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Ada Madssen (9 February 1917 – 22 September 2009) was a Norwegian sculptor.
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Samuel Sadler House is a historic home located at Sandy Creek in Oswego County, New York. It was built about 1870 and is a 2-story, red brick Italianate-style structure consisting of a 2-story, three-bay main block and 1 ⁄ -story, four-bay side wing and 1-story rear wing. Also on the property is a contemporary carria...
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Opsiphanes sallei is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
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Lethe diana, the Diana treebrown, is a brush-footed butterfly (subfamily Satyrinae) in the Nymphalidae family. Its wings are a dark shade of brown, with an eyespot pattern, and a wingspan of about 45–55 mm. It resembles "Lethe confusa"; however, the "Lethe confusa" bears a white band on its wings, setting them apart.
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Jesús Delgado Valhondo (Mérida, Spain, 19 February 1909 – Badajoz, Spain, 23 July 1993) was a spanish poet.
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The Smith H. Barlow House is a historic house located at Harwood Drive in Lacona, Oswego County, New York.
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Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (; born 1976) is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is the former chief scientist at Baidu, where he led the company's Artificial Intelligence Group. He is an adjunct professor (formerly associate professor) at Stanford University. Ng is also the co-founder and chairman of Coursera, an onlin...
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Dermot O Daly, was a Gaelic-Irish landlord, ancestor of Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, fl. 1574 – 10 November 1614.
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Erling Kristiansen (3 October 1923 – 25 July 2009) was a Norwegian cyclist.
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Everett Irvine Wood (October 4, 1910 – March 20, 1983) was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Swift Current in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1956 to 1975 as a CCF/NDP member.
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Perry & The Posse is a morning radio show which airs six days a week on KSSK-AM and KSSK-FM in Honolulu, Hawaii. The show is currently the number one morning radio show in Hawaii, capturing a 25 percent share of the state's listening audience. It is also consistently number one in market share nationwide in the adult...
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Charles M. Salisbury House is a historic home located at Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1907 and is a 1 ⁄ -story, clapboard residence with a square plan, steeply pitched multi-gabled roof, an asymmetrical facade, and irregular fenestration. The facade features a large fixed-pane window with staine...
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Justin Vaïsse is a French historian, who is currently the director of the Policy Planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His father is prominent historian Maurice Vaïsse, who specialized in the same areas as his son.
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This is a full list of episodes from the Disney Junior (2009–12) TV series "Jungle Junction".
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Terje Moe (4 November 1933 – 24 July 2009) was a Norwegian architect.
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Mahealani Perez-Wendt is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) poet, writer and community activist residing in Hawaiʻi, on the island of Maui. She is the 1993 recipient of the Eliot Cades literary award, and is the author of Uluhaimalama and other publications. She recently retired as the executive director of Native Hawa...
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Catochrysops strabo, the forget-me-not, is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. It is found in Ceylon, India, from Sikkim to Indochina and in Sundaland, Sulawesi and the Philippines.
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Yedidia Be'eri (Hebrew: ידידיה בארי‎ ‎ , 30 January 1931 – 1 July 2004) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1974 and 1977.
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Chris Kovarik (born 1 March 1978, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain biking and four cross mountain bike racing. He is a multiple Australian national champion and multiple World Cup winner.
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Patrick Joseph Kelly (31 August 1894 – 18 August 1991) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Benin City in Nigeria.
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George Campbell Ross C.B., C.B.E. (9 August 1900 – 30 July 1993) was an Engineer and a Rear Admiral in Britain's Royal Navy. He was also the son of Sir Archibald Ross OBE (1867 - March 19, 1931), a pioneering marine engineer.
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Matthew Shoecraft House is a historic home located at Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built about 1867 and is a two story, five bay rectangular Italianate style clapboard residence with a shallow pitched hipped roof and a wide cornice with paired turned brackets.
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Fred Smart House is a historic home located at Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two story, frame Queen Anne style residence consisting of a rectangular, gabled main block with a round tower attached to each of its two front corners. Also on the property are a contributing carriage h...
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Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth (26 April 1828 – 4 February 1923) was a British peer and a naturalised United States citizen who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of 94 from a cousin, and held the title for less than a year before his own death. Although born and educated in England, he move...
