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Station days
Station days were days of fasting in the early Christian Church, associated with a procession to certain prescribed churches in Rome, where the Mass and Vespers would be celebrated to mark important days of the liturgical year. Although other cities also had similar practices, and the fasting is no longer... | {
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Gabriel Jacobs
Gabriel Jacobs, born about 1650, was the progenitor of the Jacobs family of free African Americans originating in Northampton County, Virginia. A number of his descendants migrated south in the mid-1700s, primarily to southeastern North Carolina. His story and that of his descendants is representative o... | {
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Duchy of Florence
The Duchy of Florence () was an Italian principality that was centred on the city of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. The duchy was founded after Emperor Charles V restored Medici rule to Florence in 1530. Pope Clement VII, himself a Medici, appointed his relative Alessandro de' Medici as Duke of the Flo... | {
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Lewisville Lake
Lewisville Lake is a reservoir in North Texas (USA) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and renamed Lewisville Lake. It was built for flood control purposes and to serve as... | {
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Ivica Vastić
Ivica Vastić (; born 29 September 1969) is a retired Croatian-born Austrian football international midfielder, formerly a striker and current coach. He played, amongst others for FK Austria Wien, SK Sturm Graz and LASK Linz and the Austria national football team.
Club career
Born in Split, SR Croatia, th... | {
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Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act
The Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, title VII, subtitle N of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, , , is part of a United States Act of Congress which places stringent record-keeping requirements on the producers of actual, sexually explicit materials.... | {
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Nell Zink
Nell Zink (born 1964) is an American novelist. Her novel, Mislaid, was longlisted for the National Book Award. The Wallcreeper, Zink's debut novel, released in the US by the independent Dorothy, a Publishing Project, was named one of 100 notable books of 2014 by The New York Times.
Biography
Zink was raised... | {
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Mannarkovil
Mannarkovil is a village near Ambasamudram, Tirunelveli district, India. There is one temple with an ashtanga vimana.
Kulasekara Perumal Koil in Mannar Koil
Kulasekara Azhvaar spent the last 30 years of his life at this 1000-year-old Mannar Koil and is said to have attained Moksham here
One sees several ... | {
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Harry Mason (boxer)
Harry Mason (27 March 1903 – 27 August 1977) was a British boxer who was a British and European (EBU) champion in the lightweight division and British champion in the welterweight division.
Career
Born in Bethnal Green on 27 March 1903 to a Jewish family, Mason moved to Leeds as a child, where he ... | {
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Anne Steele Marsh
Anne Steele Marsh (1901–1995) was an American painter and printmaker whose watercolors, oil paintings, and wood engravings were widely exhibited and drew critical praise. She was also a noted educator and arts administrator.
Early life and training
Marsh attended private schools as a child. In the ... | {
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Shōnen Book
was a manga magazine by Shueisha, which debuted March 1958 and ended in April 1969. Shōnen Book was originally a spin-off of Shueisha's . Shōnen Book is famously known in Japan for being the predecessor to the company's famous Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. The Shōnen Book tankōbon manga volumes are publishe... | {
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Will Ford Hartnett
Will Ford Hartnett (born June 3, 1956) is an attorney in Dallas, Texas, who was from 1993 to 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 114 in Dallas County. In an earlier term from 1991 to 1993, he represented District 102, also in Dallas County, but he was switche... | {
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National Counter Terrorism Policing Network
The National Counter Terrorism Policing Network (NCTPN) (also known as the Police Counter-Terrorism Network) is the national collaboration of police forces in the United Kingdom working to prevent, deter and investigate terrorism in the United Kingdom. The Network is governe... | {
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Richard Lerner
Richard A. Lerner (born August 26, 1938) is an American research chemist. Best known for his work on catalytic antibodies, Lerner served as President of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) until January 1, 2012, and is currently a member of its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, in La Jolla, Cali... | {
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McClure, Pennsylvania
McClure is a borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 941 at the 2010 census. The town is named for the 19th century Pennsylvania politician and journalist Alexander Kelly McClure. McClure owes its origin to the building of the Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad, th... | {
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Gary Baseman
Gary Baseman (born September 27, 1960) is an American contemporary artist who works in various creative fields, including illustration, fine art, toy design, and animation. He is the creator of the Emmy-winning ABC/Disney cartoon series, Teacher's Pet, and the artistic designer of Cranium, a popular award... | {
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Medusa (comics)
Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin-Boltagon) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her name and aspects of her character are derived from Greek mythology as her hair has prehensile attributes like that of Medusa the Gorgon's hair. This character has psychokine... | {
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Military Band Service (Kazakhstan)
The Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan (MBS-AFK) (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы Қарулы Күштерінің әскери оркестрі қызметі, Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy Qarýly Kúshteriniń áskeri orkestri qyzmeti; Russian: Военный Оркестр Службы Вооруженных Сил Республики Казахстан) is... | {
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Olga Gorelli
Olga Gorelli, (June 14, 1920 Bologna, Italy, died February 18, 2006) was well known for her musical talents as a composer and pianist.
