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2017 Latvian Higher League
The 2017 Latvian Higher League is the 26th season of top-tier football in Latvia. Spartaks Jūrmala are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season.
Teams
The bottom-placed team from the 2016 season, BFC Daugavpils, were directly relegated to the 2017 Latvi... | {
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Rough-scaled python
Morelia carinata, commonly known as the rough-scaled python, is a large-scaled python species endemic to Australia. No subspecies are currently recognized.
Description
The rough-scaled python is able to grow to around in total length. It has a triangular shaped head with a conspicuous constrictio... | {
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Weston, Missouri
Weston is a city in Platte County, Missouri within the United States. The population was 1,641 at the 2010 census. It lies within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
History
Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped at "Bear Medison" island, near the location of today's city hall. Weston was the oldest settl... | {
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Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Charles Hubert Rohault de Fleury (2 July 1777 – 1846) was a French architect who was responsible for many public buildings in Paris in the first half of the 19th century.
Early years
The Rohault family originated in Abbeville.
Jean-Baptiste Louis Rohault, a cloth and silk merchan... | {
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Gosset
Gosset, founded in 1584, is the oldest wine house in Champagne. In 1584, Pierre Gosset, alderman of Aÿ and wine-grower, made still, mostly red, wines from the grapes he harvested from his own vines. In those days, two wines vied for pride of place at the table to the Kings of France: the wine of Aÿ and, from so... | {
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One String Leads to Another
One String Leads to Another is the third solo recording by American guitarist Tim Sparks, released in 1999.
History
The title is taken from a quote by John Renbourn. While speaking of Davey Graham's travels in Morocco "where he came across a tuning used on an exotic, North African string i... | {
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Shah Alami
Shahalmi (or Shah Almi) is one of the largest markets in Lahore, Pakistan.
The "Shah-Almi Gate" is named after Mughal emperor Shah Alam I, son of Aurangzeb. Prior to his death, the gate was called the "Bherwala Gate". During the 1947 partition riots, the gate was burned. Today only the name survives. One o... | {
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Mexica Movement
The Mexica Movement is an "Indigenous rights educational organization" based in Los Angeles, California. Their organization views Mexicans of Native Mexican and Amerindian descent, as one people who are falsely divided by European-imposed borders. Their ultimate objective is the non-violent, democratic... | {
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HMS Sapphire (1675)
HMS Sapphire was a 32-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich in 1675, at a cost of £4,175.
In 1677 Sapphire was the first command of Cloudesley Shovell, who later became Admiral of the Fleet and eventually died in the Scilly naval disaster of 1... | {
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Antoinette Ockerse
Antonia or Antoinette Ockerse or Kleyn-Ockerse (1762 – 1828) was a Dutch poet.
Ockerse was born in Vianen and married Joannes Petrus Kleyn in 1784, also a poet. She and her husband lived in Drimmelen and published poems, and they were both members of an orangist-circle that wrote patriotic poetry, ... | {
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Joe Murphy (footballer, born 1873)
James Joseph Murphy (1873 – unknown) was an English footballer who played in the Scottish League for Hibernian, and in the Football League for Stoke and Woolwich Arsenal. He often went by the nickname Judge because he wore a wig.
Career
Murphy was born in Stockton-on-Tees but starte... | {
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Houia
Houia is a genus of dekatriatan, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. Fossils of the single and type species, H. yueya, have been discovered in deposits of the Early Devonian period (Lochkovian epoch) in Yunnan, China. The name of the genus is derived from the Chinese character 鲎 (hòu), meaning "horseshoe crab... | {
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Elysium in popular culture
Elysium features often in popular culture.
Contemporary music
A single released by the British trio; Bear's Den in July 2014.
Elysium is the name of the eleventh studio album by British synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 5 September 2012.
Sounds of Elysium 008 – Sunny Lax 2010 Mix ... | {
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Six Minutes
"Six Minutes" is the thirty-sixth episode of the American television drama series The Killing, which aired on July 28, 2013. The episode is written by series creator Veena Sud and directed by Nicole Kassell. In the episode, Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) spends Ray Seward's (Peter Sarsgaard) remaining twelve... | {
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The Climbers (1919 film)
The Climbers is a 1919 American silent comedy drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on Clyde Fitch's Broadway play. This film was directed by Tom Terriss and stars Corinne Griffith.
