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Regular Democratic Organization
The Regular Democratic Organization (RDO), or Old Regulars, or the New Orleans Ring, is a conservative political organization based in New Orleans. It has existed for 130 years and as of 2017 is still active. The symbol of the RDO is the rooster. For many years the organization's headq... | {
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Xu Xiaodong
Xu Xiaodong (; born 15 November 1979), nicknamed "Mad Dog", is a Chinese mixed martial artist (MMA) who has been called the founder of MMA in China and is known for taking down fake martial artists. He gained prominence online after he was filmed defeating a self-proclaimed kung fu master in 2017.
Early l... | {
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Charlotte Rae
Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018), known professionally as Charlotte Rae, was an American character actress, comedian, and singer whose career spanned six decades.
Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life ... | {
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Faith Domergue
Faith Marie Domergue (; June 16, 1924 or 1925 – April 4, 1999) was an American film and television actress. Discovered at age sixteen by media and aircraft mogul Howard Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes' RKO Radio Pictures and cast as the lead in the studio's thriller Vendetta, which had ... | {
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Salamis Tablet
The Salamis Tablet is a marble counting board (an early counting device) dating from around 300 B.C. that was discovered on the island of Salamis in 1846. A precursor to the abacus, it is thought that it represents an ancient Greek means of performing mathematical calculations common in the ancient wor... | {
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Novae
Novae was initially one of the few great Roman legionary fortresses along the empire's border, forming part of the defences (limes Moesiae) along the Danube in northern Bulgaria. The settlement later expanded into a town in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior, later Moesia Secunda.
It lies about 4km east of t... | {
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WICB
WICB (91.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Ithaca, New York, United States. Established in 1947, the station is owned by Ithaca College.
WICB broadcasts an alternative music format to the greater Ithaca area. Along with alternative music, the student-run radio station reserves programming for several d... | {
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Peter Koelewijn
Peter Koelewijn (born 29 December 1940 in Eindhoven) is a founding father of Dutch language rock and roll. Koelewijn is also a successful producer and songwriter for other Dutch artists. His most famous song is "Kom van dat dak af".
Biography
1960s; the early years
Peter Koelewijn was born on 29 Dece... | {
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The Moosepath League
The Moosepath League Saga is a series of historical novels by Van Reid. Set in the State of Maine in the late 19th century, they are on the surface comic novels, but contain strong elements of adventure, mystery, romance, and the occasional brushes with the supernatural. Reid has drawn on history,... | {
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Côtes-du-Rhône Villages AOC
Côtes-du-Rhône Villages is a French wine Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) in the southern Rhône wine region of France. Red, white and rosé wine are all produced within the appellation. The quality is superior to the generic Côtes-du-Rhône AOC, but below more specific appellations such... | {
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Oklahoma State Reformatory
The Oklahoma State Reformatory is a medium-security facility with some maximum and minimum-security housing for adult male inmates. Located off of State Highway 9 in Granite, Oklahoma, the facility has a maximum capacity of 1042 inmates. The medium-security area accommodates 799 prisoners, ... | {
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Charmed baryon
Charmed baryons are a category of composite particles comprising all baryons made of at least one charm quark. Since their first observation in the 1970s, a large number of distinct charmed baryon states have been identified. Observed charmed baryons have masses ranging between and . In 2002, the SELEX... | {
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Miller Publishing Company
The Miller Publishing Company was established by siblings Donald Miller and Donna (Miller) Reddington in 2002 to purchase four small weekly newspapers in southwestern Ohio from Cox Communications. Two of the papers are in Warren County, the Franklin Chronicle in Franklin and the Star-Press i... | {
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Stevie Wright
Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), better known by his stage name Stevie Wright; formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock an... | {
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Count Dante
Count Juan Raphael Dante (born John Timothy Keehan; February 2, 1939 – May 25, 1975) was an American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s who claimed he could do extraordinary feats such as Dim Mak.
Early career
Keehan was born in Beverly on February 2, 1939, to a well-to-do Irish American fa... | {
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Ripple marks
In geology, ripple marks are sedimentary structures (i.e., bedforms of the lower flow regime) and indicate agitation by water (current or waves) or wind.
