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Frankee Connolly Francesca Rose Connolly is a singer from Helmshore. She was a member of the groups Mini Viva, who had a No. 7 hit with "Left My Heart in Tokyo", and M.O, with whom she had a No. 18 hit with "Who Do You Think Of?". Discography With Mini Viva Extended plays Singles With M.O Extended plays Singles ...
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White-bellied antbird The white-bellied antbird (Myrmeciza longipes), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from Panama to northern Brazil and in Trinidad. It is also called Swainson's antcatcher (usually in historical sources) after William John Swainson, who first described it scientifically. T...
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Kościerzyna railway station Kościerzyna railway station is a railway station serving the town of Kościerzyna, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located on the Nowa Wieś Wielka–Gdynia Port railway, Chojnice–Kościerzyna railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne and SKM Tricity. ...
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Elizabeth Halseth Elizabeth Halseth (born February 5, 1983) is an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Nevada Senate from November 2010 until February 2012. Halseth is the youngest woman in Nevada to ever have been elected to the Nevada Legislature. She's announced her intention to seek office in th...
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Sami Beigi Saman Es'hagh Beigi known as Sami Beigi () or Sami Beigi () or nickname King (born on November 22, 1982) is an Iranian singer and songwriter currently living in Irvine, California. In an interview with "Zarebin" and "Voice of Farsi", he mentioned that he was raised in Sweden. Beigi attended musical school...
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Roger Corbett Roger Campbell Corbett (born 30 January 1942) is an Australian businessman. From January 1999 to September 2006, Corbett served as CEO of Woolworths Limited, a large retailing conglomerate. Career Educated at Shore School, Corbett graduated from UNSW Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce. In 2003, Corbet...
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People Got to Be Free "People Got to Be Free" is a song released in 1968 by The Rascals. Written by group members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and featuring a lead vocal from Cavaliere, it is a musically upbeat but impassioned plea for tolerance and freedom: All the world over, so easy to see! People everywhere,...
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Gene Fullmer Lawrence Gene Fullmer (July 21, 1931 – April 27, 2015) was an American professional boxer and World Middleweight champion. Professional career Fullmer began his professional career in 1951 and won his first 29 fights, 19 by knockout. His manager during many years of his career was his mentor, Marv Jenso...
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Corporate entertainment Corporate entertainment describes private events held by corporations or businesses for their staff, clients or stakeholders. These events can be for large audiences such as conventions and conferences, or smaller events such as retreats, holiday parties or even private concerts. It is also co...
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Layton's Mystery Journey Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is a puzzle video game developed and published by Level-5. It is the seventh main entry in the Professor Layton series and follows a new protagonist, Katrielle Layton. It was released for Android, iOS, and the Nintendo 3DS, i...
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Joe Allen Evyagotailak Joe Allen Evyagotailak was born 15 July 1953 in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada. Evyagotailak was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Kugluktuk having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. Evyagotailak is a notable Copper Inuit. On 20 August 2008, Evyagota...
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Brändöskär Brändöskär and Uddskär are two islands in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago, joined by an isthmus. In the past there was a large summer fishing village around the bay between the two islands. Many of the buildings remain, and are now used for recreational ...
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Reichsgau Kärnten The Reichsgau Kärnten (English: Gau Carinthia) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Carinthia and East Tyrol (both in Austria) and Upper Carniola in Slovenia. It existed from 1938 to 1945. It was responsible for the administration of the de facto annexed Operational Zone of the Adriatic...
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Syed Nasir Ismail Tun Dato' Syed Nasir bin Ismail ( ; 7 March 1921– 1982) was a Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia. During his lifetime, he was known as a nationalist who sought to fight for the primacy of the national language in Malaysia as a means to create a national identi...
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Richard A. Bettis Richard A. Bettis is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is known for his work on corporate strategy, global business strategy and strategic management. He is a former president of t...
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Araya, Venezuela Araya is a town located on Venezuela's Caribbean coast, on the easternmost extremity of the Araya Peninsula. Araya Fortress The Araya Fortress is a beige-brown stone masonry fortification. The fortification was built in order to defend Araya and the Araya Peninsula against Caribbean pirates. The Spa...
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Testamentary disposition A testamentary disposition is any gift of any property by a testator under the terms of a will. Types Types of testamentary dispositions include: Gift (law), assets that have been legally transferred from one person to another Legacy, testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of...
