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Hamilcar's victory with Naravas
The battle following the defection of Numidian chieftain Naravas to Hamilcar Barca was fought between Carthaginian forces commanded by Hamilcar Barca and part of the combined forces of Carthage's former mercenary armies during the Mercenary War, which Carthage had formerly employed duri... | {
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The Joy of Sect
"The Joy of Sect" is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 8, 1998. In the episode, a cult takes over Springfield, and the Simpson family become members.
David Mirkin conceived the initial idea for the episode, Ste... | {
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Sasanian civil war of 628–632
The Sasanian civil war of 628–632, also known as the Sasanian Interregnum was a conflict that broke out after the execution of the Sasanian king Khosrau II between the nobles of different factions, notably the Parthian (Pahlav) faction, the Persian (Parsig) faction, the Nimruzi faction, a... | {
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Richard Stapley
Richard Stapley (20 June 1923 – 5 March 2010), also known by the stage name Richard Wyler, was a British actor and writer.
Early life
Stapley was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England in 1923. A writer, Stapley published his first novel when he was just 17 years old. He served in the Royal Air Forc... | {
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SMS Falke
SMS Falke ("His Majesty's Ship Falke—Falcon") was an unprotected cruiser of the , built for the Imperial German Navy. She was the second member of the class of six vessels. The cruiser was laid down in 1890, launched in April 1891, and commissioned into the fleet in September of that month. Designed for over... | {
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J.P. Wiser's Whisky
J.P. Wiser's Whisky is Canada's oldest continuously produced Canadian whisky. The brand was established in 1857, and Hiram Walker & Sons Limited currently produces it at their Windsor, Ontario, distillery. Since 1935, J.P. Wiser's has been the majority shareholder of Corby Spirit and Wine. Both co... | {
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Concept-based image indexing
Concept-based image indexing, also variably named as "description-based" or "text-based" image indexing/retrieval, refers to retrieval from text-based indexing of images that may employ keywords, subject headings, captions, or natural language text (Chen & Rasmussen, 1999). It is opposed t... | {
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Campanula rotundifolia
Campanula rotundifolia, the harebell or Scottish bluebell, is a perennial, flowering, herbaceous plant in the bellflower family (Campanulaceae). It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, from about latitude 40° N to about 78° N, extending in Europe from the north Mediterranea... | {
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Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean ( Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neotethys, was an ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era located between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia, before the opening of the Indian and Atlantic oceans during the Cretaceous Period.
Etymology
The name stems from the myth... | {
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Anna Sacconi
Anna Sacconi is an Italian Professor Emeritus of Aegean civilisation at La Sapienza, University of Rome. She is known for her work on the corpus of Linear B vase inscriptions and Linear B tablets from Thebes.
Career
Sacconi studied classical philology at La Sapienza, she was first assistant professor o... | {
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Apostolic poverty
Apostolic poverty is a Christian doctrine professed in the thirteenth century by the newly formed religious orders, known as the mendicant orders, in direct response to calls for reform in the Roman Catholic Church. In this, these orders attempted to live their lives without ownership of lands or acc... | {
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Black helicopter
In the United States militia movement, black helicopter is a symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States, though it has also been associated with UFOs, men in black, and similar conspiracies. Rumors circulated that, for instance, the United Nations patrolled the US with ... | {
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Nap Lajoie
Napoleon Lajoie (; September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie and nicknamed "The Frenchman", was an American professional baseball second baseman and player-manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics (twice), and Cleveland N... | {
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Natural Color System
The Natural Color System (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model. It is based on the color opponency hypothesis of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering. The current version of the NCS was developed by the Swedish Colour Centre Foundation, from 1964 onwards. The re... | {
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Clara Brown
Clara Brown (c. 1800–1885) was a former slave from Virginia who became a community leader, philanthropist and aided settlement of former slaves during the time of Colorado's Gold Rush. She was known as the 'Angel of the Rockies' and made her mark as Colorado's first black settler and a prosperous entrepren... | {
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Jain rituals
Jain rituals play an everyday part in Jainism. Rituals take place daily or more often. Rituals include obligations followed by Jains and various forms of idol worships.
