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78 -- Number of people in file
58 -- Number of events in file
=== PEOPLE
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Handel
1685 0
1759 0


5
10
-2
J B S Bach
1685 0
1750 0


5
10
-3
Voltaire
1694 0
1778 0


3
3
-4
Benjamin Franklin
1706 0
1790 0
Statesman, scientist, inventor & author

1
1
-5
JeanJacques Rousseau
1712 0
1778 0
French philosopher & social theorist

3
3
-6
Denis Diderot
1713 0
1784 0
French philosopher

3
3
-7
Louis XV
1715 0
1774 0


3
2
-8
Samuel Adams
1722 0
1803 0
Boston Revolutionary

1
1
-9
Immanuel Kant
1724 0
1804 0


5
3
-10
Catherine the Great
1729 0
1796 0
Tsarina of Russia (1762-1796)

4
2
-11
Franz Joseph Haydn
1732 0
1809 0
Austrian composer

5
10
-12
George Washington
1732 0
1799 0
General & 1st President

1
5
-13
Paul Revere
1735 0
1818 0
Minuteman messenger

1
7
-14
John Adams
1735 0
1826 0
2nd President

1
1
-15
James Watt
1736 0
1819 0
Scottish inventor

2
6
-16
Thomas Paine
1737 0
1809 0
American & French Revolutions
Political writer -- "Common Sense"
2
7
-17
George III
1738 0
1820 0
King of England, 1760-1820

2
2
-18
Charles Cornwallis
1738 0
1805 0
Defeated at Yorktown
Later, Governor of India
2
5
-19
Benedict Arnold
1741 0
1801 0
Captured Ticonderoga, attacked Quebec.
Hero of Saratoga, 1777
1
5
-20
Thomas Jefferson
1743 0
1826 0
Author of Declaration of Independence

1
1
-21
Mikhail Kutusov
1745 0
1813 0
Field Marshal, Russian general

4
5
-22
Jeremy Bentham
1748 0
1832 0
Utilitarian philosopher

2
3
-23
Johann Goethe
1749 0
1832 0
German poet

5
12
-24
James Madison
1751 0
1836 0
President

1
1
-25
Charles Talleyrand
1754 0
1838 0
Diplomat thru several regimes & coups d'etat

3
1
-26
Louis XVI
1754 0
1793 0
King of France; guillotined

3
2
-27
Paul I
1754 0
1801 0
Tsar of Russia 1754-1801

4
2
-28
Nathan Hale
1755 0
1776 0
Patriot, hanged as a spy by the British

1
7
-29
Aaron Burr
1756 0
1836 0
Vice President & rebel
Killed Hamilton in a duel
1
1
-30
Wolfgang A. Mozart
1756 0
1791 0
composer

6
10
-31
Alexander Hamilton
1757 0
1806 0
Sec'y of Treasury & Federalist

1
1
-32
Lafayette
1757 0
1834 0
Marquis, general & politician in 2 revolutions

3
5
-33
James Monroe
1758 0
1831 0


1
1
-34
Horatio Nelson
1758 0
1805 0
Admiral, victor of the Nile & Trafalgar

2
5
-35
Robespierre
1758 0
1794 0
French revolutionist; guillotined

3
7
-36
William Pitt
1759 0
1806 0
The Younger, Prime Minister 1783-1801

2
1
-37
Danton
1759 0
1794 0
Leader of the French Revolution

3
7
-38
Andrew Jackson
1767 0
1845 0
General & 7th President
'Old Hickory'
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5
-39
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 0
1821 0
General & emperor

3
5
-40
Arthur Wellesley
1769 0
1852 0
Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo

2
5
-41
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 0
1827 0
composer

5
10
-42
Georg Wilhelm Hegel
1770 0
1831 0


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3
-43
Meriwether Lewis
1774 0
1809 0
Explorer partner of William Clark

1
4
-44
Alexander I
1777 0
1825 0
Czar of Russia

4
2
-45
Henry Clay
1777 0
1852 0
Statesman & orator

1
1
-46
Karl von Clausewitz
1780 0
1831 0
Prussian writer on strategy of total war