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Masashi Ozaki is a Japanese professional golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki (ジャンボ尾崎 Janbo Ozaki) on account of his height and length off the tee. He featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeks between 1989 and 1998. He is the most successful player of all time on the Japan...
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Big Money Heavyweight Big Money Heavyweight is the fifth and final studio album by hip hop duo Big Tymers. It was released on December 9, 2003, through Cash Money Records and was mainly produced by Mannie Fresh, with other production handled by R. Kelly, Jazze Pha and Leslie Brathwaite. The album debuted at number 21...
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Firdaposten Firdaposten is a local newspaper published in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It also covers the municipality of Bremanger. The newspaper was established as a media outlet of the Norwegian Labour Party in 1948. The first editor of the paper was Guttorm Hansen. At the initial phase the paper w...
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Willem van 't Spijker Willem van 't Spijker (born 21 September 1926) is a Dutch minister and theologian. He is specialized in church history and church law. Life Willem van 't Spijker was born and grew up in Zwolle in a simple and family characterized by sincere piety. He married the daughter of Professor Hovius. In...
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Iranian Academy of the Arts The Iranian Academy of Arts (IAA) (Persian: فرهنگستان هنر ایران; formally Academy of Arts of the Islamic Republic of Iran) was established in March 2000. It is one of the four academies of the Islamic Republic of Iran; the other three are: the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, the Irania...
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Clara G. McMillan Clara Gooding McMillan (August 17, 1894 – November 8, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, and wife of Thomas S. McMillan. Biography Born in Brunson, South Carolina, Mcmillan attended the public schools, Confederate Home College, Charleston, South Carolina, and Flora MacDonald Colleg...
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Percolation trench A percolation trench, also called an infiltration trench, is a type of best management practice (BMP) that is used to manage stormwater runoff, prevent flooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or bay. It is a shallow excavated trench filled with ...
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All Your Favorite Bands All Your Favorite Bands is the fourth studio album by American folk-rock band Dawes, released on June 2, 2015. Critical reception All Your Favorite Bands currently holds a score of 71 out of 100 at Metacritic based on 12 critic reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. Commercial perf...
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Group 1 Automotive Group 1 Automotive, Inc. () is an international Fortune 500 automotive retailer with automotive dealerships and collision centers in the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Group 1 sells new and used cars and light trucks, arranges financial services, provides maintenance and repair services, ...
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Dimitris Gogos Dimitris Gogos (; 28 February 190318 November 1985) was one of the most influential singers and composers of rebetiko music. Also called Bayianteras (), a nickname that was given to him in 1925 for covering and playing in bouzouki Emmerich Kálmán's operetta, Die Bajadere, Gogos wrote songs that met grea...
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Roccaraso Roccaraso is a town and comune in central Italy, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region. History The town of Roccaraso dates back to around 975 AD, and is located near the Rasinus stream, from which some believe it took its original name, Rasin Rocca. It developed as a farming village, inhabited...
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West Hills College Coalinga West Hills College Coalinga is a public two-year community college located in Coalinga with a satellite facility in Firebaugh. Both locations serve students in the central San Joaquin Valley. Established in 1932, West Hills College Coaling is in the West Hills Community College District. I...
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Mecklenburg-Strelitz (district) Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a Kreis (district) in the southern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from the north clockwise) Demmin, Ostvorpommern Uecker-Randow, the districts Uckermark, Oberhavel and Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg, and the distri...
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Aguada de Baixo Aguada de Baixo was a freguesia ("civil parish") in Águeda Municipality, Aveiro District, Portugal. It had an area of 4.7 km2 and in 2011 had a population of 1373. In 2013 it was merged with Barrô as part of an administrative reorganization of the territory and formed the União das Freguesias de Barrô ...
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Birmingham Bulls Birmingham Bulls may refer to: Birmingham Bulls (WHA), a defunct ice hockey team from the World Hockey Association and Central Hockey League Birmingham Bulls (SPHL), an American ice hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League Birmingham Bulls (ECHL), a defunct American ice hockey team fr...
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Tahar Zaouche Tahar Zaouche (6 September 190419 December 1975) was a Tunisian doctor and politician. Biography Tahar Zaouche studied at Lycée Carnot. Like other members of the first-generation of Tunisian doctors, he enrolled in a French university to pursue medical studies. As a specialist in otorhinolaryngology, h...