A previous version of Fitch's play had been made in 1915 as The ... | {
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Gao Yaojie
Gao Yaojie (; born 1927) is a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. Gao has been honored for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations, and had spent time under house arrest. Her split with the Chinese authority on the transmission and the seri... | {
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Spin foam
In physics, the topological structure of spinfoam or spin foam consists of two-dimensional faces representing a configuration required by functional integration to obtain a Feynman's path integral description of quantum gravity. Also, see loop quantum gravity.
Spin foam in loop quantum gravity
Covariant ... | {
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Guy Stevens
Guy Stevens (13 April 1943 – 28 August 1981) was a British music industry figure whose roles included DJ, record producer, and band manager. He was influential in promoting R&B music in Britain in the 1960s, gave the rock bands Procol Harum and Mott the Hoople their distinctive names, and co-produced The ... | {
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Episcepsis lenaeus
Episcepsis lenaeus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found from Mexico to the Guianas.
Description
Head and thorax fuscous brown; back of head and shoulders with paired crimson spots; fore coxae crimson; abdomen metallic blue, the dorsal patch of hai... | {
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Sayami Matsushita
is an athlete from Japan. She competes in archery.
Matsushita represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 35th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 624. In the first round of elimination, she faced 30th-ranked Alexandra Fouace of France. Matsushita defea... | {
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Payal Ki Jhankaar
Payal Ki Jhankaar () is a 1980 Indian romance film directed by Satyen Bose. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Alankar Joshi as Gopal Bhatt
Rupini as Shyama
Surinder Kaur as Veena
Veena
... | {
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Pierrefonds Boulevard
Pierrefonds Boulevard is an east-west boulevard in the northwest of the Island of Montreal, or the northern part of West Island. It runs mostly through the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
History
Pierrefonds Boulevard has a total length of 9.3 km and is an important commercial street in the wes... | {
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Karl Wiegers
Karl E. Wiegers (born 1953) is an American software engineer, consultant, and trainer in the areas of software development, management, and process improvement. He is known as the author of many articles and several books mainly focused on software requirements. He is also the author of a memoir of life l... | {
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Avery County, North Carolina
Avery County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,797. The county seat is Newland. The county seat was initially established in Elk Park when the county was first formed, but was moved to Newland upon completion of the courth... | {
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Back from the Grave, Volume 6
Back from the Grave, Volume 6 (LP) is the sixth installment in the Back from the Grave series of garage rock compilations assembled by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. It was released in 1986. In keeping with all of the entries in the series, and as indicated in the subheading which reads "... | {
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Kong Foo Sing
"Kong Foo Sing" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released in April 1996 as the second single and first single from the band's debut studio album Tu-Plang. The single peaked at number 33 in Australia. The song ranked at number 15 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1996.
Ben Ely said... | {
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Democratic Left Party (Turkey)
The Democratic Left Party (, DSP) is a Turkish political party, founded on 14 November 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit.
History
1985–1999
The DSP, a social-democratic oriented party, was registered on 14 November 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life ... | {
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Adolphe Blanc
Adolphe Blanc (24 June 1828 – May 1885) was a French composer of chamber music.
Blanc was born in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. At the age of 13 he was sent to study violin at the Paris Conservatoire. Though he studied under Fromental Halévy, and though his one-act comic opera Les Deux Billets was... | {
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Lambert Tree
Lambert Tree (November 29, 1832 – October 9, 1910) was a United States state court judge, ambassador, and patron of the arts.
Biography
Born in Washington, D.C., Tree went to the University of Virginia. He studied law and graduated LLB and was admitted to the Washington bar in 1855. Soon afterwards, he m... | {
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Waitoki
Waitoki is a locality in the Rodney District of New Zealand. Wainui is approximately 5.5 kilometres to the north-east, Kaukapakapa 6.5 km to the north-west, and Dairy Flat 10 km to the south-east. The Wainui Stream joins the Waitoki Stream just to the north-east of the locality. The stream flows west into the ... | {
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France A. Córdova
France Anne-Dominic Córdova (born August 5, 1947) is an American astrophysicist and administrator, who is the fourteenth director of the National Science Foundation. Previously, she was the eleventh President of Purdue University from 2007 to 2012.
Biography
Early years
Córdova was born in Paris, ... | {
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The New New Deal
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era is a 2012 book about the Obama administration and its response to the world financial crisis written by journalist Michael Grunwald. He describes the discussions and debates that led to the government's anti-recession measures such as the A... | {
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Climbing to Spring
is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Daisaku Kimura. It was released on 14 June 2014.
