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... European and Arab lutes are very similar in general construction , the Arab lute is not fretted as is the European lute , and the European lute little by little acquired additional courses of strings during the Renaissance , when it ...
... European and Arab lutes are very similar in general construction , the Arab lute is not fretted as is the European lute , and the European lute little by little acquired additional courses of strings during the Renaissance , when it ...
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... European - Algerian , subnational sentiment . This would probably have resulted , in time , in a move- ment to create an independent state if Algeria had been situated farther away from Paris and if the settlers had not feared the ...
... European - Algerian , subnational sentiment . This would probably have resulted , in time , in a move- ment to create an independent state if Algeria had been situated farther away from Paris and if the settlers had not feared the ...
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... European immigration to Mexico and Central America since the original Spanish conquest has been neg- ligible . When Velasco made his tally of 5,000,000 Indians within his jurisdiction , there were only 150,000 Spaniards in the New World ...
... European immigration to Mexico and Central America since the original Spanish conquest has been neg- ligible . When Velasco made his tally of 5,000,000 Indians within his jurisdiction , there were only 150,000 Spaniards in the New World ...
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