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Indian black money
In India, black money is funds earned on the black market, on which income and other taxes have not been paid. Also, the unaccounted money that is concealed from the tax administrator is called black money. The black money is accumulated by the criminals, smugglers, hoarders, tax-evaders and other a... | {
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Escapade (song)
"Escapade" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her fourth album Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). It was written and produced by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The song was released on January 8, 1990 by A&M Records as the third single from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 181... | {
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1856 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1856 Atlantic hurricane season featured six tropical cyclones, five of which made landfall. The first system, Hurricane One, was first observed in the Gulf of Mexico on August 9. The final storm, Hurricane Six, was last observed on September 22. These dates fall within the period wi... | {
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Double bass concerto
A double bass concerto is a notated musical composition, usually in three parts or movements (see concerto), for a solo double bass accompanied by an orchestra. Bass concertos typically require an advanced level of technique, as they often use very high-register passages, harmonics, challenging sc... | {
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Russian battleship Borodino
Borodino () was the lead ship of her class of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. Completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Borodino was assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron that was sen... | {
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Industrial espionage
Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
While economic espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corpo... | {
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Carville Historic District
The Carville Historic District in Carville, Louisiana, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 18, 1992.
It is also known as the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center and as Public Health Service Hospital No. 66 and served as a treatm... | {
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Shi Chonggui
Shi Chonggui (Chinese: 石重貴) (914–974), known in traditional Chinese historical sources as Emperor Chu of Later Jin (後晉出帝, "the exiled emperor") or Emperor Shao of Later Jin (後晉少帝, "the young emperor"), posthumously known in Liao as the Prince of Jin (晉王), was the second and last emperor of the Chinese Fiv... | {
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Šuto Orizari Municipality
Šuto Orizari (; Romani: Shuto Orizari; ), often shortened as Šutka (Шутка), is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. Šuto Orizari is also the name of the urban neighbourhood where the municipal seat is located. It consi... | {
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Glenn Duffie Shriver
Glenn Duffie Shriver (born November 23, 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China. He was depicted in the FBI-commissioned film Game of Pawns.
Biography
Shriver was born in Henrico County, Virginia, near Richmond. When his parents separated in 1983, he moved with his mother t... | {
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Appleton International Airport
Appleton International Airport , formerly Outagamie County Regional Airport, is an airport located in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States, 3 miles west of Appleton in the town of Greenville. Although ATW is an international airport, currently there are no scheduled international f... | {
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his cont... | {
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Hugh Bartlett
Hugh Tryon Bartlett DFC (7 October 1914 – 26 June 1988) was a cricketer who played as an attacking left-handed batsman for Sussex either side of World War II.
Early years
Bartlett was born in Balaghat, India, and moved to England at the age of nine. He captained Dulwich College for three seasons. In 19... | {
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Fox Lake, Illinois
Fox Lake is a village in Grant and Antioch townships in Lake County, Illinois and Burton Township, McHenry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,579 at the 2010 census.
History
The village was incorporated on December 15, 1906, and certified by the state on April 13, 1907. The are... | {
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PDF/X
PDF/X is a subset of the PDF ISO standard. The purpose of PDF/X is to facilitate graphics exchange, and it therefore has a series of printing related requirements which do not apply to standard PDF files. For example, in PDF/X-1a all fonts need to be embedded and all images need to be CMYK or spot colors. PDF/X-... | {
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Gessia (gens)
The gens Gessia was a minor Roman family, known chiefly from the east of Imperial times. Members of this gens are first mentioned toward the end of the second century BC. Although they were of senatorial rank, none of the Gessii are known to have held any curule magistracies. The emperor Severus Alexa... | {
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Hello, Dexter Morgan
"Hello, Dexter Morgan" is the 11th and penultimate episode of the fourth season of Showtime TV series, Dexter, which aired on December 6, 2009. The police team attempt to get Christine Hill to talk while Dexter frames another man in order to get Arthur Mitchell, the Trinity Killer, all to himself.... | {
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Gabriella Lettini
Gabriella Lettini (born in Turin on February 25, 1968) is an Italian-American Waldensian pastor and academic. Rev. Dr. Lettini is professor of theological ethics at the Graduate Theological Union and is Dean of the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. She is President of the Am... | {
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Postmodern religion
Postmodern religion is any type of religion that is influenced by postmodernism and postmodern philosophies. Examples of religions that may be interpreted using postmodern philosophy include Postmodern Christianity, Postmodern Neopaganism, and Postmodern Buddhism. Postmodern religion is not an att... | {
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Nancy McKeon
Nancy Justine McKeon (born April 4, 1966) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Jo Polniaczek on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life and Jinny Exstead on The Division.
