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John P. Allen (musician) John P. Allen is a Canadian country, rock and bluegrass fiddler. Allen was a member of the rock band Great Speckled Bird in the 1970s, and played with bluegrass bands the Good Brothers, Big Redd Ford and the Dixie Flyers. He played country fiddle as a member of Tommy Hunter's band. Allen jo...
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Mareke giri Mareke Giri is a traditional public show in Iran. The Mareke Gir is a person who entertains people with his "special powers", such as breaking chains with his arms, breaking stones with his hands and handling snakes. Mareke Giri is a free show; people will give the Mareke Gir some money to encourage him. ...
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Lajoš Jakovetić Lajoš Jakovetić (; 45 November 1922 in Subotica - 27 January 2003) was a retired Serbian, Yugoslavia international, football player and manager. Playing career He started playing in the youth teams of his home town club FK Bačka 1901. He represented the region of Vojvodina at the first season that was...
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Forgery Act 1837 The Forgery Act 1837 (7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 84) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has been repealed. Section 1 abolished the death penalty for the offences mentioned in the preamble. It provided instead that a person convicted of any of those offences was liable to be transported f...
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Governor Dávila Governor Dávila may refer to: Diego Dávila, 1st Marquis of Navamorcuende, Royal Governor of Chile from 1667 to 1670 Gil González Dávila (died 1543), Governor of Santiago (Jamaica) c. 1533/1534 Pedro Arias Dávila (1440s–1531), Governor of Panama from 1514 to 1526 and Governor of Nicaragua from 1527 to ...
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Jacob Micyllus Jacob Micyllus, (6 April 1503 – 28 January 1558) was a German Renaissance humanist and teacher, who conducted the city's Latin school in Frankfurt and held a chair at the University of Heidelberg, during times of great cultural stress in Germany. Micyllus was born Jakob Moltzer in Strasbourg. From 151...
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Bachtel Tower Bachtel Tower (German: Bachtelturm) is a tall radio tower on high Bachtel mountain near Hinwil, Switzerland, overlooking the Zürcher Oberland. Bachtel Tower is a lattice tower whose observation deck, metres above the ground, is accessible by a stairway. It was built as replacement for a smaller obser...
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Markov partition A Markov partition is a tool used in dynamical systems theory, allowing the methods of symbolic dynamics to be applied to the study of hyperbolic dynamics. By using a Markov partition, the system can be made to resemble a discrete-time Markov process, with the long-term dynamical characteristics of ...
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Body modification Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. It is often done for aesthetics, sexual enhancement, rites of passage, religious beliefs, to display group membership or affiliation, in remembrance of lived experience, traditional sy...
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Nattanid Leewattanavaragul Nattanid Leewattanavaragul (born 16 May 1993) is a Thai racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series and TCR Thailand Touring Car Championship. Having previously competed in the Thailand Super Series and Toyota Motorsport Trophy Thailand amongst others. Racing career Le...
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Ludolf Nielsen Karl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen (January 29, 1876 – October 16, 1939) was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist. Today he is considered as one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s (together with the more famous Carl Nielsen). Life Nielsen was born in Nørre Tvede, Denmark....
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Nathan-melech Nathan-melech is described as one of Josiah's officials in 2 Kings 23:11 of the Hebrew Bible. He lived near the entrance to the temple, close to the courtyard where the horses had been kept that were used in sun-worship before Josiah disposed of both the horses and the chariots that they had pulled. Nam...
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Expeditie Robinson: Battle of the Titans Expeditie Robinson: Strijd der Titanen (also known as Expeditie Robinson: Battle of the Titans), was a special All-Stars season of the Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing in ...
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Subi-myeon Subi-myeon is a rural township in Yeongyang County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Located in the rugged northeastern portion of Yeongyang County, it is the largest of the county's six divisions, covering some . More than 90% of that area is unused by humans; the local population numbers only 2,016. Of t...
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Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904) The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia was signed in Santiago de Chile on October 20, 1904 to delineate the boundary through 96 specified points between Cerro Zapaleri and Cerro Chipe and to regulate the relations between the two countries 20 years af...
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Craig E. Williams Craig E. Williams is an American army Vietnam War veteran from Kentucky and co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Williams was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his efforts on convincing The Pentagon to stop plans to incinerate decaying caches of chemical weapons...
