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| | Basel, Switzerland | |
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| | Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年 | |
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| | Overijssel | |
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| | (loanword) emir; amir | |
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| | thus / so / like that / you / thou | |
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| | George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer | |
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| | (idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married | |
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| | dinar (currency) (loanword) | |
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| | old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent | |
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| | Istanbul, Turkey | |
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| | to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally | |
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| | Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang | |
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| | Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index | |
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| | Christian Bale (1974-), English actor | |
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| | George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 | |
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| | Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress | |
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| | the Seychelles | |
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| | Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899 | |
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| | Darfur, region of western Sudan | |
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| | cartel (loanword) | |
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| | Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India | |
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| | Nadal (name) / Rafael Nadal (1986-), Spanish tennis player | |
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| | not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary | |
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| | Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang | |
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| | Al-Mansur / Abu Jafar al Mansur (712-775), second Abassid caliph | |
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| | René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher | |
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| | Qatar | |
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| | Kashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan | |
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| | Zanzibar | |
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| | Emanuel; Immanuel (name) | |
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| | Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean | |
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| | Pantanal (wetland area in Brazil) | |
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| | Goncourt (name) | |
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| | Paul (name) | |
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| | Kabul, capital of Afghanistan | |
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| | Dover | |
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| | O'Connell (name) / Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Irish nationalist and catholic activist | |
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| | Nasr or Nasser (Arab name) / Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian President | |
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| | Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996 | |
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| | Bell (person name) | |
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| | Dakar, capital of Senegal | |
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| | Senegal | |
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| | Patil (name) / Pratibha Patil (1934-), female Indian Congress Party politician, president of India 2007-2012 | |
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| | Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005 | |
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| | Sol (goddess) | |
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| | Krasnodar (city in Russia) | |
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| | Claire (name) | |
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| | Gore (name) / Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate | |
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| | Saussure (name) | |
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| | Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player | |
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| | Borr (Norse deity) | |
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| | Karl (name) | |
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| | Bougainville, Papua New Guinea | |
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| | Ur (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq) | |
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| | Kashmir | |
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| | Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia) | |
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| | Raphael | |
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| | Lillehammer (city in Norway) | |
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| | Bhopal, capital of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh 中央邦 | |
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| | Hamar (town in Norway) | |
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| | Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang | |
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| | Tamar (name) | |
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| | Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936) | |
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| | Lyell (name) / Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist | |
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| | Adderall (stimulant drug) | |
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| | Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate | |
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| | Kohl (name) / Helmut Kohl (1930-2017), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998 | |
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| | Newcastle (place name) | |
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| | Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang | |
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| | Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India | |
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| | Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea | |
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| | Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway) | |
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| | King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle | |
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| | Bill (name) | |
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| | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer | |
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| | Agadir, city in southwest Morocco | |
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| | Hans Asperger (1906-1980), Austrian pediatrician | |
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| | Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城) | |
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| | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | |
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| | Powell (name) | |
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| | Nepal | |
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| | Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis | |
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| | Michel or Mitchell (name) / George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009 | |
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| | Pierre, capital of South Dakota | |
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| | Omar (Arabic name) | |
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| | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter | |
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| | Pakistan administered Kashmir | |
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| | Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
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| | Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | |
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| | Sennheiser (brand) | |
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| | Haier (PRC household appliance brand) / Hale (name) | |
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| | Dole (name) / Bob Dole (1923-2021), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996 | |
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| | State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament | |
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| | Robespierre (name) / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794 | |
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| | D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician | |
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| | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher | |
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| | (name) Gujral / Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012), Indian politician, prime minister 1997–1998 | |
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| | Daniel (name) | |
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