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  2. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Code of Fair Competition for Savings, Building and Loan Associations December 21, 1933 526 6520 Code of Fair Competition for the Grinding Wheel Industry December 21, 1933 527 6521 Code of Fair Competition for the Rolling Steel Door Industry December 21, 1933 528 6522 Code of Fair Competition for the Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing Industry

  3. Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    In addition, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, Hinduism was the state religion in many Indianized kingdoms of Asia, the Greater India – from Afghanistan in the West and including almost all of Southeast Asia in the East (Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, partly Philippines) – and only by the 15th century was nearly everywhere supplanted by ...

  4. Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...

  5. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    The 1946 Manhattan Project report estimated 39,000 dead and 25,000 injured, and the 1951 U.S.-led Joint Commission report estimated 39,214 dead and 25,153 injured; Japanese-led reconsiderations in the 1970s estimated 70,000 dead in Nagasaki by the end of the year. [150]

  6. Dutch East Indies - Wikipedia

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    The government invested heavily in a railroad network (240 km or 150 mi long in 1873, 1,900 km or 1,200 mi in 1900), as well as telegraph lines, and entrepreneurs opened banks, shops and newspapers. The Dutch East Indies produced most of the world's supply of quinine and pepper, over a third of its rubber, a quarter of its coconut products, and ...

  7. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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    In the same report, it states that the Madras and Bombay presidencies totaled 635 instances of sati over the same ten-year period. [177] The 1829 missionary report does not provide its sources and acknowledges that "no correct idea can be formed of the number of murders occasioned by suttees", then states that some of the statistics are based ...

  8. Kazakhstan - Wikipedia

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    Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion situated in Eastern Europe. [f] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.