Early Life & Career
Nancy Justine McKeon was born on April 4, 1966, in Westbury, New York to Donald McKeon, a travel agent,... | {
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Milovice Nature Reserve
Milovice nature reserve () is a nature reserve next to the towns of Milovice and Benátky nad Jizerou in the Nymburk District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. Established in 2015, the area is administered by the Česká krajina o.p.s. organization, as a part of Evropsky významná lokalita ... | {
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Bush Tetras
Bush Tetras are an American post-punk band from New York City, formed in 1979. They are best known for the 1980 song "Too Many Creeps", which exemplified the band's sound of "jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals". Although they did not achieve mainstream success, the Bush Tetras were influen... | {
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Carol Severance
Carol Severance (1944 – February 19, 2015) was a U.S. science fiction writer.
Life
Carol Severance was a Hawaii-based Science Fiction and Fantasy writer known for her strong female characters. As an artist she had a special interest in Pacific Island peoples and their environments. In high school she... | {
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Prisoners (Gotham)
"Prisoners" is the sixteenth episode of the second season, and 38th episode overall from the Fox series Gotham. The episode was written by executive producer Danny Cannon and directed by Scott White. It was first broadcast on March 28, 2016. In the episode, Gordon is sent to prison after being frame... | {
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Oskaloosa, Iowa
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,463 in the 2010 U.S. Census, an increase from 10,938 in 2000.
History
Oskaloosa der... | {
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Hollister riot
The Hollister riot, also known as the Hollister Invasion, was an event that occurred at the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA)-sanctioned Gypsy Tour motorcycle rally in Hollister, California from July 3 to 6, 1947.
Many more motorcyclists than expected flooded the small town to watch the annual ra... | {
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History of Australia (1788–1850)
The history of Australia from 1788–1850 covers the early colonial period of Australia's history, from the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney, New South Wales, who established the penal colony, the scientific exploration of the continent and later, establishme... | {
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T. V. Rao
T.V. Rao was born on 14 March 1946, in Andhra Pradesh, India.
A new Human Resource Development system emerged in India in 1974 with Dr. T.V. Rao and Dr. Udai Pareek heading the movement. It was started as a "Review Exercise of the Performance Appraisal System" for Larsen & Toubro by the duo from the Indian... | {
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The Void (video game)
The Void (also known as Tension, ) is a 2008 first-person adventure video game developed by the Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge and published in Russia, other CIS-countries, and Poland by ND Games on 17 April 2008. It won the "Most Original Game" award at the Russian Game Developers Conference, KRI... | {
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Linda Wolfe
Linda Wolfe (November 15, 1932 – February 22, 2020) was an American journalist, essayist, and fiction writer., best known for her award-winning work, Wasted: The Preppie Murder, an investigation of the so-called "rough sex" killer, Robert Chambers. Critic John Leonard called Wolfe a writer of "fierce inte... | {
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Major Occultation
The Major Occultation (, ), according to Shia, is Hujjat-Allah al-Mahdi's second occultation after the Minor Occultation. According to Twelvers, the Major Occultation which came around the year 329AH/941CE is still in effect, and will not end until the end of time when the Mahdi returns to reestablis... | {
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Anglo-Powhatan Wars
The AngloPowhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. The first war started in 1610 and ended in a peace settlement in 1614. The second war lasted from 1622 to 1626. The third war las... | {
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Laurence Yep
Laurence Michael Yep (; born June 14, 1948) is a prolific Chinese-American writer, best known for children's books. In 2005, he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his career contribution to American children's literature.