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Bellavista (band) Bellavista is an indie rock/shoegaze band from San Francisco, California. The current lineup includes guitarist/vocalist Rex John Shelverton, bassist Jeremy Bringetto, and drummer Cary LaScala. Shelverton is also known for being a co-founder of the band/duo Tamaryn. History Shelverton, Bringetto and...
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Armando Salati Armando Salati (1884–1963) was an Italian Vice Consul to the United States, and Philadelphia Honorary Consul from 1913-1940. Family Armando Salati, born June 20, 1884, was the eldest son of Ottavio and Adelaide Salati of the Comune di Gioi, Campania, Italy. Armando married Julia LaFazia in Philadelphi...
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Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa () was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Gen...
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Elvina Bay, New South Wales Elvina Bay is a bay and adjacent suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 35 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Elvina Bay is within the Ku-ring-gai Chase National P...
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Eneabba sandplain Eneabba sandplain or the Eneabba portion of the Northern sandplain, is an extension of the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia. The town Eneabba is located on the sandplain, as are former and current sand mining operations The sandplain is a habitat for Kwongan species Notes Category:Geology ...
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Town of Wynnum The Town of Wynnum is a former local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in eastern Brisbane adjacent to Moreton Bay around the present day suburb of Wynnum. History of Wynnum The Bulimba Division was one of the original divisions created on 11 November 1879 under the Divisional Boards Ac...
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Typhoon June (1984) Typhoon June, also known in the Philippines as Typhoon Maring, was the first of two tropical cyclones to affect the Philippines in a one-week time span in August 1984. June originated from an area of convection that was first witnessed on August 15 in the Philippine Sea. Despite initial wind shear,...
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Missy Hyatt Melissa Ann Hiatt (born October 16, 1963) is an American professional wrestling valet, better known by her ring name, Missy Hyatt. She gained the majority of her fame working for World Championship Wrestling, before joining Extreme Championship Wrestling. Career World Class Championship Wrestling and Uni...
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Georg Hamel Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. Biography Hamel was born in Düren, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Aachen, Berlin, Göttingen, and Karlsruhe. His doctoral adviser was Dav...
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Zhang Hongjing Zhang Hongjing () (760 – July 24, 824), courtesy name Yuanli (元理), formally the Marquess of Gaoping (高平侯), was an official of the Tang dynasty of China, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xianzong. He was blamed in traditional histories for misruling Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered i...
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Choam Khsant District Choam Khsant District is a district located in Preah Vihear Province, in northern Cambodia. The district capital is at Cheom Ksan town, near the Thai border. Cambodia's famous Preah Vihear Temple is located in this district of the Preah Vihear province. According to the 1998 census of Cambodia, i...
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Ser Petracco Ser Petracco (Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo; 1267—1326) was the father to the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch. His father was Ser Parenzo, son of Ser Garzo who reputedly lived to be 100. They all were notaries, the same office that Ser Petracco held in Florence. The family did have a small property in Floren...
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Winsford and Over railway station Winsford and Over railway station was one of three railway stations serving the town of Winsford in Cheshire. The station was the terminus of the Winsford and Over branch operated by the Cheshire Lines Committee and later British Railways. History Originally opening on 1 July 1870, i...
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Jamil Rostami Jamil Rostami (born 1971 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish origin. In 2002 he made his first short film titled The Trouble of Being a Boy in Kurdish, which was screened in 24 domestic and international Festivals and was awarded several prizes. He made his fir...
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Ivan Fichev Ivan Fichev () (born on 15 April 1860 in Tarnovo, died on 13 November 1931 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, Minister of Defense, military historian and academician. Biography Ivan Fichev was born in 1860 in Tırnova (now Tărnovo), at that time part of the Ottoman Empire. He was a grandson of the famous ...
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Südavia Südavia (ICAO Code: VXY; IATA Code: FV; Callsign: Sudavia) was an airline based in Munich, Germany. Company history In 1984 a charter airline was founded in Munich under the name BN Rent-a-Plane. The name was changed to Südavia Fluggesellschaft in 1984 with scheduled services between Munich and Saarbrücken ...
