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1979 North American Soccer League season
The 1979 North American Soccer League season was the 67th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer and the 12th with a national first-division league in the United States and Canada.
Changes from the previous season
Rules changes
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Kai Lee
Kai Lee is the program officer of science for the Conservation and Science Program of the Packard Foundation. Lee's work focuses on science-based environmental issues. Lee is well regarded for his advocacy of Adaptive Management.
Early life
Kai N. Lee grew up in Manhattan, New York, the single child of Chof... | {
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Belgrano II Base
Belgrano II Base () is a permanent, all year-round Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after General Manuel Belgrano, one of the Libertadores and the creator of the Argentine Flag. It is located on Bertrab Nunatak on the Confín Coast, Coats Land.
it is Argentina's southern... | {
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Universal Orlando
Universal Orlando Resort, commonly known as Universal Orlando or simply "Universal," formerly Universal Studios Escape, is an American theme park and entertainment resort complex based in Orlando, Florida. The resort is operated by Universal Parks & Resorts. It is wholly owned by NBCUniversal, a divi... | {
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Code of the Nesilim
The Code of Nesilim (Imperial Hittites) is an ancient Hittite (Nesili) legal code dating from c. 1650 – 1500 BCE. This contained the laws that reflected the Hittite empire's social structure, sense of justice, and morality, addressing common outlawed actions such as assault, theft, murder, witchcr... | {
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Tom Hickey (footballer, born 1991)
Tom Hickey (born 6 March 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Hickey formerly played for the Gold Coast Suns and St Kilda, and made his debut in round 22, 2011, against Adelaide.
Early life
Hickey was bo... | {
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Erongarícuaro
Erongarícuaro, which means "Place of waiting" in the Purepecha language, is a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located about an hour and a half drive to Morelia or Uruapan and just 20 minutes from the famous colonial town of Pátzcuaro. The estimated population is about 5,000 people.
History... | {
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Matthew Brisbane
Matthew Brisbane (1787–1833) was an Antarctic explorer, sealer and a notable figure in the early history of the Falkland Islands. A compatriot of famous explorers such as Weddell, Ross and Fitzroy, he was shipwrecked three times in Antarctic waters but survived, overcoming tremendous hardships. Bris... | {
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He Said She Said (song)
"He Said She Said" is a song recorded by American singer Ashley Tisdale. The song was written by J. R. Rotem, Evan "Kidd" Bogart, and Ryan Tedder, and produced by Rotem for Tisdale's debut studio album Headstrong. The song was first recorded in 2006 at Chalice Recording Studios in Los Angeles, ... | {
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Mathilde Danegger
Mathilde Danegger (real name, Mathilde Deutsch: 2 August 1903 – 27 July 1988) was an Austrian stage and movie actress. Sources may also identify her by the pseudonym, Mathilde Leusch.
Life
Mathilde Danegger was born and attended school in Vienna. Her father was the Austrian character actor and s... | {
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Introduction to systolic geometry
Systolic geometry is a branch of differential geometry, a field within mathematics, studying problems such as the relationship between the area inside a closed curve C, and the length or perimeter of C. Since the area A may be small while the length l is large, when C looks elongated,... | {
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Walt Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow) (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist, professor and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969.
Rostow worked in the ... | {
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Meteorological history of Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew was the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007 and the southernmost Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record. The system originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on September 22, and ultimately dissipated as ... | {
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38th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 38th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
Known as Iowa's Martyr Regiment. The 38th Iowa Infantry was recruited for the most part in five counties, Fayette, Winneshiek, Bremer, Chickasa... | {
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440th Airlift Wing
The 440th Airlift Wing is an inactive United States Air Force Reserve unit last assigned to Twenty-Second Air Force. It was last stationed at Pope Army Airfield, part of Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Mission
The 440th Airlift Wing's mission in peacetime was to maintain readiness for its wartime mi... | {
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Wipe Out (instrumental)
"Wipe Out" is a surf rock instrumental composed by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller and Ron Wilson. It is a twelve-bar blues first performed and recorded by The Surfaris, who became known worldwide with the release of the "Surfer Joe" and "Wipe Out" single in 1963, at the same time of th... | {
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KTCV
KTCV (88.1 FM) is a high school radio station broadcasting an Alternative music music format. Licensed to Kennewick, Washington, United States, the radio station is currently owned by the Kennewick School District. It broadcasts from the Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick, by students as part of extra classes ta... | {
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Lakeland, Minnesota
Lakeland is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,796 at the 2010 census.