Defining ripple cross-laminae and asymmetric ripples
Current ripple marks, unidirectional ripples, or asymmetrical ripple marks are asymmetrical in ... | {
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Reciprocal teaching
Reciprocal teaching is an instructional activity that takes the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text for the purpose of constructing the meaning of text. Reciprocal teaching is a reading technique which is thought to promote students' reading comprehension. A... | {
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No One Lives
No One Lives is a 2012 American horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. It stars Luke Evans and Adelaide Clemens. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, and had a limited release on May 10, 2013.
Plot
While traveling cross country, couple Betty (Laura Ra... | {
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Paeonia tenuifolia
Paeonia tenuifolia is a herbaceous species of peony that is called пион тонколистный (pion tonkolistnyy) in Russian, and nazikyarpaq pion in Azeri, both meaning "fine-leaved peony". In Ukraine it is known as півонія вузьколиста (pivoniya vuzʹkolysta), which means "narrow peony", or степова півонія (... | {
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Jiří Tlustý
Jiří Tlustý (born 16 March 1988) is a Czech former professional ice hockey left winger. He was originally a first-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, and split time between the Maple Leafs and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL) until he was traded t... | {
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Holy Rosary Minor Seminary
Holy Rosary Minor Seminary (also named Seminario del Santissimo Rosario) is a Roman Catholic seminary or a house of formation for high school and college would-be priests run by the Archdiocese of Caceres in Naga City, Philippines.
History
Founded on March 7, 1793 by Archbishop Antonio Gal... | {
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Lethal Consequences
Lethal Consequences was a professional wrestling tag team in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The team consisted of Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed. The team name was a portmanteau of the ring names of Lethal and Creed.
History
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2008-2010)
Formation (2008)
J... | {
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Bedford Athletic
Bedford Athletic Rugby Club is a rugby union team based in Bedford, in the county of Bedfordshire. The club currently play in the fifth tier of the English rugby union system, participating in London & South East Premier after being promoted from Midlands 1 East and via a level-transfer from Midlands ... | {
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Hari Shankar Vyas
Hari Shankar Vyas (born 15 September 1956) is an Indian journalist, and the Chief-editor and publisher of Naya India, a daily national Hindi newspaper. He is also the consultant for ETV's Hindi channels since 2009. He started anchoring-producing five-day weekly programme for ETV Network Hindi Channel... | {
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The Jupiter Myth
The Jupiter Myth is a 2002 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the 14th book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Londinium, Britannia in August AD 75, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the use of Jupiter-related mytho... | {
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Tulane Green Wave football
The Tulane Green Wave football team represents Tulane University in the sport of American football. The Green Wave compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). The footbal... | {
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is a non-profit organisation that promotes, protects and defends the right to a free media and freedom of expression throughout Europe. It was founded in 2015 as a watchdog of the European Charter on Freedom of the Pres... | {
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Ryan Koenig
Ryan Koenig (born October 4, 1985 in St Louis, Missouri) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and recording artist who performs most often with Pokey LaFarge. Koenig performs and records on harmonica, guitar, guit-jo, banjo, dobro, fiddle, mandolin, washboard, bass, bones, and jug.
Koenig's ea... | {
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2007 Belgian Champ Car Grand Prix
The 2007 Belgian Champ Car Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2007 Champ Car World Series Season. It was held on August 26 at Circuit Zolder in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. The race was won by Sébastien Bourdais and was his sixth victory of the season.
Background
The race was par... | {
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Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall (often known as Choate; ) is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States. It took its present name and began a co-educational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex schools: The Choate School for boys (fou... | {
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Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais
Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais (18 October 1777, Paris – 3 January 1809, Cacabelos, Spain), Comte de l'Empire joined the French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. He became a general officer of cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars and fought in a number of... | {
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Ottos mops
"Ottos mops" [Eng: Otto's pug] is a poem by the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl. It is thought to have been written on 20 November 1963 and was first published in 1970 in Jandl's volume Der künstliche Baum [Eng: the artificial tree]. The poem is made up of simple sentences of two to four words that contain exclus... | {
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Nattathi Nadar
The "Nadars" are an entrepreneurial South Indian caste that constitutes 12% of Tamil Nadus population. The Nadar community was not a singular caste, but an assortment of sub-castes and classes of different origins, which in course of time, came under the single banner Nadar. One such sub-caste is the Na... | {
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Procedures of the Supreme Court of Canada
The procedures of the Supreme Court of Canada for hearing cases is established in the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court Act, and by tradition.
