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Duffws railway station (Festiniog and Blaenau Railway)
Duffws (F&BR) railway station was on the same site as the later GWR station in the heart of Blaenau Ffestiniog in what was then Merionethshire, now Gwynedd, Wales.
Context
The evolution of Blaenau's passenger stations was complex with five different railway compa... | {
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HIStory (web series)
HIStory (pronounced "his story") is a Taiwanese web drama anthology series created by Chang Ting-fei for the online streaming service Line TV. Each season presents stand-alone stories with different plots and main characters focusing on the theme of boys' love, also known as BL. The first season p... | {
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Progear
Progear is an arcade video game developed by CAVE and published by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board in 2001. This was Cave's only horizontal scrolling shooter until Deathsmiles in 2007. The game features a steampunk-like style and art design. This game is the second of two CAVE shoot 'em ups to be relea... | {
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Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate (born July 30, 1943) is the youngest female in United States history to date to have been tried for first-degree murder. She was the adolescent girlfriend of spree killer Charles Starkweather, being just 14 years old when his murders took place in 1958. She was convicted as his accomp... | {
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Maruschka Waldus
Maruschka Waldus (born 20 September 1992) is a Dutch football player who currently plays for Vålerenga IF in Norway in the Toppserien.
She made her debut in May 2015 in the NWSL, being the first Dutch soccer player in the NWSL.
Together with Marlous Pieëte, Maruschka Waldus in 2017 was the first Dutc... | {
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Stephen S. Harding
Stephen Selwyn Harding (February 24, 1808 – February 12, 1891) was an American politician, lawyer, anti-slavery leader and ardent abolitionist in Indiana who served as governor of the Utah Territory (1862–1863) and as chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (1863–1865). Because Harding proved t... | {
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Michael Learned
Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series a record four times; three for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976... | {
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Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, as well as the New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions... | {
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Media of Cyprus
The media of Cyprus refers to mass media outlets based on the island of Cyprus, including both the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertis... | {
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Andy Fraser
Andrew McLan Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15.
Peak years (1960s and 1970s)
Fraser was born in the Paddington area of Cen... | {
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The Vesuvius Club
The Vesuvius Club is a 2004 historical spy story by Mark Gatiss. It is the first novel in a series featuring the spy, Lucifer Box.
Plot summary
Joshua Reynolds, of the British Secret Service, briefs Lucifer Box to pick up the threads of an investigation started by the recently murdered Jocelyn Utte... | {
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The Malfated
The Malfated are an independent guitar band from London, England, who gained a cult following using online websites such as MySpace. The band formed in 2004, and were one of the first UK bands to join MySpace in 2004. They use a drum machine, which they call 'Bel The Expendable Drum Machine'. Line ups hav... | {
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Major Force
Major Force (Clifford Zmeck) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.
Publication history
Major Force first appeared in Captain Atom vol. 3, #12 (February 1988) and was created by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, and Pat Broderick.
Fictional character biography
Early life
Major... | {
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Bethaniënklooster
The Bethaniënklooster is a former 15th-century monastery in the Wallen area of Amsterdam. It is one of the few remains of the once-expansive area of monasteries that dominated the oudezijde ("old side") of town in the Middle Ages. The monastery was devoted to Mary of Bethany (Mary Magdalene) and, at ... | {
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Grey-headed woodpecker
The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. Along with the more commonly found European green woodpecker and the Iberian green woodpecker, it is one of three closely related sister species found in Eur... | {
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Dani Sordo
Daniel "Dani" Sordo Castillo (born 2 May 1983) is a Spanish rally driver. He competes in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport. He achieved his first WRC victory at the 2013 Rallye Deutschland.
Career
Sordo began in motocross when he was 12 years old, but also experienced success in hillclimb... | {
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Turtleheart
Turtleheart (Turtle's Heart or Tortle's Heart) was a Delaware (Lenape) principal warrior and chief who lived during the French and Indian Wars, and Pontiac's War. He and Lenape Chief Killbuck represented the Delaware Nation at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768.