History
Lakeland was platted in 1849. The 1849 Captain John Oliver House, 1850 Mitchell Jackson Farmhouse, and 1858 John T. Cyphers House are listed on the National Register of Historic... | {
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Giridih
Giridih is headquarters of the Giridih district of Jharkhand state, India. The literal meaning of Giridih is the land of hills and hillocks – giri, a Hindi word, means hills and dih, another word of the local dialect, indicates land of. Before 1972, Giridih was part of Hazaribagh district.
Giridih is a centr... | {
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Proton-exchange membrane fuel cell
Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells, also known as polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells (PEMFC), are a type of fuel cell being developed mainly for transport applications, as well as for stationary fuel-cell applications and portable fuel-cell applications. Their distinguish... | {
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Oak Grove station
Oak Grove is a rapid transit station in Malden, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Orange Line, and located in northern Malden just south of the Melrose border. The northern terminus of the Orange Line, Oak Grove has a 788-space park and ride lot serving nearby residential communities. It is also serv... | {
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Delbert Tibbs
Delbert Tibbs (June 19, 1939 – November 23, 2013) was an American man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and rape in 1974 in Florida and sentenced to death. Later exonerated, Tibbs became a writer and anti-death penalty activist.
Early life
Tibbbs was born June 19, 1939, in Shelby, Mississippi; he m... | {
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Outline in Color
Outline In Color is an American post-hardcore band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The band has released four albums, two of which have reached the Billboard charts.
History
Outline In Color was formed in August 2009 by harsh vocalist Trevor Tatro, clean vocalist Jonathan Grimes, guitarists CJ Cochran and Fo... | {
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Dave Eiland
David William Eiland (born July 5, 1966) is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for ten Major League Baseball seasons. Eiland played college baseball for the University of Florida and the University of South Florida, and thereafter, played professionally for the New York Yank... | {
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Mustafa III
Mustafa III (; Muṣṭafā-yi sālis; 28 January 1717 – 21 January 1774) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III (1703–30), and his consort Mihrişah Kadın. He was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I (1774–89).
Early life
Mustafa was born at the Edirne Palace... | {
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Gennadiy Kozub
Gennadiy Kozub (, ; born 3 July 1969) is an art production manager, publisher, restaurateur, art collector, gallery owner, and artist. He is a co-founder and organizer of the leading contemporary art residence in Ukraine – Biruchiy contemporary art project (2006). A CEO and co-founder of the Association... | {
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Szpilrajn extension theorem
In mathematics, the Szpilrajn extension theorem (also called the order-extension principle), proved by Edward Szpilrajn in 1930, is one of many examples of the use of the axiom of choice in the form of Zorn's lemma to find a maximal set with certain properties. The theorem states that every... | {
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WaRP Graphics
WaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the Elfquest comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The company title is an acronym formed from the founding couple's name: We... | {
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DSRP
DSRP is a theory and method of thinking, developed by systems theorist and cognitive scientist Derek Cabrera. It is an acronym that stands for Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives. Cabrera posits that these four patterns underlie all cognition, that they are universal to the process of structuri... | {
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Australian ghostshark
The Australian ghostshark (Callorhinchus milii) is a cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) belonging to the subclass Holocephali (chimaera). Sharks, rays and skates are the other members of the cartilaginous fish group and are grouped under the subclass Elasmobranchii. Alternative names include ele... | {
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Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio
Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio (born April 4, 1930) is a Filipino playwright, puppeteer, and educator known as the "Grande Dame of Southeast Asian Children’s Theatre." She was recognized in 2018 as a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater - a conferment which represents the Philippine state's ... | {
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Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency)
Hartlepool is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament which has been represented by Mike Hill since 8 June 2017. Elected as Labour, he sat as an Independent following an allegation of sexual assault made against him in September 2019. Thr... | {
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Weighing scale
A Beam balance (or Beam scale) is a device to measure weight or mass. These are also known as mass scales, weight scales, mass balances, weight balances, or simply scales, balances, or balance scales.