Terms and sittings
Hearings of the Supreme Court take place exclusively in the Supreme Court building in Ottawa... | {
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A Genuine Freakshow
A Genuine Freakshow (sometimes shortened to "AGF") were a baroque pop band originating from Reading in the United Kingdom. They were formed in 2005, settling on their current 7-piece permanent line-up in 2008. After several EP and single releases from 2007 to 2009 the band released their full-lengt... | {
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Economy of the United States
The economy of the United States is highly developed and mixed. It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and net wealth and the second-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). It also has the world's eighth-highest per capita GDP (nominal) and the tenth-highest per capita GDP (P... | {
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Fame and Fortune (Irish game show)
Fame & Fortune is a game show broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights between 1996 and 2006. Presented by Marty Whelan (who signed off every show with the catchphrase: "How do you play? You buy a ticket."), the show aired during the summer months of June, July, and August as a season... | {
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2010 Cervélo TestTeam season
The 2010 season for the , its second and final, began in February with the Étoile de Bessèges and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As they did in 2009, competed in 2010 as a UCI Professional Continental team with wildcard status, meaning they were eligible to be invited to any U... | {
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Reoli
Reoli is a village of block Bhagalpur in Deoria district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is under the Tehsil Salempur. It is situated 5 kilometres east to Bhagalpur. Pindi Bazar is 5 km east to it. Lar Bazar is nearly 6.5 km in northeast. Barhaj Bazar is 25 km in northwest. Deoria is 53 km from Reoli.... | {
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Public records in China
Dang'an () is a Chinese word meaning "record/Archive". Used in the political and administrative context, it means a permanent dossier or archival system that records the "performance and attitudes" of citizens of mainland China. Together with the current system of household registration, the Hu... | {
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William Pope.L
Pope.L (also known as William Pope.L, born 1955 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American visual artist best known for his work in performance art, and interventionist public art. However, he has also produced art in painting, photography and theater. He was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is a Gu... | {
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Mounir Majidi
Mounir Majidi (full name Mohamed Mounir El Majidi, – born 19 January 1965, Rabat) is a French Moroccan businessman. He has been the personal secretary of King Mohammed VI since 2000 and president of the royal holding, SIGER, since 2002. He is also the president of Maroc Culture, the organization behind ... | {
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Junior Mance
Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. (known as Junior Mance, born October 10, 1928) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Biography
Early life (1928–1947)
Mance was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was five years old, Mance started playing piano on an upright in his family's home in Evanston. His father, ... | {
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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 2)
The second season of the CBS police procedural drama series Hawaii Five-0 premiered on September 19, 2011 for the 2011–12 television season. CBS renewed the series for a 23 episode second season on May 15, 2011. Two fictional crossovers with NCIS: Los Angeles occurred during th... | {
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Amish Outlaws
The Amish Outlaws are an American cover band from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The band was formed in 2002 and is composed of three ex-Amish and three "honorary Amish" musicians.
