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Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space
Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space, commonly known as Pendragon, is a series of ten young-adult science fiction and fantasy novels by American author D. J. MacHale, published from 2002 to 2009. The series chronicles the adventures of Bobb... | {
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Gamliel Cohen
Gamliel Cohen (; April 10, 1922 – July 15, 2002) was "one of the fathers of Israeli espionage". Much of his life was spent living under various false identities in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. A deep-cover Mossad agent, he infiltrated neo-Nazi groups as well as governments that were hostile t... | {
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Bretton Woods system
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries, Australia, and Japan after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiate... | {
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Straight Time
Straight Time is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates. The movie is based on the novel No Beast So Fierce, by Edward Bunker, who also acts in the movie.
Plot summary
Max Demb... | {
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Strip Poker (game show)
Strip Poker was a TV game show which aired in limited syndication exclusively on selected stations owned by USA Broadcasting (whose stations are now owned by Univision) from 1999–2000, and was later rerun on the USA Network from 2000–2001. It was hosted by Graham Elwood, with Jennifer Cole as t... | {
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Landon Cassill
Landon Douglas Cassill (born July 7, 1989) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 89 Chevrolet Camaro for Shepherd Racing Ventures.
Early career
Cassill was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and began racing on a quad... | {
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Kaatru Veliyidai
Kaatru Veliyidai () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic war film, produced, written and directed by Mani Ratnam. Made under the Madras Talkies banner, it features music composed by A. R. Rahman, cinematography by Ravi Varman and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. The film stars Karthi and Aditi Rao Hy... | {
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Santa Maria in Vallicella
Santa Maria in Vallicella, also called Chiesa Nuova, is a church in Rome, Italy, which today faces onto the main thoroughfare of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the corner of Via della Chiesa Nuova. It is the principal church of the Oratorians, a religious congregation of secular priests, fou... | {
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Molybdenum blue
Molybdenum blue is a term applied to:
reduced heteropolymolybdate complexes, polyoxometalates containing Mo(V), Mo(VI), and a hetero atom such as phosphorus or silicon
reduced isopolymolybdate complexes, polyoxometalates containing Mo(V), Mo(VI) formed when solutions of Mo(VI) are reduced
a blue pigmen... | {
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Nicola da Gesturi
Blessed Nicola da Gesturi (4 August 1882 – 8 June 1958), born Giovanni Angelo Salvatore Medda, was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. Throughout his life he encouraged and led charitable works in Sardinia.
Pope John Paul II recognized a miracle attributed ... | {
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Savill Building
The Savill Building is a visitor centre at the entrance to The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, England designed by Glen Howells Architects, Buro Happold and Engineers Haskins Robinson Waters. It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 26 June 2006.
Building
The building is located on the... | {
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Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Anna Magnani and Ettore Garofolo.
Synopsis
An ex-prostitute, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani), tries to start a new life selling vegetables with her 16-year-old son Ettore. When Ettore later finds out that she was a p... | {
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Lake Eloise
Lake Eloise is a large natural freshwater lake on the south side of Winter Haven, Florida. It is part of the southern Chain of Lakes. With a surface area, it is one of the larger lakes in Polk County, Florida. Lake Eloise has a somewhat oval shape and has a large cove on its south side. It borders Lake ... | {
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Giovanni Semerano
Giovanni Semerano (21 February 1913 – 20 July 2005) was an Italian philologist and linguist who studied the languages of Ancient Mesopotamia.
He obtained his degree in Florence, where among his teachers were the Hellenist Ettore Bignone, the philologist Giorgio Pasquali, the semitist Giuseppe Fur... | {
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Tom Walshaw
Tom D. Walshaw (1912–1998) was an engineer, author and contributor to the British magazines Model Engineer and Engineering in Miniature. Many of his magazine contributions and books were authored under the pseudonym Tubal Cain. The pseudonym relates to the Tubal-cain, the biblical metal worker. As Tubal C... | {
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Maria Ludwika Bernhard
Maria Ludwika Bernhard (August 6, 1908 – 1998) was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish Resistance Movement. After the war, Bernhard was a Professor of Cl... | {
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Karen Knorr
Karen Knorr HonFRPS is a German-born American photographer who lives in London.