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PAL Stadium Police Athletic League Stadium (PAL Stadium) is a stadium located in San Jose, California owned by the SJ division of the Police Athletic League, the stadium seats 5,000. It is home to Real San Jose of the united Premier Soccer League. Category:Soccer venues in California Category:Sports venues in San Jos...
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KBS TV Novel KBS TV Novel () was a TV series that was broadcast on KBS 2TV at 09:00 (KST) during weekdays, under the production of the KBS Drama Production group. It was broadcast on KBS 1TV until 2009. The production and broadcasting were temporarily halted due to the production cost issue, however, the TV Novel seri...
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Caesar Carl Hans Henkel Caesar Carl Wilhelm Hans Henkel (1837 Fulda, Hesse - 16 June 1913 Umtata), was a German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist. He was the father of John Spurgeon Henkel. Henkel came from an old and distinguished German military family. He enlisted as an offic...
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Norepinephrine Norepinephrine (NE), also called noradrenaline (NA) or noradrenalin, is an organic chemical in the catecholamine family that functions in the brain and body as a hormone and neurotransmitter. The name "noradrenaline", derived from Latin roots meaning "at/alongside the kidneys", is more commonly used in ...
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South Australian Baseball League 2006/2007 Results and statistics for the South Australian Baseball League (Division 1) season of 2006–2007. Match results Round 1: 8 October 2005 Round 2: 15 October 2005 Round 3: 21 October 2006 Round 4: 29 October 2005 Round 5: 5 November 2006 Round 6: 12 November 2006 Round ...
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Kin Vassy Charles Kindred "Kin" Vassy (August 16, 1943 – June 23, 1994) was a singer-songwriter, who in addition to his solo recordings also recorded with other artists, most notably Kenny Rogers, Frank Zappa and Elvis Presley. In the 1960s, Vassy was a member of The Back Porch Majority. He left that group in 1969 an...
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Be More Chill (musical) Be More Chill is a musical with original music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, and a book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. After a 2015 regional theatre production, the musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2018. A Broadway production began previews on February 13, 2...
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Bat & Ball railway station Bat & Ball railway station is located on Bat & Ball Road in Sevenoaks in Kent, England. It is measured from (although London-bound trains that call run to ). The station is managed by Southeastern, however, all train services that call are operated by Thameslink. History The station open...
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Life Is Beautiful (Fred Astaire song) "Life Is Beautiful" is a 1974 song with music written by Fred Astaire and lyrics by Tommy Wolf. Tony Bennett was so impressed with the tune, it became the title track of his album of the same name in 1975. Bennett also performed the song as Astaire looked on during a March 1975 e...
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John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian (1 February 1794 – 14 November 1841), styled Lord Newbottle until 1815 and Earl of Ancram from 1815 to 1824, was a Scottish Tory politician. He served briefly as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Sir Robert Peel between Septem...
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Big Ghost Big Ghost is an anonymous online personality, hip hop writer / blogger and music producer. He is best known for his witty writing style and satirical humor on his earlier hip hop album reviews and blog posts. History Big Ghost began as a parody of Wu Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah, which many believed to b...
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Air Commerz Air Commerz was a German charter airline that operated for a short time between 1970 and 1972. History Air Commerz was set up in Hamburg in early 1970. The airline got the first of its two Vickers Viscount in March and commenced operations in June 1970. The airline's official home base was Düsseldorf Air...
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Quadrants of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., is administratively divided into four geographical quadrants of unequal size, each delineated by their ordinal directions from the medallion located in the Crypt under the Rotunda of the Capitol. Street and number addressing, centered on the Capitol, radiates out into e...
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Villa Salviatino, Maiano The Villa Salviatino, Maiano, in the frazione of Maiano on the steep slope south of Fiesole, is a Tuscan villa overlooking Florence. A modest farmhouse in the 14th century, set among informally terraced slopes planted with vines and olives, the house in its vigna was purchased in 1427 by the...
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Brembio Brembio (Lodigiano: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southeast of Lodi. Brembio borders the following municipalities: Mairago, Ossago Lodigiano, Secugnago, Borghetto Lodigiano, Casalpusterlengo, Livraga, Ospedalet...
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Henk Bosveld Hendrikus ("Henk") Johannes Bosveld (July 10, 1941 – August 6, 1998) was a Dutch football midfielder, who was nicknamed Charly after Charles Chaplin due to a similar style of walking. Club career Born in Velp, he started playing football at local side VVO and was named best player of Vitesse in the twent...