Biography
Yep was born in San Francisco to Yep Gim Lew (Thomas... | {
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House vs. Hurricane
House Vs. Hurricane is an Australian post-hardcore band from Melbourne, Victoria formed in 2006. In 2008, the group released their debut EP entitled Forfeiture, which received positive reviews and Australian airplay.
The band released their debut studio album, Perspectives, which was released in M... | {
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Wei (state)
Wei (; ; Old Chinese: *) was one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China. It was created from the three-way Partition of Jin, together with Han and Zhao. Its territory lay between the states of Qin and Qi and included parts of modern-day Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandon... | {
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Illinois v. Hemi Group LLC
Illinois v. Hemi Group, LLC, 622 F.3d 754 (7th Cir. 2010), was a personal jurisdiction case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois' ruling finding personal jurisdiction based on Intern... | {
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John Bohannon
John Bohannon is an American science journalist and businessman who is Director of Science at Primer, an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California. He is known for his career prior to Primer as a science journalist and Harvard University biologist, most notably with his “... | {
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C. Peter Wagner
Charles Peter Wagner (August 15, 1930 – October 21, 2016) was a theologian, missiologist, missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several organizations. In his earlier years Wagner was known as a key leader of the Church Growth Movement and later for his writings on spiritual warfare.
Wagner serve... | {
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List of typefaces designed by Tobias Frere-Jones
The following is a list of typefaces designed by Tobias Frere-Jones.
This list is not exhaustive, and is likely to exclude many fonts created on private commission not publicly released.
For FontFont
Dolores (1991) - casual slab serif. Originated as a logo for his b... | {
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2018 in reptile paleontology
Lizards and snakes
Research
Triassic reptile Megachirella wachtleri is reinterpreted as the oldest known stem-squamate by Simões et al. (2018).
Simões et al. (2018) perform X-ray scans at the micron scale of the holotype specimen of Megachirella wachtleri.
Fossil trackways probably m... | {
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Media documentation of the September 11 attacks
During the September 11 attacks of 2001, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, killed 2,977 people, injured over 6,000, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Multiple others have died due ... | {
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Bid rigging
Bid rigging is a fraudulent scheme in procurement auctions resulting in non-competitive bids and can be performed by corrupt officials, by firms in an orchestrated act of collusion, or between officials and firms. This form of collusion is illegal in most countries. It is a form of price fixing and market ... | {
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Calliophis nigrescens
Calliophis nigriscens, commonly known as the black coral snake or striped coral snake, is a species of venomous elapid snake endemic to the Western Ghats, India.
Geographic range
It is found in India in the Western Ghats, Karwar, Wayanad, Nilgiris, Anamalai, and the Travancore hills at .
Descri... | {
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Kat Bjelland
Katherine Lynne Bjelland (born December 9, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and guitarist. She rose to prominence as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative rock band Babes in Toyland, which she formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. She has been noted for her un... | {
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Rhodes blood libel
The Rhodes blood libel was an 1840 event of blood libel against Jews, in which the Greek Orthodox community accused Jews on the island of Rhodes (then part of the Ottoman Empire) of the ritual murder of a Christian boy who disappeared in February of that year.
Initially the libel garnered support f... | {
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Architecture of Bangladesh
Architecture of Bangladesh is intertwined with the architecture of the Bengal region and the broader Indian subcontinent. The architecture of Bangladesh has a long history and is rooted in Bangladesh's culture, religion and history. It has evolved over centuries and assimilated influences fr... | {
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David A. T. Stafford
David Alexander Tetlow Stafford (born 10 March 1942) is projects director at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor in the University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Stafford took his B.A. at Downing College, Cambridge in... | {
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Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS; Scottish Gaelic: Seirbheis Smàlaidh agus Teasairginn na h-Alba) is the national fire and rescue service of Scotland.
It was formed by the merger of eight regional fire services in the country on 1 April 2013. It thus became the largest fire ... | {
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Gilberto Fortunato
Gilberto Valdenésio Fortunato (born 7 November 1987) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kosovo team Drita.