Career
The Amish Outlaws began in 2002. Three of the founding members, Ezekiel, Amos Def, and Hezekiah X moved to New York City ... | {
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Turner Fenton Secondary School
{{Infobox school
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Battle of Palmdale
The Battle of Palmdale was the attempted shoot-down of a runaway drone by United States Air Force interceptors in the skies over Southern California in mid-August 1956. The drone was launched from Point Mugu Naval Air Station and soon went out of control. Interceptor aircraft took off from Oxnard Ai... | {
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Starmedia
StarMedia (stylized as starMedia) is a leading Latin Internet brand, co-founded in August 1996 by Fernando Espuelas and Jack Chen as the first pan-regional Internet portal for Spanish and Portuguese speaking audiences. During the dot.com boom of the 1990s, StarMedia raised the first dollar of venture capit... | {
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Ton... | {
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Hallgrímur Pétursson
Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 – 27 October 1674) was an Icelandic poet and a minister at Hvalsneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. Being one of the most prominent Icelandic poets, the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and the Hallgrímskirkja in Saurbær are named in his honor. He was one of the most influ... | {
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Dallas John Baker
Dallas John Baker (born Dallas John Angguish Baker on 19 February 1968) is an Australian writer and academic noted for poetry, short stories and travel writing whose work deals with themes of alienation, otherness and sexuality. He is also known as Dallas Angguish, the name he used as a performance p... | {
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To the Golden Cities
To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A. is an April 1994 book written by Deborah Dash Moore and published by The Free Press. It discusses the Jewish communities that formed in Los Angeles and Miami in the post-World War II period. Moore argued that the migration ... | {
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Panamanian white-faced capuchin
The Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), also known as the Panamanian white-headed capuchin or Central American white-faced capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America, the white-faced capuc... | {
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İkizce
İkizce, formerly Laleli Mabeyceli, is a town and district of Ordu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 30,362 of which 10,427 live in the town of İkizce. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevation of .
İkizce is an agric... | {
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Hill End, New South Wales
Hill End is a former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia. The town is located in the Bathurst Regional Council local Government area.
History
What is now Hill End was originally a part of the Tambaroora area: Tambaroora town was a few kilometres to the north of present-day Hill E... | {
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Hubert Ogunde
Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, D.Lit. (10 July 1916 – 4 April 1990) was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945.
He changed the name to Ogunde Theater Party in 1947 ... | {
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Monmouthpedia
Monmouthpedia (styled as ) is a collaborative project linking the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and the town of Monmouth in South Wales.
The project uses QRpedia QR codes to provide multilingual smart phone access to Wikipedia articles covering notable subjects in Monmouth, such as places, people, arte... | {
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NFL regular season
The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on the weekend following the first Monday of September (i.e, the weekend following the Labor Day holiday) and ends in December or early January. It consists of 256 games, where each team (32 total) plays 16 games during a 17-week period. Since... | {
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Petroleum geology
Petroleum geology is the study of origin, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons (oil exploration).
Sedimentary basin analysis
Petroleum geology is principally c... | {
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Andrew Gwynne
Andrew John Gwynne (born 4 June 1974) is an English Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Denton and Reddish in Greater Manchester since the 2005 general election, when he replaced the retiring Andrew Bennett.
He was re-elected in 2015 with a majority of 10,511. He was a... | {
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Faenza railway station
Faenza railway station () serves the city and comune of Faenza, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. Opened in 1893, it forms part of the Bologna–Ancona railway, and is also a terminus of two secondary railways, linking Faenza with Lavezzola and with Ravenna, and with Florence, resp... | {
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Collar-and-elbow
Collar-and-elbow wrestling (Irish: Coiléar agus Uille) is a style of jacket wrestling native to Ireland. Historically it has also been practiced in regions of the world with large Irish diaspora populations, such as the United States and Australia.
History
Origins in Ireland
Wrestling as a competiti... | {
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Scorpio Rising (band)
Scorpio Rising were an English rock band from Birkenhead active from 1989 to 1994.
History
Scorpio Rising were formed in Birkenhead in 1989. The group's first live performances took place in small clubs in Liverpool, with several shows at Liverpool Planet X and Cosmos Clubs in late 1989. The or... | {
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Sahajdhari
Sahajdhari Sikhs (literally "slow adopter") is a person who has chosen the path of Sikhism, but has not yet become an Amritdhari (an initiated Sikh initiated into the Khalsa). A sahajdhari believes in all the tenets of Sikhism and the teachings of the Sikh Gurus, but may or may not adorn the five symbols of... | {
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Economy of the State of Palestine
The economy of the State of Palestine refers to the economic activity of the State of Palestine.