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CAG bird CAG bird is a specially painted aircraft, officially flown by the commanding officer of United States Navy Carrier Air Groups. Every carrier-based aircraft squadron of the United States Navy has such an aircraft that wears modex usually ending with the '00' numbers. Due to their striking, colorful paint schem...
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Pavel Rybnikov Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov (Павел Николаевич Рыбников, 6 December 1831, Moscow, Russian Empire, – 29 November 1885, Kalisz, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire) was a Russian ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian, credited with the discovery of the previously unknown culture of bylina an...
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Petrópolis Environmental Protection Area Petrópolis Environmental Protection Area () is a protected area of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Location The protected area in the Atlantic Forest biome, which covers , was created on 20 May 1992. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation...
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Warsaw Uprising Museum The Warsaw Uprising Museum (named Warsaw Rising Museum, ), in the Wola district of Warsaw, Poland, is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The institution of the museum was established in 1983, but no construction work took place for many years. It opened on July 31, 2004, marking the 60th ...
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Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (Malay for House of Representatives, literally People's Assembly) is the lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia, consisting of members elected during elections from federal constituencies drawn by the Election Commission. The Dewan Rakyat usually proposes legislation through a draft k...
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Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR Title 3 - The President is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), containing the principal set of rules and regulations issued by federal agencies regarding the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It is avai...
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Greater Brunswick Charter School Greater Brunswick Charter School (GBCS) is a free, public charter school serving grades kindergarten through eighth located on 429 Joyce Kilmer Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school has a Spanish-English bilingual program for grades K-4, and has plans to extend it through gra...
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Betty Lou Betty Lou is a feminine double name. Notable people with the name include: Betty Lou Bailey (1929–2007), American mechanical engineer Betty Lou Beets (1937–2000), murderer executed in Texas Betty Lou Bredemus (1934–2015), American actress and acting coach BettyLou DeCroce (born 1952), American politicia...
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John J. Furedy John J. Furedy (June 30, 1940 – August 23, 2016) was a Hungarian-born Australian and Canadian psychophysiologist and distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, noted for his extensive empirical research into the unreliability of the polygraph test in lie detection and s...
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Blagoslovennoye Blagoslovennoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Oktyabrsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. According to the 2010 Census, its population was 869. The village was established in 1871 by Korean settlers who had fled from their country into Primorye due to famine and been resettled at...
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John Farmer (footballer) John Farmer (born 31 August 1947) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Leicester City and Stoke City. Career Farmer was a product of Stoke City's youth system after being found playing amateur football in his local town of Biddulph. He broke into the first tea...
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Heterophily Heterophily, or love of the different, is the tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups; it is the opposite of homophily. This phenomenon can be seen in relationships between individuals. As a result, it can be analyzed in the workplace to create a more efficient and innovative workplace. It has...
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Shannon McGinnis Shannon Marie McGinnis (born August 26, 1980 in Winter Park, Florida) is an American soap opera actress. She is best known for her role of Ginger Foley on the hit ABC soap opera One Life to Live since June 2005 until her final appearance on November 28, 2005 in which her character died after she was h...
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Chattery Teeth (short story) "Chattery Teeth" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in Cemetery Dance and was later collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Publication history Stephen King had been a regular reader of Cemetery Dance, a horror magazine, and sent an unsolicited ...
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Sadul Singh of Bikaner Lieutenant-General Sir Sadul Singh GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, CVO (7 September 1902 – 25 September 1950) was the last reigning Maharaja of Bikaner from 2 February 1943 to 30 March 1949, continuing as Head of the House of Bikaner and holding the title of Maharaja of Bikaner until his death. The eldest su...
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Gumot National Park The Gumot National Park is a high-altitude national park in north eastern Pakistan. It is located within Neelum Valley in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Conservation efforts in the Gumot National Park are funded by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme and implemented by the Himalayan Wil...
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Furniture UK Furniture UK is an e-commerce furniture company that is based in the United Kingdom. Their online store was launched in 2004 by Simon Davies, and the company delivers their products throughout the country. They sell furniture across various product ranges, including living furniture, bedroom furniture, ho...
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Maputo Protection Area Maputo Protection Area is a marine protected area in Mozambique. It was established when the government of Mozambique proclaimed the area on the 14 July 2009 and declared the Marine Protected Area stretching from Ponta do Ouro in the south to the Maputo River Mouth in Maputo Bay in the north ...