The traditional scale consists of two plates or bowls suspended at equal distances from a fulcrum. One... | {
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Transit Expressway Revenue Line
The Transit Expressway Revenue Line (TERL), commonly known as Skybus, was a proposed people mover rapid transit system developed by Westinghouse for the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1960s–1970s. In contrast to the traditional streetcars then in use, the technology used a ... | {
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Pebble-mound mouse
Pebble-mound mice are a group of rodents from Australia in the genus Pseudomys. They are small, brownish mice with medium to long, often pinkish brown tails. Unlike some other species of Pseudomys, they construct mounds of pebbles around their burrows, which play an important role in their social li... | {
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Purbasthali
Purbasthali is a village with a police station and a rail station in Purbasthali II CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district. It is located 120 km north from Kolkata. Also known as Chupi Char, it lies on the banks of a large oxbow lake created by the Ganges river and is only 8 km from th... | {
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Anni Friesinger-Postma
Anna ("Anni") Christine Friesinger-Postma (born 11 January 1977) is a German former speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Her brother Jan is also a speed ... | {
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The Dead Zone (novel)
The Dead Zone is a horror and supernatural thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. It is his seventh novel and the fifth novel under his own name. It concerns Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and remains in a coma for nearly five years. Upon emergence, he exhibits clairvoyanc... | {
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List of Alcatraz escape attempts
There were a total of 14 escape attempts from Alcatraz made by 36 prisoners while it served as a federal penitentiary. Two men tried twice; twenty-three were caught, six were shot and killed, two gave up and five are listed as "missing and presumed drowned". Faced with high maintenance... | {
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Weissenhof Estate
The Weissenhof Estate (German:Weißenhofsiedlung) is a housing estate built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927. It was an international showcase of what later became known as the International style of architecture. Two of the buildings were designed by the French-Swiss archite... | {
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MIDIbox
The MIDIbox project is an open source modular DIY framework, consisting of hardware and software, MIDI platform built around the PIC family of microcontrollers — the PIC18F452, PIC16F88, PIC18F4620 and PIC18F4685 and, more recently, the STM32FXX and LPC1769 32-bit. It can be used to build hardware MIDI contr... | {
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Eight Immortals
The Eight Immortals () are a group of legendary xian ("immortals") in Chinese mythology. Each immortal's power can be transferred to a vessel () that can bestow life or destroy evil. Together, these eight vessels are called the "Covert Eight Immortals" (). Most of them are said to have been born in the... | {
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Baháʼí Faith in Mozambique
The Baháʼí Faith in Mozambique begins after the mention of Africa in Baháʼí literature when ʻAbdu'l-Bahá suggested it as a place to take the religion to in 1916. The first know Baháʼí to enter the region was in 1951-52 at Beira when a British pioneer came through on the way to what was then ... | {
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Theatre of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd ( ) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work focused largely on the idea of ... | {
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Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet
Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet (9 January 1762 – 13 February 1818) was an English physician to the British Royal Family and was the obstetrician to Princess Charlotte who became famous due to his role in "the triple obstetrical tragedy" of 1817.
Early life and family
He was born on 9 Ja... | {
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Surgical Outcomes Analysis and Research
Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research, SOAR, is a research laboratory of the Department of Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with expertise in outcomes research. SOAR investigates surgical diseases and perioperative outcomes. The group focuses on pancreatic ca... | {
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Stephanie Forrest
Stephanie Forrest (born circa 1958) is an American computer scientist and director of the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. She was previously Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in A... | {
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Ashinaga (organization)
Ashinaga [あしなが育英会 Ashinaga Ikueikai] is a non-profit organization headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that provides educational funding and psychological support to children who have lost one or both guardians, as well as to those whose guardians suffer from serious disabilities. Since its founding ... | {
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Ian Crocker
Ian Lowell Crocker (born August 31, 1982) is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. During his career, he set world records in the 50- and 100-meter butterfly (long course and short course) and the 100-meter freestyle (short course). He has won... | {
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Lloyd Bochner
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian actor.