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Alfred Rose Alfred Rose may refer to: Alfred Rose (singer) (1932–2003), Goan tiatrist Alfred Rose (bishop) (1884–1971), Church of England bishop Alfred Rosé (1902–1975), Austrian composer and conductor Alfred Rose (cricketer) (1894–1985), English cricketer Al Rose (1905–1985), American football tight end See also ...
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Route 66 (TV series) Route 66 is an American drama television that premiered on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until March 20, 1964, for a total of 116 episodes. The series was created by Herbert B. Leonard and Stirling Silliphant, who were also responsible for the ABC drama Naked City, from which Route 66 was indire...
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John Ordronaux (doctor) John Ordronaux (1830 – January 20, 1908) was an American Civil War army surgeon, a professor of medical jurisprudence, a pioneering mental health commissioner and a generous patron of university endowments. Between 1859 and 1901 Ordronaux published at least fifteen books and articles about su...
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1581 Year 1581 (MDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. Events January–June March 18 – The Parliament of England's Act against Reconcil...
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Gadani Beach Gadani Beach is a beach on the Arabian Sea located near the Hub River and Cape Monze in Gadani, Lasbela District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Gadani Beach is the location of Gadani ship-breaking yard, which is one of the world's largest ship-breaking yards. External links Ships to be broken at Gadani, 2000...
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Evan Seys Evan Seys (alternates: Yevan or Ievan) (1604–1685) was an eminent lawyer of his day who rose to national office under Oliver Cromwell as Attorney General, and served as a member of parliament after the Restoration. From c.1649 until his death he was involved in the politics of his native Glamorgan, and of Gl...
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Diebels Brauerei Diebels is a firm based in Issum on the Lower Rhine that manufactures various beer products and belongs to the Anheuser-Busch Inbev Group in Brussels. The formerly independent family firm was taken over in 2001 by the Belgian Interbrew Group which merged with the Brazilian AmBev to form the Anheuser-B...
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Eristalinus taeniops Eristalinus taeniops is a species of hoverfly, also known as the band-eyed drone fly. Distribution This species is present in part of Europe (Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, the Canary Islands, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Spain), in North Africa, ...
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Ruth Graves Wakefield Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, best known as the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie. She was also a college graduate, dietitian, educator, business owner, and author. Wakefield grew up in Easton, Massachusetts, and g...
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Tapsell Foreland Tapsell Foreland () is a broad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above 800 m The name Tapsell, applied by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1969, is the su...
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Kim Leine Kim Leine Rasmussen (28 August 1961 in Seljord, Telemark) is a Danish-Norwegian author. In 2013, he was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the novel The Prophets of Eternal Fjord. Bibliography Novels Kalak (2007) Valdemarsdag (2008) Tunu (2009) Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden (2012); Englis...
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Ben Helfgott Sir Ben Helfgott (born 22 November 1929) is a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter. He is one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust. Biography Helfgott was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź, Poland. He was 10 years...
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Ib Michael Ib Michael (born 1945 in Roskilde, Denmark) is a Danish novelist and poet. His writing style has been described as magic realism. He attended the University of Copenhagen, where he studied Central American and Indian Language and Culture. Michael is the author of the works "Kejserfortællingen" (The Tiger's...
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Adolph Medlycott Mar Adolph Medlycott was the first Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur. He was born at Chittagong (British Raj) on 15 May 1838. Medlycott spent his last days in Bangalore where he died on 4 May 1918. His remains were later reinterred, first in the Basilica of Our Lady of Dolours in 1945. B...
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Autovía M-501 The M-501 is a road in the Spanish region of Madrid. Managed by the Madrid regional government as a primary road in the regional network, it comprises a motorway-grade (autovía) section (from Alcorcón to Navas del Rey) and a two-lane road section (from Navas del Rey to the border with the province of Ávi...
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Leptoconops fortipalpus Leptoconops fortipalpus is a species of biting midge belonging to the family Ceratopogonidae. It occurs in the Damodar River valley, Jarkhand state, India. References Category:Leptoconops Category:Insects of India Category:Insects described in 2010 Category:Haematophagy
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Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay The men's 4 × 100 meters relay was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics program. It was the debut of the event, which along with the 4 × 400-meter relays marked the first relays of equal legs in t...
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Paul Émile de Puydt Paul Émile de Puydt (6 March 1810 – 20 May 1891), a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium. His father's name was Jean Ambroise de Puydt (1758–1836), who was governor of the province Hainaut in the early days of Belgium from 1830 till 18...