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Sunway (processor) Sunway, or ShenWei, (Chinese: ), is a series of computer microprocessors, developed by Jiāngnán Computing Lab () in Wuxi, China. It uses a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture, but details are still sparse. History The Sunway series microprocessors were developed mainly for the us...
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Kneehigh Theatre Kneehigh Theatre is an international touring theatre company founded by Mike Shepherd and based in Cornwall, England. The company are based in barns on the southern Cornish coast but the administration is in Truro. Overview Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd . Early productions were perfor...
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Koduram Dalit Koduram Dalit (5 March 1910 - 28 September 1967) was an Indian poet in Hindi and Chhattisgarhi languages. He was born in Tikri village, district Durg (then Madhya Pradesh, now part of Chhattisgarh state), in a poor family. After completing his studies from Bilaspur and Durg, he worked as a teacher and p...
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Hugh S. Jenkins Hugh S. Jenkins (March 9, 1903 – June 18, 1976) was Ohio Attorney General from 1945 to 1949. Jenkins was born March 9, 1903 in New Cumberland, West Virginia to John T. and Vanessa (Miskelly) Jenkins. He was a Republican from Mahoning County. Before election as Attorney General, he was chairman of Ohio...
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Carnival of Limoux The Carnival of Limoux () is an annual festival held in Limoux, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It takes place for three months on the weekends between January and Mardi Gras and is conducted in Occitan, the area's traditional language. The festival is famous for its alternation of bands and pierrots...
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Olson Olson may refer to: Olson (surname), people with the name Olson Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Olson (constructor), a former racing car constructor Olson database, also known as zoneinfo database "Olson", a song by Boards of Canada. See also Morrison v. Olson, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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Gallinago kakuki Gallinago kakuki was an extinct species of snipe in the family Scolopacidae that was once found in the West Indies. Fossils of this species are known from the Bahamas, Cuba, and Cayman Brac in the Cayman Islands. Gallinago kakuki was a rather large species of snipe that was able to fly despite having...
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Thomas Burchell Thomas Burchell (1799–1846) was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Montego Bay, Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. He was among an early group of missionaries who went out from London in response to a request from African Baptists on the island. He established churches and s...
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Campeonato Nacional Futsal Feminino The Campeonato Nacional de Futsal Feminino is the women's premier futsal league in Portugal. It is organised by the Portuguese Football Federation and, therefore, played under UEFA's rules. It was created in the 2013–14 season, joining Portugal's 16 best teams, and is disputed in a...
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Samu Stern Samu Stern (5 January 1874 – 1946), in Hungarian usage Stern Samu, was a businessman, banker, advisor to the royal court, and head of Hungary's Neolog Jewish Community. After the March 1944 German occupation, Stern was a member of the German-created Jewish Council (Judenrat, Zsidó tanács) along with Ortho...
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Kendhikolhudhoo (Noonu Atoll) Kendhikulhudhoo (Dhivehi: ކެނދިކުޅުދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Noonu Atoll in the northern province of Maldives. The island is among the 10th biggest islands in the Maldives archipelago. According to the census 2014, Kendhikulhudhoo is home to 1767 people making the island mos...
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Katowice Open The Katowice Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on an indoor hard court in Katowice, Poland and was held in April. The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour. Katowice Open replaced Danish Open since ...
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Shopno Bari Shopno Bari is an upcoming Bangladeshi film directed by Tanim Rahman Anshu and stars Anisur Rahman Milon and Zakia Bari Momo as lead pair. The actress is returning to films ending a three-year hiatus after her last film Chuye Dile Mon. References External links Category:Bangladeshi films Category:Bengal...
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Keaton and Kylie Rae Tyndall Keaton Tyndall and Kylie Tyndall (born Keaton Nicole Tyndall and Kylie Rae Tyndall on March 14, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) are identical twin actresses. Career They started acting at the age of 9 months, and have had roles in several movies and TV shows. In 2004, Keaton and Kylie la...
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Elliot Philipp Elliot Philipp (20 July 1915 – 27 September 2010) was a British gynaecologist and obstetrician who worked with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in developing in-vitro fertilisation and authored The Technique of Sex (1939) with the assistance of Sigmund Freud. Biography Phillip was born to a Jewish fa...
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Steve Pelluer Steven Carl Pelluer (born July 29, 1962) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Kansas City Chiefs. He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 5th round of the 1984 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Wash...