Olga Gorelli, maiden name Gratch, immigrated to the United States in 1937 with her family and settled in New Jersey. She married a physician, and had two children. She w... | {
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Fibronectin
Fibronectin is a high-molecular weight (~440kDa) glycoprotein of the extracellular matrix that binds to membrane-spanning receptor proteins called integrins. Fibronectin also binds to other extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen, fibrin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycans (e.g. syndecans).
Fibronec... | {
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Armagh rail disaster
The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline; the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided to divide the train and take forward th... | {
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Family law in British Columbia
There are two courts that handle almost all family law litigation in British Columbia, Canada: the Provincial (Family) Court and the Supreme Court. Each court has its own rules, its own forms, and its own process.
There are two main laws that apply to family law problems in BC. A law, i... | {
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Flying Division, Air Training Command
Flying Division, Air Training Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to Air Training Command, stationed at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. It was inactivated on 14 November 1949.
The organization was initially organized in 1926 as the main pi... | {
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Todd Duncan
Robert Todd Duncan (February 12, 1903 – February 28, 1998) was an American baritone opera singer and actor. One of the first African-Americans to sing with a major opera company, Duncan is also noted for appearing as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess (1935).
Early life
As Robert Todd Dunca... | {
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Muhammad Hassan (wrestler)
Marc Julian Copani (born November 7, 1981) is an American educator and retired professional wrestler. As a wrestler he is best known for his appearances in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2004 to 2005, where he portrayed an Arab American under the ring name Muhammad Hassan. His care... | {
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Lost in Thailand
Lost in Thailand is a 2012 Chinese comedy film directed and co-written by Xu Zheng and starring Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang, and Huang Bo. The film is about three Chinese men traveling in Thailand: two competing scientists searching for their boss, and a tourist eager to explore the country. The film is X... | {
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Charles X of France
Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. For most of his life he was known as the Count of Artois (). An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he support... | {
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Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor
The Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor was a charitable organisation founded in London in 1786 to provide sustenance for distressed people of African and Asian origin. It played a crucial role in the proposal to form a colony in Sierra Leone. The work of the Committee... | {
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Oloron
The former Roman Catholic Diocese of Oloron was a Latin rite bishopric in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Aquitaine region of south-west France, from the 6th to the 19th century.
History
The diocese of Oleron already existed in the 6th century, when Bishop Gratus attended the Counc... | {
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OpenSSL
OpenSSL is a software library for applications that secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end. It is widely used by Internet servers, including the majority of HTTPS websites.
OpenSSL contains an open-source implementation of the SSL and ... | {
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Lamb (electronic band)
Lamb are an English electronic music duo from Manchester, whose music is influenced by trip hop, drum and bass and jazz. The duo consist of producer Andy Barlow and singer-songwriter Lou Rhodes. They achieved commercial success with the hit singles "Górecki" and "Gabriel".
Biography
On the bas... | {
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Qualifications for professional social work
Professional social workers are generally considered those who hold a professional degree in social work. In a number of countries and jurisdictions, registration or licensure of people working as social workers is required and there are mandated qualifications. In other pla... | {
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Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony in Nevada was established in the early 1900s by members of related tribes who lived near Reno for work; they became a federally recognized tribe in 1934 after forming a government under the Indian Reorganization Act.