In 2018 she received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
Life and work
Knorr was born in Frankfurt and raised in the 1960s in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In the 1970s, she moved to Great Britain where she has... | {
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Lilies (film)
Lilies (French title: Les Feluettes) is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Lilies. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.
The film screened at numerous festivals, including Sundance, ... | {
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T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems
T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems are those written for Faber and Faber's series of Ariel Poems. All but "Triumphal March" also appear in his book Collected Poems: 1909–1962 under the heading Ariel Poems.
Writing and publication history
In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing... | {
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Gaspare Pacchierotti
Gaspare Pacchierotti (21 May 1740 in Fabriano (Marche) – 28 October 1821 in Padua) was a great mezzo-soprano castrato, and one of the most famous singers of his time.
Training and first appearances
Details of his early life are scarce. It is possible that he studied with Mario Bittoni, maestro di... | {
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Alfa-class submarine
The Alfa class, Soviet designation Project 705 Lira (, meaning "Lyre", NATO reporting name Alfa), was a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with the Soviet Navy and later with the Russian Navy. They were the fastest military submarines ever built, with only the prototype submarin... | {
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The Real Richie Rich
Richard "Richie Rich" Anthony (born June 13, 1964, Harlem, New York), is an American actor, hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper and entrepreneur. He is the founder and current CEO of Richworld Entertainment. Richie is mostly known for his works with one of the pioneers of the West Coast scene ... | {
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Act of Independence of Lithuania
The Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania () or Act of 16 February was signed by the Council of Lithuania on 16 February 1918, proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania, governed by democratic principles, with Vilnius as its capital. The Act was signed by ... | {
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Cape Verdi
Cape Verdi is a retired, Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. She was trained in England and Dubai during a racing career which consisted of eight races between May 1997 and July 1999. In 1998 she won the 1000 Guineas by five lengths and was the beaten favourite in The Derby. She was named the European Champi... | {
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Dean Brennan
Dean Brennan (born 17 June 1980) is an Irish footballer and is the current manager of Wealdstone.
Career
Brennan began his footballing career at Sheffield Wednesday but despite impressing at youth and reserve levels, he never made a first team appearance for the Owls. After being released by Wednesday in... | {
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Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp.
Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp., also known as Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc., was a long-running patent infringement case between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and appealed multiple times... | {
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Atlantic mackerel
The Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), also known as Boston mackerel, Norwegian mackerel, Scottish mackerel or just mackerel, is a species of mackerel found in the temperate waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and the northern Atlantic Ocean, where it is extremely common and occurs in ... | {
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French frigate Alcmène (1811)
The French frigate Alcmène was an Armide-class frigate of a nominal 44 guns, launched in 1811. The British captured her on 1814. The Royal Navy named her HMS Dunira, and then renamed her HMS Immortalite but never commissioned her nor fitted her for sea. In March 1822 she became a receivin... | {
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Daniel Renoult
Daniel Renoult (December 18, 1880 – July 17, 1958) was a French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF) politician, an activist and journalist. He was Mayor of Montreuil from 1944 to his death in 1958, during which he made some major changes and contributions to the city.