Early life and family
Little is known abo... | {
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Papercutting
Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs. The art has evolved uniquely all over the world to adapt to different cultural styles. One traditional distinction most styles share in common is that the designs are cut from a single sheet of paper as opposed to multiple adjoining sheets as in c... | {
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Versailles (TV series)
Versailles is a Franco-Canadian historical fiction television series, set during the construction of the Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, that premiered on 16 November 2015 on Canal+ in France and on Super Channel in Canada, in May 2016 on BBC Two in Britain, and on 1 October ... | {
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James Munange Ogoola
Justice James Ogoola (sometimes referred to as James Munange Ogoola) is the former Principal Judge of the High Court of Uganda and a Justice of the COMESA Court of Justice in Lusaka, Zambia. He is the chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission of Uganda. Previously, he served as the chairman o... | {
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Landing ship, infantry
A Landing ship, infantry (LSI) or infantry landing ship was one of a number of types of British Commonwealth vessels used to transport landing craft and troops engaged in amphibious warfare during the Second World War. LSIs were operated by the Royal Navy, British Merchant Navy, Royal Canadian N... | {
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The African American Museum in Cleveland
African American Museum (formerly the Afro-American Cultural & Historical Society Museum) in Cleveland, Ohio was founded in 1953 by Icabod Flewellen. The Museum is housed in a 100-year-old Carnegie Library building. The Museum works to educate young people about the positive c... | {
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Anssi Kela
Anssi Kela (born 29 July 1972 in Kerava, Finland) is a Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published six albums. During his career, Kela has sold over 230,000 records in Finland. He received four Emma awards in 2002.
Anssi Kela comes from a musical family. His late father was a keyboard... | {
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Opa (Giorgos Alkaios song)
"OPA!" (, ) is a song recorded by Greek singer Giorgos Alkaios. The song was written by Giorgos Alkaios himself, Giannis Antoniou, Dimitris Hortarias, Manos Hortarias, Dionisis Sxoinas, Tolis sxoinas, Kassiani Karagioule and Stauros Apostolou. It is best known as the Greek entry at the Eurov... | {
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Ellisburg, New York
Ellisburg is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 3,474 at the 2010 census. The town is in the southwestern corner of the county and is south of Watertown. Ellisburg is named after early European-American landowners. The town contains a village also called Ellisbu... | {
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Hurricane Iris (1995)
Hurricane Iris was the first of three tropical cyclones to affect the Lesser Antilles in a three-week period, preceding the more destructive hurricanes Luis and Marilyn. The ninth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Iris developed from a tropical wave to the eas... | {
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Miliana
Miliana () is a town in Aïn Defla Province, northwestern Algeria. It is approximately southwest of the Algerian capital, Algiers. The population was estimated at 44,201 in 2008. The town is located south of the Dahra Massif, on the wooded southern flank of Mount Zaccar Rherbi, five kilometers north of the Ch... | {
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Egeskov Castle
Egeskov Castle () is located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark. The castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle.
History
Egeskov was first mentioned in 1405. The castle structure was erected by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554.
Due to the troubles caused by the civi... | {
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Serbian literature
Serbian literature () refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other lands where Serbs reside. The history of Serbian literature begins with the independent theological works from the Nemanjić era. With the fall of Serbia and neighboring countries in the 15th century, there i... | {
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Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning
Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning (also, "DSIL", "Darun") is a bilingual school located in King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. DSIL is Thailand’s first school that follows the Constructionism Theory as the school curriculum. DSIL was founded in ... | {
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Carmen Argote
Carmen Argote (born 1981) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She hails from Guadalajara. She is known for performance art and sculpture. Her work has been included in exhibitions and museum collections, including the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Orange County Museum... | {
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Sherif Gaber
Sherif Gaber (full name: Egyptian Arabic: Sherif Gaber Abdelazim Bakr; شريف جابر عبد العظيم بكر) ) born c. 1993, is an Egyptian political activist and blogger who was arrested on October 27, 2013 for professing atheism, contempt of religion relating to activities on campus and atheist statements online.
... | {
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Bertram Lenox Simpson
Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877–1930) was a British author who wrote about China under the pen name "B. L. Putnam Weale" (or sometimes simply "Putnam Weale"). Lenox Simpson was the son of Clare Lenox-Simpson, who had been in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service since 1861; he had a brother, Evelyn, a... | {
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London Underground D78 Stock
The London Underground D78 Stock, commonly referred to as D Stock, was a type of sub-surface rolling stock which operated on the District line of the London Underground, except on the Wimbledon to Edgware Road service. The first units were withdrawn in January 2015 with the last withdrawn ... | {
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R&R Partners
R&R Partners is an American advertising, marketing, public relations, and public affairs firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. They are known for creating the ad campaign "What Happens Here, Stays Here," for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). R&R maintains domestic and international clien... | {
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Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert (born 1972), also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician. He often takes sounds from everyday items to produce electronic music.
