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... popular in many countries involves a panel of distinguished figures under a chairman , answering questions of a topical nature from members of a studio audience . In some cases a parabolic microphone is em- ployed so that questions may ...
... popular in many countries involves a panel of distinguished figures under a chairman , answering questions of a topical nature from members of a studio audience . In some cases a parabolic microphone is em- ployed so that questions may ...
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... popular figure who has often been taken to be the female counterpart of the bodhisattva Aval- okitesvara . In China and Japan Avalokitesvara himself gradually assumed a female form . As Kuan - yin ( Japanese : Kannon ) he / she became ...
... popular figure who has often been taken to be the female counterpart of the bodhisattva Aval- okitesvara . In China and Japan Avalokitesvara himself gradually assumed a female form . As Kuan - yin ( Japanese : Kannon ) he / she became ...
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... popular candidate . General Federico Ponce Vaides , head of the interim government , was deposed on Oct. 20 , 1944 , by a popular uprising , and a revolutionary junta presided over the drafting of a new constitution and the electoral ...
... popular candidate . General Federico Ponce Vaides , head of the interim government , was deposed on Oct. 20 , 1944 , by a popular uprising , and a revolutionary junta presided over the drafting of a new constitution and the electoral ...
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