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The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes.
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Ian Forrest (born 22 February 1950 in Kirkliston, Scotland) is a British auto racing driver.
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Cussen is an English language surname. Alternative spellings including Cousins and Cussans.
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Clement Sethupathy was an Asian Catholic priest.
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James Frye (b. in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1709; d. 8 January 1776) was a colonial soldier. He filled several local offices and served at the capture of Louisburg in 1745.
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West Wales Wild Boars were a rugby league team based in St Clears, Carmarthenshire. They played in the Welsh Premier of the Rugby League Conference.
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Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions. It was released on 19 March 2010 in Europe (14 March in Greece) and on 23 March in North America. At the time it was a farewell album, released prior to their farewell tour.
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Mikhail Davidovich Alexandrovich, a.k.a. Misha Alexandrovich (23 July 1914, Bērzpils, Vitebsk Governorate - 3 July 2002, Munich) was a Latvian Jewish tenor, and cantor, internationally acclaimed as a fine performer of classical and popular repertoire in several languages.
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Jürgen Becker (born August 27, 1959) is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.
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The Irish Exiles were created by Tom Kiernan in 1989 to give Irish-qualified rugby union players in Britain and France the opportunity to play for an Irish representational side and thus potentially strengthen the full Irish team. Many famous Irish players have turned out for the Exiles while they were playing their c...
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MUNFLA (Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive) is the largest sound recording folklore archive in Canada. It is hosted at Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in the G.A. Hickman Building at the St. John’s campus in Newfoundland, Canada. It is a member of the Canadian Council of Ar...
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The 2009 Verizon Festival of Speed was the fourth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 17, 2009.
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Below is the list of English words of native origin, in other words, words inherited directly from the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Anglo-Saxon roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, A...
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Megan McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is a journalist and blogger based in Washington, D.C.. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy from a libertarian perspective.
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St. James Winery is located in St. James, Missouri, near mile marker 195 of Interstate 44. The winery distributes 200,000 cases of wine per year in 19 states. The vineyards are composed of 180 acre of Catawba, Vignoles, Chardonel, Concord, Norton, Chambourcin, Seyval and Rougeon grapes. The winemaking heritage of th...
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Geo-wiki is a platform for engaging citizens in environmental monitoring. It aids in both the validation of existing geographical information and the collection of new geographical information through crowdsourcing. Using tools such as Google Earth, Bing Maps, Geotagged photographs and the internet, individual volunt...
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The 2009 H1 Unlimited season is the fifty fourth running of the H1 Unlimited series for unlimited hydroplane, jointly sanctioned by APBA, its governing body in North America and UIM, its international body. It is the first season to run under its new name.
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Furbaz are a Swiss vocal group consisting of members Marie Louise Werth, Giusep Quinter, Ursin Defuns and Gion Defuns, who perform mainly in the Romansh language. The group was formed in 1983 in Disentis, Graubünden, remaining active until the early 1990s. They then reunited in 2004, and continue performing together....
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Libres is the Spanish version of the debut album of the Italian band Sonohra, winners of the "Giovani" category at the Sanremo Music Festival 2008.
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Robinson Souttar (23 October 1848 – 4 April 1912) was a British Liberal Party politician.
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Coaches of the Big 12 Conference bestow the following individual awards at the end of each football season.
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This is a list of Prime Ministers of New Zealand by age, including when they were born, what age they were when they were appointed Prime Minister, what age were they when they left the office and the age at which they died, or their current age as of none }} if they are still alive. The table can be sorted by each di...
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Guy Henry Faget (1891–1947) was an American doctor who revolutionalized the treatment of leprosy by demonstrating the efficacy of promin, in a paper reported in 1943. Promin is a sulfone compound synthesized by Feldman and his co-workers in 1940 as an agent against tuberculosis effective in experimental animals. He w...
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The GN & C Stock was operated on the Great Northern and City Railway, an underground railway line in London, England. It was opened between Moorgate and Finsbury Park on 14 February 1904. The original GN&C Stock operated on the line between 1904 and 1939.