Jains rituals can be separated broadly in two parts: Karya (Obligations which are followed) and Kriya (Worships which are performed).
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Ricky Fuji
(born September 27, 1965) better known under his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Action Advance Pro Wrestling, where he also runs the day-to-day operations. He is perhaps best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he wrestled between the prom... | {
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Fembot (song)
"Fembot" is a song by Swedish recording artist Robyn, taken from her fifth studio album, Body Talk Pt. 1 (2010). The song was written by Robyn and Klas Åhlund, and produced by the latter. It was inspired by Robyn's personal experience of entering her thirties and contemplating children. With the song, sh... | {
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Aachen dialect
Aachen dialect (natively Öcher Platt) is a dialect of Ripuarian Franconian spoken in the German Rhineland city of Aachen. This dialect, as part of the large West Germanic dialect continuum, is to a large extent similar to the dialects spoken in Eschweiler and in Stolberg.
Aachen dialect has a pitch acc... | {
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She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Spike Lee. Filmed on a small budget and Lee's first feature-length film, it earned positive reviews and launched Lee's career.
The film stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Cana... | {
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Grand Tour (cycling)
In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format being three week races with daily stages. They have ... | {
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Fuzzy clustering
Fuzzy clustering (also referred to as soft clustering or soft k-means) is a form of clustering in which each data point can belong to more than one cluster.
Clustering or cluster analysis involves assigning data points to clusters such that items in the same cluster are as similar as possible, while ... | {
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Myres S. McDougal
Myres Smith McDougal (November 23, 1906 – May 7, 1998) was a scholar of international law and Sterling Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School, where he taught for fifty years. He also taught at New York Law School.
McDougal was born in Burton, Mississippi in 1906. He received undergra... | {
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British War Medal
The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War. Two versions of the medal were produced. About 6.5 million were struck in silver and 110,000 in bronze, the latter awarded to, among... | {
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Mala Powers
Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20, 1931 – June 11, 2007) was an American film and television actress.
Early life
Powers was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940, her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. Her mother was a minister. Powers later told a reporte... | {
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Mickey Maguire (Shameless)
Mickey Maguire and Mickey Milkovich are characters from the British Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless, and its American remake on Showtime.
U.K. version
Mickey Maguire is a character from the British Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless. He is a "paranoid, aggressive, violent, homosexual yet... | {
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Silver chub
The silver chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana) is a species of freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae found in North America.
Description
The maximum size of a silver chub is 231mm (9.09 in) in total length. It is pale grey-green dorsally, becoming silvery on its sides and silvery white on its belly. The i... | {
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Horse blanket
A horse blanket or rug is a blanket or animal coat intended for keeping a horse or other equine warm or otherwise protected from wind or other elements. They are tailored to fit around a horse's body from chest to rump, with straps crossing underneath the belly to secure the blanket yet allowing the hors... | {
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111th Fighter Escadrille (Poland)
The 111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force () was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army. Created in 1921, immediately after the end of the Polish-Soviet War, the unit inherited the traditions of the famous war-time Polish 7th Air Escadrille (known as the Kościuszko Squ... | {
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Kia Steave-Dickerson
Kia Steave-Dickerson is an American interior designer and property master known for her work on the American reality television series, Trading Spaces. Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she studied textile management and marketing at the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science. Steave-Dicke... | {
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Jagdgeschwader I (World War I)
Jagdgeschwader I (JG I) of World War I, was a fighter wing of the German Luftstreitkräfte, comprising four Jastas (fighter squadrons). The first unit of its type formed under that classification, JG I was formed on 24 June 1917, with Manfred von Richthofen as commanding officer, by combi... | {
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Insider-outsider theory of employment
The insider-outsider theory is a theory of labor economics that explains how firm behavior, national welfare, and wage negotiations are affected by a group in a more privileged position. The theory was developed by Assar Lindbeck and Dennis Snower in a series of publications begin... | {
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YAML
YAML (a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language") is a human-readable data-serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files and in applications where data is being stored or transmitted. YAML targets many of the same communications applications as Extensible Markup Language (XML) bu... | {
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Mary Valley Rattler
The Mary Valley Rattler, (formerly Mary Valley Heritage Railway) is a heritage railway line that conducted steam train trips and tours from Gympie through the Mary Valley in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It is now one of the region's biggest tourist attractions and is managed by a not-... | {
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USS Arikara
USS Arikara (AT-98) was an Abnaki-class of fleet ocean tug. It was named after the Arikara, a loose confederacy of sub-tribes of American Indians related to the Pawnee. The Arikara inhabited villages in the Missouri River valley.