Biography
Born Decemb... | {
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Karla F.C. Holloway
Karla Francesca Holloway (née Clapp; September 29, 1949) is an American academic. She is James B. Duke Professor of English & Professor of Law at Duke University, and holds appointments in the Duke University School of Law as well as the university's Department of English, Department of African & A... | {
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Elizabethtown station
Elizabethtown is an Amtrak railroad station on the Keystone Corridor in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The station is served by Amtrak's Keystone Service between New York City and Harrisburg, and by the Pennsylvanian between New York and Pittsburgh. The station... | {
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East Antarctic Shield
The East Antarctic Shield or Craton is a cratonic rock body that covers 10.2 million square kilometers or roughly 73% of the continent of Antarctica. The shield is almost entirely buried by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that has an average thickness of 2200 meters but reaches up to 4700 meters in ... | {
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Eric Carter
Eric Robert Carter (born March 6, 1970 in Long Beach, California, U.S.) is a former American professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1983 to 1998. He had the nickname "The Golden Child," and later in his BMX career, acquired the moniker "The Earth... | {
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Boegoeberg Dam
Boegoeberg Dam is a gravity type dam on the Orange River, near Prieska, Northern Cape, South Africa. Building was started in 1926 and completed by 1933. Boegoeberg is named for the small tree Croton gratissimus, also known as Bergboegoe. Its primary purpose is for irrigation and it has a low hazard pote... | {
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Inundation, Gibraltar
The Inundation was a flooded and fortified area of ground on the sandy isthmus between Spain and Gibraltar, created by the British in the 18th century to restrict access to the territory as part of the fortifications of Gibraltar. It was originally a marshy area known as the Morass at the far sou... | {
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PKCS 1
In cryptography, PKCS #1 is the first of a family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), published by RSA Laboratories. It provides the basic definitions of and recommendations for implementing the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography. It defines the mathematical properties of publi... | {
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BC Juventus
BC Juventus () is a professional Lithuanian basketball club which currently plays in the Lithuanian Basketball League.
History
2000–2007: foundation and participation in RKL
Juventus basketball club was founded in 1999 and debuted in Naujametinis Utenos rajono Mero taurės turnyras (Utena's new year's ma... | {
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Brooke Hart
Brooke Hart (June 11, 1911 – November 9, 1933) was the eldest son of Alexander Hart, the owner of Leopold Hart and Son Department Store at the southeast corner of Market and Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose, California. His kidnapping and murder were reported throughout the United States. The subseq... | {
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MPM 76
The MPM-76 (Métro Pneumatique Marseille 1976) is a model of rubber-tyred metro, built by Alstom for the Marseille Metro.
History
Following the 1971 call for tenders for the creation of the Marseille metro, a contract for the supply of 21 trains (of three cars each) was signed on 1 November 1973. The first tra... | {
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Edward Bairstow
Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (22 August 18741 May 1946) was an English organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition.
Life and career
Bairstow was born in Trinity Street, Huddersfield in 1874. His grandfather Oates Bairstow, was founder of the eponymous clothing firm.
He studied the or... | {
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Milton Reeves
Milton Othello Reeves (August 25, 1864 – June 4, 1925) was an early pioneer of the American automobile industry. He held more than 100 patents.
Biography
He was born on a farm in Rush County, Indiana on August 25, 1864 to William Franklin Reeves and Hannah M. Gilson and educated in Knightstown. He marri... | {
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Eucharistic Minister
A Eucharistic minister, also known as a communion steward, is an individual that assists in the distribution of Holy Communion to the congregation of a Christian church.
Anglican and Episcopalian Churches
Eucharistic Minister, or more properly "Lay Eucharistic Minister LEM", is used to denote a l... | {
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SS Cyclops (1906)
SS Cyclops was a British cargo steamship of Alfred Holt and Company (Blue Funnel Line). She was built in Glasgow in 1906, served in both the First and Second World Wars and survived two German submarine attacks in 1917. A German submarine sank her in January 1942 off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing... | {
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Susannah York
Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. An obituary i... | {
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Villa Mariënhof
Villa Mariënhof is a historic mansion with a garden located along the Bredaseweg in the Dutch city Tilburg. It was built between 1916 and 1918 as the residence of the family of a factory owner, and it was designed by Johan Wilhelm Hanrath. In 1986, it was inherited by Staatsbosbeheer, who first used Vi... | {
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Francisco de Arango y Parreño
Francisco de Arango y Parreño (1765-1837) was a Cuban planter and intellectual. He helped to oversee Spanish-ruled colonial Cuba's transformation into a major sugar and coffee producer in last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth.
Arango y Parreño wa... | {
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USS Guitarro (SSN-665)
USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the guitarro, a ray of the guitarfish family.
Construction and commissioning
Keel-laying and launching
The contract to build Guitarro was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 1... | {
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General contractor
A general contractor, main contractor or prime contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project.
