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V for Vendetta (film)
V for Vendetta is a 2006 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis, based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in an alternative future where a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist totalitar... | {
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2010 Belgian federal election
Elections for the Federal Parliament were held in Belgium on 13 June 2010, during the midst of the 2007-11 Belgian political crisis. After the fall of the previous Leterme II Government over the withdrawal of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD) from the government the King diss... | {
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Indonesians
Indonesians (Indonesian: orang Indonesia) are citizens or people of Indonesia, regardless of their racial, ethnic or religious background. There are about 300 ethnicities in Indonesia, a multicultural archipelagic country with a diversity of languages, culture and religious beliefs. The population of Indon... | {
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Bull shark
The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), also known as the "Zambezi shark" (informally "zambi") in Africa, and "Lake Nicaragua shark" in Nicaragua, is a requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. It is known for its aggressive nature, and presence in warm, shallo... | {
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Nascom (computer kit)
The Nascom 1 and 2 were single-board computer kits issued in the United Kingdom in 1977 and 1979, respectively, based on the Zilog Z80 and including a keyboard and video interface, a serial port that could be used to store data on a tape cassette using the Kansas City standard, and two 8-bit para... | {
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a 2016 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone and written, produced by and starring Andy Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone. Also produced by Judd Apatow, it co-stars Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows, Imogen Poots,... | {
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Mutant Massacre
"Mutant Massacre" was a 1986 Marvel Comics crossover storyline. It primarily involved the superhero teams the X-Men and X-Factor and the solo hero Thor. The New Mutants, Power Pack, and Daredevil crossed over for an issue each in their own comic books.
The crossover was a surprise success, yielding sa... | {
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Privity of contract
The doctrine of privity of contract is a common law principle which provides that a contract cannot confer rights or impose obligations upon any person who is not a party to the contract.
The premise is that only parties to contracts should be able to sue to enforce their rights or claim damages a... | {
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Gordon Zubrod
Charles Gordon Zubrod (January 22, 1914 – January 19, 1999) was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer. He was one of the recipients of the 1972 Albert Lasker Awards in recognition of his contributions to the field, amongst many other doctorates ... | {
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Duyung
Duyung (translation: Mermaid) is a Malaysian fantasy comedy film that was released on 6 March 2008. The film is directed by A. Razak Mohaideen and produced by KRU Films (now known as KRU Studios) in association with Grand Brilliance Sdn Bhd and Line Clear Motion Pictures. It stars Saiful Apek as a kind-hearted ... | {
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Negeri Sembilan FA
Negeri Sembilan Football Association or simply known as Negeri Sembilan is a Malaysian professional football club based in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan that competes in the Malaysia Premier League. Founded in 1923, the club's home ground Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium.
Negeri Sembilan won their first maj... | {
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Padjadjaran University
Padjadjaran University (Indonesian: Universitas Padjadjaran, abbreviated as UNPAD) is an institution of higher learning located in Bandung, which is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It was established on September 11, 1957.
UNPAD has gained the most applicant and highest passing ... | {
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St Mary's Town and Country School
St. Mary's Town and Country School was an independent, non-denominational, co-educational progressive day and boarding school, founded in Belsize Park, London in 1937. It closed at the end of 1982.
The school was owned and run by Mrs Elisabeth Paul PhD (née Selver), assisted by her ... | {
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University of Central Arkansas
The University of Central Arkansas (Central Arkansas or UCA) is a public university in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1907 as the Arkansas State Normal School, the university is one of the oldest in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As the state's only normal school at the time, UCA has historic... | {
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Papar District
The Papar District () is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the West Coast Division which includes the districts of Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Papar, Penampang, Putatan, Ranau and Tuaran. The capital of the district is in Papar Town.
Etymology
The name 'Papar' comes fr... | {
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K. Sukumaran (judge)
K. Sukumaran is an Indian lawyer who served as a judge in the high courts of Kerala and Mumbai in India. He has led several inquiries into human rights abuses. He is the author of several books on legal topics.