History
GDP per capita in the Palestinian territories rose by 7% per year from 1968 to 1980 but slowed during the 1980s. Between 1970 and 1991 life expectancy rose from 56 to 66 years, i... | {
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Main North railway line, New South Wales
The Main North Line (also known as the Great Northern Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Central Coast, Hunter and New England regions. The line was the original main line between Sydney and Brisbane, however this required a change of... | {
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Custer County, Colorado
Custer County is the tenth-least populous of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,255. The county seat is Westcliffe.
History
Custer County was created by the Colorado legislature on March 9, 1877, out of the southern half of Fremont County... | {
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Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws
The Control Council Law No. 1 – Repealing of Nazi Laws (in German Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1 betreffend die Aufhebung von NS-Recht (short form: Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1) was a law passed by the Allied Control Council for post-World War II Germany on 20 September 1945.
... | {
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Glitter (Perfume song)
"Glitter" (capitalized as "GLITTER") is a song recorded by Japanese recording girl group Perfume for their third studio album, JPN (2011). It was written, composed, arranged, and produced by Japanese musician and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata. The song was included as a B-side track for the gro... | {
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USS Ozark (1863)
USS Ozark was a single-turreted river monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship served in the Mississippi River Squadron during the war, and participated in the Red River Campaign shortly after she was commissioned in early 1864. Ozark patrolled the Mississippi R... | {
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Prairie restoration
Prairie restoration is a conservation effort to restore prairie lands that were destroyed due to industrial, agricultural, commercial, or residential development. For example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over of prairie land and now just of that original prairie land is left.
Purp... | {
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Georges Croegaert
Georges Croegaert (7 October 1848 – 1923) was a Belgian academic painter who spent most of his career in Paris. He is known for his genre paintings of scenes from elegant society and portraits of women. He also had a reputation for his humorous depictions of red-robed Catholic cardinals executed in ... | {
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Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (often shortened to No World for Tomorrow), is the fourth studio album by American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria, released on October 23, 2007. The album is a direct sequel... | {
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Okojo-san
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ayumi Uno and serialized in LaLa. The chapters were collected into eight tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha and released from 1996 to 2005. The series is about an ermine living as a pet in a small apartment complex.
Okojo-san was adapted into a 51-episode an... | {
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Ashley Adams
Ashley Phillip Adams (12 October 1955 – 17 March 2015) was an Australian Paralympic shooting medallist and cattle grazier.
Personal
Adams was born on 12 October 1955 in Toowoomba. He became a paraplegic in 1982 at the age of 26 after being involved in an accident at a local motorbike competition, where h... | {
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Primary age-related tauopathy
Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is a neuropathological designation introduced in 2014 to describe the neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) that are commonly observed in the brains of normally aged and cognitively impaired individuals that can occur independently of the amyloid plaques of Al... | {
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Blonay
Blonay is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Blonay is first mentioned in 861 as Blodennaco. In 1108 it was mentioned as Bloniaco. During the 13th Century it was known as Blonay, Blonai and Blunai.
Geography
Blonay has an area, , of . Of ... | {
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Jon P. Wilcox
Jon P. Wilcox (born September 5, 1936) is a former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court by Governor Tommy G. Thompson in 1992 and served until 2007. Prior to his time on the Supreme Court, he served for 13 years as a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, including seven years a... | {
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Évreux
Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy.
Geography
The city is on the Iton river.
Climate
History
In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic trib... | {
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Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. After living in Mexico City (1941–47) and West Berlin (1947-50), Anna Seghers eventually settled in the GDR. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname o... | {
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Morristown UFO hoax
The Morristown UFO hoax was a series of aerial events involving mysterious floating red lights in the sky, that first occurred near Morristown, New Jersey, on Monday, January 5, 2009, between 8:15 pm and 9:00 pm. The red lights were later observed on four other nights: January 26, January 29, Febru... | {
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Low milk supply
In breastfeeding women, low milk supply, also known as lactation insufficiency, insufficient milk syndrome, agalactia, agalactorrhea, hypogalactia or hypogalactorrhea, is the production of breast milk in daily volumes that do not fully meet the nutritional needs of her infant.