With its base in Reno, Nevada, the RSIC consi... | {
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Kamala Bhattacharya
Kamala Bhattacharya () was an Indian student who was martyred in the Bengali Language Movement in Silchar in 1961.
Early life
Kamala was born to Ramraman Bhattacharya and Suprabasini Devi, the fifth of seven children in the year 1945 in the erstwhile Sylhet district in Assam. In their family they... | {
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Stethacanthus
Stethacanthus is an extinct genus of shark-like Holocephalian which lived from the Late Devonian to Late Carboniferous epoch, dying out around 298.9 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Asia, Europe and North America.
Etymology
Stethacanthus comes from the Greek στῆθος (stēthos), meaning "ches... | {
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Children's rights education
Children’s rights education is the teaching and practice of children’s rights in schools, educational programmes or institutions, as informed by and consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. When fully implemented, a children's rights education program consi... | {
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Yiddle With His Fiddle
Yidl Mitn Fidl (, "Yiddle With His Fiddle", ), is a 1936 musical Yiddish film.
Plot
Arye and his daughter Itke are musicians, or klezmorim, who became impoverished and were evicted from their home in Kazimierz Dolny. Arie sees no choice but to embark on a career of a travelling band, but fears ... | {
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Joseph Flintoft Berry
Joseph Flintoft Berry (May 13, 1856 – February 11, 1931) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1904.
Birth and Family
Joseph was born 13 May 1856 in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada, the son of the Rev. Francis and Ann Berry. He was the brother of Dr. H.G. Berry. Joseph was married... | {
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Gregory (Orologas)
Saint Gregory (Orologas) of Kydonies the Ethno-Hieromartyr, also Gregory of Cydoniae ( Gregorios Orologas), 1864–1922, was a Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop in the early 20th century in northwest Anatolia, in the Ottoman Empire.
He was initially the Metropolitan of Strumica, in the region of Mac... | {
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Sofrito
Sofrito (Spanish, ), sofregit (Catalan), soffritto (Italian, ), or refogado (Portuguese, /) is a sauce used as a base in Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking. Preparations may vary, but it typically consists of aromatic ingredients cut into small pieces and sauteed or braised in cooking oil.... | {
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Adrenocortical carcinoma
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive cancer originating in the cortex (steroid hormone-producing tissue) of the adrenal gland.
Adrenocortical carcinoma is remarkable for the many hormonal syndromes that can occur in patients with steroid hormone-producing ("functional") tumors, in... | {
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1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 31st edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, better known as Campeonato Brasileiro.
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 1987 was commonly given the name of Copa União, by which it was known, but had the official name of Copa Bras... | {
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Stanley Schachter
Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist, who is perhaps best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cogniti... | {
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Pete's Dragon (1977 film)
Pete's Dragon is a 1977 American live-action/animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by Don Chaffey, produced by Jerome Courtland and Ron Miller, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein. It is based on the unpublished short story "Pete's Dragon and the USA (Forever After)" by Seton I. Miller... | {
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Maria Nikolaeva
Maria Vladimirovna Nikolaeva (), also well known as Atma Ananda, Shanti Nathini, Dolma Jangkhu, Made Sri Nadi (born 8 July 1971, Saint Petersburg) is a prolific modern writer, philosophy master, and spiritual teacher. She is the author of 37 books printed in total run of 115 000 copies in Russian, tran... | {
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Rhomboda
Rhomboda, commonly known as velvet jewel orchids, is a genus of about twenty species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are mostly terrestrial herbs with a fleshy, creeping rhizome and a loose rosette of green to maroon coloured leaves. Small resupinate or partly resupi... | {
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Anthony Kirk-Greene
Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene (16 May 1925 – 8 July 2018) was a British scholar known for his works on 20th century British colonial history. He was a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was lecturer in the modern history of Africa from 1967 to 1992. He was president of the Afric... | {
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Bogotazo
El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) refers to the massive riots that followed the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 during the government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez. The 10-hour riot le... | {
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Divorce mill
Divorce mill is a term used for a jurisdiction that is typically used for divorces by non-residents and/or used to obtain a divorce quickly and/or allow for contested divorces quickly and with little or no compensation to the other spouse.