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Vice-Admiral Joseph Needham Tayler {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 August 1783 – 19 March 1864) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mainly as a junior officer, before finally achieving command of his own ship in 1810, serving off the coast of nor...
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The 1919 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1919 college football season. The team was coached by Henry Schulte and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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The Begin doctrine is the common term for the Israeli government's preventive strike, counter-proliferation policy regarding their potential enemies' capability to possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), particularly nuclear weapons. It was enunciated by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in June 1981, following...
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William McLean Watson (1874–1962) became Labour MP for Dunfermline Burghs, Scotland, in 1922. He lost his seat in the National Government landslide of 1931, but won it back in 1935 and retained it until 1950.
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Blood & Chocolate: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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BritWeek is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by "So You Think You Can Dance" and American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe, the former British Consul-General in Los Angeles Bob Peirce, Simon Wright and Paul J Wright Esq who serves as its General Counsel. Peirce is the Chairman of B...
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Brandur Helgason Enni (born 15 April 1989), is a Faroese singer, songwriter, composer, and musician. He plays guitar, trumpet, piano and flugelhorn. In August 2006, he moved to Sweden, where he studied music for two years at the Music Production Academy "Musikmakarna". In 2012, he moved back to his hometown Tvøroyri...
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John Howard Harris (April 24, 1847 – April 25, 1925) was president of Bucknell University from 1889–1919.
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Charles Edward Price (1857 – 7 July 1934) was a Scottish politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Central from 1906 to 1918. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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John VIII (Albanian: "Gjon VIII; in Italian, Giovanni Bruni" ) (died 7 October 1571) served as an Archbishop of Antivari in the mid-16th century.
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"Shake for the Sheik" is a song by English pop-rock band The Escape Club, from their 1988 album "Wild Wild West". Written by the band members and produced by Chris Kimsey, the song was released as the album's second single and reached number 28 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in January 1989.
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Wainwright station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Wainwright, Alberta. The station is served by Via Rail's The Canadian three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required).
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A genetically modified soybean is a soybean ("Glycine max") that has had DNA introduced into it using genetic engineering techniques. In 1994 the first genetically modified soybean was introduced to the U.S. market, by Monsanto. In 2014, 90.7 million hectares of GM soy were planted worldwide, 82% of the total soy cul...
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The Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport is a small public use airstrip about five miles south of Green River, Wyoming on a mountain known as South Hill. It opened in 1963.
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William McEwan ( ) (16 July 1827 – 12 May 1913) was a Scottish politician and brewer. He founded the Fountain Brewery in 1856, served as a member of parliament (MP) from 1886 to 1900, and funded the construction of the McEwan Hall at the University of Edinburgh.
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We wanted to talk of a long distance love because it is that which gives the most suffering but also it is the most beautiful.
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Christian Christiansen was Danish pianist and organist born in 1884.
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The Argo Avenger is an eight-wheeled all terrain vehicle built by Ontario Drive and Gear Limited.
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Edmonton railway station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Edmonton, Alberta. The railway station is located near the Edmonton City Centre Airport, approximately 5.5 kilometres from the city centre. Served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction, the station is unusually loca...
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Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands FRSE DD LLD (18 October 1857–26 February 1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He was an expert on Church Law and represented the Church of Scotland on many occasions.
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Spartan Air Lines Ltd was a British private airline company, in the period 1933-1935. In 1933, it started operating passenger services from the London area to the Isle of Wight. In late 1935 it merged with United Airways Ltd to form British Airways Ltd.
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CITYpeek LLC. is an internet company founded in 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland. It started by operating a website providing regional information on hotels, restaurants and entertainment in the New York - Philadelphia - Washington DC region, including reviews and online bookings.
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Proposition 8 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 67) was an amendment of the Constitution of California relating to the assessment of property values. It was proposed by the California State Legislature and approved by voters in a referendum held on 7 November 1978.
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Fred Fields is an American artist whose work has appeared largely in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game from TSR.
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Evansburg station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Evansburg, Alberta, located at the east end of town near range road 75. The station is served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48-hour advance notice required).
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The 5th Operations Group (5 OG) is an operational component of the United States Air Force 5th Bomb Wing, stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Its mission is to manage and operate B-52H Stratofortress bombers serve as part of the Air Force's conventional and strategic combat force.
