associated with Christmas, when they are mostly consumed..

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It is also rumored that professional killers dispose of bodies in the surrounding woods—with one recorded case of this occurring..

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Moscow, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and a major cultural centre..

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İzmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history, and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period..

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Due to its altitude, the city has an unusual subtropical highland climate, with rainy summers and dry winters..

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Teams, players, and cities often cite a "curse" for many negative things, such as their inability to win a sports championship, or unexpected injuries..

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Adult sea otters typically weigh between 14 and 45 kg (30–100 lb), making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the smallest marine mammals..

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It was perhaps the first city to reach a population above 200,000 in an area of about 900 ha (3..

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The first High German edition dates to 1515, printed in Strassburg..

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Sindhis have largely been isolated throughout their history; due to which Sindhi culture has preserved its uniqueness..

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The Greek language, which constitutes an independent branch within the Indo-European language family, is the oldest recorded living language, and its vocabulary has been the basis of many languages (including English) and the international scientific nomenclature..

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It recorded unprecedented ticket sale registrations across the globe, including a virtual queue of over 22 million customers for the Singapore tickets.

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The city is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province..

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Some scholars of the canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus, although that is not a common restriction of the term..

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Werewolves retain human intelligence but cannot speak..

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It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America that was fully devoted to rail..

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Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse or Wonderland.

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Main characters can achieve such self-awareness by interacting with their environment, by enlisting the help of mentors, by changing their viewpoint, or by some other method..

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have the second-most dangerous occupation, trailing only loggers..

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India has the largest number of followers of Hinduism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and the Bahá'í Faith in the world..

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4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17% of the world population..

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The President ranks 1st in the Order of Precedence of India as per Article 53 of the Constitution of India states that the president can exercise their powers directly or by subordinate authority, though all of the executive powers vested in the president are, in practice, exercised by the prime minister heading the Council of Ministers.

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It is the oldest of eight white horses in Wiltshire, dating at least from the 18th century..

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It is the largest settlement and only city in Cumbria..

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The Etruscan language remains only partly understood, making modern understanding of their society and culture heavily dependent on much later and generally disapproving Roman and Greek sources..

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The first adaptation was the web series Marble Hornets which The first video posted to YouTube was on June 20, 2009, 10 days after Eric Knudsen made the original images of Slender Man..

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The following list details the 151 Pokémon of generation I in order of their National Pokédex number.

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In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege, and control of property..

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5 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium..

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Hacks can occur anywhere across campus, and occasionally off campus; many make use of the iconic Great Dome, Little Dome, Green Building tower, or other prominent architectural features of the MIT campus..

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In most versions, Diego learned his swordsmanship while at university in Spain and created his masked alter-ego after he was unexpectedly summoned home by his father because California had fallen into the hands of an oppressive dictator..

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The first Tatar settlers tried to preserve their Pagan tradition and sought asylum amongst the Baltic pagans..

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Some commentators believe flash fiction possesses a unique literary quality in its ability to hint at that larger story..

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Descriptions vary by source, but the creature is commonly portrayed as a very tall, pale or light-colored figure, sometimes described as appearing headless and producing an unusual whistling sound..

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It was believed that when the ghost read this sign, it goes back to come again the next day, only for the cycle to keep repeating..

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Most African societies recorded their history via oral tradition, resulting in a lack of written records documenting events before European colonialism..

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Serialisation can also begin with a single short story that is subsequently turned into a series.

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The field of research that eventually evolved into what is widely described as artifical intelligence was founded at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College in 1956.

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Labelling a work "escapist fiction" can be to minimise it..

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By 1440 the grand duchy had become the largest European state, controlling an area from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.

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Subsequent expansion and consolidation resulted in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which by the 14th century was the largest country in Europe.

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For those who wanted a pre-packaged setting in which to play, TSR, Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and other publishers have created many settings in which D&D games can be based; of these, the Forgotten Realms, an epic fantasy world, has been one of the most successful and critically acclaimed settings..

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New Mexico is the fifth-largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2..

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" scenarios about pivotal events in human history and depict outcomes diverge significantly from the historical record..

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Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet..

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It is the tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi), and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants.

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She is mainly remembered for a legend dating back to at least the 13th century, in which she rode naked – covered only by her long hair – through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband, Leofric, imposed on his tenants..

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Some have the Devil as the builder of the bridge, relating to the precariousness or impossibility of such a bridge to last or exist in the first place, so much so that only the Devil himself could have built it..

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900 AD, and its second-largest after Nairobi, with a population of 1,208,333 at the 2019 census..

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The English word zombie was first recorded in the 18th century; dictionaries trace its origins to Bantu languages, such as Kimbundu nzumbi 'ghost, spirit'..

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The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed as legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world.

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The first written historical record on Gojoseon can be found from the text Guanzi..

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The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837..

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What was probably the first vanishing hitchhiker legend can be found in the 400-year-old manuscript Om the tekn och widunder som föregingo thet liturgiske owäsendet, which translates roughly as "About the signs and wonders that preceded the liturgical event"..

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Cofresí is also the only pirate of the pre-flight era to have a copycat crime in his stead recorded during the 20th century..

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It is located approximately 24 km (15 mi) northwest of district headquarters Thrissur, 92 km (57 mi) north of Kochi, 85 km (53 mi) east of Palakkad and 8 km (5..

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The ten-percent-of-the-brain myth states that humans generally use only one-tenth (or some other small fraction) of their brains..

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The largest one is the Stern Auditorium, a five-story auditorium with 2,790 seats.

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Though the treatment of themes and settings related to the sea and maritime culture is common throughout the history of western literature, nautical fiction, as a distinct genre, was first pioneered by James Fenimore Cooper (The Pilot, 1824) and Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay, 1829 and Mr Midshipman Easy 1836) in the early 19th century.

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The Tatars are considered one of the oldest ethnic minorities in Lithuania..

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Most bookstores, outside a few west American states, only carry a small number of Western fiction books..

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