Formal career
K. Sukumaran had his high school education from St. Albert's High Schoo... | {
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Heller Manus Architects
Heller Manus Architects, founded in 1984, is a San Francisco, California-based architecture firm providing architectural and urban design for public and private sector clients. Jeffrey Heller, FAIA is president of the firm and member of the Green growth leaders Council, and Clark Manus, FAIA is... | {
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Tralee
Tralee ( ; , formerly , , meaning 'strand of the Lee River') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in County Kerry. The town's population including suburbs was 23,691 census making it the 8t... | {
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Noelle Scaggs
Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, known as the co-lead singer of the multi-platinum selling pop group, Fitz and the Tantrums. Scaggs has also had numerous collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Quantic, Mayer Hawtho... | {
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2020 Basque regional election
The 2020 Basque regional election will be held on Sunday, 5 April 2020, to elect the 12th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia.
On 4 February 202... | {
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Wimpole Village (TV series)
Wimpole Village is a pre-school series which aired on Children's ITV. It ran for 42 episodes in 1987. The series is named after the creator's house, "Wimpole House".
The rights to Wimpole Village were acquired by Cameron Thomson Entertainment licensed the series to terrestrial television a... | {
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Internet in Singapore
In Singapore, there are 11,512,900 broadband Internet subscribers (as of February 2015). There are three major Internet service providers in Singapore, namely, Singtel, StarHub, and M1 and other growing providers like MyRepublic and ViewQwest. Over the years, the Singapore Government has been pr... | {
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The Jo Whiley Show
The Jo Whiley Show was a British weekday later weekend radio show on BBC Radio 1 hosted by Jo Whiley. The programme was on air from February 2001 to March 2011 and was broadcast each weekday morning between 10:00am and 12:45pm, and later 13:00-16:00 each weekend afternoon. And Bank Holidays And Good... | {
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Robert Gordon (musician)
Robert Gordon (born March 29, 1947) is an American musician and actor, best known as a neo-rockabilly singer.
Music career
Influences and early career
Robert Gordon grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. At the age of nine, he was greatly inspired by the Elvis Presley song "Heartbreak Hotel" playin... | {
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History of Sweden (1945–1967)
This article covers the history of Sweden from the end of World War II to 1967.
Overview
Sweden emerged unharmed by World War II. The Swedish non-alignment policy officially remained – Sweden rejected NATO membership but joined the United Nations and later EFTA. Tage Erlander (s) was Pri... | {
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William Giles Harding
William Giles Harding (1808 – December 15, 1886) was a Southern planter, attorney, and horse breeder who was made a Brigadier General in the Tennessee militia before the American Civil War. He took over operations of Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville from his father in 1839. During the course... | {
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Mobolaji Johnson
Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson (9 February 1936 – 30 October 2019) was a Nigerian Army Brigadier who served as Military Administrator of the Federal territory of Lagos from January 1966 to May 1967 during the military regime of General Aguyi-Ironsi (to July 1966, and General Gowon subsequently), and then a... | {
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MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) under the forma... | {
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Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)
Wong Tai Sin Temple is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. The Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" () via a practice called kau chim. The temple is loc... | {
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Badr-1
Badr-1 (, meaning Full Moon-1) was the first artificial and the first digital communications satellite launched by Pakistan's supreme national space authority—the SUPARCO—in 1990. The Badr-1 was Pakistan's first indigenously developed and manufactured digital communications and an experimental artificial satell... | {
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NeuroML
NeuroML is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) based model description language that aims to provide a common data format for defining and exchanging models in computational neuroscience. The focus of NeuroML is on models which are based on the biophysical and anatomical properties of real neurons.
History
T... | {
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Andrew J. McDonald
Andrew J. McDonald (born March 11, 1966) is an American judge and former politician from Connecticut. He serves as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
He previously served as a member of the Connecticut State Senate from 2003 to 2011, representing the state's 27th district in Sta... | {
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Squares of Savannah, Georgia
The U.S. city of Savannah, Georgia was laid out in 1733 around four open squares, each surrounded by four residential ("tything") blocks and four civic ("trust") blocks. Once the four wards were developed in the mid-1730s, two additional wards were laid out. The layout of a square and eigh... | {
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National Cadet Bisley Grand Champion Medal
The National Cadet Bisley Grand Champion Medal is a military medal which was instituted by the Republic of South Africa in 1987. Originally named the Cadet Corps Grand Champion Shot Medal, it was awarded to the Grand Champion of the annual National Cadet Bisley of the School... | {
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Dr Pepper Ballpark
Dr Pepper Ballpark (formerly Dr Pepper/Seven Up Ballpark) is the home ballpark of the Frisco RoughRiders Minor League Baseball club which plays in the Double-A Texas League. Located in Frisco, Texas, in the United States, the stadium has a capacity of 10,316. The ballpark is host to numerous functio... | {
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Fender Telecaster
The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele , is the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar.
Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music. Introduced for national distribution... | {
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Praga Grand
The Praga Grand was a luxury automobile manufactured by Praga in Libeň, Prague. Production of the first Grand, equipped with a four-cylinder engine, started in the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1912 and continued after the dissolution of Austro-Hungary in the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was used by the Austro-... | {
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Alfred Perceval Graves
Alfred Perceval Graves (22 July 184627 December 1931), was an Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist. He was the father of British poet and critic Robert Graves.
Early life
He was born in Dublin and was the son of The Rt Rev. Charles Graves, Church of Ireland Lord Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert an... | {
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Here Come the Newlyweds
Here Come the Newlyweds is a reality television series that first premiered on ABC on March 2, 2008. The series' first season ran through April 6, 2008. A second season premiered on May 25, 2009 and aired through July 13, 2009. The show is hosted by Pat Bullard. The title of the program came fr... | {
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Škoda Yeti
The Škoda Yeti (codenamed Typ 5L) is a compact SUV designed and manufactured by the Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto and introduced at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, as the carmaker's first entry into the SUV market. In 2009, the Yeti was awarded Family Car of the Year by Top Gear Magazine. The successor to t... | {
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Frances M. Beal
Frances M. Beal, also known as Fran Beal, (born January 13, 1940, in Binghamton, New York) is a Black feminist and a peace and justice political activist. Her focus has predominantly been regarding women's rights, racial justice, anti-war and peace work, as well as international solidarity. Beal was a ... | {
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Cora Hubbard
Cora Hubbard (February 1877 - ?) was a 19th-century outlaw who participated in the August 17, 1897 robbing of the McDonald County Bank in Pineville, Missouri. Hubbard, who was compared at the time to the more prolific female outlaw Belle Starr, was one of only a handful of women who actively participated ... | {
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Konna Koi no Hanashi
is a Japanese television drama starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Nanako Matsushima. It aired during the summer of 1997 in Japan and in 2001 on KONG-TV in the United States. The original 12 episodes were split into 14 for the U.S. showing. A Story of Love dealt with social issues including poverty in fi... | {
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7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)
The Seventh India Armada was assembled in 1505 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of D. Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese Viceroy of the Indies. The 7th Armada set out to secure the dominance of the Portuguese navy over the India... | {
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Caravan and Motorhome Club
The Caravan and Motorhome Club is an organisation representing caravan and motorhome users in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly three-quarter of a million members.
History
The Club was founded in 1907 as The Caravan Club of Great Britain and I... | {
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Dinesh Karthik
Dinesh Karthik (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian wicket-keeper and batsman who made his debut for the Indian cricket team in 2004. He became captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League team during the 2018 season.
He made his maiden Test century against Bangladesh and was India's leading s... | {
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1925 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1925 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Monarch: King George V.
Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Athlone.
Prime Minister: J.B.M. Hertzog.
Chief Justice: James Rose Innes.
Events
May
1 – The Prince of Wales arri... | {
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United States Mint Set
The United States Uncirculated Coin Set, known as the Uncirculated Set or Mint Set in the United States, is an annual coin set sold by the United States Mint. The set is marketed towards coin collectors as a way to obtain circulation coins in mint condition.
"Double" Mint Sets (1947–1958)
The... | {
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Wickford Junction station
Wickford Junction is a commuter rail station located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. It is the southern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line and serves as a park and ride location for commuters to Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts. Th... | {
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Zulay Henao
Zulay Henao (born May 29, 1979) is a Colombian-American film and television actress. She's co-starred in a number of films such as Illegal Tender (2007), Fighting (2009), Takers (2010), Boy Wonder (2011), Hostel: Part III, The Single Moms Club (2014), True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016). In 20... | {
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Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll
Diana Denyse Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll (5 January 1926 – 16 May 1978, Oban, Scotland) was a Scottish noblewoman.