Club career
Early career
Gilberto previously played with Guarani, Bandeirante and Hải Phòng.
Hải Phòng
In 2013, Gilberto was transferred to Hải Phòng by signin... | {
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Greater and lesser magic
Greater and lesser magic (known also as high and low magic or collectively Satanic magic), within LaVeyan Satanism, designate types of beliefs with the term greater magic applying to ritual practice meant as psychodramatic catharsis to focus one's emotions for a specific purpose and lesser mag... | {
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Erindale, Saskatoon
Erindale is a primarily residential neighbourhood located in northeast Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is mostly made up of low-density single detached dwellings. As of 2011, the area is home to 4,338 residents. The neighbourhood is considered a high-income area, with an average family income o... | {
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Claudia Jung
Claudia Jung (born Ute Krummenast; April 12, 1964) is a German Schlager singer, actress, and politician.
Biography
Jung was born in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1974 till 1980, she attended the school Liebfrauenschule in Ratingen. As a child she took guitar lessons and during her schooltime sh... | {
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The Quarters (2012 TV series)
The Quarters (猪仔馆人家) is the fifth Malaysian production by MediaCorp Studios Malaysia. Filming began in September 2011 and took place in Muar, Johor, Malaysia and its rural surroundings. It is shown on weekdays at 7pm. It debuted in Singapore on 3 September 2012.
The series is set during ... | {
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Michel Soutif
Michel Soutif (8 July 1921 – 28 June 2016), Officier de la Légion d’honneur, Grand Officier de l’ordre national du Mérite, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mali, was a French scientist and educator, known for his major contribution to the development of the University of Grenoble in the years following t... | {
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Harvey Kuenn
Harvey Edward Kuenn (; December 4, 1930 – February 28, 1988) was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a shortstop and outfielder, he played with the Detroit Tigers (1952–1959), Cleveland Indians (1960), San Francisco Giants (1961–1965), Chicago Cu... | {
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Godflesh (EP)
Godflesh is the debut extended play (EP) by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was originally released in 1988 through Swordfish Records and later saw several reissues on Earache Records with two additional songs. An unexpected underground success, the eponymous EP made it onto the UK Indie Chart... | {
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Sasiv
Sasiv (Ukrainian: /, Polish: , Ruthenian/Ruś.: Sassíw, Russian: /) is a town in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, since 1945. Until 1772 the town was located in the historical territory of Ruthenia, in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, thereafter until 1919 became part of the Austro-Hungarian ... | {
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19th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States
The 19th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States was characterized by several unsuccessful attempts by Catholics to culturally integrate themselves into the mainstream American culture of that century. Only during the 20th century did... | {
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Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously dated between the 8th century and 16th century). Muslim scholars made advances to the mapmaking traditions of earlier cultu... | {
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1190s in England
Events from the 1190s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Richard I (to 6 April 1199), John
Events
1190
6 February – massacre of almost all Jews in Norwich.
7 March – massacre of Jews at Stamford Fair.
16 March – a mob besieges 150 Jews in York Castle, killing those who do not commit suicide.
18 M... | {
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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, born 27 January 1950 in Matanzas, Cuba, is a Cuban novelist.
He grew up in Pinar del Río and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was eleven years old. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technic... | {
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Frank Pidgeon
Francis Pidgeon Sr. (February 11, 1825 – June 12, 1884) was an American baseball pitcher. He played for Eckford of Brooklyn from 1855 to 1862, and was one of the club's founders. Pidgeon has been called one of the top pitchers of the era, and participated in New York-area all-star games in 1858. Playing ... | {
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Tiger-class cruiser
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Ampyx Power
Ampyx Power is an airborne wind energy company founded in 2008 by Bas Lansdorp and Richard Ruiterkamp. It was created after Lansdorp dropped his five-year-long studies of wind energy at Delft University of Technology to found Ampyx Power. In 2011, Lansdorp sold a majority of his Ampyx Power shares to fund ... | {
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Sogdian language
The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Central Asian region of Sogdia, located in modern-day Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), as well as some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China. Sogdia... | {
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Lucas Holden
Lucas Holden is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Rhys Wakefield. He made his first appearance on 5 August 2005. Lucas was the youngest member of the Holden family. He left the Bay in 2008.