Plot
Tōru, a struggling securities trader in Tokyo, learns that his father Isao has died in a mountain rescue operation. He returns to his home town in the mountains of central Japan for the wake. He spontane... | {
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Athalaric
Athalaric (; 5162 October 534) was the king of the Ostrogoths in Italy between 526 and 534. He was a son of Eutharic and Amalasuntha, the youngest daughter of Theoderic the Great, whom Athalaric succeeded as king in 526.
As Athalaric was only ten years old, the regency was assumed by his mother, Amalasuntha... | {
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Rémy Ceillier
Dom Rémy (or Rémi) Ceillier (1688 – 1761) was a Benedictine monk of the Lorraine Congregation of St. Vanne.
Ceillier was born in Bar-le-Duc, and was the compiler of an immense Histoire générale des auteurs sacrés et ecclésiastiques (23 vols., Paris, 1729–1763), a history and analysis of the writings of ... | {
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Ko Adang
Ko Adang () is the second biggest island within Tarutao National Marine Park, in Thailand, very close to Ko Lipe island. The island is 6 km long and 5 km wide. The highest point on the island is 690 m.
Overview
Adang is surrounded by only few sandy beaches, but the offshore coral reef is abundant. The hilly... | {
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The Hostage Tower
The Hostage Tower is a 1980 American spy and thriller telemovie starring Peter Fonda and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and directed by Claudio Guzmán, well known for his work in sitcoms. It is based on a book of the same name by John Denis, based on an idea by Alistair MacLean. The book was written delibera... | {
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Eternal Summer (2006 film)
Eternal Summer () is a 2006 Taiwanese film starring Joseph Chang, Ray Chang and Kate Yeung. It was directed by Leste Chen. In 2006 the film received four nominations at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards, where Ray Chang won the award for Best New Performer.
Plot
Three high school students experi... | {
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Grantham Prize
The Grantham Prize was an annual journalism award awarded between September 2005 and October 2012. It was established by Jeremy Grantham and Hannelore Grantham and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting to annually recognize the work of one journalist or a team of journalists for e... | {
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Persona (Lorenzo Senni EP)
Persona is an extended play by Italian producer Lorenzo Senni, released on the label Warp Records on 11 November 2016. The EP showcases Senni's viewpoint as a "Rave Voyeur" character (as showed on its cover art by Ed Atkins) of the music and culture of hard trance, as well as the genre's rel... | {
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Agra schwarzeneggeri
Agra schwarzeneggeri is a species of carabid beetle named after the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The holotype was collected in Costa Rica and first described to science in 2002.
Etymology
The binomial nomenclature references Schwarzenegger, because of the markedly developed '(biceps-like)' middle... | {
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Estonia Theatre
The Estonia Theatre is a Jugendstil building designed by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn. It was built as a national effort with the leadership of Estonia society in 1913 and was opened to the public on 24 August. At the time, it was the largest building in Tallinn.
The opera house was... | {
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Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
"Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" is a jump blues song, written by Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five recorded the song on June 26, 1946 and Decca Records released it on a 78 rpm record.
The single debuted on Billboard magazine's Rhythm and Blues Recor... | {
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Oei
OEI or Oei can refer to:
OEI
Organization of Ibero-American States, known by the Spanish and Portuguese-derived acronym, OEI
Ozarks Entertainment, Inc., a former owner of the Dogpatch USA amusement park in the United States
Oei
Ōei, a Japanese era name spanning from 1394 to 1428
Surname
David Oei, Hong Kong-bor... | {
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Gentle (character)
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) is a mutant fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the student body of the Xavier Institute.
Fictional character biography
Xavier Institute/M-Day
Prior to M-Day, he was part of Storm'... | {
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Kerstin Eckert
Kerstin Eckert (born August 25, 1966) is a scientist. She is the head of the new Chair of Transport Processes at Interfaces, a combined chair of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden created in October 2016.
Scientific Achievement and Recognitions
peer-reviewed publications ≥ 126
invite... | {
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Walter Gordon Wilson
Major Walter Gordon Wilson CMG (1874–1957) was a mechanical engineer, inventor and member of the British Royal Naval Air Service. He was credited by the 1919 Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors as the co-inventor of the tank, along with Sir William Tritton.