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Maerdy Branch The Maerdy Branch was a railway branch line in South Wales. Financed and operated by the Taff Vale Railway, on amalgamation it became part of the Great Western Railway in 1923. Designed and mainly operated as a coal mining freight railway, its creation and demise was wholly defined by the South Wales Coa...
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Danville National Cemetery (Kentucky) Danville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Danville, in Boyle County, Kentucky. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it has 394 interments and is currently closed to new interments. Description The Danville ...
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Peter Livius Peter Livius (12 July 1739 – 23 July 1795) was a Portuguese-born lawyer who became the Chief Justice of Quebec. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the sixth child of Peter Livius, a German from Hamburg and was sent to school in England by his English mother. He married well and in 1763 moved to the Provinc...
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Harry Butler (rugby league) Harry Butler (1887–1965) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. A New South Wales representative, Butler played for South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition, as a . Playing career Butler began his career for Souths in...
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Cem Özdemir Cem Özdemir (, ; born 21 December 1965) is a German politician of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens. Between 2008 and 2018, Özdemir served as co-chair of the Green Party, together with Claudia Roth and later Simone Peter. He has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2013 and he was ...
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Frances Wagner Frances Joan Estelle Wagner (28 May 1927 – 8 November 2016) was a Canadian paleontologist and public servant. Specializing in the use of micropaleontology to study marine geology, she was one of the first female scientists to be permitted to conduct fieldwork by the Geological Survey of Canada, and in ...
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George Hamilton Kenrick Sir George Hamilton Kenrick FRES (1850 – 28 May 1939) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera especially those of New Guinea. He was a prominent liberal educationist and was a councillor in Birmingham. Life Kenrick was born in 1850. He was the son of Timothy Kenrick from Edg...
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Firdousi (crater) Firdousi is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 98 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2010. Firdousi is named for the Iranian poet Hakim Ferdowsi, who lived from 940 to 1020. References Category:Ferdowsi Category:Impact craters on Mercury
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Transrapid Transrapid is a German-developed high-speed monorail train using magnetic levitation. Planning for the Transrapid system started in 1969 with a test facility for the system in Emsland, Germany completed in 1987. In 1991 technical readiness for application was approved by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in cooperat...
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Aura Mayfair Aura Mayfair was a nightclub located on St James's Street in Mayfair, London. In 2010, Tony Fernandes led a consortium that took over the club. The club was owned by Merlot 73 Ltd, in which Fernandes had a 30% stake, and run by Alberto Barbieri. Notable guests included Rihanna, James Arthur, Drake, Ne-Y...
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Know by Heart Know by Heart is the American Analog Set's fourth studio album. It was released on September 4, 2001, and was their first album on Tiger Style Records. The song "The Postman" contains vocals by guest Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service. Gibbard later covered the song "Choir Vandals...
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Vilma Ibarra Vilma Lidia Ibarra (born May 21, 1960) is an Argentine politician, formerly Senator for Buenos Aires and now a National Deputy. She is the sister of Aníbal Ibarra, the former Chief of the Buenos Aires government. Ibarra was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province and moved to the city of Buenos Ai...
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Eamonn Coleman Eamonn Coleman (; 1947 or 1948 – 11 June 2007) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and later manager. He had two separate stints as manager the Derry senior football team, and his chief success was guiding the county to the victory in the 1993 All-Ireland Championship – Derry's first ever All-Ireland Senior...
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Montae Reagor William Montae Reagor (; born American football defensive tackle who spent nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Texas Tech University, and he was recognized as an All-American. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft, an...
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Prunus tomentosa The Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is a species of Prunus native to northern and western China (including Tibet), Korea, Mongolia, and possibly northern India (Jammu and Kashmir, though probably only cultivated there). Other common names for P. tomentosa include Korean cherry, Manchu cherry, downy ...
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Bengkayang Regency Bengkayang Regency () is a regency ("kabupaten") in West Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, (on the island of Borneo). It was originally a part of Sambas Regency, but following the expansion of the population in that area, Sambas Regency was divided into Sambas Regency and Bengkayang Regency, and Sin...
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1917 Yale Bulldogs football team The 1917 Yale Bulldogs football team, commonly known in 1917 as the Yale "Informals", represented Yale University in the 1917 college football season. The team compiled an undefeated 3–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 47 to 0 in games against Loomis Institute (a private b...
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The Goodees The Goodees (Kay Evans, Sandra Jackson and Judy Williams) were an American pop music girl group who enjoyed brief popularity in the late 1960s. Formed in Memphis, Tennessee, the group is best known for the minor hit "Condition Red", a teen melodrama that bore a striking resemblance to the Shangri-Las hit ...