Casting
Actor Rhys Wakefield joined the cast when he was 16 years old.
... | {
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Farzad Sharifian
Professor Farzad Sharifian is a pioneer of Cultural Linguistics and holds the Chair in Cultural Linguistics at Monash University. He has developed a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations, and language, which draw on and expands the analytical tools ... | {
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Okoboji, Iowa
Okoboji is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States, along the eastern shore of West Okoboji Lake in the Iowa Great Lakes region.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of... | {
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6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)
The 6th Airborne Division was an airborne infantry division of the British Army during the Second World War. Despite its name, the 6th was actually the second of two airborne divisions raised by the British Army during the war, the other being the 1st Airborne Division. The 6th ... | {
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Amata Coleman Radewagen
Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen (born December 29, 1947), commonly called Aumua Amata , is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, was elected on November 4, 2014, after defeating D... | {
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Bluefield State College
Bluefield State College is a historically black college in Bluefield, West Virginia. It is a part of West Virginia's public education system and offers baccalaureate and associate degrees. It is the only non-residential four-year college in the state system. Bluefield State College is a member... | {
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Greater Vancouver Board of Trade
The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is a non-profit organization. It serves Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in a fashion similar to the Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce.
Role in Local Governance
The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has been vested by federal and provincia... | {
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Josep Lluís Núñez
José Luis Núñez Clemente (7 September 1931 – 3 December 2018), often known by the Catalanized form of his name used by the Catalan press, Josep Lluís Núñez i Clemente, was president of FC Barcelona between 1978 and 2000. He was elected club president, despite having no previous connection with the c... | {
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Adelbert Theodor Wangemann
Adelbert Theodor Edward Wangemann (February 13, 1855 – June 1906), known as Theo, was a German who emigrated to the United States. In 1888, he began working for Thomas Edison as an assistant at his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1889, Edison sent Wangemann to keep the phonograph a... | {
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Bubu Chacha
is a Japanese slice of life anime series created by Akira Okeya (writer of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team and Transformers: Armada), Iku, Takeshi Anzai and Tetsuro Amino (director of Blue Comet SPT Layzner). Produced by Daume and Japan Digital Entertainment, the series was directed and written by Aki... | {
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Victoria Forest Park
Victoria Forest Park, is situated on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. At it is New Zealand's largest forest park. The park is administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC).
The park is made up of pristine beech forest and includes all five species of beech found in new Z... | {
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Tendency of the rate of profit to fall
The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a hypothesis in economics and political economy, most famously expounded by Karl Marx in chapter 13 of Capital, Volume III. Economists as diverse as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo and Stanley Jevons referred explic... | {
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Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and opinion to its citizens as per Article 5 of the constitution. Despite this, censorship of various materials has taken place since the Allied occupation after World War II and continues to take pl... | {
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Highland (James Monroe house)
Highland, formerly Ash Lawn–Highland, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, and adjacent to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, was the estate of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. Purchased in 1793, Monroe and his family permanently settled on the property i... | {
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USS Cardinal (AMS-4)
USS Cardinal (MSC(O)-4/AMS-4/YMS-179) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third ship in the U.S. Navy to be named for the cardinal.
History
Cardinal was laid down as YMS-179 on 27 October 1942 by Henry C. Grebe and Co., Chicago, Illinois; launched 8 May 1943;... | {
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Demaratus of Corinth
Demaratus (), frequently called Demaratus of Corinth, was the father of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth King of Rome, and the grandfather or great-grandfather of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last Roman king.
Life
Demaratus was a nobleman of the Dorian House of the Bacchiadae a... | {
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Tilbury Fort
Tilbury Fort, also known historically as the Thermitage Bulwark and the West Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England. The earliest version of the fort, comprising a small blockhouse with artillery covering the river, was constructed by King Henry VIII to p... | {
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Fairey S.9/30
The Fairey S.9/30 was a two-seat, single-engined biplane built to meet an Air Ministry specification for a fleet reconnaissance aircraft. It flew during 1934-6 in both land- and seaplane configurations. Although only one was built, it was the progenitor of the Fairey Swordfish.