Breast milk supply augm... | {
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Stan Freberg
Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, actor, recording artist, voice artist, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1943. He remained active in the industry into his late 80s, more than 70 years ... | {
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Kings' monitor
Kings' monitor (Varanus kingorum), also known commonly as Kings' goanna and Kings' rock monitor, is a small species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is native to Australia.
Geographic range
V. kingorum is endemic to the northwestern part of the Northern Territory, and the northeas... | {
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2009 French Open
The 2009 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 113th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from May 24 through June 7, 2009.
Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic were the def... | {
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Helmuth Plessner
Helmuth Plessner (4 September 1892, Wiesbaden – 12 June 1985, Göttingen) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology".
Life & career
He was Chairman from 1953-1959 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie.
In 1959 he became foreign member of t... | {
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58th Indiana Infantry Regiment
The 58th Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 58th Indiana Infantry was organized at Princeton and Indianapolis, Indiana, beginning November 12 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December ... | {
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (; born 22 August 1967) is a British actor, director, and former fashion model known for his roles as Simon Adebisi on Oz, Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity, Kurse in Thor: The Dark World, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, Mr. Eko on Lost, Malko in the fifth season of... | {
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2019 Cricket World Cup
The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted between 30 May to 14 July across eleven venues in England and Wale... | {
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Oda Schaefer
Oda Schaefer (really Oda Lange, born December 21, 1900 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as Oda Krus; died September 4, 1988 in Munich) was a German writer and journalist.
Life
Oda Schaefer was the daughter of Eberhard Kraus, one of the early Baltic writers and journalist, and his wife Alice Baertels, who came fro... | {
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Sin (mythology)
Sīn or Suen ( ) or Nanna ( ) was the god of the moon in the Mesopotamian religions of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with the Semitic Sīn. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sīn's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotami... | {
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Bismarck Tower (Burg (Spreewald))
The Bismarckturm ("Bismarck Tower") is a 28 metre high Bismarck monument. It is located on the Schlossberg north of Burg (Spreewald).
Architecture
About 1.5 million red clinker bricks were used for the construction. The building has a square base one meter high and an edge length of... | {
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Batman in film
The fictional superhero Batman, who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, has appeared in various films since his inception. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the character first starred in two serial films in the 1940s: Batman and Batman and Robin. The character also appeared in th... | {
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Portuguese Sheepdog
The Portuguese Sheepdog (, literally 'dog of Serra de Aires') is a medium-sized breed of dog of the herding dog type, and is one of the indigenous regional dogs of Portugal. The Portuguese name refers to Serra de Aires, a mountain near Montforte in the Alentejo region (sometimes mistaken for the Se... | {
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Avoriaz
Avoriaz (French and or ) is a French mountain resort in the heart of the Portes du Soleil. It is located in the territory of the commune of Morzine. It is easily accessible from either Thonon at Lake Geneva or Cluses-junction on the A40 motorway between Geneva and Chamonix. Either way one follows the D902, Ro... | {
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Andy Hinchcliffe
Andrew George Hinchcliffe (born 5 February 1969) is an English former professional footballer. As a player, he was a defender from 1986 until 2002 for Manchester City, Everton and Sheffield Wednesday.
Playing career
Having started his career with Manchester City he established himself as the club's f... | {
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Sands Hall
Sands Hall (April 17, 1952) is an American writer, theatre director, actor, and musician. The daughter of novelist Oakley Hall, she was born in La Jolla, California, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Irvine. She earned two Master of Fine Arts d... | {
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Layap
The Layap (Dzongkha: ལ་ཡཔ་) are an indigenous people inhabiting the high mountains of northwest Bhutan in the village of Laya, in the Gasa District, at an altitude of , just below the Tsendagang peak. Their population in 2003 stood at 1,100. Ethnically related to the Tibetans, they speak Layakha, a Tibeto-Burman... | {
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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (in case citations, E.D. Va.) is one of two United States district courts serving the Commonwealth of Virginia. It has jurisdiction over the Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Rich... | {
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Fannin County, Georgia
Fannin County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,682. The county seat is Blue Ridge. The county was created on January 21, 1854.
History
Fannin County was founded in 1854. The county is named for Georgia na... | {
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