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Mumbai alcohol poisonings In June 2015, at least 102 people died after drinking contaminated alcohol in the Laxmi Nagar slum in Malad, located in Mumbai, India. Another 45 people were hospitalised as a result of the incident. The incident has been described as the worst of its kind in over a decade. Background Alcoho...
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All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) is a Tamil political party in India. The party's founder and president is actor Sarath Kumar. Kumar was a part of DMK in his early political career and then joined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Later he quit AIADMK and he ...
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List of 2010–11 NBA season transactions This is a list of all personnel changes for the 2010 NBA off-season and 2010–11 NBA season. Retirement Front office movements Head coach changes Off-season In-season General manager changes Off-season Player movement The following is a list of player movement via free age...
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Frank Tanana Frank Daryl Tanana (born July 3, 1953) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. From 1973 to 1993, he pitched for six teams: the Angels, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets, and New York Yankees. In his prime, Tanana was known for a 100+ MPH fastball, which he abru...
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Middlebury (CDP), Vermont Middlebury is the main settlement in the town of Middlebury in Addison County, Vermont, United States, and a census-designated place (CDP). The population was 6,588 at the 2010 census, out of a total population of 8,496 in the town of Middlebury. Most of the village is listed on the National...
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Scott Matthew Scott William Matthew is a singer-songwriter born in Queensland, Australia. He was a member of alternative pop band Elva Snow (2001–2006), which he co-founded with Spencer Cobrin. On 7 March 2008 he issued his solo debut eponymous album. His second album, There Is an Ocean That Divides, appeared on 24 A...
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1954–55 Scottish Inter-District Championship The 1954–55 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams. This season saw the second formal Scottish Inter-District Championship. The district sides selected were Glasgow District, Edinburgh District, North and Midlands...
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Patsy Toh Patsy Toh (; born 1940) is a Chinese-born pianist living in London, England. She has taught at the Royal Academy of Music since 1975, and became a Fellow in 1995. Early life Toh was born in Shanghai, China, in 1940 of a family from Xiamen, the family returned to Gulangyu Island shortly after her birth. In ...
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Raspuri The 'Raspuri' mango is an extremely popular variety of mango in South Indian state of Karnataka especially grown in and around Bengaluru, Ramanagara, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Tumakuru. This fruit is also known as sweet mango. Description Raspuri mangoes are oval in shape and about 4 to 6 inches long. The ski...
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Dayna Tortorici Dayna Tortorici (born 1989) is an American writer. As of 2016, she is the co-editor of the literary magazine n+1. Career After graduating from Brown University in 2011, where she wrote for The College Hill Independent, Tortorici joined n+1 as a staff writer and eventually an editor. In addition to her...
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History of Sylhet The Greater Sylhet region predominantly includes the Sylhet Division in Bangladesh, and Karimganj district in Assam, India. The Cachar and Hailakandi districts are also sometimes included in Greater Sylhet. The history of the Sylhet region begins with the existence of expanded commercial centres in t...
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Waterfall model The waterfall model is a breakdown of project activities into linear sequential phases, where each phase depends on the deliverables of the previous one and corresponds to a specialisation of tasks. The approach is typical for certain areas of engineering design. In software development, it tends to b...
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Long Laput Long Laput (also known as Laput) is a settlement in the rural interior of the Marudi district of Sarawak, Malaysia. It lies approximately east-north-east of the state capital Kuching. Description Long Laput is one of the biggest villages along the Baram River and the majority of the inhabitants belong to ...
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Towns (video game) Towns is a 2012 simulation video game. Towns was initially developed by the three-person group SMP, consisting of Xavi Canal, Alex Poysky, and Ben Palgi. In February 2014, development was passed on to Florian Frankenberger. The game's influences are cited as Diablo, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress...
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Dioxycanus fusca Dioxycanus fusca is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1914 as Porina fusca using specimens collected by C. Fenwick and M. O. Pasco. In 1966 L. J. Dumbleton reviewed New Zealand Hepialinae and placed this spe...
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Bixiga Bixiga is a neighbourhood in the center of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is located within the district of Bela Vista. Bixiga is known for having been a hub for Italian immigrants. History The origins of the neighborhood can be traced to the foundation of the city. Nowadays, Bixiga is considered part of t...
