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Who is considered the world's most renowned living architect?
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I.M. Pei who retired in 1991; he earned this status after designing the glass pyramid entrance pavilion to the Louvre in Paris (1989).
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In which 'Oil Sheikdom' of the Far East do the wealthy still choose to live in primitive houses on stilts?
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Brunei's oil wealth results in no income tax, free education and health services, and cheap housing loans for its average citizen.
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What land did the U.S. Government buy for $7.2 million?
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In March 1867, the US bought all of Russian America (Alaska) from Russia.
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Who received the largest land grant ever given to an English subject for only two beaver skins per year?
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William Penn, the Quaker leader, received Pennsylvania and Delaware to settle a debt owed his father by King Charles II.
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1992 marked the first year since before the Civil War that there were fewer than 2 million ________ in the United States?
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There are fewer than 2 million farms, and agricultural land is still being carved up for residential and commercial uses.
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