5
1
-47
Daniel Webster
1782 0
1852 0
Orator & statesman

1
1
-48
John C. Calhoun
1782 0
1850 0
Statesman

1
1
-49
Michael Faraday
1791 0
1867 0
English scientist & inventor

2
6
-50
Nicholas I
1796 0
1855 0
Tsar of Russia

4
2
-51
David Farragut
1801 0
1870 0
Admiral, victor at Mobile Bay

1
5
-52
Victor Hugo
1802 0
1885 0


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12
-53
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 0
1882 0
Author & Philosopher

1
12
-54
Robert E. Lee
1807 0
1870 0
Confederate General, Army of No. Virginia

1
5
-55
Abraham Lincoln
1809 0
1865 0


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1
-56
Charles Darwin
1809 0
1882 0
Scientist

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6
-57
Mendelsohn
1809 0
1847 0


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10
-58
Frederick Chopin
1810 0
1849 0


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10
-59
Robert Schumann
1810 0
1856 0


5
10
-60
Franz Liszt
1811 0
1886 0
Composer, father in law of Wagner

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10
-61
Franz Liszt
1811 0
1886 0


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10
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Charles Dickens
1812 0
1870 0


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12
-63
Richard Wagner
1813 0
1883 0
Composer & revolutionary
'Tannhauser', 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'
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Guiseppe Verdi
1813 0
1901 0


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10
-65
Karl Marx
1818 0
1883 0


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-66
Alexander II
1818 0
1881 0
Tsar of Russia (1855-1881)

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-67
Walt Whitman
1819 0
1892 0
Poet

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12
-68
Victoria
1819 0
1901 0
Queen of England, 1837-1901

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2
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Wm Tecumseh Sherman
1820 0
1891 0
Grant's partner in the West

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5
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Richard Burton
1821 0
1890 0
Explorer & traveler (India, Arabia, Africa)
Translator of Arabian Night, Perfumed Garden
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Baudelaire
1821 0
1867 0


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12
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Ulysses S. Grant
1822 0
1885 0
Commander of the Union armies

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Louis Pasteur
1822 0
1895 0


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Thomas J. Jackson
1824 0
1863 0
'Stonewall'

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George B. McClellan
1826 0
1885 0
Union commander, 1862

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J.E.B. Stuart
1833 0
1864 0
Confederate Cavalry General - Lee's right arm

1
5
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
1840 0
1893 0


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10
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Anton Dvorak
1841 0
1904 0


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10
=== EVENTS
-1
Newcomen steam pump
1712 0
1712 0
First practical; replaces horsepowered pumps

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1
1
-2
Marine chronometer
1735 0
1735 0
Enables accurate calculation of longitude

3
1
1
-3
Stamp Act
1765 0
1765 0


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1
3
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Steam engine
1769 0
1769 0
Watt patents his improved steam engine

3
1
1
-5
Kentucky
1769 0
1769 0
Daniel Boone crosses into Kentucky

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3
1
-6
Lexington
1775 0
1775 0
Shot heard 'round the world

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1
3
-7
Colonies revolt
1775 0
1783 0
American Revolution

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1
3
-8
4th of July
1776 0
1776 0
Declaration of Independence

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1
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Decline & Fall
1776 0
1776 0
Gibbon publishes D&F of the Roman Empire

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1
1
-10
Common Sense
1776 0
1776 0
Tom Paine

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3
1
-11
Wealth of Nations
1776 0
1776 0
Adam Smith

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1
1
-12
Saratoga
1777 0
1777 0
Turning point of the Revolution

1
3
1
-13
Kant's Critique
1781 0
1781 0
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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5
5
-14
Yorktown
1781 0
1781 0
Cornwallis surrenders to Washington

1
3
1
-15
Inquisition ends
1781 0
1781 0
Last execution of the Spanish Inquisition

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4
4
-16
Treaty of Paris
1783 0
1783 0
Britain recognizes American Independence

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3
1
-17
Figaro
1786 0
1786 0
Mozart composes "Marriage of Figaro"

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7
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-18
Bastille
1789 0
1789 0
Storming of the Bastille

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2
2
-19
Republic
1792 0
1794 0
French Republic declared

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2
1
-20
Cotton gin invented
1793 0
1793 0
Eli Whitney's gin makes slavery economical

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3
1
-21
The Terror
1794 0
1794 0
The Revolution attacks its own