World War II Atlantic service
The Arikara was laid down on 10 January 1943 ... | {
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Howard Baldwin
Howard Lapsley Baldwin (born May 14, 1942) is an American entrepreneur and film producer. He is the CEO of Baldwin Entertainment, which has produced films such as the Academy Award-nominated Ray. Baldwin founded the New England Whalers ice hockey franchise in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and reta... | {
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Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Democratic Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop... | {
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Brown roofed turtle
The brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to South Asia. Two subspecies are recognized.
Etymology
The specific name, smithii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith.
Subspecies and geographic ranges
Two subspecies ... | {
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Hal Plotkin
Hal W. Plotkin (born September 14, 1957) is an American journalist and activist. He is currently the senior open policy fellow at Creative Commons.
From 2009 to 2014, Plotkin served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education, which... | {
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Floating Skyscrapers
Floating Skyscrapers () is a 2013 Polish drama film written and directed by Tomasz Wasilewski, and starring Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner and Katarzyna Herman. It follows the story of Kuba, an aspiring professional swimmer who falls in love with another man to the disappro... | {
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Hail Weston
Hail Weston is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Hail Weston lies approximately south of Huntingdon. Hail Weston is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
History
In 1085 William the Conque... | {
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Osiris myth
The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris's murderer, his brother Set, usurps his throne. Meanwhile, Osiris's wife Isis restores her husband's body, allowing him... | {
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PAREF Southridge School
PAREF Southridge School, or simply Southridge, is a private school for boys located in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was established by the Parents for Education Foundation (PAREF). Southridge is composed of grade school, junior high school, senior high school, and afternoon sc... | {
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Hector King
Héctor King (born May 4, 1982) is a Mexican recording artist who has worked in Latin America as well as the United States. King released the Spanish language album VIVE in 2006, followed-up by "The Sweet Spot", in English in 2009. His contemporary oratorio "La Vida" premiered in Mexico in 2011 and a highli... | {
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Zoltán Zubornyák
Zoltán Zubornyák (born 9 September 1961 in Budapest) is a Hungarian actor, culture manager, theatre manager, director, volunteer, art director.
Culture manager
He has been managing the Ferencváros Cultural Centre, a venue staging numerous pieces; hosting many concerts, alongside exhibitions and vario... | {
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Lauren O'Connell
Lauren O'Connell (born December 10, 1988) is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Rochester, New York. She began uploading videos of herself performing original songs on YouTube soon after releasing her debut album Sitting in Chairs in 2007. Her first videos were simp... | {
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PPB Group
PPB Group Berhad is a Malaysian diversified conglomerate which engages in food production, agriculture, waste management, film distribution, property investment and development. PPB is also the single largest shareholder, through an 18 percent stake, in Wilmar International, one of the leading palm oil produ... | {
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Ajmer Sharif Dargah
Ajmer Sharif Dargah, Ajmer Dargah, Ajmer Sharif or Dargah Sharif is a sufi shrine (dargah) of the revered sufi saint, Moinuddin Chishti, located at Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. The shrine has Chisti's grave (Maqbara).
History
Moinuddin Chishti was a 13th-century sufi mystic saint and philosopher. Born... | {
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Denis O'Regan
Denis O'Regan (born 1953) is an English rock photographer. His imagery is particularly associated with the punk movement, Queen, David Bowie, and Duran Duran, and O'Regan has photographed everyone from AC/DC to ZZ Top, documenting Punk, New Romanticism, Grunge, and Heavy Metal along the way. O'Regan has ... | {
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List of national monuments of Portugal
The national monuments of Portugal () were constructed throughout the Portuguese territory, and date back to the period of pre-historic settlement of occupation. Subsequently, the region that is today Portugal has been colonized by many civilizations, which have left marks in the... | {
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T. Rajaiah
Dr. Thatikonda Rajaiah (Telugu : ట్ రాజయ్య) (born 12 July 1965) is an Indian politician and present MLA for Station Ghanpur assembly constituency representing the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He joined Telangana Rashtra Samithi on 30 October 2011. He was sworn as deputy chief minister of Telangana state on 2... | {
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Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life?
Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? is a 1956 book by the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, in which the author argues that homosexuality is a curable illness. Bergler denies that homosexuality is caused by hormonal or other biological factors, the Oedipus complex, or having a dom... | {
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De Skarrenmolen, Scharsterbrug
De Skarrenmolen is a smock mill in Scharsterbrug, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1888. The mill has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument.
History
De Skarrenmolen was built in 1888. It served as a corn mill and a drainage mill originally, but now is ... | {
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Adelson e Salvini
Adelson e Salvini (Adelson and Salvini) is a three-act opera semiseria composed by Vincenzo Bellini from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. The opera was based on the 1772 novel Épreuves du Sentiment by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, and it draws on a previously performed French play o... | {
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Bengali Regiment
Bangali Paltan or Bengalee Regiment is a regiment of Bengali soldiers during the First World War. At the beginning of the First World War (1914-1918), Bengalis began to be recruited for the Indian Army. So that time many non-combatant soldiers and skilled and unskilled laborers were also recruited fro... | {
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Rail transport in Ethiopia
Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which currently consists of three electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway. Other lines are still in the planning p... | {
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Bora Bora
Bora Bora (French: Bora-Bora; Tahitian: Pora Pora) is a island group in the Leeward group in the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. The main island, located about northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and ... | {
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Potlatch River
The Potlatch River is in the state of Idaho in the United States. About long, it is the lowermost major tributary to the Clearwater River, a tributary of the Snake River that is in turn a tributary of the Columbia River. Once surrounded by arid grasslands of the Columbia Plateau adjacent to the western... | {
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Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer was a British STOL transport aircraft built by Scottish Aviation Limited at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, during the 1950s. It was designed for both civil and military operators. It was conceived as a twin-engined version of the Pioneer light transport. ... | {
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American Homeowner Preservation
American Homeowner Preservation (also known as AHP) is an online real estate crowdfunding platform which purchases pools of nonperforming loans from banks and other lenders and then offers borrowers who want to stay in their homes debt restructuring options with reduced payments and dis... | {
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Hatton of Fintray
Hatton of Fintray, commonly referred to as Fintray, is a village on the River Don in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in the parish of Fintray. It was a textile village and its church dates from 1821, and there used to be a nearby ferry crossing the river.
History
The name of the parish is said to be deriv... | {
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T. M. Stevens
Thomas Michael "T.M." Stevens (born July 28, 1951) is an American bass guitarist from New York City. Stevens has worked with an array of rock, R&B, and pop acts as a session musician, and also leads his own groups and works as a solo performer.
Life
Stevens recorded with his band Shocka Zooloo, a power ... | {
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10 Hygiea
Hygiea (minor planet designation: 10 Hygiea) is a major asteroid located in the main asteroid belt. With a diameter of and a mass estimated to be 2.9% of the total mass of the belt, it is the fourth-largest asteroid in the Solar System by both volume and mass. In some spectral classifications it is the larg... | {
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Baddiley
Baddiley is a scattered settlement and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The civil parish also includes the north-western part of the village of Ravensmoor (also in the parish of Burland), as well as the small settlements of Baddiley Hulse, ... | {
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Peter Østbye
Peter Nielsen Østbye (February 20, 1855 - Norway—February 2, 1943) was a Norwegian philologist and academic administrator. He taught classical languages and was a proponent of learning the Latin language. He was an education official at Fredrikstad between 1894-1910 and at Drammen between 1910-1926.
He ... | {
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Charles Leonard Hamblin
Charles Leonard Hamblin (1922 – 14 May 1985) was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales) in Sydney.