Career
In 1998, Herbert issued Around the House, which mixed dance beats,... | {
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Timeline of Leuven
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Leuven, Belgium.
Prior to 20th century
883 - .
891 - Battle of Leuven (891).
1090 - Hospital established (approximate date).
1100 - St. Peter's Church built (approximate date).
1165 - built.
1183 - Leuven becomes part of the ... | {
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Sun Bin
Sun Bin (died 316 BC) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and writer who lived during the Warring States period of Chinese history. A supposed descendant of Sun Tzu, Sun Bin was tutored in military strategy by the hermit Guiguzi. He was accused of treason while serving in the Wei state and was sentence... | {
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Fundació Joan Miró
The Fundació Joan Miró () (, "Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Studies of Contemporary Art") is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).
History
The idea for the foundation was made in 1968 by Joan Miró. Miró formed the foundation... | {
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UP10TION
UP10TION (; pronounced "up tension", acronym of Unbelievable Perfect 10 members Teenager Idol Open Now) is a South Korean boy band formed by TOP Media in 2015. The group consists of ten members: Jinhoo, Kuhn, Kogyeol, Wei, Bitto, Wooshin, Sunyoul, Gyujin, Hwanhee, and Xiao. The group debuted with an extended ... | {
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4th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 4th Anti-Aircraft Division (4th AA Division) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of the Second World War. It defended North West England during the Blitz.
Origin
Increasing concern during the 1... | {
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Kenneth R. Himes
Kenneth R. Himes (born 1950) is an American Roman Catholic theologian, currently teaching at Boston College. His most recent book is the coedited work, with Conor M. Kelly, Poverty: Responding Like Jesus.
Personal life
Kenneth Himes was born on July 2, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. He became a member o... | {
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St Stephen's Church, Ealing
St Stephen's Church is a Church of England church in the northern part of West Ealing, London. It was founded in 1867 as a mission and is now established as a separate parish. The first church building was a temporary iron church which was then replaced in 1876 by a substantial Victorian G... | {
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Hurricane Dennis (1981)
Hurricane Dennis caused severe flooding in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in August 1981. The tenth tropical cyclone and fourth named storm of the season, Dennis developed from a tropical wave well south of Cabo Verde on August 7. The depression intensified into a tropical storm early the next day... | {
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Planets in science fiction
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations.
Before Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens, the planets of the Solar System were not widely recognized as worlds, or places where a per... | {
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Upsala-Lenna Jernväg
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Upsala-Lenna Järnväg (ULJ) (literally: Upsala-Lenna Railway, also nicknamed Lennakatten) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in Uppsala County, Sweden. It is long and is a part of the once extensive Roslagen network. The gauge is the , unique to Sweden. The railway is run by the SRJmf society... | {
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Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Sacred Heart Major Seminary is a Catholic seminary in Detroit, Michigan. It is associated with the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Sacred Heart is a regional seminary: in 2016–2017, 107 seminarians, representing eleven dioceses and two religious orders were enrolled in classes, along with 426 lay ... | {
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Abraha
Abraha () (also spelled Abreha, died after CE 570; r. 525–at least 553), also known as Abraha al-Ashram (), was an Aksumite army general, then the viceroy of southern Arabia for the Kingdom of Aksum, and later declared himself an independent King of Himyar. Abraha ruled much of present-day Arabia and Yemen fro... | {
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Sita Valles
Sita Maria Dias Valles (Cabinda, 23 August 1951 – Luanda, c. 1 August 1977) was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party, in charge of the União dos Estudantes Comunistas (or Communist Students' League). She was tortured and brutally murdered following the events of May 1977, presumably in August 1977 i... | {
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Clarke Paulus
Major Clarke Paulus was a United States Marine Corps officer who was briefly in charge of Camp Whitehorse.
Camp Whitehorse
Paulus was an active duty officer, who had volunteered for service in Iraq just one month after his marriage. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune Paulus was about 35 years old... | {
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Business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reportin... | {
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Bifurcation (law)
Bifurcation is a judge's ability in law to divide a trial into two parts so as to render a judgment on a set of legal issues without looking at all aspects. Frequently, civil cases are bifurcated into separate liability and damages proceedings. Criminal trials are also often bifurcated into guilt and... | {
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Omar al-Mukhtar
ʿOmar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī (; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica, currently Eastern Libya under the Senussids, against the Italian colonizatio... | {
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William S. Hamilton
William Stephen Hamilton (August 4, 1797 – October 9, 1850), a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, was an American politician and miner who lived much of his life in the U.S. state of Illinois and territorial Wisconsin. Hamilton was born in New York, where he attended the Un... | {
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Clay Beauford
Clay Beauford (born Welford Chapman Bridwell; September 27, 1846 – February 1, 1905) was an American army officer, scout and frontiersman. An ex-Confederate soldier in his youth, he later enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with the 5th U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars against the Plains Indians from... | {
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David Cox (Marine)
David Vernon Cox (November 27, 1966 – January 5, 1994) was a U.S. Marine who was found murdered in Medfield, Massachusetts. Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play A Few Good Men and the 1992 film adaptation of the same name were based partly on events that Cox was a part of while he was in the Marines.