Career
At the age of 11, Bochner began his acting career on Ontario radio programs. He went on to garner two Liberty Awards, the highest acting honour in Canada, for his work in Canadian film and theatre. He made his first debu... | {
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Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Spanish politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the c... | {
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Michelle Nunn
Mary Michelle Nunn (born November 16, 1966) is an American philanthropic executive and politician. Since 2015 she has been president and CEO of CARE USA, the American national member of CARE International, the humanitarian aid and international development agency. She was CEO of Points of Light, an Ameri... | {
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International Socialists (United States)
The International Socialists (1968–1986) was a Third Camp Trotskyist group in the United States.
History
The roots of the IS went back to the fall of 1964 when the Berkeley locals of the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation and Young People's Socialist League left wit... | {
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Bank of British West Africa
Bank of British West Africa (BBWA) was a British Overseas bank that was important in introducing modern banking into the countries that emerged from the UK's West African colonies. In 1957 it changed its name to Bank of West Africa, and in 1965 was acquired by Standard Bank.
History
1891 ... | {
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Jon Tuck
Jonathan Cruz Tuck (born August 28, 1984) is a Chamorro professional mixed martial artist. Tuck is the first Chamorro native from Guam to be signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and competes at the Lightweight division. His official nickname is the "Super Saiyan", taken from the Japanese manga series... | {
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Texas v. Johnson
Texas v Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag, which at the time were enforced in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that defendant Gre... | {
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Tajik National Army
The Tajik National Army is the ground force of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan. Created shortly after the Tajik civil war in February 1993, the Army has undergone heavy reforms and buildup. It is trained by personnel from Russia, France, India, and the United States.
The Army is ov... | {
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Marlette, Michigan
Marlette is a city in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,875 at the 2010 census. The city is surrounded by Marlette Township, but is administratively autonomous.
Marlette is known as "The Heart of the Thumb" due to its location in Michigan's thumb.
History
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Hindsville, Arkansas
Hindsville is a town in Madison County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The community was named after John Hinds, a first settler.
Geography
Hindsville is located at (36.147644, -93.860271).
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Oakville, California
Oakville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the of Napa County, northern California.
The population was 71 at the 2010 census.
The local economy is based on Napa Valley wine production, and Oakville was formally declared a distinct appellation within the Napa Valley AVA in 1993. There are cu... | {
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Dartmoor tin-mining
The tin mining industry on Dartmoor, Devon, England, is thought to have originated in pre-Roman times, and continued right through to the 20th century, when the last commercially worked mine (Golden Dagger Mine) closed in November 1930 (though it saw work during the Second World War). From the 12th... | {
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German Question
"The German Question" was a debate in the 19th century, especially during the Revolutions of 1848, over the best way to achieve the unification of Germany. From 1815 to 1866, about 37 independent German-speaking states existed within the German Confederation. The ("Greater German solution") favored un... | {
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Saharan explorers
Saharan explorers include:
Herodotus born c. 484 BC. Herodotus in his Histories mentions for example the Garamantes of Libya.
Al Idrisi (1100–1166) born in Ceuta. Wrote a medieval geography The Book of Roger. Created a map of the world in 70 sections.
Ibn Battuta (1304–1369) [1349-53]. Born at Ta... | {
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List of The Sopranos characters
The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos.
Main characters
Cast table
Main character biographies
Anthony "Tony" Soprano
Jennifer Melfi
Carmela Soprano
Christopher Moltisanti
Corrado "Junior" Soprano
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
Sal... | {
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Gerhard Scherhorn
Gerhard Scherhorn (21 February 1930 in Hannover – 28 February 2018) was a German Professor and economist.