Biography
Diana was the only child of Josslyn, Earl of Errol and his first wife Lady Idina Sackville. She was born in Kenya. Their home was a bungalow on the slopes of... | {
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Cercis
Cercis is a genus of about 10 species in the subfamily Cercidoideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to warm temperate regions. It contains small deciduous trees or large shrubs commonly known as redbuds. They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the e... | {
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Noel Jan Tyl
Noel Jan Tyl (December 31, 1936 - December 31, 2019) was an American humanistic astrologer and writer of many books on the subject. In the 1960s and 70s he was a bass-baritone opera singer who was particularly noted for his Wagnerian roles.
Life and career
Tyl was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and g... | {
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Benjamin F. B. Hunter
Lieutenant Benjamin Fitz-Bourne Hunter, USN (Ret.), was a sailor and officer of the United States Sailing Navy. Born November 11, 1821, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he held positions of increasing responsibility and commanded many groups of sailors. He died April 9, 1884, age 62, in Bay St. Louis... | {
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The Ant Bully (film)
The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by John A. Davis and based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle. Starring the voices of Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti, it was produced by Tom H... | {
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Pabay
Pabay is a Scottish island just off the coast of the Skye. The name Pabay is derived from an old Norse word meaning "priest's isle" and there are the remains of a 13th century chapel.
Geography
Pabay is an island in the Inner Sound of Skye, lying north of Broadford. It lies south of Longay and east of the larg... | {
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Donald Mennie
Donald Mennie (9 March 1875 – 10 January 1944) was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China.
Mennie was born in Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland in 1875, the son of Adam Mennie, a druggist, and his wife, Barbara Macleod. He had an elder brother James and... | {
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Arab Cold War
The Arab Cold War ( al-Harb al-`Arabbiyah al-bārdah) was a period of political rivalry in the Arab world that occurred as part of the broader Cold War between, approximately, the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 that brought President Gamal Abdel Nasser to power in that country, and the 1979 Iranian Revolutio... | {
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Kilcommon (County Mayo civil parish)
Kilcommon () is a civil parish in Erris, north Mayo consisting of two large peninsulas; Dún Chaocháin and Dún Chiortáin. It consists of 37 townlands, some of which are so remote that they have no inhabitants. Habitation is concentrated mainly along both sides of Sruwaddacon Bay wh... | {
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Bernard J. Taylor
Bernard J. Taylor is the writer and composer of twelve stage musicals and four stage plays. His musicals have been produced around the world and translated into German, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian. He is also the writer of 14 novels and three non-fiction books. In 2013 he was ma... | {
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Eleanor Coen
Eleanor Coen (October 21, 1916 – July 9, 2010) was an American painter.
Biography
Eleanor Coen was born October 21, 1916 in Normal, Illinois. Both a student (and later teacher) at the Art Institute of Chicago, Coen studied there with Boris Anisfeld, Francis Chapin and Max Kahn. She married Kahn in 1942.... | {
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Buda heresy
The Buda heresy () was a Waldensian heretical movement from 1304 to 1307 in Buda, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day a borough of Budapest). In a political context, the heresy was a tiny segment of a wider conflict during the era of Interregnum following the death of King Andrew III of Hung... | {
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Battle of Horlivka
The Battle of Horlivka began when Ukrainian forces attempted to recapture the city of Horlivka, in Donetsk Oblast, from pro-Russian insurgents affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on 21 July 2014.
Background
Horlivka is a large city in Donetsk Oblast, north of Donetsk city. Amidst ri... | {
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Diplomatic Reception Room (White House)
The Diplomatic Reception Room is one of three oval rooms in the Executive Residence of the White House, the official home of the President of the United States. It is located on the ground floor and is used as an entrance from the South Lawn, and a reception room for foreign amb... | {
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Tritons’ Fountain
The Tritons’ Fountain () is a fountain located on the periphery of the City Gate of Valletta, Malta. It consists of three bronze Tritons holding up a large basin, balanced on a concentric base built out of concrete and clad in travertine slabs. The fountain is one of Malta's most important Modernist ... | {
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(481394) 2006 SF6
is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Aten group, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 17 September 2006, by the Catalina Sky Survey at Catalina Station in Arizona. On 21 November 2019, it passed Earth at a distance of , which is the object's close... | {
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New Year's Eve Live
New Year's Eve Live is an annual New Year's Eve television special broadcast by CNN. It primarily focuses on coverage of the ball drop festivities held at New York City's Times Square while also featuring reports from festivities in other U.S. cities, and coverage of midnight festivities from a cit... | {
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Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is located about north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. Sing Sing contains about 1,700 prisoners.