Early lif... | {
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York Region District School Board
The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) is the English-language public school board for York Regional Municipality in Ontario, Canada. The York Region District School Board is the province's third-largest school board, with an enrollment of over 122,000 students. It is in the fa... | {
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Battle of Stirling (1648)
The second Battle of Stirling was fought on 12 September 1648 during the Scottish Civil War of the 17th century. The battle was fought between the Engagers who were a faction of the Scottish Covenanters under the command of George Munro, 1st of Newmore and who had made "The Engagement" with C... | {
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Roswell (TV series)
Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999, on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The final episode aired on May 14, 2002. Sixty-one episodes in total were broadcast over the show's t... | {
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Al-Wathbah uprising
Al-Wathbah uprising () or simply Al-Wathbah (), which means The Leap in Arabic, was the term that came to be used for the urban unrest in Baghdad in January 1948. The protests were sparked by the monarchy's plans to renew the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty that effectively made Iraq a British protectorate... | {
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Greenville, Indiana
Greenville is an incorporated town in Floyd County, Indiana. The population was estimated by the Census Bureau to be 807 in 2016 at the 2010 census. Greenville is located in the greater Louisville metropolitan area.
History
Founding
Greenville was platted in 1816 by Andrew Mundell and Benjamin ... | {
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Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. From 1967 until his death, he was the art critic of The New Yor... | {
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Whip Wilson
Whip Wilson (born Roland Charles Meyers, June 16, 1911 – October 22, 1964) was an American cowboy film star of the late 1940s and into the 1950s, known for his roles in B-westerns.
He was one of eight children. Wilson had been a moderately successful singer before coming to Hollywood. Following Buck Jones... | {
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Howards Alias
Howards Alias were a band in the turn-of-the-millennium UK underground punk scene. They formed in 1999 in Southampton, England, and blended an eclectic mix of rock, progressive, punk and ska influences into their own musical output. They permanently disbanded in April 2008.
The band released four full-l... | {
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Refectory
A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools, and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries. It derives from the Latin reficere "to remake or restore," via Late Latin refectorium, whic... | {
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Template (C++)
Templates are a feature of the C++ programming language that allows functions and classes to operate with generic types. This allows a function or class to work on many different data types without being rewritten for each one.
Templates are of great utility to programmers in C++, especially when comb... | {
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Viper (rapper)
Lee Arthur Carter (born October 7, 1971), professionally known by his stage name Viper, is an American rapper and producer. Viper has been producing music since childhood, but received widespread attention online for his 2008 album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack. The prolific nature of Viper's wo... | {
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George Mundelein
George William Mundelein (July 2, 1872 – October 2, 1939) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1915 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924.
Early life and ministry
George Mundelein was born on the Lower East Side of Manh... | {
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Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
is a spin-off manga written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. Its plot, set shortly after the epilogue of the Naruto series, focuses on Sarada Uchiha, a young ninja in training from a country called Hinokuni ("Land of Fire"). Sarada is concerned about the identity ... | {
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Ranger 3
Ranger 3 was a space exploration mission conducted by NASA to study the Moon. The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft was launched January 26, 1962 as part of the Ranger program. Due to a series of malfunctions, the spacecraft missed the Moon by and entered a heliocentric orbit.
The Ranger 3 space probe was designe... | {
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Zwanzig projection operator
The Zwanzig projection operator is a mathematical device used in statistical mechanics.
It operates in the linear space of phase space functions and projects onto the linear subspace of "slow" phase space functions. It was introduced by Robert Zwanzig to derive a generic master equation. I... | {
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László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. A New Yo... | {
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Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Collegiate Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
It is often known simply as Holy Trinity Church or as Shakespeare's Church, due to its f... | {
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2009–10 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey season
The 2009–10 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's hockey team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's hockey season. The Golden Gophers were coached by Brad Frost and played their home games at Ridder Arena. The University of ... | {
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Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science
Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science (KITSW) is an autonomous college in Warangal district of Telangana in India. It was established in 1980.It is one of the top private Engineering Colleges in the state of Telangana.