Examples
Until 2006, Guam granted mail order divorces. In 2006 t... | {
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Buca di Beppo
Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Hole" from Italian (buca, which literally means "hole" or "pit", can be a dialectal word in Tuscany for basement or cellar, and Beppo is a diminutive of the name Giuseppe). The chai... | {
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Wiggins v. Smith
Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court spelled out standards for "effectiveness" in the constitutional right to legal counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Previously the court had determined that the Sixth Amendment included the right to "effe... | {
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WSSP
WSSP (1250 AM) is a Milwaukee-based sports talk station owned by Entercom. Its studios and transmitter are co-located in Hales Corners.
The station has been simulcast on WXSS-FM (103.7)'s HD2 HD Radio subchannel since October 2010. WSSP also aired syndicated programming from Fox Sports Radio until January 2013,... | {
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Public Hero ﹟1
Public Hero ﹟1 is a 1935 American crime film starring Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris and Joseph Calleia. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production was directed by J. Walter Ruben.
Plot
Undercover FBI agent Jeff Crane (Chester Morris) is planted in the same prison as Sonny Black (Joseph Calleia)... | {
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Giovanni Giacometti
Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti (7 March 1868 – 25 June 1933) was a Swiss painter. He was the father of artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti, and architect Bruno Giacometti.
Biography
He was the fourth in a family of eight children. His father, Alberto, was a baker who also ran a café. The painter, Au... | {
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Assamese language
Assamese (), also Asamiya (/ɔxomia/ ), is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It is the easternmost Indo-European language, spoken by over 15 million speakers, and serves as a lingua franca in the region.
Nefamese is an Assames... | {
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Banana flour
Banana flour is a powder traditionally made of green bananas. Historically, banana flour has been used in Africa and Jamaica as a cheaper alternative to wheat flour. It is now often used as a gluten-free replacement for wheat flours or as a source of resistant starch, which has been promoted by certain d... | {
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2016 Portland gas explosion
A large gas explosion occurred in the Northwest District neighborhood of Portland, Oregon at NW 23rd Avenue and NW Glisan Street on October 19, 2016. Nearby excavation caused a natural gas leak that triggered the explosion, which injured eight people and caused property damages totaling $17... | {
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Ida Conquest
Ida Conquest (February 26, 1876 – July 12, 1937) was a leading lady of Broadway in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Appearance & family
Conquest was blonde, with big blue eyes, and a creamy complexion. Her height was medium. She was from Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were John Alfred S... | {
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West Stanley Pit disaster
The West Stanley colliery (variously known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit) was a coal mine near Stanley. The mine opened in 1832 and was closed in 1936. Over the years several seams were worked through four shafts: Kettledrum pit, Lamp pit, Mary pit and New pit. In 1882 an underground ex... | {
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Motorized infantry
In NATO and most other western countries, motorized infantry is infantry that is transported by trucks or other motor vehicles. It is distinguished from mechanized infantry, which is carried in armoured personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles, and from light infantry, which can typically op... | {
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Geography of North Korea
North Korea is located in East Asia on the Northern half of the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea shares a border with three countries; China along the Amnok River, Russia along the Tumen River, and South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The Yellow Sea and the Korea Bay are off th... | {
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Anthony, Texas
Anthony is an incorporated town in El Paso County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,011 at the 2010 census. As of July 1, 2018, the population estimate for the town from the U.S. Census was 5,655. It is the first town encountered in Texas when traveling eastbound on Interstate 10 from New Mexi... | {
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Duodecimal
The duodecimal system (also known as base 12, dozenal, or rarely uncial) is a positional notation numeral system using twelve as its base. The number twelve (that is, the number written as "12" in the base ten numerical system) is instead written as "10" in duodecimal (meaning "1 dozen and 0 units", instead... | {
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List of Sin City yarns
These are the individual stories, usually referred to as "yarns", set in Frank Miller's Sin City universe. They are listed here in order of publication.