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The Edson station is a Via Rail station in Edson, Alberta, Canada. It is on the Canadian National Railway and serves Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required).
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The 2010 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season was the 76th in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2010 Telstra Cup Premiership under coach Kevin Moore. They finished the regular season 13th (out of 16), failing to make the finals.
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Pos Indonesia is the state-owned company responsible for providing postal service in Indonesia. It was established with the current structure in 1995 and now operates 11 regional divisions.
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Sir William Overend Priestley (24 June 1829 – 11 April 1900) was a British physician and Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900.
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Paul Hilton (born 1970, Oldham, Lancashire), is an English actor on stage and TV.
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289P/Blanpain, formerly D/1819 W1 (Blanpain) is a short-period comet that was discovered by Jean-Jacques Blanpain on November 28, 1819. Blanpain described the comet as having a "very small and confused nucleus". Another independent discovery was made on December 5 of that year by J. L. Pons. Following this the comet...
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Chuah Guat Eng (; born 1 December 1943), is a Malaysian Peranakan Chinese writer. She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist.
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Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (German, "Return of the stranger"), known in English as "Son and Stranger" or "Return of the Roamer", is a one-act Singspiel written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1829 to a German libretto by the composer's friend Karl Klingemann, a poet who would later provide the text for the oratorio "Elijah". ...
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The Hinton station is a Via Rail station in Hinton, Alberta. It is on the Canadian National Railway mainline and is served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required). The station was opened in 1911 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 2003 ...
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The Italic League or Most Holy League was an international agreement concluded in Venice on 30 August 1454, between the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Florence, following the Treaty of Lodi a few months previously.
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Philip Gaius (Italian: "Filippo Gaius" , Serbian: Filip Gajo ) served as an Archbishop of Antivari in the late 15th century.
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Mark A. Talamini, MD, MBA, is professor and chairman of surgery and chief of surgical services at Stony Brook Medicine; editor-in-chief of "Surgical Endoscopy", the official journal of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and European Association for Endoscopic Surgery; and former pr...
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Valemount station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Valemount, British Columbia. The station is served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required).
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Sten Michael Grytebust (born 25 October 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Superliga side OB. Since Anders Lindegaard left for Manchester United, Grytebust has been the first choice goalkeeper for Aalesund. He made his debut for Norway in 2013.
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The term private-collective model of innovation was coined by Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh in their 2003 publication in "". This innovation model represents a combination of the private investment model and the collective-action innovation model.
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Age Wave refers to a massive population and cultural shift caused by three converging global demographic forces:
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Cardinal climber is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Total Response (subtitled "The United States of Mind Phase 2") is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1972 featuring performances by Silver with Cecil Bridgewater, Harold Vick, Richie Resnicoff, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker, with vocals by Salome Bey and Andy Bey. It is the secon...
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Charles Black Milne (1879–1960) was the Unionist Party MP for West Fife from 1931-35.
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Sweet Home Verona is the title of the first live album from Sonohra, recorded September 6, 2008 during a concert at the Roman Theater in Verona.
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Gaius ( or ) is a Latin "praenomen", or personal name, which was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. The feminine form is "Gaia." The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic "gens Gavia". The name was regularly abbreviated C., based on the origin...
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Naughty or Nice is an American television film starring George Lopez and James Kirk. It premiered on ABC in 2004. As of 2009, it was shown in the 25 Days of Christmas programming block on ABC Family, but it was not part of the block in 2010.
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Blue River station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Blue River, British Columbia. The station is served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" two times per week in each direction in late October through April. Trains run eastbound to Jasper and points east on Wednesdays and Saturdays and westbound to Kamloops a...
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The Clearwater station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Clearwater, British Columbia, the station is located south side of the North Thompson River (opposite the town site). The station is served by Via Rail's "The Canadian" three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice ...
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Girasolar, Inc. (OTC Pink: GRSR ) is a publicly traded US-Dutch solar company. The company was founded in 2003 and has its headquarters in Deventer, Netherlands. The company is active in photovoltaics applications, services, and products in Europe, Turkey, and Africa. The scale of these sales range from a few kWp to...