Education
Walter was born in Black... | {
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Norman Cross Rural District
Norman Cross was a rural district in Huntingdonshire from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Peterborough rural sanitary district which was in Huntingdonshire (the rest forming part of Peterborough Rural District). It was named for... | {
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Taldy-Bulak, Chuy
Taldy-Bulak () is a village in the Chuy District, Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 538 in 2009. It is subordinated to Ibraimov rural community (aiyl okmotu) that also include villages Koshoy (center), Kara-Oy, Kyzyl-Asker, and Lenin-Jol.
References
Category:Populated places in Chuy Regio... | {
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Everton railway station
Everton is a closed station of the closed Bright line. Everton was the former junction station for the Yackandandah line.
Only the platform remains at this station where a new shelter and toilets have been built as part of a rail trail project. A plaque and commemorative buffer stop have also b... | {
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West Side Nut Club Fall Festival
The West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is an annual event held the first full week of every October on Franklin Street in Evansville, Indiana, and is organized by the West Side Nut Club. The festival features over 136 food booths run and operated by not-for-profit groups in the region. I... | {
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Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott (1 June 1927 – 23 May 2015) was a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include Guardians of the Tall Stones and The Egyptian Sequence.
Moyra Caldecott was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and moved to London in 1951. She married Olive... | {
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20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steppenwolf
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steppenwolf, released by Universal Music as part of their 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection series, is a CD that collects material by Steppenwolf from 1968 to 1971. Th... | {
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Missouri's 2nd congressional district
Missouri's second congressional district is in the eastern portion of the state, primarily consisting of the suburbs south and west of St. Louis, including Arnold, Town and Country, Wildwood, Chesterfield, and Oakville. The district includes portions of St. Louis, Jefferson and St... | {
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People's United Democratic Movement
The People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO; ) is the largest opposition political party in Swaziland. It is a pro-democracy socialist party. Formed in 1983 at the University of Swaziland, it is led by Mlungisi Makhanya. The Swazi government has been monitoring PUDEMO closely si... | {
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June Maule
June D. Maule (February 1, 1917 – October 29, 2009) was an American businesswoman. Maule was the owner and manager of Maule Air, a manufacturer of light, single-engined STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) aircraft headquartered in Moultrie, Georgia.
Life
June Aderhold was born in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.... | {
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Theodoric Vrie
Theodoric Vrie (dates unknown) was a historian of the Council of Constance.
He describes himself as a brother of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, and a lector in sacred theology in the Province of Saxony. From his description of facts it appears that Vrie must have been an eyewitness to the even... | {
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Elaphoidella
Elaphoidella is a genus of freshwater copepods in the family Canthocamptidae. It contains over 200 species, including three classified as vulnerable species by the IUCN – three endemic to Slovenia (Elaphoidella franci, Elaphoidella jeanneli and Elaphoidella slovenica) and one endemic to the United States ... | {
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Health care in Calgary
Calgary currently has four major adult acute care hospitals; the Foothills Medical Centre, the Peter Lougheed Centre, the Rockyview General Hospital and the South Health Campus and a children's acute care hospital; Alberta Children's Hospital, all running under the auspices of Alberta Health Ser... | {
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Dennis Drayna
Dennis T. Drayna (born 1952) is an American human geneticist known for his contributions to stuttering, human haemochromatosis, pitch, and taste. He is currently the Section Chief of Genetics of Communication Disorders at the U.S. National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
Biogra... | {
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Mikawa, Yamaguchi
was a town located in Kuga District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 1,714 and a density of 22.60 persons per km². The total area was 75.85 km².
On March 20, 2006, Mikawa, along with the towns of Kuga, Miwa, Nishiki, Shūtō and Yū, and the village of ... | {
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Innokenti Gerasimov
Innokenti Petrovich Gerasimov ( 9 December 1905, Kostroma - 30 March 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet geographer
and pedologist, professor, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953).
Biography
He graduated from Leningrad State University (1926).
Gerasimov participated in expeditions to Kazakh... | {
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AREA15
AREA15 is a retail and entertainment development that opens in February about two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. It includes retail tenants, an ice-cream parlor, a gift shop and a food court.
