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Iola, Wisconsin
Iola is a village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,301 at the 2010 census. The village is bordered by the towns of Iola and Scandinavia. The community was named after a Potawatomi girl.
Geography
Iola is located at (44.507951, -89.128661).
According to the United Sta... | {
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WIZE
WIZE (1340 AM) — branded WIZE AM 1340 — is a commercial radio station in Springfield, Ohio owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. as part of their Dayton cluster. The station's main format is classic country targeted towards Springfield, and their transmitter - and former studios - are also located in Springfield.
Prior to ... | {
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Conrad Thompson
Conrad Thompson (born June 28, 1981) is an American mortgage broker and professional wrestling podcast host who presents the podcast Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard, as well as 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff, What Happened When with Tony Schiavone, Grilling JR with Jim Ross, and Arn with Arn Ande... | {
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History of Dubuque, Iowa
The city of Dubuque, Iowa stretches back over 200 years, when Julien Dubuque first settled in the area in the late 18th century. A number of forces shaped the city into what it is .
Early years
Dubuque was the first permanent European settlement in what would become the state of Iowa. This ... | {
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National Parliamentary Debate Association
The National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) is one of the two national intercollegiate parliamentary debate organizations in the United States. The other is the American Parliamentary Debate Association. Its membership is national with participating schools on both co... | {
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Key Glock
Markeyvius Cathey (born August 3, 1997), better known by his stage name Key Glock, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. A protégé of Memphis rapper Young Dolph, he rose to fame in 2017 for his mixtape Glock Season.
Early life
Markeyvius Cathey was born in South Memphis on August 3, 1997. When he ... | {
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Avalon
Avalon (; , ; literally meaning "the isle of fruit [or apple] trees"), sometimes written Avallon or Avilion, is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudo-historical account Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain") as the ... | {
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Tire fire
Tire fires are events that involve the combustion of large quantities of tires, typically in locations where they are stored, dumped, or processed. They exist in two forms: as fast-burning events, leading to almost immediate loss of control, and as slow-burning pyrolysis which can continue for over a decade.... | {
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West Yellowhead (electoral district)
West Yellowhead is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current ridings mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.
The district in its early history was a swing ... | {
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Panevėžys
Panevėžys (, Latin: Panevezen, , Ponevezh) see also other names, is the fifth largest city in Lithuania. As of 2011, it occupied with 113,653 inhabitants. As defined by Eurostat, the population of Panevėžys functional urban area, that stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 127,471 (as of 2017)
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Sleeping Venus (Giorgione)
The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, although it has long been usually thought that Titian completed it after Giorgione's death in 1510. The landscape and sky are generally accepted to be ma... | {
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George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the "Diehard" wing of the party.
Background and education
Lloyd was born at Olton Hall, Warwickshire, the son of Sampson Samuel Lloyd (whose namesa... | {
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Ponce Historic Zone
The Ponce Historic Zone (La Zona Histórica de Ponce) is a historic district in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico, consisting of buildings and structures with architecture that date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The zone goes by various names, including Ponce Tradicional (Tradition... | {
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History of crime fiction
Crime is a typically 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century genre, dominated by British and American writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre.
Crime fiction in history
Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted re... | {
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Frances Townsend
Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004-2007, and is currently a political pundit on TV. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for C... | {
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White-tailed eagle
The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) is a very large species of sea eagle widely distributed across temperate Eurasia. As are all eagles, it is a member of the family Accipitridae (or accipitrids) which includes other diurnal raptors such as hawks, kites, and harriers. One of up to eleven ... | {
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King's Chapel, Gibraltar
King's Chapel is a small chapel in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at the southern end of Main Street and adjoins the Governor of Gibraltar's residence, The Convent. What nowadays is King's Chapel was the first purpose built church to be constructed in Gibraltar. Ori... | {
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Judith Harackiewicz
Judith Harackiewicz is an American social psychologist, focused on the role of motivation at the intersection of social and educational psychology. Harackiewicz is currently the Paul Pintrich Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, however in addition to this role she has al... | {
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Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism
In cryptography, the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) is a family of modern, password-based challenge–response authentication mechanisms providing authentication of a user to a server. As it is specified for Simple Authentication and Security... | {
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2015 Danish general election
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. 175 members were elected in the Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. Although the ruling Social Democrats became the largest party in the Folketing and... | {
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Sligo Creek
Sligo Creek is a free-flowing tributary of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River in Maryland. (The Anacostia, in turn, feeds into the Potomac River and eventually empties into the Atlantic Ocean via Chesapeake Bay.) The creek is approximately long, with a drainage area of about .