The Hard Goodbye
First published as Sin City in Dark Horse Presents issues #51–62 and 5th Anniversary Special (June 1991–June 1992), and repr... | {
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Medveđa
Medveđa (; ) is a town and municipality located in the Jablanica District of southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 2,848 inhabitants, while the municipality has of 7,438 inhabitants.
Etymology
The name is derived from the Serbian word medved (медвед), "bear", hence meanin... | {
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Kizito Mihigo
Kizito Mihigo (25 July 1981 – 17 February 2020) was a Rwandan gospel singer, songwriter, organist, composer of sacred music, television presenter, genocide survivor, and peace and reconciliation activist. Kizito was an iconic activist who dedicated his life to healing the souls of his fellow genocide sur... | {
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KHFI-FM
KHFI-FM (96.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Georgetown, Texas, and serving the Greater Austin radio market. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., it airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format, branded as "KISS-FM." It shares studios and offices with other iHeart stations in the Penn Field complex in the Sout... | {
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Timothy J. G. Harris
Timothy J. G. Harris (born 1958) is an historian of Later Stuart Britain.
Biography
A native of London, Tim Harris was educated at the University of Cambridge, from which he received a BA (1980), MA (1984), and PhD (1985). From 1983 to 1986, he was a fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His ... | {
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Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank (7 December 1920 – 5 February 2006) was an American broadcast news executive.
Life and career
Born Israel Reuven Frank (he later dropped his first name) to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, he earned a bachelor's degree in social science at City College of New York. He served four years ... | {
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Canadian Conservation Institute
The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) is a special operating agency of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage. CCI provides research, information, and services regarding the conservation and preservation of cultural artifacts. Materials and media it handles includes paper, text... | {
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Westnewton, Cumbria
Westnewton is a small village and civil parish in the Allerdale district, in the county of Cumbria, England. The 2011 census had a population of 265. The village of Westnewton is situated to the north-west of the Lake District, on the relatively flat plain halfway between the Lake District hills an... | {
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Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Ras
The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (), commonly known as Church of St Peter (Црква Светог Петра / Crkva Svetog Petra) or simply Peter's Church (Петрова црква / Petrova crkva) is a Serbian Orthodox church, the oldest intact church in Serbia and one of the olde... | {
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Schutz, Germany
Schutz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in ... | {
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Handgun holster
A handgun holster is a device used to hold or restrict the undesired movement of a handgun, most commonly in a location where it can be easily withdrawn for immediate use. Holsters are often attached to a belt or waistband, but they may be attached to other locations of the body (e.g., the ankle holste... | {
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Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review
The Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review (CLLR; formerly Chicano Law Review and Chicano-Latino Law Review) is a student-edited and produced law journal at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
Brief Overview
The Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review is a student-run law journal which... | {
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For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls
"For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of American Dad!. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on December 12, 2010. The episode follows the events caused by Stan Smith, as he gives his son Steve a rifle for Christmas, even though his wife Fr... | {
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The Colour of Darkness
The Colour of Darkness is a 2016 film written and directed by Girish Makwana. The film talks about discrimination, racism, and violence in Australia and India, and is focused on the 2009 attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and the caste system in India.
The film premiered at the Indian Fil... | {
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Jean-Charles Brisard
Jean-Charles Brisard (born May 13, 1968 in Dijon, France) is a French international consultant and expert on terrorism.
Education
In 1990 Jean-Charles Brisard graduated from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington D.C., USA. In 1991, he studied common law, islamic law... | {
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Warney Cresswell
Warneford Cresswell (5 November 1897 – 20 October 1973) was an English international footballer who was described as "The Prince of Full Backs" for his renowned tackling and positional skills in the right-back position. In a seventeen-year career in the English Football League he made 571 league appea... | {
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Vera Tsu Weiling
Vera Tsu Weiling (born 1960) is a professional violinist and Professor and Master tutor of the Central Conservatory in Beijing and Shanghai Conservatory. She is featured in the Academy Award winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, directed by Murray Lerner. Tsu Weiling serves as... | {
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Events and festivals in Macau
Events and festivals in Macau.
February
Chinese New Year
The Chinese in Macau celebrate the same religious festivals as their counterparts in Hong Kong and other regions in Asia.