History
The Government of Andhra Pradesh realiz... | {
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Nikolai Baskakov (painter)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (; May 8, 1918, Astrakhan, Soviet Russia – October 14, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet, later Russian, painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), w... | {
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Danish Auxiliary Corps in Habsburg service 1701–1709
After having been forced to sue for peace with Sweden in 1700, the Danish army was much larger than the kingdom could support. The king then decided to put almost half of the army under Allied command during the War of the Spanish Succession. Ten thousand soldiers s... | {
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Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American black comedy crime film directed by George Armitage and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays an assassin who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and g... | {
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Fontana Dam
Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to accommodate the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley at the hei... | {
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Jane Hurst
Jane Louise Hurst is the William Prescott Professor of Animal Science at the University of Liverpool. She is Head of Mammalian Behaviour & Evolution. She studies scent communication between mammals, as well as animal welfare and pest control. She served as the President of the Association for the Study of ... | {
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John A. Rizzo
John A. Rizzo (born 1947) was a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the Deputy Counsel or Acting General Counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe.
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Shawkat Toorawa
Shawkat M. Toorawa (born 1963) is a Professor of Arabic Literature at Yale University. He has published extensively on classical, medieval and modern Arabic Literature, and has also published translations from Arabic. He identifies himself as a multicultural Muslim having lived in England, France, Hong... | {
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Color guard (flag spinning)
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Class III β-tubulin
Class III β-tubulin, otherwise known as βIII-tubulin (β3-tubulin) or β-tubulin III, is a microtubule element of the tubulin family found almost exclusively in neurons, and in testis cells. In humans, it is encoded by the TUBB3 gene.
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Padutirupathi
Sri Venkataramana Temple, Karkala, also known as Padutirupathi, is a temple in Karnataka, India. It was built by Goud Saraswat Brahmins of Karkala and was installed on 25 April 1537.
Etymology
This shrine lies to the west of Tirupati while original shrine is in the east. The name itself signifies its me... | {
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Twelve Tribes communities
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United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
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2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
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Simon Girty
Simon Girty (November 14, 1741 – February 18, 1818) (sometimes referred to as Katepacomen), was an American colonial of Irish descent from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who served as a liaison between the British and their Indian allies during the American Revolution. He was portrayed as a villain, and was als... | {
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Assassin's Creed III
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List of Shugo Chara! volumes
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Hélène Sparrow
Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970) was a pioneer in world public health, a medical doctor and microbiologist. She was noted for her work to control typhus in Poland after the First World War and then leading national programmes of vaccination against diphtheria, scarlet fever, spotted fever... | {
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Death in ancient Greek art
The theme of death within ancient Greek art has continued from the Early Bronze Age all the way through to the Hellenistic period. The Greeks used architecture, pottery, and funerary objects as different mediums through which to portray death. These depictions include mythical deaths, deaths... | {
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Full Boyle
"Full Boyle" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the American television police sitcom series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It is the 17th overall episode of the series and is written by Norm Hiscock and directed by Craig Zisk. It aired on Fox in the United States on February 11, 2014.
The show revolve... | {
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Ispán
The ispán or count (, , and ) was the leader of a castle district (a fortress and the royal lands attached to it) in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century. Most of them were also heads of the basic administrative units of the kingdom, called counties, and from the 13th century the latter function be... | {
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Rantzau (horse)
Rantzau (1946-1971) was a French-bred racehorse that went on to be an extremely influential sire of dressage, show jumping, and event horses, and is considered to be one of the most influential stallions from the French studbook. Rantzau stood .
Background and breeding
Henri Tambareau purchased the Th... | {
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Anthony Barr (American football)
Anthony Barr (born March 18, 1992) is an American football outside linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at UCLA from 2010 to 2013, where he was a consensus All-American in 2013. He was drafted by the Vikings in the first... | {
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William Labov
William Labov ( ; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics. He is a professor emer... | {
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28th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
The 28th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 28th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Louisville and New Haven, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on May 9, 186... | {
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Perfecthome
PerfectHome is a rent-to-own retailer operating across Great Britain. It enables customers to pay weekly for household and electrical goods.
History
The business was established on 30 October 2006 and stocks furniture, entertainment devices, appliances and technology. Brands sold include Samsung, LG, Pan... | {
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