Career
Doctoral thesis on "Needs and Wants" (Bedürfnis und Bedarf) 1959
Qualification as a university lecturer in Economics at the University of Cologne 1965
Professor of Economics at the A... | {
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History of slavery in the Muslim world
Slavery in the Muslim world first developed out of the slavery practices of pre-Islamic Arabia, and was at times radically different, depending on social-political factors such as the Arab slave trade. Throughout Islamic history, slaves served in various social and economic roles... | {
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Delma S. Arrigoitia
Delma S. Arrigoitia (born February 10, 1945) is a historian, author, educator and lawyer whose written works cover the life and works of some of Puerto Rico's most prominent politicians of the early 20th century. Arrigoitia was the first person at the University of Puerto Rico to earn a master's de... | {
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Jahrom
Jahrom (, also known as Jahrūm) is a city and capital of Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 141,634. Jahrom is the biggest city in the southern half of Fars Province, the third biggest city in whole province and 67th biggest city of Iran.
Jahrom is located southeast of... | {
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Emily (film)
Emily, also known as The Awakening of Emily, is a British film of 1976 set in the 1920s directed by Henry Herbert, produced and written by Christopher Neame, and starring Koo Stark.
Although R-rated, the film is considered avant-garde rather than pornographic, as is sometimes claimed, with a cast of mai... | {
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Pavel Popovich
Pavel Romanovich Popovich (, , Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (October 5, 1930 – September 29, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
He was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, and the eighth person in space.
Biography
He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Ukrainian SSR to Roman Porfirievich ... | {
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Mrs Craddock
Mrs Craddock is a novel by William Somerset Maugham first published in 1902.
Plot introduction
Set in the final years of the 19th century, Mrs Craddock is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the t... | {
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Danny Kortchmar
Daniel Kortchmar (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter. Kortchmar's work with singer-songwriters such as Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Carole King, David Cassidy, Graham Nash, Neil Young, and Carly Simon helped define the signature sound ... | {
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Mark Chaussee
Mark Chaussee is a nepalese guitarist born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota and an adherent of heavy metal and hard rock. He played guitar in The Coup De Grace, Fight, Danzig, Jimmy Coup, and Marilyn Manson.
World of Hurt
World of Hurt from Minneapolis, Minnesota is the first known band of Mark Chaussee.
The ... | {
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Kukuli Velarde
Kukuli Velarde (born November 29, 1962) is a Peruvian artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She specializes in painting and ceramic sculptures made out of clay and terra-cotta. Velarde focuses on the themes of gender and the repercussions of colonization on Latin American history, with a particula... | {
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Typhoon Fran
Typhoon Fran, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Reming, produced tremendous rainfall in Japan including, at the time, a national 24-hour record accumulation of . Forming as a tropical depression on September 3 to the southeast of Guam, Fran steadily intensified as it moved along a general northwest trac... | {
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Troublemaker (Olly Murs song)
"Troublemaker" is a song by English recording artist Olly Murs, released as the lead single from his third studio album, Right Place Right Time (2012). It features American rapper Flo Rida. "Troublemaker" was co-written by Murs, Steve Robson, Claude Kelly and Flo Rida, and was produced b... | {
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Ystad
Ystad () is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates back to the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction. The detective series Wallander, created by Henning Mankell, is s... | {
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Corrie ten Boom
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a writer who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II by hiding them in her hom... | {
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Adeem Younis
Adeem Younis (born October 17, 1980) is an English-Pakistani entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as founder of digital matrimony platform SingleMuslim.com and international humanitarian charity, Penny Appeal.
He is a founding board member of Penny Appeal USA and also helped s... | {
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Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal
The Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal (abbreviated as MRGO or MR-GO) is a channel constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers at the direction of Congress in the mid-20th century that provided a shorter route between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans' inner harbor I... | {
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Bishop Canevin High School
Bishop Canevin High School is a Jesuit-inspired high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school is located in the Oakwood neighborhood of the city.
