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  • Eugene Lanceray

    Eugene Lanceray

    Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray (Russian: Евгений Евгеньевич Лансере ; 4 September [O.S. 23 August] 1875 – 13 September 1946), also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter

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  • Vitaliy Khotsenko

    Vitaliy Khotsenko

    Vitaliy Pavlovich Khotsenko (Russian: Вита́лий Па́влович Хоце́нко ; born 18 March 1986) is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician, who serves as Governor of Omsk Oblast since September, 2023 (Acting G

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  • Canopic jars

    Canopic jars

    Canopic jars are funerary vessels that were used by the ancient Egyptians to house embalmed organs that were removed during the mummification process. They also served to store and preserve the vis

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  • Canopic chest

    Canopic chest

    Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification. Once canopic jars began to be used in the late Fourth Dynasty, the jar

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  • White Desert

    White Desert

    Sahara el Beyda, the White Desert Protected Area, is a national park in Egypt, first established as a protected area in 2002. It is located in the Farafra depression, 45 km (28 mi) north of the tow

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  • Neferu III

    Neferu III

    Neferuin hieroglyphsEra: Middle Kingdom(2055–1650 BC)Neferu (English: Beauty) was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 12th Dynasty. She was a daughter of Amenemhat I (r. 1991–1962 BC), sister-wife of

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  • Fritz Zwicky

    Fritz Zwicky

    Fritz Zwicky (/ˈ t s v ɪ k i / ;German: [ˈtsvɪki] ; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United

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  • Yoga Vasistha

    Yoga Vasistha

    Vasishta Yoga Samhita (Sanskrit: योगवासिष्ठम् , IAST: yoga-vāsiṣṭham; also known as Mokṣopāya or Mokṣopāyaśāstra, and as Maha-Ramayana, Arsha Ramayana, Vasiṣṭha Ramayana,Yogavasistha-Ramayana and J

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  • Romford–Upminster line

    Romford–Upminster line

    The Romford–Upminster line is a railway line in Greater London that connects Romford, on the Elizabeth line and Great Eastern Main Line, to Upminster, on the London, Tilbury and Southend line and L

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  • Senusret I

    Senusret I

    Senusret I (Middle Egyptian: z-n-wsrt; /suʀ nij ˈwas.ɾiʔ/) also anglicized as Sesostris I and Senwosret I, was the second pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1971 BC to 1926 BC (

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