Geography
The cre... | {
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Eugenics in the United States
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States during the Progressive Era, from the late 19th century until US involvement in World War II.
Eugenics ... | {
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2014 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 2014 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the 118th overall season, 81st as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and its 23rd within the SEC Eastern Division. The team w... | {
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Amnesiac (film)
Amnesiac (released in the United Kingdom as Unconscious) is a 2014 American mystery film directed by Michael Polish and written by Mike Le and Amy Kolquist.
Plot
The film begins with a family of three traveling along a highway. The scene ends with a child screaming, and the male protagonist (Wes Bentl... | {
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Benjamin Briggs
Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced United States seaman and master mariner. He was the Captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal on Dece... | {
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Wrangel's fleet
Wrangel's Fleet was the last remnant of the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy and existed from 1920 until 1924. This squadron was a "White" (that is, anti-communist and anti-revolutionary) unit during the Russian Civil War. It was known also as the Russian Squadron (Русская Эскадра).
Histor... | {
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Amnesty
Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, "forgetfulness, passing over") is defined as: "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet bee... | {
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Rennet
Rennet is a complex set of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals. Chymosin, its key component, is a protease enzyme that curdles the casein in milk. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other enzymes, such as pepsin and a lipase.
Rennet is used to separate milk into solid curds (for chees... | {
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John Tewkesbury
John Tewkesbury (died 1531) was a Paternoster Row leather merchant in London and Protestant reformer, convicted of heresy and burned at the stake in West Smithfield, London, on 20 December 1531.
Protestant conversion
In 1512, Tewkesbury came into the possession of a manuscript copy of the Bible. He l... | {
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Rolls-Royce Trent 7000
The Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 is a high-bypass turbofan engine produced by Rolls-Royce, an iteration of the Trent family powering exclusively the Airbus A330neo.
Announced on 14 July 2014, it first ran on 27 November 2015.
It made its first flight on 19 October 2017 aboard on the A330neo.
It recei... | {
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Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon () took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to s... | {
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Honghuzi
Honghuzi () were armed Chinese robbers and bandits in the areas of the eastern Russia-China borderland, comprising southeastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Northeast China (then known as Manchuria). The word has been variously transliterated as hong huzi, hong hu zi, hunghutze, hun-hutze, etc. There i... | {
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Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon
Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon KP (14 December 1777 – 8 April 1839), styled The Honourable Du Pré Alexander from 1790 to 1800 and Viscount Alexander from 1800 to 1802, was an Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator, and was the second child and only son of James Ale... | {
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Frank Grillo
Frank Anthony Grillo (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor known for his roles in films such as Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). He had his first leading role in the action horror film The Purge: Anarchy (2014), portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes, a role he... | {
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Dubica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kozarska Dubica (), is a town and municipality located in northern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has 11,566, while the municipality has 21,542 inhabitants.
It is situated in the eastern part of Bosanska Krajina region. The municipality of Hrvats... | {
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Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress, director, and film producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Dern embarked on an acting career in the... | {
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Constitution of Canada
The Constitution of Canada () is the supreme law in Canada. It outlines Canada's system of government and the civil and human rights of those who are citizens of Canada and non-citizens in Canada. Its contents are an amalgamation of various codified acts, treaties between the Crown and indigenou... | {
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Luce d'Eramo
Luce d’Eramo (June 17, 1925 in Reims – March 6, 2001 in Rome) was an Italian writer and literary critic. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Deviazione, which recounts her experiences in Germany during World War II. D’Eramo’s writings are characterized by interest toward controversial subject... | {
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Lost in the Sound of Separation
Lost in the Sound of Separation is the sixth album by American metalcore band Underoath. The album was released on August 30, 2008, in some markets, September 2, 2008, in the United States, and as late as September 19, 2008, in Italy. The album title is taken from a line of the lyrics ... | {
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Poore baronets
The Poore Baronetcy, of Rushall in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 8 July 1795 for John Methuen Poore, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his brother Edward Poore and the heirs male of his body.
Poore baronets, of Rushall (1795)
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Bob Roberts (folksinger)
Alfred William "Bob" Roberts (1907–1982) was a British folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, bargeman, author, and journalist. He was the last captain of a British commercial vessel operating under sail, and brought to an end a centuries-old tradition.
Life
Alfred William Roberts was born in... | {
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary () is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America. It was founded on December 17, 1956, by Pope Pius XII. It is one of four suffragan dioceses of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Its ecclesiastic terri... | {
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Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia
An epidemic of Ebola virus disease occurred in Liberia from 2014 to 2015, along with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone. The first cases of virus were reported by late March 2014. The Ebola virus, a biosafety level four pathogen, is an RNA virus discovered in 1976.