Among his most well-known achievements in the area... | {
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Voltage clamp
The voltage clamp is an experimental method used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents through the membranes of excitable cells, such as neurons, while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. A basic voltage clamp will iteratively measure the membrane potential, and then change the mem... | {
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Abraham O. Smoot
Abraham Owen Smoot (February 17, 1815 – March 6, 1895) was a Mormon pioneer in Kentucky who eventually moved to Utah. He was a businessman and politician, elected as the second mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah (1856 to 1862); and mayor of Provo, Utah, where he served from 1868 to 1881. There he was an ea... | {
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Demographics of Macau
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Macau, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Macau's population is 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese and som... | {
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State of East Indonesia
The State of East Indonesia (, old spelling: Negara Indonesia Timoer) was a post-World War II federal state (negara bagian) formed in eastern Netherlands East Indies by the Netherlands. It was established in 1946, became part of the United States of Indonesia in 1949 at the end of the Indonesi... | {
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Gloc-9
Aristotle Pollisco (born October 18, 1977), known by his stage name Gloc-9, is a Filipino rapper, singer and songwriter. Regarded as one of the best Filipino rappers of all-time, his fast-flowing vocal style has made him one of the most successful hip-hop artists in the Philippines. He was described by fellow g... | {
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Eaton Socon
Eaton Socon is an area of St Neots town, having been a village, in Cambridgeshire, England.
It was originally in Bedfordshire, along with the similar parish (and ex-village) to the north of Eaton Ford, but officially became part of the town in 1965. Its housing grew and its population more than doubled: ... | {
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Aurora Levins Morales
Aurora Levins Morales (born February 24, 1954) is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.
Biography
Early life and education
Levins Morales was born February 24, 1954 in Indiera Baja, M... | {
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Lake Street Elevated
The Lake Street Elevated, also known as the Lake Branch, is a long branch of the Chicago "L" which is located west of the Chicago Loop and serves the Green Line for its entire length, as well as the Pink Line east of Ashland Avenue. As of February 2013, the branch serves an average of 27,217 pass... | {
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Osečná
Osečná (; )is a town in the Liberec District of the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic. Osečná lies on the Ploučnice River, which begins here. The river is 106 km long and flows into the Elbe at Děčín. It has 1075 inhabitants. It lies 15 kilometres from Liberec, on the foot of Ještěd. The town has a primary s... | {
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1950 in the United States
Events from the year 1950 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri)
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky)
Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
Senate Majority L... | {
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Thomas R. McGuire House
The Thomas R. McGuire House, located at 114 Rice Street in the Capitol View Historic District of Little Rock, Arkansas, is a unique interpretation of the Colonial Revival style of architecture. Built by Thomas R. McGuire, a master machinist with the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, it is th... | {
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2/7th Field Regiment (Australia)
The 2/7th Field Regiment was an Australian Army field artillery regiment that served during the Second World War. Formed in mid-1940 and assigned to the 9th Division, the regiment was deployed to North Africa, where it saw action around Tobruk in 1941 and in the First and Second Battle... | {
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Billy Thompson (soccer, born 1968)
William Thompson (born May 5, 1968) is a retired U.S. soccer player who coaches youth soccer. He earned one caps with the U.S. national team and played three seasons in Major League Soccer with the Columbus Crew.
College
Thompson, born in Cupertino, California, attended UCLA where h... | {
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Carl Stough
Carl Stough (1926–2000) was an American choral conductor and breathing specialist and the founder of the now closed Carl Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination, a non-profit organization for the research of optimal breathing.
Biography
Carl Stough was a student of choral conducting at Westminster Choi... | {
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Books of the Genesis of the Ukrainian People
The Books of the Genesis of the Ukrainian People (or Divine Law) (, Knyhy Buttia Ukrayinskoho Narodu) is a philosophical and religious treatise by Nikolay Kostomarov, (some experts i.e. Myroslav Trofymuk question the authorship) dedicated to designation of Ukrainian nation... | {
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Randolph Stow
Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.
Early life
Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow was the son of Mary Campbell Stow née Sewell and Cedric Ernest Stow, a lawyer.
Stow attended Geraldton Primary and High schools, Guil... | {
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Mission Hills, Los Angeles
Mission Hills is an urban residential community of the San Fernando Valley, within the city of Los Angeles, California.