History
In 1958, Bishop John Dearden, Bishop of Pittsburgh, announced plans for a brand new coinstitutional diocesan high school to serve... | {
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Noerr–Pennington doctrine
Under the Noerr–Pennington doctrine, private entities are immune from liability under the antitrust laws for attempts to influence the passage or enforcement of laws, even if the laws they advocate for would have anticompetitive effects. The doctrine is grounded in the First Amendment protect... | {
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Genitive absolute
In Ancient Greek grammar, the genitive absolute (Latin: genitivus absolutus) is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. A genitive absolute construction serves as a dependent clause, usu... | {
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Indianapolis Zoo
The Indianapolis Zoo is a zoo located in White River State Park, in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, housing more than 3,800 animals of more than 320 species and subspecies. The institution is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the American Alliance of Museums as a zoo,... | {
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Tom Cairney
Thomas Cairney (born 20 January 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Fulham and the Scotland national team. Cairney has previously played for Hull City and Blackburn Rovers. Born in England, he made his full international debut for Scotland in March 2017. Cairney had previ... | {
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Sarah Solemani
Sarah Solemani (born 4 September 1982) is an English actress, writer and activist, best known for starring in the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her, playing Renee Zellweger's best friend 'Miranda' in Working Title's Bridget Jones's Baby, for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Actress Awar... | {
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Pyramid of the Moon
The Pyramid of the Moon is the second largest pyramid in modern-day San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico, after the Pyramid of the Sun. It is located in the western part of the ancient city of Teotihuacan and mimics the contours of the mountain Cerro Gordo, just north of the site. Cerro Gordo may have been... | {
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.22-250 Remington
The .22-250 Remington is a very high-velocity (capable of reaching over 4000 feet per second), short action, .22 caliber rifle cartridge primarily used for varmint hunting and small game hunting, though it finds occasional use on deer. This cartridge is also sometimes known as the .22 Varminter or th... | {
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Wilson desk
The Wilson desk is a large mahogany desk used by Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a President in the Oval office, it was purchased between 1897 and 1899 by Garret Augustus Hobart, the 24th Vice President of the United State... | {
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Timeline of entomology since 1900
1900
Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." He concurred with Carlos Finlay in identifying mosquitoes as the agent.
Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia publishes Catálogo s... | {
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Fausto Cercignani
Fausto Cercignani (; born March 21, 1941) is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.
Biography
Born to Tuscan parents, Fausto Cercignani studied in Milan, where he graduated in foreign languages and literatures with a dissertation dealing with English at Shakespeare’s time. His career as a universit... | {
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Mutinus elegans
Mutinus elegans, commonly known as the elegant stinkhorn, the dog stinkhorn, the headless stinkhorn, or the devil's dipstick, is a species of fungus in the Phallaceae family. A saprobic species, it is typically found growing on the ground singly or in small groups on woody debris or leaf litter, during... | {
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India at the 2016 Summer Olympics
India competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics since 1920, although they made their official debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
117 Indian athletes particip... | {
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Folk dance forms of Odisha
Odisha is a land of Art and culture. There are many folk dance forms evolved in different regions of the state.
Ghumura Dance (or Ghumra Dance) is one of the most sought and leading folk dance form in Odisha. It is classified as folk dance as the dress code of Ghumura resembles more like a ... | {
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Benjamin Kennicott
Benjamin Kennicott (4 April 171818 September 1783) was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.
Life
Kennicott was born at Totnes, Devon where he attended Totnes Grammar School. He succeeded his father as master of a charity school, but the generosity of some friends enabled him to go to Wadham Col... | {
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Bon
Bon, also spelled Bön (), is a Tibetan religion, which self-identifies as distinct from Tibetan Buddhism, although it shares the same overall teachings and terminology. It arose in the eleventh century and established its scriptures mainly from termas and visions by tertöns such as Loden Nyingpo. Though Bon terma ... | {
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Paradise Falls
Paradise Falls is a weekly soap opera television series which aired nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It was filmed in the summer cottage community of Muskoka, Ontario.
Like many major American soap operas, sex is a dominant component of the storylines, although more expli... | {
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Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early edi... | {
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Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had "discontinued composing in an avan... | {
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Dieter Birr
Dieter "Maschine" Birr (born 22 March 1944 in Köslin, Pommern, Nazi Germany) is a German singer, guitarist and composer. He was a longtime member of the rock band Puhdys, which dissolved in 2016.
Life and career
Dieter Birr was trained as a grinder and at the same time taught himself how to play the guit... | {
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