... | {
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Georg Fein
Georg Fein (1803–1869) was a German democratic journalist, an early German socialist and a liberal nationalist. He was a prominent publicist during the Vormärz period that preceded the Revolution of 1848.
Early life
Georg Fein was born on 8 June 1803 in Helmstedt, into a wealthy middle-class family. His br... | {
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Kaufdorf
Kaufdorf is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Kaufdorf is first mentioned in 1148 as Cuffedorf.
The village of Kaufdorf first appears in a record in 1319 when it was part of the Herrschaft of Burgistein. It was acquired by the vom Ste... | {
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Bahram H. Arjmandi
Bahram H. Arjmandi is an American nutritionist. He is the Margaret A. Sitton Professor at Florida State University (FSU) and is the founder and Director of the Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging (CAENRA). He is a researcher in the fields of functional foods and human healt... | {
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Cyril Tourneur
Cyril Tourneur (; died 28 February 1626) was an English soldier, diplomat and dramatist who wrote The Atheist's Tragedy (published 1611); another (and better-known) play, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), formerly believed to be by him, is now more generally attributed to Thomas Middleton.
Life
Cyril Tou... | {
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Vincent I. Breen
FREMONT — THE RUMORS SWIRLED around Holy Spirit parish for years, blasphemous, unthinkable and largely ignored.
Monsignor Vincent Ignatius Breen had a shady reputation that emerged in snatches and whispers. For much of his 29-year tenure at the church and school, the allegations faded into the ether.... | {
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1996 United Nations Secretary-General selection
A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1996 at the end of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's first term. Boutros-Ghali ran unopposed for a second term and received the support of 14 of the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. However, the United Stat... | {
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Intergenerationality
Intergenerationality is interaction between members of different generations. Sociologists study many intergenerational issues, including equity, conflict, and mobility.
Applicable concepts
Intergenerational equity is the concept or idea of fairness or justice in relationships between children,... | {
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USS Monterey (CG-61)
USS Monterey (CG-61) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy vessel named for the Battle of Monterrey at Monterrey, Nuevo León during the Mexican–American War in 1846. She was built at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
Selected service history ep... | {
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Upper Big Tracadie
Upper Big Tracadie is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County. It is a rural, predominantly African Canadian community. Led by Thomas Brownspriggs, Black Nova Scotians who had settled at Chedabucto Bay behind the present-day village of Guysborough mi... | {
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2018 Leicester helicopter crash
On 27 October 2018, an AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after take-off from the King Power Stadium, the home ground of Leicester City Football Club in Leicester, England, United Kingdom. All five people on board – the pilot and four passengers, including club owner Vicha... | {
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Port Nolloth
Port Nolloth is a town and small domestic seaport in the Namaqualand region on the northwestern coast of South Africa, northwest of Springbok. It is the seat of the Richtersveld Local Municipality.
The port was previously a transshipment point for copper from the Okiep mines, and diamonds from the Namaq... | {
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The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych is a 2013 book that documents the life of Mark Fidrych a former professional baseball player who was known for his exceptional ability as a pitcher, his joyous attitude, and his on-field idiosyncrasies. The author, Doug Wilson,... | {
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Moe Drabowsky
Myron Walter Drabowsky (July 21, 1935 – June 10, 2006) was an American professional baseball pitcher, best-remembered for throwing scoreless innings of relief to win Game 1 of the 1966 World Series. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas ... | {
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Susanna Rowson
Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator, considered the first woman geographer and supporter of female education and wrote against slavery.
Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple... | {
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1986 United States Senate elections
The 1986 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in the middle of Ronald Reagan's second presidential term. The Republicans had to defend an unusually large number of freshman Senate incumbents who had been elected on President Ronald Reagan's coa... | {
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Monzón
Monzón () is a small city and municipality in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. Its population was 17,176 as of 2014. It is in the northeast (specifically the Cinca Medio district of the province of Huesca) and adjoins the rivers Cinca and Sosa.
Historical overview
Prehistory and Old Age
The first si... | {
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Paul Kibblewhite
Robert Paul Kibblewhite (20 April 1941 – 20 August 2015) was a New Zealand scientist noted for his research into the properties of wood fibre, particularly in relation to the pulp and paper industry.
Early life and education
Born on 20 April 1941, Kibblewhite was educated at Marlborough College in B... | {
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Crime in New Zealand
Crime in New Zealand encompasses criminal law, crime statistics, the nature and characteristics of crime, sentencing, punishment, and public perceptions of crime. New Zealand criminal law has its origins in English criminal law, which was codified into statute by the New Zealand parliament in 1893... | {
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Glen A. Wilson High School
Glen A. Wilson High School is a public high school located in Hacienda Heights, California. It is one of two high schools located in the unincorporated community, and one of four in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.