Development
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Marta (footballer)
Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), commonly known as Marta (), is a Swedish-Brazilian footballer who plays for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national team as a forward. With 17 goals, she holds the record for most goals scored at FIFA World Cup t... | {
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I Swung the Election
"I Swung the Election" is a 1939 song composed by Glenn Miller and recorded by jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden and his orchestra. Jack Teagarden released the song as a Columbia 78 single in 1939 and as a V-Disc in 1948.
Overview
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Baarle
Baarle is a village whose territory is divided into a patchwork of Belgian and Dutch territories. The Belgian parts of the village are called Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch elements are called Baarle-Nassau. The Belgian part includes 16 exclaves within Dutch territory. The exclaves, in turn, surround seven Dutch a... | {
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Roscrea
Roscrea (, meaning "Wood of Cré") is a historical market town in County Tipperary, Ireland. In 2016 the town had a population of 5,446. The town is one of the oldest in Ireland which developed around the ancient monastery of Saint Crónán of Roscrea, parts of which remain preserved today.
Roscrea is a designat... | {
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Thomas G. Alexander
Thomas Glen Alexander (born August 8, 1935) is an American historian and academic who is professor emeritus from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, where he was also Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western History and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. After... | {
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Lisbon Strategy
The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, was an action and development plan devised in 2000, for the economy of the European Union between 2000 and 2010. A pivotal role in its formulation was played by the Portuguese economist Maria João Rodrigues.
Its aim was to make th... | {
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Adonis Thomas
Adonis Michael Thomas (born March 25, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for Mineros de Zacatecas of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP).. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis.
High school career
Thomas attended Melrose High School in Memphis, Tennes... | {
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Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute
Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute (OSRUI) is a Jewish overnight summer camp and conference center located Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The camp attracts over 1,000 children each summer, mainly from the United States and Canada. It serves children in second through twelfth grades in a variety of... | {
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PARAM
PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Brahma.
Parama means supreme in Sanskrit Language. In Hindi, it is Param.
History
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Verona Arena
The Verona Arena ( ) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in the first century. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind. In ancient times, the arena's c... | {
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Eddie Kelly (footballer)
Edward Patrick Kelly (born 7 February 1951) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a midfielder. Kelly featured for clubs Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester City, Notts County, Bournemouth, Kettering Town and Torquay United.
Club career
Kelly was born in Glasgow and played for lo... | {
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Kavus Torabi
Kavus Torabi (born 5 December 1971 in Tehran, Iran) is a British Iranian musician and composer, record label owner and broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Torabi was one of the founding members of The Monsoon... | {
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Pathfork
Pathfork (foaled 12 March 2008) is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the top-rated two-year-old in Ireland when he won all three of his starts including the Futurity Stakes and National Stakes. In the following spring he was regarded as one of the few colts in Europe capable of challeng... | {
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Women in Yugoslavia
The role of the woman in Yugoslavia changed significantly throughout the twentieth century. Women sought better positions within economic, political, and social realms than they had occupied in the nineteenth century.
A chronology tracing the position of women throughout the different stages of t... | {
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Villamelendro de Valdavia
Villamelendro is a town belonging to the municipality of Villasila de Valdavia, in the region of Vega-Valdavia. It is located in the transition area between the Natural Park Montaña Palentina and the Tierra de Campos in the province Spain of Palencia (Castilla y León), on the upper side of th... | {
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Villmar
Villmar is a market village in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. The community is the centre for quarrying and processing the so-called Lahn Marble.
Geography
Location
Villmar lies in the Lahn River valley between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some ten kilometres east of Limburg. In terms of... | {
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Nina Browne
Nina Eliza Browne (October 6, 1860-1954) was an American librarian and archivist. She was employed as a librarian at Harvard University and Boston Athenæum, a registrar at American Library Association, and an archivist at Smith College. She invented a charging system, known as the Browne Issue System, for ... | {
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