Description
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Star India
Star India Private Limited is an Indian media conglomerate and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has a network of 60 channels in eight different languages, reaching out to 9 out of 10 cable and satellite TV homes in India. The network ... | {
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1938 in rail transport
Events
January
January 1 – Creation of the following European railway networks under government control:
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), bringing the principal railway companies of France together.
NS (Nederlandsche Spoorwegen), merging the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorwe... | {
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JetBlue flight attendant incident
The JetBlue flight attendant incident occurred after JetBlue Airlines Flight 1052, from Pittsburgh to New York City on August 9, 2010, had landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Steven Slater, a veteran flight attendant announced over the plane's public address system that h... | {
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Correspondence Publishing Committee
Correspondence Publishing Committee was a radical left organization led by C. L. R. James and Martin Glaberman that existed in the United States from approximately 1951 until it split in 1962.
History
The Correspondence Publishing Committee has its origins in the Johnson-Forest Te... | {
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Melisma
Melisma (Greek: , melisma, song, air, melody; from , melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession. Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, in which each syllable of text is m... | {
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Ropar Wetland
Ropar Wetland, also named Ropar Lake, is a man-made freshwater riverine and lacustrine wetland. The area has at least 9 mammal, 154 bird (migratory and local), 35 fish, 9 arthropod, 11 rotifer, 9 crustacean and 10 protozoan species, making it biologically diverse.
This important ecological zone is locate... | {
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Lincoln Theatre Guild
The Lincoln Theatre Guild is a non-profit community theater organization founded in 1981. The Guild serves Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States, and the surrounding Piedmont region.
History
The Lincoln Theatre Guild was formed in 1981 with 15 members. The first guild activity was an act... | {
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Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B. Saunders... | {
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Nunn v. Georgia
Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243 (1846) is a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that a state law ban on handguns was an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. This was the first gun control measure to be overturned on Second Amendment grounds.
Background
In 1837, Georgia passed a law banning t... | {
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Sangi (Japan)
was an associate counselor in the Imperial court of Japan from the 8th century until the Meiji period in the 19th century.
This was a position in the daijō-kan, or early feudal Japanese government. It was established in 702 by the Code of Taihō.
In the ranks of the Imperial bureaucracy, the Sangi came ... | {
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Old Talbott Tavern
The Old Talbott Tavern, also known as the Old Stone Tavern, a historic tavern built in 1779, is located in the Bardstown Historic District of Bardstown, Kentucky, across from the historic Nelson County Courthouse. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1973.
Accor... | {
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David G. Dalin
David G. Dalin (born 28 June 1949) is an American rabbi and historian, and the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Career
Dalin received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected to Phi B... | {
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W. Bruce Fye
Wallace Bruce Fye (born 1946) is an American retired cardiologist, medical historian, writer, bibliophile and philanthropist. He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and was the founding director of the institution’s W. Bruce Fye Center for... | {
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Sarah Wayne Callies
Sarah Wayne Callies (born June 1, 1977) is an American actress. She has played Sara Tancredi in Fox's Prison Break, Lori Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead and Katie Bowman in USA Network's Colony.
Early life
Callies was born in La Grange, Illinois, the daughter of Valerie Wayne and David E. Callies... | {
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King George Sound (Western Australia)
King George Sound is the name of a sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Originally named King George the Third's Sound, it was referred to as King George's Sound from 1805 (Sydney Gazette 13/10/1805). The name "King George Sound" gradually came into use from about 1934, ... | {
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Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z: Great Complete Collection
or simply Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z as fans have come to know it by, is a five disc CD soundtrack set of the anime Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. It was released by Columbia Records on April 1, 1994 in Japan only.
Track listing
Disc One: Dragon Ball Song Colle... | {
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Giovanni Canestrini
Giovanni Canestrini (26 December 1835 – 14 February 1900) was an Italian naturalist and biologist and translator who was a native of Revò.
Career
He initially studied in Gorizia and Meran, then furthered his education in natural sciences at the University of Vienna. From 1862 to 1869, he was a le... | {
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Bogan (film)
Bogan (English: Hedonist or Pleasure seeker) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Lakshman and produced by Prabhu Deva (Prabhu Deva Studios) and Ganesh. The film stars Jayam Ravi, Arvind Swamy and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles. Featuring music composed by D. Imm... | {
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C. F. Goldie
Charles Frederick Goldie (20 October 187011 July 1947) was a New Zealand artist, best known for his portrayal of Māori dignitaries.