Investors characterize AREA15 as a "fresh", "exciting" “immersive bazaar,” an “experiential retail and entertainment c... | {
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Love Life (song)
"Love Life" is a Pet Shop Boys song originally performed and released by the Swedish band Alcazar. It was the fourth single to be taken from their #2 album Alcazarized. The song was originally titled "Can I Be the One?", and was demoed by Pet Shop Boys themselves. "Love Life" peaked at #10 in Sweden.... | {
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Eucalyptus canobolensis
Eucalyptus canobolensis, commonly known as the Mount Canobolas candlebark or silver-leaf candlebark, is a species of tree that is endemic to a small area of New South Wales in eastern Australia. It is a small tree with smooth bark on the trunk and branches, dull, lance-shaped adult leaves, flow... | {
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Walter Roberts (writer)
Walter R. Roberts was a writer, lecturer, and former government official.
Life and career
Walter R Roberts was born in Austria-Hungary (August 26, 1916 – June 29, 2014), educated at the University of Vienna and Cambridge University (M. Litt., Ph.D.), and died (June 29, 2014) in Washington D.C... | {
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Wallasey
Wallasey () is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula. At the 2011 Census, the population was 60,284.
History
Toponymy
The name of Wallasey originates from the Germanic word Walha, meaning... | {
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Jeff Celentano
Jeff Celentano (born May 24, 1960), also credited as Jeff Weston, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. Celentano starred as a character actor in such films as Robert Altman’s “The Player”, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Puppet Master II, and Demonic Toys. Also starring i... | {
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Bednář
Bednář (feminine Bednářová) is a Czech surname (meaning "cooper"). It may refer to:
People
Andy Bednar, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1930 and 1931
David A. Bednar (born 1952), American member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Eva Bednářová, Czech... | {
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Matt Zunic
Matthew Zunic (September 19, 1919 – December 15, 2006) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at the George Washington University. A 6'3" guard, he played one season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a precursor to the NBA. He averaged 4.9 points... | {
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Blackfoot Dam
Blackfoot Dam (National ID # ID00204) is a dam in Caribou County, Idaho, in the eastern part of the state.
The earthen dam was completed in 1911 by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, with a height of 55 feet and 304 feet long at its crest. It impounds the Blackfoot River of Idaho for flood con... | {
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Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Fencing events at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics were held from 7 to 10 October at the Africa Pavilion in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 6 competitors, 3 per each gender and 1 per each weapon. 66 places was ... | {
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Agriculture in Syria
Despite six years of crisis in Syria, agriculture remains a key part of the economy. The sector still accounts for an estimated 26 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and represents a critical safety net for the 6.7 million Syrians – including those internally displaced - who still remain in r... | {
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Schisandra glabra
Schisandra glabra, the bay star-vine, is the only American species of this primarily Asian genus. It is native to the southeastern United States and northern Mexico. It grows in Louisiana, eastern Arkansas, southwestern Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and Georgia, with isolated... | {
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Yaeda Valley
The Yaeda Valley, or Yaida Valley, is a swampy valley in Tanzania south of Lake Eyasi. The valley is in Mbulu District of Manyara Region.
The valley forms an endorheic basin with no drainage outlet. A low ridge running northeast–southwest separates the valley from the basin of Lake Eyasi.
The Yaeda Swa... | {
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Francisco Silvela
Francisco Silvela y Le Vielleuze (15 December 1843, in Madrid – 29 May 1905, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who became Prime Minister of Spain on 3 May 1899, succeeding Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. He served in this capacity until 22 October 1900.
Silvela also served a second term from 6 December 19... | {
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier ; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and was regarded as an international icon of style and culture.
Bouvier was born in 1929 in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbr... | {
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Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw (16 September 1916 – 23 May 1978) was the first Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, and previously served as Chief Minister, legislator, and labour activist.
Early life
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl ... | {
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Furlong
A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains.
Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not ... | {
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Pedro Spajari
Pedro Henrique Silva Spajari (born February 18, 1997 in Amparo) is a Brazilian swimmer.
International career
At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships held in Singapore, he finished 5th in the 100 metre freestyle., and 4th in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
In 2016, Spajari discovered that h... | {
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Richard Newcourt
Richard Newcourt may refer to:
Richard Newcourt (historian) (died 1716), English notary and historian
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ULTRACOM
ULTRACOM — or Telecomunicaciones Ultramarinas de Puerto Rico (TUPR) in Spanish— is a telecommunications corporation that manages satellite and submarine communications cable systems connected to Puerto Rico. It is jointly owned by PREPA.Net and Telefónica S.A. The corporation was formed in 1992 after the gove... | {
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Craig County, Oklahoma
Craig County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,029. Its county seat is Vinita. The county was organized in 1907, shortly before statehood, and named for Granville Craig, a prominent Cherokee farmer who lived in the Bluejacket area.