Wilson was ranked 333 out of 804 in Newsweek's 2003 web-excl... | {
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IS-DOS
iS-DOS is a disk operating system for Russian ZX Spectrum clones. iS-DOS has been developed in 1990 or 1991, by Iskra Soft (Leningrad, USSR).
It handles floppy disks (double sided, with double density), hard disks, and CD-ROM. Maximum iS-DOS partition size on a hard disk is 16 MiB.
Unlike TR-DOS, iS-DOS is a ... | {
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Time Raiders
Time Raiders () is a 2016 Chinese fantasy-action-adventure film directed by Daniel Lee and starring Jing Boran and Luhan. It is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. The film was released in China by Le Vision Pictures on August 5, 2016.
Plot
In the Himalayas, European antiquitie... | {
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Raahe
Raahe () is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the Younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Examples of other Finnish historic wooden towns are Kaskinen (Kaskö), Old Rauma, Porvoo (... | {
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Giorgio Locatelli
Giorgio Locatelli is an Italian chef working in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Locatelli was brought up in Corgeno in the comune of Vergiate on the banks of Lake Comabbio, northern Italy. His uncle ran a restaurant, giving him an appreciation and understanding of food from an early age. After worki... | {
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Epimorphism
In category theory, an epimorphism (also called an epic morphism or, colloquially, an epi) is a morphism f : X → Y that is right-cancellative in the sense that, for all objects Z and all morphisms ,
Epimorphisms are categorical analogues of surjective functions (and in the category of sets the concept c... | {
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Water and Woods Field Service Council
Water and Woods Field Service Council is a field service council of the Michigan Crossroads Council that serves youth in the central and northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Council is headquartered in Flint, Michigan with service centers located in Auburn, Lansing, and P... | {
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World in Conflict
World in Conflict is a 2007 real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Vivendi Games for Microsoft Windows. The game was released in September 2007, receiving generally favorable reviews and several awards. The game is consi... | {
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Heurich Mausoleum
Heurich Mausoleum is a public artwork by sculptor Louis Amateis, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. "Heurich Mausoleum" was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in May 1993. This sculpture is the final resting place of members... | {
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Jingju Temple (Ji'an)
Jingju Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Qingyuan, in Qingyuan District of Ji'an, Jiangxi, China.
History
Tang dynasty
Jingju Temple was first construction as "Anyin Temple" () in 705 by an accomplished Chan master Qingyuan Xingsi, under the Tang dynasty (618–907). Qingyuan Xingsi... | {
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Michael Ann Holly
Michael Ann Holly is an American art historian renowned for her work on historiography and the theory of art history.
Personal life
Born in 1944 in Alton, Illinois, Holly worked at the Wesleyan University Press from 1963-1966 and the Center for Brain Research at the University of Rochester before b... | {
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History of computer animation
The history of computer animation began as early as the 1940s and 1950s, when people began to experiment with computer graphics - most notably by John Whitney. It was only by the early 1960s when digital computers had become widely established, that new avenues for innovative computer gra... | {
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List of compositions for cello and organ
This is a compilation of pieces for cello and pipe organ.
See also the entries on cello and the List of compositions for cello and orchestra, List of compositions for cello and piano and List of solo cello pieces.
Ordering is by surname of composer.
A
Thomas Åberg
Fantaisie ... | {
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Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)
Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is an American anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and a retired professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). MacDonald is best known for his promotion of an antisemitic theory, according to which Western... | {
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New England/Acadian forests
The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England in the Northeastern United States and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.
Climate
This ecoregion has... | {
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Jarrad Prue
Jarrad Prue (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian basketball player for the Lakeside Lightning of the State Basketball League (SBL). Prue is considered one of the SBL's all-time best, having earned the title as the league's greatest ever rebounder. In 2013, he had a three-game stint with the Perth Wildc... | {
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Rongorongo text D
Rongorongo (; Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Text D of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Échancrée ("notched"), is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. This is the tablet that started Jaussen's ... | {
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Glossop North End A.F.C.
Glossop North End Association Football Club is a football club in Glossop, Derbyshire, England. Formerly members of the Football League, they currently play in the and are members of the Derbyshire County Football Association. Their home ground is Surrey Street, currently known as the Amdec F... | {
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1982 in comics
Events and publications
Year overall
San Diego-based independent publisher Pacific Comics makes a strong push in the marketplace, following Jack Kirby's Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers with four new ongoing titles, Starslayer, Ms. Mystic, Twisted Tales, and Alien Worlds, featuring such esta... | {
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Aitareya Upanishad
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