Th... | {
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Microeconomics
Microeconomics (from Greek prefix mikro- meaning "small" + economics) is a branch of economics that studies the behaviour of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms.
One goal of microeconomics is to an... | {
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Hatsukoi (Utada Hikaru album)
is the seventh Japanese-language studio album (tenth overall) by Japanese–American recording artist Utada Hikaru. It was released on June 27, 2018, as her first album under Sony Music Japan sublabel Epic Records Japan. The release coincided to the commemoration of her 20th Anniversary as ... | {
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Earthquakes in Western Australia
Earthquakes have occurred in Western Australia (WA) on a regular basis throughout its geological history.
In 1849, the first earthquake following European settlement in WA was recorded. "On Saturday last, about a quarter past four o'clock a.m., several inhabitants of Perth were awok... | {
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Alara block
The Alara block is a Magic: The Gathering expert-level expansion block, consisting of the expansion sets Shards of Alara (October 3, 2008), Conflux (February 6, 2009) and Alara Reborn (April 30, 2009). The Alara block focuses on multicolored cards, in particular cards with three or more colors.
Shards of... | {
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Matched molecular pair analysis
Matched molecular pair analysis (MMPA) is a method in cheminformatics that compares the properties of two molecules that differ only by a single chemical transformation, such as the substitution of a hydrogen atom by a chlorine one. Such pairs of compounds are known as matched molecular... | {
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Logic block
In computing, a logic block or configurable logic block (CLB) is a fundamental building block of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. Logic blocks can be configured by the engineer to provide reconfigurable logic gates.
Logic blocks are the most common FPGA architecture, and are usually laid o... | {
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Sticheron
A sticheron (Greek: "set in verses"; plural: stichera; Greek: ) is a hymn of a particular genre that has to be sung during the morning (Orthros) and evening service (Hesperinos) of the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
Stichera are usually sung in alternat... | {
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Chennai
Chennai (, ), also known as Madras ( or , the official name until 1996), is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, it is the biggest cultural, economic and educational centre of south India. According to the 2011 Indian census, it is the sixth-most... | {
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Pittman Underground Water Act
The Pittman Underground Water Act (introduced as S. 9) was an Act of Congress, that was approved on October 22, 1919 and was repealed on August 11, 1964. The public law gave the Secretary of the Interior the power to hand out permits to American citizens and associations to drill for and ... | {
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Leroy W. Stutz
Colonel Leroy W. Stutz (born November 13, 1939) was a U.S. Air Force officer, pilot and prisoner of war for 2,284 days (6.25 years) during the Vietnam War.
Family and education
Stutz grew up on farm in northeast Kansas. He graduated from Atchison County Community High School, where he was an accompli... | {
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Guillermo Quiróz
Guillermo Antonio Quiroz (; born November 29, 1981) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants.
Amateur career
Quiróz was born... | {
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German submarine U-181
German submarine U-181 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 15 March 1941 at the DeSchiMAG AG Weser yard at Bremen as yard number 1021. She was launched on 30 December 1941 and commissioned on 9 May 1942 under the command of Ka... | {
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Survivors' Talmud
The Survivors' Talmud (also known as the U.S. Army Talmud) was an edition of the Talmud published in the U.S. Zone of Allied-occupied Germany on behalf of Holocaust survivors housed in displaced persons (DP) camps. It was the first and only known edition of the Talmud to be published by a government ... | {
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Eye for an eye
"An eye for an eye" () or the law of retaliation () is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree, and the person inflicting such punishment should be the injured party. In softer interpretations, it means the victim receives the [estimated] value o... | {
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Olya, Russia
Olya () is a rural locality (a selo) in Limansky District of Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, on the shore of one of the largest branches of the Volga River, Bakhtemir, near the Caspian Sea about southwest of Astrakhan. It serves as a port on the Caspian Sea. In 2010 the settlement recorded 1372 farmsteads and ... | {
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Nelson Stepanyan
Nelson Georgievich Stepanyan (, ; – 14 December 1944) was a Soviet Armenian Il-2 ground-attack aircraft pilot during the Second World War in the Red Air Force. He was twice awarded with the military title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest military award in the Soviet Union.