History
I... | {
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Ferrari F2007
The Ferrari F2007 is a Formula One motor racing car, with which Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro competed during the 2007 Formula One season, it being the fifty-third single-seater car which the team have built to use in Formula One. The car is best known for providing Kimi Räikkönen with his first World Champi... | {
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Winnipeg Monarchs (WHL)
The Winnipeg Monarchs were a junior ice hockey team that played in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1967 to 1977 under three names. The team played as the Winnipeg Jets from 1967 to 1973; the Winnipeg Clubs from 1973 to 1976, and the Winnipeg Monarchs from 1976 to 1977. The Monarchs franch... | {
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Mohamed Massaquoi
Mohamed Jah Massaquoi ( ; born November 24, 1986) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Georgia and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft.
Massaquoi has also been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets.
Ear... | {
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Antonie Dixon
Antonie "Mac" Roni "Tony" Dixon (1968 – 4 February 2009) was a convicted New Zealand thief and murderer. His most notorious crimes were committed in an 11-hour spree of violence in 2003 in which he completely or partially severed the hands or arms of two women with a Samurai sword, shot a man dead with a... | {
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AXR
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Abdominal x-ray
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Amrep Corporation, traded as AXR
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Hafshejan Elamite brick
Hafshejan Elamite brick is an ancient brick found in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. After the inscription is written Hafshejan. This brick to 24, width 15 and a diameter of 8 cm and has 26 lines and was written more than 3100 years ago (1120 BC. M.). The discovery of the brick in the... | {
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Sophia of Prussia
Sophia of Prussia (Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice, Greek: Σοφία; 14 June 1870 – 13 January 1932) was Queen consort of Greece during 1913–1917 and 1920–1922.
A member of the House of Hohenzollern and daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor, Sophia received a liberal and anglophile education, under t... | {
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Chaloner (locomotive)
Chaloner is an example of de Winton's distinctive vertical-boilered design, as used for many years in the North Wales slate quarries. It was built in 1877 at the Union Works in Caernarfon. (The former de Winton factory is located across the road from the present WHR station).
Industrial use
Ch... | {
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George K. Denton
George Kirkpatrick Denton (November 17, 1864 – January 4, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, father of Winfield K. Denton.
Born near Sebree, Kentucky, Denton attended the public schools and Van Horn Institute.
He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware in 1891 and from ... | {
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Contender (dinghy)
The International Contender is a single-handed high performance sailing dinghy, designed by Bob Miller, latterly known as Ben Lexcen, (Australia) in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition.
The Contender is recognised as an International Class by World Sailing, the g... | {
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Jeff Blauser
Jeffrey Michael Blauser (born November 8, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop. He played for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs from 1987 to 1999.
Career
Blauser went to Placer High School in Auburn, California and Sacramento City College. He was selected by the Braves in the first round ... | {
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Wardell's Beach
Wardell's Beach is the historic name of a barrier spit located on the Jersey Shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It takes its name from Eliakim Wardell, an early owner, and his descendants. Since the 19th century it has been joined physically to Sandy Hook, and co... | {
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Vilho Tuulos
Vilho "Ville" Immanuel Tuulos (26 March 1895 – 2 September 1967) was a Finnish triple jumper and long jumper.
He won a gold medal in the triple jump at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The 14.50 meter jumps he made during the qualifying round was counted for the main event and were enough for the win... | {
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Soil in Sa'isi Tsa'ida Imba
The soils of the Sa'isi Tsa'ida Imba woreda (district) in Tigray (Ethiopia) reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively low temperatures, overall dominance of metamorphic and sandstone lithology and steep slopes.
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Cyclic form
Cyclic form is a technique of musical construction, involving multiple sections or movements, in which a theme, melody, or thematic material occurs in more than one movement as a unifying device. Sometimes a theme may occur at the beginning and end (for example, in Mendelssohn's A minor String Quartet or B... | {
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Senden
The town of Senden is the second-largest town of the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria and is located at the border to Baden-Württemberg. The town belongs to the Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund. Senden's neighbours are Neu-Ulm in the north, Weißenhorn in the east, Vöhringen in the south and Illerkirchberg in the we... | {
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