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| American astronaut that became the first human to step on the moon's surface |
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| French thinker that stated a viewpoint known as existentialism that became popular among intellectuals in the West |
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Soren Kierkegaard
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| Danish writer in the "Golden Age" of intellectual and artistic activity, known as the "father of existentialism" |
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| Born in Algeria,representative of non-metropolitan French literature, won nobel prize |
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Roman Catholic nun who inspired many people with her care of the needy in the slums of Calcutta, India
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| South African Anglican archbishop who spoke out for human rights |
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British mathematician, logician and philosopher, author of Principia Mathematica
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| British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, known for his defense of logicism and theories of definite descriptions and logical atomism |
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philosopher, wrote Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations
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| Philosopher who developed a strategy called deconstruction |
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| Spanish painter who started cubism with his painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
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French novelist, wrote Á LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
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| Irish novelist who published Ulysses, a landmark in the development of the modern novel |
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Postmodern American architect
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Contemporary artist from Pittsburgh, created Campbell's Soup Can
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| Nobel prizewinning playwrite, wrote The Room and The Homecoming |
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Irish writer, poet, and dramatist |
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| French dramatist, wrote LA CANTATRICE CHAUVE |
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French historian, cofounded Annales
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| American conceptual artist, involved with Dada and Surrealism |
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American astronaut that maneuvered Atlantis |
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| NASA chief who worked at the Russian mission control |
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Dan Goldin's Russian counterpart
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| Delegates from 46 countries met here in 1987 to sign the Montreal Protocol |
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The Earth Summit of 1992 occurred here
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| The Earth Summit+5 took place here in 1997 |
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School of history founded by Lucien Febvre and Mark Bloch, based on "économies, sociétés, et civilisations." |
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Developing Nations
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| Newly industrializing countries where many of the people still follow traditional ways of life |
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Have long been industrialized and have the technology to produce a great quantity and variety of goods
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| Increase the variety of something |
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The widespread clearing of forests for logging or farming
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Montreal Protocol
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| Called for the reductions in the use of chemicals damaging to the earth’s atmosphere |
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UN sponsored conference that called on nations to plan economic growth to meet present global needs without sacrificing the environmental needs of future generations
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follow-up of the first Earth Summit conference
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| Spacecraft with wings for controlled descent in the atmosphere, designed to transport astronauts between Earth and an orbiting space station and also used to deploy and retrieve satellites. |
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The first satellite into orbit in 1957
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| A massive number of computers linked together through a worldwide, high-speed, telecommunications network |
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American space shuttle docked with Mir
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Devices that emit narrow, powerful beams of light
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| (deoxyribonucleic acid) led to field of genetic engineering |
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Process that involves the alteration of cells to produce new life-forms
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| Viewpoint that became popular among intellectuals in the West, said that each person is essentially alone, but free to choose his or her path in life |
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Philosophical essay by Albert Camus
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Principia Mathematica
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| landmark work written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, and published in three volumes, written as a defense of logicism |
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Term used in contemporary literary criticism, philosophy, and the social sciences, coined by Jacques Derrida
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International Monetary Fund
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| Set up after World War II to assist global economic development |
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| International body that was recognized for its growing importance |
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the “brain” driving the computer
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| Association of Caribbean States |
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Formed by countries in the Caribbean, created for same reasons as North American Free Trade Agreement and Southern Common Market
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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| Implemented by U.S., Canada, and Mexico, meant to increase trade and to coordinate economic growth among member nations |
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Southern Common Market
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| Several nations in South America participated in this, similar purpose as that of North American Free Trade Agreement and Association of Caribbean States |
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Western European nations took steps toward political unity by creating the European Union
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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| Said to have a powerful impact on the global economy in the future |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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Most important human-rights document of the postwar years, addresses social and economic as well as political rights
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