Biography
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Bafna
Bapna also spelt Bafana or Bapna or Bafna (Hindi: बाफना / बाफणा )is an Indian Jain or Brahmin community, and also the surname used by this community. The name is derived from Bahufana and Bafanha. They were Hindu Rajput and later converted to Jainism.In some areas of Rajasthan like Udaipur and Jaipur there are ... | {
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Dream (sculpture)
Dream is a 2009 sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m (equivalent to £ in ), it was funded through The Big Art Project in coordination with the Arts Council England, The Art Fund and Channel 4.
Origin
In 2008 St Helens took ... | {
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St Peter's Church, Hockwold
St Peter's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Hockwold cum Wilton in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
History
St Peter's was fo... | {
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VA spacecraft
The Vozvraschaemyi Apparat (, GRAU index 11F74), or VA spacecraft, was a Soviet crew capsule, intended to serve as a crewed launch and reentry vehicle. Initially designed for the LK-1 manned lunar flyby spacecraft for one of the Soviet manned lunar programs, then the LK-700 redesign, it was later repurpo... | {
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List of African-American U.S. state firsts
African Americans are a demographic minority in the United States. African-Americans' initial achievements in various fields historically establish a foothold, providing a precedent for more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is "breaking the color barr... | {
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Barshi
Barshi is a city located in Barshi Sub district of Solapur District of Maharashtra State of Republic of India. Barshi is second largest city in Solapur District. It is a hub for business, industry and tourism. Barshi is densely populated. Barshi has high number of lentil industries. Barshi is forthcoming as med... | {
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Compact Toroidal Hybrid
The Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) is an experimental device at Auburn University that uses magnetic fields to confine high-temperature plasmas. CTH is a torsatron type of stellarator with an external, continuously wound helical coil that generates the bulk of the magnetic field for containing a... | {
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Church of Panagia Chalkeon
The Church of Panagia Chalkeon () is an 11th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
Location
The church is located at Dikastirion Square, north of the Via Egnatia at the point where it crosses the Aristotelous Avenue, which leads to the Aristotelous Square. The... | {
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ZAZ-969
The ZAZ-969 was a Soviet four-wheel drive automobile built by the Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant (Ukrainian: ЗАЗ, Запорізький автомобілебудівельний завод, Zaporiz'kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod or Zaporiz'kyi avtozavod, ZAZ). The first Soviet vehicle with front wheel drive, it was based on the LuAZ-967.
D... | {
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John Kochurov
Saint John Alexandrovich Kochurov (), hieromartyr of the Soviet revolution, was one of a number of young educated priests who came to the United States in the late 1890s as missionaries among the émigrés from Carpathian Ruthenia and Galicia. He was active in establishing parishes and aiding communities, ... | {
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Penn State Army ROTC
The Penn State Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (PSU AROTC) is the ROTC department at The Pennsylvania State University. It is the largest branch of the ROTC program at the school, which also has Naval ROTC and Air Force ROTC.
The Penn State ROTC Battalion is one of the 41 participating batt... | {
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Spring (device)
A spring is an elastic object that stores mechanical energy. Springs are typically made of spring steel. There are many spring designs. In everyday use, the term often refers to coil springs.
When a conventional spring, without stiffness variability features, is compressed or stretched from its restin... | {
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Hoyt Vandenberg
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general. He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of The Central Intelligence Agency.
During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a ta... | {
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James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney and political figure. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
Bo... | {
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The Black Stork
The Black Stork is a 1917 motion picture written by and starring Harry J. Haiselden, the chief surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago. The Black Stork is Haiselden's fictionalized account of his eugenic infanticide of the child John Bollinger. The film was re-released in 1927 under the titl... | {
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2007–08 UEFA Cup final phase
The final phase of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup began on 13 February 2008. It was completed on 14 May 2008 with the final at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester. The knockout stage involves the 24 teams who finished in the top three in each of their groups in the group stage, along with the... | {
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