It is near the northern junction of the Golden State Freeway (I-5) and the San Diego Freeway (I-405). The Ronald Reagan Freeway (SR-118) halves the community. Mission Hil... | {
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Boston Bar Association
The Boston Bar Association (BBA) is a volunteer non-governmental organization in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With headquarters located at 16 Beacon Street in the historic Chester Harding House, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill, the BBA has 13,000 members drawn f... | {
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Trevor Sargent
Trevor Anthony Sargent (born 26 July 1960) is a former Irish Green Party politician who served as Minister of State for Food and Horticulture from 2007 to 2010 and Leader of the Green Party from 2001 to 2007. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency from 1992 to 2011.
Career
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Gerd Koenen
Gerd Koenen (born 9 December 1944 in Marburg) is a German historian and former communist politician.
Life and work
Koenen grew up in Bochum and Gelsenkirchen and studied Romance languages, history and politics in Tübingen. There, he joined the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist German St... | {
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The Evolution Control Committee
The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC) is an experimental music band based in Columbus, Ohio. The ECC was founded by Mark Gunderson (a.k.a. TradeMark G.) in Columbus, in 1986. They create music that falls within the borders of the sound collage genre, as it typically uses uncleared a... | {
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4-6-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific type.
Overview
The int... | {
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A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time is a platform action-adventure game developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Humble Bundle. The game was developed using Unreal Engine 3 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign, which doubled its fundraising goals within its first two days. It is inspired by earlier 3D platforme... | {
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Balut Island
Balut Island, also known as Malulong, is a volcanic island south of the tip of Davao Occidental province in the Mindanao region, Southern Philippines. Located in the center of the island is the Balut Volcano, a fumarolic volcano with no historical eruptions.
The island of Balut is located about from ma... | {
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Oleksiy Chernyshov
Oleksiy Mykhaylovych Chernyshov (; born 4 September 1977, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is the current Head of the Kiev Oblast State Administration.
Biography
Born in the city of Kharkiv, where he spent his childhood, high school years, received higher education.
From 1994 to 1999 – studi... | {
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Nat King Cole discography
This article contains a list of albums by Nat King Cole and compilations of his recordings, together with a list of his chart singles.
Capitol 78-rpm albums
Volumes 1-4 released as separate booklets in 10" format.
Booklet Volumes 1 and 2 contain 4 shellac records.
Booklet Volumes 3 and 4... | {
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Battle of Erquelinnes
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Northeast Caucasian languages
The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, or Nakh-Daghestanian languages, is a language family spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in northern Azerbaijan as well as in diaspora populations in Western Europe, Turkey and the Middle E... | {
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Moycarkey-Borris GAA
Moycarkey-Borris GAA is a Tipperary GAA club which is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. Both hurling and Gaelic football are played in the "Mid-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred on the village of Littleton but also takes in areas such as Two-Mile-Borris, Horse and Jockey,... | {
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Daniel Kleinman
Daniel Kleinman (born 23 December 1955) is a British television commercial and music video director who has designed every title sequence for the James Bond series of films since GoldenEye (1995), with the exception of Quantum of Solace (2008) (which was designed by the filmmaking and design collective... | {
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Abraham Zelmanov
Abraham Zelmanov (May 15, 1913 – February 2, 1987), was a prominent scientist working in the General Theory of Relativity and cosmology. He first constructed, in 1944, the complete mathematical method to calculate physical observable quantities in the General Theory of Relativity (the theory of chrono... | {
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West Highland Way
The West Highland Way () is a linear long distance footpath in Scotland. It is long, running from Milngavie north of Glasgow to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, with an element of hill walking in the route. The trail, which opened in 1980, was Scotland's first officially designated Long Dista... | {
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Lemonade Insurance Company
Lemonade Insurance Company is an American property and casualty insurance company headquartered in New York City offering renters and home insurance policies for homes, apartments, co-ops and condos in many US States and in Germany.
Operating in the fintech sector, Lemonade created a new bu... | {
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Margarete Wittkowski
Margarete "Grete" Wittkowski (18 August 1910 - 20 October 1974) was a German economist and politician (KPD / SED). Between 1961 and 1967 she served as deputy chair of the East German Council of Ministers, the only woman ever to hold this post. Between 1974 and 1990 she served as President of t... | {
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