Early life
Goldie was born in Auckland on 20 October 1870. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Charles Frederick Partington, who built the landmark Auckland windmi... | {
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Moonsault
A moonsault, moonsault press, or back flip splash is a professional wrestling aerial technique. It was innovated by Mando Guerrero. Much of its popularity in both Japanese and American wrestling is attributed to The Great Muta, despite it being used in North America by "Leaping" Lanny Poffo years before Muta... | {
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U Smile
"U Smile" is a song performed by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It was written by Jerry Duplessis, Arden Altino, and Dan August Rigo, and produced by Duplessis and Altino. According to Bieber, the song is dedicated to his special fans. The song was released as the second digital-only single from the ... | {
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Ninian Stephen
Sir Ninian Martin Stephen (15 June 1923 – 29 October 2017) was an Australian judge who served as the 20th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1982 to 1989. He was previously a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1982.
Stephen was born in England to Scottish parents. As a chil... | {
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Bridging (networking)
A network bridge is a computer networking device that creates a single aggregate network from multiple communication networks or network segments. This function is called network bridging. Bridging is distinct from routing. Routing allows multiple networks to communicate independently and yet rem... | {
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György Lukács
György Lukács (also Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin;) born György Bernát Löwinger; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxis... | {
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Bernie Slaven
Bernard Joseph Slaven (born 13 November 1960) is a former professional football striker. He scored 223 goals in 567 league and cup appearances over the course of an 18-year career and also earned seven caps for the Republic of Ireland.
He started his career in his native Scotland with Greenock Morton in... | {
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Muggio
Muggio was a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 25 October 2009 the municipalities of Bruzella, Cabbio, Caneggio, Morbio Superiore, Muggio and Sagno merged into the municipality of Breggia.
History
Muggio is first mentioned in 852 as Mugio.
The valley has bee... | {
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Miguel Migs
Miguel Steward, better known as Miguel Migs, is an American deep house DJ and producer and founder of Salted Music, an independent electronic dance music record label based in San Francisco, California.
Biography
Migs began his music career at 18 years old, as a lead guitarist and songwriter for a Santa C... | {
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Finsterforst
Finsterforst is a German folk metal band from Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, whose lyrical themes deal with nature, German myths, and fantasy worlds. Formed in 2004, the group has released three full-length studio albums, one extended play and one compilation album.
Finsterforst means "dark forest" and ... | {
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Potato pancake
Potato pancakes, draniki, deruny, latkes, raggmunk or boxties are shallow-fried pancakes of grated or ground potato, matzo meal or flour and a binding ingredient such as egg or applesauce, often flavored with grated garlic or onion and seasoning. They may be topped with a variety of condiments, ranging... | {
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Gillian Shephard
Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, PC, DL (née Watts; born 22 January 1940) is an English Conservative politician. She was the Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk and served as a Cabinet Minister, and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Baroness ... | {
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Pandion I
In Greek mythology, Pandion I (; Ancient Greek: Πανδίων) was a legendary King of Athens, the son and heir to Erichthonius of Athens and his wife, the naiad Praxithea. Through his father he was the grandson of the god Hephaestus. He married a naiad, Zeuxippe, and they had two sons Erechtheus and Butes, and ... | {
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Walkinshaw Andretti United
Walkinshaw Andretti United is an Australian motor racing team based in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton. The team currently fields two Holden ZB Commodores in the Supercars Championship for Bryce Fullwood and Chaz Mostert, along with a Porsche 911 GT3-R in the Australian GT Championship.