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Georgia Mabel DeBaptiste Georgia Mabel DeBaptiste (1867–1951) was an African-American journalist, teacher and social worker from Chicago. After completing her education, she taught at various notable black schools before becoming the first woman of African descent to be employed at the Chicago Post Office. With her fi...
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Leonardo de Souza Leonardo Augusto Antunes de Souza (born January 9, 1986) is a Brazilian racing driver. Career Karting Leonardo de Souza was born in Curitiba. He began racing karts in 1999 at age 13, where he won three South Brazilian championships in 2001, 2003 and 2004, besides the State championships of Parana a...
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Dauntless __NOTOC__ Dauntless may refer to: Military Douglas SBD Dauntless, a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber Operation Dauntess, a military operation part of Operation Courageous Operation Martlet (a.k.a. Operation Dauntless), part of a series of British attacks to capture the town of Cae...
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named "Wien-Aktion", "Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week", or "Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights", is an art project and television show from 2000 that took...
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What's the World Coming To? What's the World Coming To?, also known as A Furious Future, is a 1926 American silent film starring Clyde Cook. Plot Set 100 years in the future, women dominate society and men are the "weaker" sex, assuming the stereotypical roles of pampered women. A stay-at-home husband of a well-off s...
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Charles M. Clement Charles Maxwell Clement (October 28, 1855 – September 9, 1934) was a Pennsylvania attorney and Army National Guard officer who attained the rank of Major General as commander of the 28th Infantry Division. Early life Charles M. Clement was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania on October 28, 1855, the son ...
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Lifestyle disease Lifestyle diseases are defined as diseases linked with the way people live their life. These are non-communicable diseases. This is commonly caused by lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating, alcohol, drugs and smoking. Diseases that mostly have an effect on our lifestyle are heart disease, strok...
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Punk Bunny Gil "Luigi" Sandoval, known by his stage name Punk Bunny, is a Los Angeles–based musician. His music is notable for incorporating unusual elements in his live performances. In the early and mid-2000s he garnered a substantial cult following. Punk Bunny In 2003, he decided to create an electronic outfit cal...
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Thomas of Hales Thomas of Hales, also known as Thomas de Hales, was a thirteenth-century English Franciscan friar and ecclesiastical writer of intellectually progressive prose and poetry in three languages: Latin, French, and English. Thomas of Hales was one of very few Franciscan lyricists of the mid to late thirteen...
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DWWR 52 Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) 52 to 54 were a class of three 4-4-2T locomotives designed by William Wakefield for Kingstown Pier to Kingsbridge (Dublin Heuston) boat trains. At one point they carried the names Duke of Connaught, Duke of Abercorn and Duke of Leinster respectively. Ahrons describ...
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Maria Mena Maria Viktoria Mena (born 19 February 1986) is a Norwegian award-winning pop artist, best known for her singles such as "You're the Only One", "Just Hold Me", "All This Time" which charted in multiple countries. Early life Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother is a playwright and her fath...
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Brendon Grylls Brendon John Grylls (born 5 June 1973) is an Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2001 to 2017. Grylls became leader of the National Party in Western Australia from 2005 to 2013, and again from 2016, however he lost his seat at the s...
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Being and Time Being and Time () is a 1927 book by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, in which the author seeks to analyse the concept of Being. Heidegger maintains that this has fundamental importance for philosophy and that, since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophy has avoided the question, turning ins...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 976 United Nations Security Council resolution 976, adopted unanimously on 8 February 1995, after reaffirming resolutions 696 (1991) and all subsequent resolutions on Angola, the Council authorised the establishment of a new peacekeeping mission in the country, the United Nat...
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Plymouth Millbay railway station Plymouth Millbay railway station was the original railway terminus in Plymouth, Devon, England. It was used for passenger trains from 1849 to 1941. It was rebuilt in 1903. History The South Devon Railway originally planned to bring its broad gauge railway from Exeter St Davids to ...
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Andy Cherry Andrew Paul "Andy" Cherry (born March 16, 1986, in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Bloomington, Indiana and Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2012 Cherry released the album entitled Nothing Left to Fear, his first full-length studio album with Essential r...
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Intelligence outsourcing Outsourcing intelligence is a method by which a country contracts out intelligence activities such as collection, analysis, and dissemination to non-governmental employees. In the United States of America, approximately 70% of the intelligence budget was spent on contracts in 2006. Methods Th...
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