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2
2
-22
Bonaparte
1794 0
1815 0
Napoleon starts as consul, eventually
crowns himself Emperor.  Defeated at Waterloo.
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2
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Louisiana Purchase
1803 0
1803 0
Almost doubles the size of the US

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2
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-24
Emperor Napoleon
1804 0
1804 0
Napoleon crowns himself

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2
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Trafalgar
1805 0
1805 0
Nelson destroys Napoleon's navy

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2
1
-26
Steamboat
1807 0
1807 0
R. Fulton develops first commercial steamboat

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3
3
-27
Waterloo
1815 0
1815 0
Climatic battle of the Napoleonic wars

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2
1
-28
New Orleans
1815 0
1815 0
8th Jan, fought after peace was signned

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1
2
-29
Greek Independence
1821 0
1821 0
Greeks win independence from Turkey

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20
1
-30
Electric Motor
1822 0
1822 0
Faraday invents the electric motor

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1
1
-31
First locomotive
1829 0
1829 0
Stephenson's 'Rocket', first reliable engine

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1
1
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Revolution
1830 0
1830 0
Spreads to France, Germany, Italy, & Poland

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2
5
-33
Telegraph invented
1837 0
1837 0
Morse and Wheatstone/Cooke patent telegraph

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1
3
-34
Opium War
1842 0
1842 0
Britain annexes Hong Kong

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1
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South Pass
1842 0
1842 0
Carson & Fremont discover a major path to the
west
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3
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Texas
1845 0
1845 0
Annexed by US

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Mexican War begins
1846 0
1846 0


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Revolution
1848 0
1848 0
Revolutions sweep Europe

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Communist Manifesto
1848 0
1848 0
Issued by Marx & Engels

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5
1
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Gold!
1848 0
1848 0
Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill.
Triggers CA gold rush.
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Crimean War
1854 0
1856 0
War between Turkey & Russia eventually involves
Britain & France
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Bessemer steel
1856 0
1856 0
Bessemer process permits mass production

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Sepoy revolt
1857 0
1857 0
India passes from E. India Co to British Empire

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Origin of Species
1859 0
1859 0
Darwin publishes his book

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Lake Victoria
1859 0
1859 0
Burton & Speke search for source of the Nile

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Internal combustion
1860 0
1860 0
Internal combustion engine invented in France

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1st Bull Run
1861 0
1861 0
First major battle of the war

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Serfs freed
1861 0
1861 0
Emancipation of the Russian serfs

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Germs
1861 0
1861 0
Pasteur forms the germ theory of disease

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Civil War
1861 0
1865 0


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Gettysburg
1863 0
1863 0
High tide of the Confederacy

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Appomattox
1865 0
1865 0
Lee surrenders, effectively ending the war

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Transatlantic cable
1866 0
1866 0
First regular cable service between US & Europe

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Alaska
1867 0
1867 0
Bought from Russia

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Kapital
1867 0
1867 0
Marx publishes first volume of Das Kapital

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Franco-Prussian War
1870 0
1870 0
Prussia invades France, unifies Germany

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Commune of Paris
1871 0
1871 0
Radicals revolt & set up commune in Paris

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Republic
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1900 0


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1
=== FACTIONS
-1
American
3
-2
British
6
-3
French
1
-4
Russian
4
-5
German
7
-6
Austrian
7
-7
Hungarian
7
-8
.
7
-9
.
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-10
.
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-11
.
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.
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.
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-14
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-20
Other
7
=== OCCUPATIONS
-1
Statesman
3
-2
Ruler
3
-3
Philosopher
7
-4
Explorer
5
-5
Military
2
-6
Scientist
6
-7
Revolutionary
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-8
.
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-9
.
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-10
Composer
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-11
Artist
3
-12
Poet/Author
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=== GROUPS
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American Revolution
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-2
French Revolution
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-3
IndustrialRevolution
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American Civil War
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-5
Napoleonic
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-6
Other Revolutionary
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-7

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-9

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Musical
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-11
Other cultural
2
-12
Scientific
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-13
Exploration
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-14
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.
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Other
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=== NATIONS
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Britain
3
-2
France
2
-3
United States
6
-4
Spain
5
-5
German states
5
-6
Italy
2
-7
Austria
5
-8
Russia
2
-9
.
7
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.
7
-11
China
7
-12
India
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.
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.
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-15
Mexico
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-16
.
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.
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Other
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