March
Feast of the God Toutei
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Tharu people
The Tharu people are an ethnic group indigenous to the Terai in southern Nepal and northern India.
They are recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal.
In the Indian Terai, they live foremost in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The Government of India recognizes the Tharu peopl... | {
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Sambor Prei Kuk
Sambor Prei Kuk ( - Prasat Sambor Prei Kuk) is an archaeological site in Cambodia located in Kampong Thom Province, north of Kampong Thom, the provincial capital, east of Angkor and north of Phnom Penh. The now ruined complex dates back to the Pre-Angkorian Chenla Kingdom (late 6th to 9th century), ... | {
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Bryan Caraway
Bryan Caraway (born August 4, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in Battlefield Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2005, Caraway has fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, EliteXC, and the WEC. He was a competitor on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bispin... | {
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Mats Zuccarello
Mats André Zuccarello Aasen (born 1 September 1987) is a Norwegian professional ice hockey winger for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to joining the NHL, he played for Modo Hockey in the Swedish Elite League. In 2010, he won the Guldhjälmen (Golden Helmet), awarded annuall... | {
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Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouërie
Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouërie (; 13 April 1751 – 30 January 1793), also known in the United States as "Colonel Armand", was a Breton cavalry officer who served under the American flag during the American War of Independence. He was promoted to brigadier gener... | {
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List of Catholic dioceses in the United States
This list of the Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the United States which includes both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Latin liturgical rites, and various other dioceses, primarily the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which employ vario... | {
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Mars & Roses
Mars & Roses is the fifth studio album by Japanese R&B singer Misia, released on February 11, 2004. It debuted at #3 with 151,087 copies sold. The album was recorded in London, New York and Tokyo. The song Little Rose, the title and theme of the album were inspired by Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little... | {
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List of pipeline accidents
The following is a worldwide list of pipeline accidents:
Belgium
2004: A major natural gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, Belgium near Ath (50 kilometres southwest of Brussels), killing 24 people and leaving 122 wounded, some critically on July 30, 2004.
Canada
A TransCanada pipe... | {
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Sam McGredy
Sam McGredy refers to four generations of Northern Irish rose hybridizers. Sam McGredy I founded the family nursery in 1880. Sam McGredy II focused the nursery on roses in 1895. Sam McGredy III took over in 1926, and was the first to name roses after family members. Sam McGredy IV moved operations to N... | {
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2018 Carolina Panthers season
The 2018 season was the Carolina Panthers' 24th in the National Football League and their eighth under head coach Ron Rivera. It was the team's first season without former assistant head coach/defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who became head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in the offseas... | {
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Chris Clavin
Chris Clavin (born Christopher Johnston; August 23, 1973) is a musician and record label owner from Indiana, USA, with a strict DIY (do-it-yourself) punk ethic. He has been involved in numerous punk bands and ran Plan-It-X Records, a label founded in 1994.
Clavin has been a part of many (primarily pop pu... | {
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Richard H. Schwartz
Richard H. Schwartz is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the College of Staten Island; president emeritus of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA); and co-founder and coordinator of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV). He is best known as a Jewish vegetarian activi... | {
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New York Hippodrome
The Hippodrome Theatre also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater in New York City from 1905 to 1939, located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan. It was called the world's largest theatre by its builders and had a seating ca... | {
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Indiana Hoosiers
The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Indiana. The Hoosiers participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 24 sports and became a member ... | {
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1497
Year 1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
February 7 (Shrove Tuesday) – Followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects, at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence.
May – The Cornish Re... | {
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Philadelphian cricket team
The Philadelphian cricket team was a team that represented Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1913. Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, the sport began a slow decline in the U.S. This de... | {
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The West Wing
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior staff are ... | {
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Lassie (2005 film)
Lassie is a 2005 British-American-French-Irish adventure comedy-drama film based on Eric Knight's 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home about the profound bond between Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. The film was directed, written, and co-produced by Charles Sturridge and is a production of Samu... | {
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Southern Uplands
The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands). The term is used both to describe the geographical region and to collectively denote the various ranges of hills and mountains wit... | {
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