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98 relations: Abbotsholme School, Agnosticism, Algernon Blackwood, Apartheid, Arnold Bennett, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bachelor of Arts, Balliol College, Oxford, Bertrand Russell, Brian Aldiss, C. S. Lewis, Caldy, Caldy Hill, Castle of Frankenstein, Common Wealth Party, Conscientious objector, Croix de Guerre, Darkness and the Light, David McCallum, Death into Life, Dee Estuary, Doctor of Philosophy, Doris Lessing, Dyson sphere, E. F. Bleiler, English literature, Extrasensory perception, Federal Union, Four Encounters, Freeman Dyson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friends' Ambulance Unit, Genetic engineering, George Pal, Gregory Benford, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, Industrial Revolution, Internationalism (politics), J. B. Priestley, J. B. S. Haldane, John Gloag, John Maynard Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Jules Verne, Karl Marx, Landican, Last and First Men, Last Men in London, ..., List of ambulance drivers during World War I, List of peace activists, Liverpool, Manchester Grammar School, Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), Modern history, Museum of Pop Culture, Naomi Mitchison, Nebula Maker, Odd John, Old Man in New World, Oswald Spengler, Philosophy, Port Said, Psychology, Religious organization, Richard Acland, Saints and Revolutionaries, Sam Moskowitz, Science fiction, Seacombe, Sirius (novel), Stanisław Lem, Star Maker, Sweden, Tablet (magazine), Terraforming, That Hideous Strength, The Flames: A Fantasy, The Space Trilogy, Time and Tide (magazine), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Liverpool, Vernor Vinge, Virginia Woolf, Wallasey, West Kirby, William Hope Hodgson, Winston Churchill, Wirral Peninsula, Workers' Educational Association, World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, World War I, World War II, Worlds of Wonder (collection), Wrocław, Yugoslavia. Expand index (48 more) »
Abbotsholme School
Abbotsholme School is a coeducational independent boarding and day school near the town of Rocester in Staffordshire, England.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.
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Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.
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Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
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Caldy
Caldy is a small, affluent village on the Wirral Peninsula, England, located to the south east of West Kirby.
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Caldy Hill
Caldy Hill is an area of heath and woodland on a sandstone outcrop on the Wirral Peninsula.
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Castle of Frankenstein
Castle of Frankenstein was an American horror, science fiction and fantasy film magazine, published between 1962 and 1975 by Calvin Thomas Beck's Gothic Castle Publishing Company, distributed by Kable News.
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Common Wealth Party
The Common Wealth Party (CW) was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom in the Second World War.
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Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.
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Croix de Guerre
The Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) is a military decoration of France.
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Darkness and the Light
Darkness and the Light (1942) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.
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David McCallum
David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish-American actor and musician.
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Death into Life
Death into Life is a 1946 novel by Olaf Stapledon.
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Dee Estuary
The Dee Estuary (Aber Dyfrdwy) is a large estuary by means of which the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.
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Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.
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Dyson sphere
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output.
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E. F. Bleiler
Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature.
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English literature
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.
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Extrasensory perception
Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense or second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.
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Federal Union
Federal Union is a Pro-European British group launched in November 1938, to advocate a Federal Union of Europe as a post-war aim.
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Four Encounters
Four Encounters is an unfinished work by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, written in the late 1940s but only published by Bran's Head Books in 1976, 26 years after the author's death.
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Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (born 15 December 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
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Friends' Ambulance Unit
The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), in line with their Peace Testimony.
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Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology.
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George Pal
George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres.
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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Internationalism (politics)
Internationalism is a political principle which transcends nationalism and advocates a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and people.
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J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.
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John Gloag
John Gloag (10 August 1896 - 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture.
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John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Karl Marx
Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.
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Landican
Landican is a hamlet on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
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Last and First Men
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
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Last Men in London
Last Men in London (1932) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.
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List of ambulance drivers during World War I
This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War.
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List of peace activists
This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Manchester Grammar School
The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom (ages 7–18) and is located in Manchester, England.
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Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)
In the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts with Honours of these universities are promoted to the title of Master of Arts or Master in Arts (MA) on application after six or seven years' seniority as members of the university (including years as an undergraduate).
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Modern history
Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history.
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Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP (earlier called EMP Museum) is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture.
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Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, CBE (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet.
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Nebula Maker
Nebula Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published posthumously by Bran's Head Books in 1976.
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Odd John
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
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Old Man in New World
Old Man in New World is a short story by Olaf Stapledon, published as a separate volume by George Allen and Unwin in 1944.
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Port Said
Port Said (بورسعيد, the first syllable has its pronunciation from Arabic; unurbanized local pronunciation) is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787 (2010).
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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Religious organization
Religious activities generally need some infrastructure to be conducted.
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Richard Acland
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (26 November 1906 – 24 November 1990) was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party in 1942, having previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP).
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Saints and Revolutionaries
Saints and Revolutionaries is a non-fiction work by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, published by Heinemann in 1939.
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Sam Moskowitz
Sam Moskowitz (June 30, 1920 – April 15, 1997) was an American writer, critic, and historian of science fiction.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Seacombe
Seacombe is a district of the town of Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
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Sirius (novel)
Sirius is a 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon, whose title character is a dog named Sirius with humanlike intelligence.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (12 or 13 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire, and a trained physician.
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Star Maker
Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tablet (magazine)
Tablet is an American Jewish online magazine founded in 2009 by Jewish non-profit Nextbook.
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Terraforming
Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.
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That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength (subtitled A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups) is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy.
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The Flames: A Fantasy
The Flames (subtitled 'A Fantasy') is a science fiction novella by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon.
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The Space Trilogy
The Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis, famous for his later series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Time and Tide (magazine)
Time and Tide was a British weekly political and literary review magazine founded by Margaret, Lady Rhondda in 1920.
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Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers
Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers is a book by Curtis C. Smith published in October 1981 on science fiction authors in the 20th century.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
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University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.
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Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction author and retired professor.
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
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Wallasey
Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.
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West Kirby
West Kirby is a town on the north-west corner of the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England, at the mouth of the River Dee.
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William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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Wirral Peninsula
Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula in northwest England.
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Workers' Educational Association
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA), founded in 1903, is the UK's largest voluntary sector provider of adult education and one of Britain's biggest charities.
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World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
The World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace (Światowy Kongres Intelektualistów w Obronie Pokoju) was an international conference held on 25 to 28 August 1948 at Wrocław University of Technology.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Worlds of Wonder (collection)
Worlds of Wonder is a collection of three science fiction works by Olaf Stapledon: a short novel, a novella and a short story.
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Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; Vratislav; Vratislavia) is the largest city in western Poland.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon