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Ralph Stafford (died 1410) Sir Ralph Stafford (c. 1355-1410) was the second son of Sir John Stafford (died c. 1370), of Bramshall, Staffordshire. He was an influential member of the north Midlands gentry, due to his own office holding as well as the fact that his family was a cadet branch of the powerful Stafford fam...
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Rob Voerman Rob Voerman (born May 6, 1966, Deventer) is a Dutch graphic artist, sculptor and installation artist. His works generally show futuristic architectural constructions in a post-apocalyptic world full of destruction, explosions and the remains of conflict and catastrophe. Biography Voerman studied at the CA...
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Leptepilepta Leptepilepta is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. Species Leptepilepta betschi Griveaud, 1977 Leptepilepta diaphanella (Mabille, 1897) Leptepilepta umbrata (Griveaud, 1973) References Category:Lymantriinae
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Apollodorus of Cyrene Apollodorus of Cyrene () was a grammarian of ancient Greece who was often cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scholiast on Euripides, in the Etymologicum Magnum, and in the Suda. From Athenaeus it would seem that he wrote a work on drinking vessels (ποτήρια), and if we may believe the aut...
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Eureka Landing, Arizona Eureka or Eureka Landing, is a former mining town and steamboat landing, now a ghost town, on the Arizona bank of the Colorado River in what is now La Paz County, Arizona. It was originally located in Yuma County, Arizona from 1863 through the 1870s. History In the fall of 1863, the Eureka Mi...
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Tag team championships in WWE WWE (formerly the WWF, WWWF, and its predecessor, Capitol Wrestling) has maintained at least one primary tag team championship for its male performers since 1958 (except for a two year interim between 1967 and 1969). Whenever brand division has been implemented, separate primary tag team ...
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Hungry Hall Hungry Hall was the name of two unrelated Canadian trading posts. 1. Saskatchewan River (NWC,1791): In 1790 William Thorburn of the North West Company built a post on the right bank of the Saskatchewan River near Nipawin, Saskatchewan to cut off the Hudson's Bay Company trade at Cumberland House, Saskatch...
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Oneida stirpiculture The stirpiculture experiment at the Oneida Community was the first positive eugenics experiment in American history, resulting in the planned conception, birth and rearing of 58 children. The experiment lasted from 1869–1879. It was not considered as part of the larger eugenics history because of ...
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Halophila stipulacea Halophila stipulacea is a seagrass native to the Indian Ocean that spread into the Mediterranean after the opening of the Suez Canal. This seagrass is widespread through the Gulf of Aqaba. Recently it has arrived in the Caribbean where it is also spreading. References stipulacea Category:Flora o...
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Kitur Kitur is a surname of Kenyan origin that may refer to: Samson Kitur (1966—2003), Kenyan sprinter and Olympic and world medallist David Kitur (born 1962), Kenyan sprinter and All-Africa Games medallist Simon Kitur (born 1959), Kenyan 400 metres hurdler, brother of David and Samson Joseph Kitur Kiplimo (born 1988...
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Anemone deltoidea Anemone deltoidea is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common names Columbian windflower and western white anemone. It is native to the forests of the west coast of the United States. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing between 10 and 30 centimeters tall. Ther...
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Dan Shea (producer) Daniel Martin Shea is an American record producer and composer who has worked with numerous artists including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Santana, Barbra Streisand, Jessica Simpson. Sara Evans, Rob Thomas, Marc Anthony, Boyz II Men, Martina McBride, Kenny G, Ricky Mart...
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A platform The A platform is a term most commonly associated with automobile body type and has several meanings: Chrysler A platform, a Chrysler automobile platform used in the 1960s GM A platform (RWD), a midsize automobile platform of General Motors in use from 1961 to 1981 for rear wheel drive vehicles GM A pla...
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1742 in Russia Events from the year 1742 in Russia Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth I Events The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court. Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne....
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Misumalpan languages The Misumalpan languages (also Misumalpa or Misuluan) are a small family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples on the east coast of Nicaragua and nearby areas. The name "Misumalpan" was devised by John Alden Mason and is composed of syllables from the names of the family's three members Miski...
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Bovalino Bovalino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about east of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,406 and an area of . Antonio Lentini, a Newburgh, New York, restaurateur, left Boval...
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