For... | {
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Tobu 50000 series
The is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan, manufactured by Hitachi to its "A-train" concept. The trains represent the first use of aluminium body cars on Tobu commuter trains. They are also the first Tobu trains to fea... | {
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Joshua James (lifesaver)
Joshua James (November 22, 1826March 19, 1902) was an American sea captain and a U.S. Life–Saving Station keeper. He was a famous and celebrated commander of civilian life–saving crews in the 19th century, credited with saving over 500 lives from the age of about 15 when he first associated hi... | {
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Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun (born May 10, 1942) is the men's basketball coach for the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships (1999, 2004, 2011), played in four Fi... | {
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Memorial Plaque (medallion)
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.
The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 4.75 inches (120 mm) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came t... | {
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Quinton Porter
Quinton George Porter (born December 28, 1982) is a former American professional gridiron football quarterback. He was on the practice squad for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college foo... | {
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Danny Maciocia
Danny Maciocia (born May 26, 1967) is the general manager of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was previously head coach of the Université de Montréal Carabins football team. He is also the former general manager and director of football operations of the Canadian Football... | {
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2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season included two very severe cyclonic storms, both in October, and one other named cyclonic storm, classified according to the tropical cyclone intensity scale of the... | {
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Plebejidea loewii
Plebejidea loewii, the large jewel blue, is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly.
Description from Seitz
L. loewii Z. (= empyrea Frr.) (78 i). Has the appearance of a small form of the preced ing [L. aliardii] ; male above very vividly glossy blue, almost as in bellargus but darker; the female... | {
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Whitsunday Coast Guardian
The Whitsunday Coast Guardian is a newspaper published in Proserpine, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.
History
From 1904 to 1997, the newspaper was published in Proserpine as The Proserpine Guardian. From 1997 to 2007 its title was The Guardian. From 2007 its title became Whitsunday... | {
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Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide ener... | {
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Louvre-Lens
The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France, approximately 200 kilometers north of Paris. It displays objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium- or long-term basis. The Louvre-Lens annex is part of an effort to provide ... | {
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Reuters Group
Reuters Group plc was a British multinational media and financial information company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, forming Thomson Reuters.
Reuters Group was best known for the Reuters news agency, which was the original business of the com... | {
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List of Aikatsu! characters
The following is a list of characters for Bandai's arcade game and anime franchise, Aikatsu!.
Main characters
Starlight Academy
First generation
(speaking voice), Waka from STAR☆ANIS (singing voice)
The cheerful, hard-working protagonist of the anime storyline for the first two seasons... | {
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Arizona City, Arizona
Arizona City is a census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Pinal County, Arizona, in the United States. It is located near the junction of Interstate 8 and Interstate 10 at the midpoint between Phoenix and Tucson, approximately 60 miles (97 km) from the downtown of both cities. The populatio... | {
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Mikhail Voskresensky
Mikhail Voskresensky () (born 1935) is a Russian pianist.
Training
Mikhail Voskresensky is known internationally as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1958, where he studied under Ilya Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakov Milstein, Lev Oborin (pia... | {
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Ken Layne
Ken Layne is an American writer, publisher and broadcaster best known for his political blogging in the early 2000s and his association with Gawker Media and Wonkette from 2006 to 2012. He is the proprietor of Desert Oracle, a self-published periodical and radio program exploring themes related to the Mojave... | {
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Remèr
A remèr (Venetian dialect, plural remèri) is a craftsman specialised in the making of traditional rowlocks – called fórcolas – and oars for Venetian boats.
History
In September 1307, the Venetian government recognised the first Mariégola dei Remèri, or corporations of specialised craftmen. Remèri were included ... | {
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Order of battle for the Balaclava campaign
This is the complete order of battle of opposing forces at the Battle of Balaclava.
Allied Army
The Allied Army consisted of British and French troops as well as Turkish formations under British command.
British Army
Commanded by Field Marshal Lord Raglan.
Cavalry Division... | {
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H. D. Deve Gowda
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (born 18 May 1933) is an Indian politician who
is the state president of Janata Dal (Secular), Karnataka and who was the 11th Prime Minister of India from 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997. He was previously the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996.
He w... | {
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Bullitt County, Kentucky
Bullitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky located in the far western Bluegrass region known as the Knobs. As of the 2010 census, the population was 74,319. The county seat is Shepherdsville. The county was founded in 1796.
Located just south of the city of Louisville, Bullitt C... | {
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