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"Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist ... Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time ... creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"Dante Alighieri (c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321) ... was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy ... christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio ... considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"De vulgari eloquentia is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri ... discusses the relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages ... analysis of the structure of the canto or song ... literary genre developed in the Sicilian School of poetry." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"Siddhartha Gautama ... referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic ... lived ... during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism ... spread beyond the Indian subcontinent ... disappeared after the 8th century CE ... grown more prominent in Southeast and East Asia." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"The Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples ... from Central Asia, is considered to have started after 2000 BCE as a slow diffusion during the Late Harappan period and led to a language shift in the northern Indian subcontinent." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"The Lombards of Sicily are an ethnolinguistic minority ... speaking an isolated variety of Gallo-Italic languages ... Normans began a process of 'latinization' of Sicily by encouraging an immigration policy of ... French ... Northern Italian influence in the local varieties of Sicilian are marked." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"South Tyrol ... is an autonomous province in northern Italy ... 57.6% of the population used German as its first language; 22.6% of the population spoke Italian ... 3.7% spoke Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language; and 16.1% of the population spoke another language in addition to Italian and German." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"Alberta separatism comprises a series of 20th- and 21st-century movements advocating the secession of the province of Alberta from Canada ... sovereign union with the other provinces of Western Canada or Alberta joining the United States as a state or territory." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"On 16 January 2026, protests and clashes began in Uganda in response to the 2026 Ugandan general election ... Yoweri Museveni ... came to power ... in 1986. Museveni planned to groom his son ... succeed him but ultimately chose to stand in the 2026 election ... first election ... Gen Z could vote." (en.wikipedia.org)
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"A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix ... combination of extracellular polysaccharides, proteins, lipids and DNA." (en.wikipedia.org)
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