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René Petitbon
René Jean Albert Petitbon (18 August 1902 – 2 February 1965) was a French colonial administrator who served as Governor of French Polynesia and French Somaliland in the 1950s.
Biography
Petitbon was born in Pau in 1902. After earning a Bachelor of the Arts in 1923, he completed his military service betw... | {
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S. S. Davidson
S. S. Davidson is one of the pioneer educators of the environmental movement in Tamil Nadu, India. Davidson was born at Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District, India. He earned a degree in English from Scott Christian College, after which he joined as faculty in English. He completed his Masters and M.Phil i... | {
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Mother Goose's Little Treasures
Mother Goose's Little Treasures is a 2007 children's picture book by Iona Opie. It is a collection of nursery rhymes, some little known, chosen by Opie from the Mother Goose oeuvre.
Contents
Little Treasures contains 22 nursery rhymes:
Here comes Solomon
The leaves are green
Intery,... | {
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IV Cavalry Corps (German Empire)
The IV Cavalry Corps ( literally: Higher Cavalry Command 4) was a formation of the German Army in World War I. The corps was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914 and dissolved in January 1915 as the onset of trench warfare negated the requirement for large cavalry f... | {
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Stock Exchange Executive Council
The Stock Exchange Executive Council (SEEC) of the People's Republic of China was established to improve the efficiency of the securities market in mainland China.
According to research by Nottle (1993), the re-emergence of securities markets commenced under the introduction of the ec... | {
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Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
"Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle" is the twelfth episode of the second season of the American television series Veronica Mars, and the thirty-fourth episode overall. Written by John Enbom and directed by John T. Kretchmer, the episode premiered on UPN on February 1, 2006.
... | {
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2006 Borujerd earthquake
The 2006 Borujerd earthquake occurred in the early morning of 31 March in the South of Borujerd with destruction in Borujerd, Silakhor and Dorood areas of the Loristan Province in western Iran. The centre of the earthquake was in Darb-e Astaneh village south of the Borujerd City. The earthquak... | {
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Armen Smbatian
Armen Bagrati Smbatyan () is an Armenian diplomat and is a former Ambassador of Armenia to Russia.
Armen Smbatyan was born in 1954 in Yerevan.
From 1974 to 1980 A.Smbatyan studied at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in the class of piano. From 1977-1981 Mr. Smbatyan studied at the Composition and ... | {
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Peter Van Den Begin
Peter Alfons Christiaan Van Den Begin (born 25 October 1964 in Berchem) is a Belgian actor and director. He has two daughters with actress and singer-songwriter Tine Reymer.
His very first theater performances include acting in such plays as De Straat (Ronald Van Rillaer), Droomspel (Mannen van de... | {
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Bartholomeus van Bassen
Bartholomeus Corneliszoon van Bassen (1590–1652) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and architect.
Biography
Van Bassen was the illegitimate son of Cornelis van Bassen and the grandson of Bartholt Ernst van Bassen, who both lived and died in The Hague. Little is known of his early life, but acco... | {
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List of rivers of Afghanistan
This is a list of rivers wholly or partly in Afghanistan, arranged geographically by river basin.
Flowing into the Arabian Sea
Indus River (Pakistan)
Gomal River
Kundar River
Zhob River
Kurram River
Kabul River
Bara River
Kunar River
Pech River
Landai Sin River
Surkhab
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Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City
Álvaro Obregón () is one of the 16 municipalities (alcaldías) into which Mexico City is divided. It contains a large portion of the south-west part of Mexico City. It had a 2010 census population of 727,034 inhabitants and lies at an elevation of 2,319 m. above sea level.
It was named afte... | {
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Brain Balance
Brain Balance Achievement Centers are after-school learning centers that offers a program of brain training, exercise, simple physical exercises, skills training, and dietary advice that it says helps children with developmental and learning disabilities.
The Brain Balance program was developed by Rober... | {
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Poèmes pour Mi
Poèmes pour Mi (Poems for Mi) is a song cycle for dramatic soprano and piano or orchestra by Olivier Messiaen, composed in 1936 and 1937 and dedicated to his first wife, Claire Delbos. The text are poems by the composer based on the New Testament.
History
Messiaen composed the work at the Lac de Pétic... | {
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Hurricane Adrian (1999)
Hurricane Adrian caused generally minor damage along its path in mid-June 1999, though it left six people dead in its wake. The first tropical cyclone and first hurricane of the well below-average 1999 Pacific hurricane season, Adrian formed out of a broad area of low pressure south of the Gulf... | {
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Raj Niwas, Port Blair
Raj Niwas (translation: Government Abode) is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is located in the capital city of Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The present lieutenant governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is Admiral Devendra Kumar... | {
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Hashioka Station
is a railway station on the Yosan Line in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "Y03".
Lines
The station is served by the JR Shikoku Yosan Line and is located 9.5 km from the beginning of the line at Takamatsu. Yosan line local, Rapid Sunport, an... | {
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Cribbage solitaire
Cribbage solitaire (also known as cribbage patience) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is based on the game of five-card cribbage, also known as the "old game", and is one of many solitaire card games based on those played by at least two players, best known of which is p... | {
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Portrait of Tracy
is a composition by bassist Jaco Pastorius. It was named after his wife, Tracy Sexton.
It appears on his landmark 1976 self-titled debut album, and has been covered by bassists such as Joe Ferry, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, John Myung, and Brian Bromberg. It is considered by many a bass guitar ... | {
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Union Luxembourg
Union Sportive Luxembourg, usually known as Union Luxembourg, was a football club, based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is now a part of Racing FC Union Luxembourg.
History
Union Luxembourg was formed in 1925 as an amalgam of US Hollerich Bonnevoie and Jeunesse Sportive Verlorenkost... | {
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Atelopus palmatus
Atelopus palmatus (common name: Andersson's stubfoot toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the Cordillera Oriental of eastern Ecuador and is known from the Napo and Pastaza Provinces at elevations of above sea level. Its type locality is "Rio Pastaza".
Description
Mal... | {
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San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement.
The chorus was founded by gay music pioneer Jon Reed Sims. The group does not require tha... | {
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Edward Pierce
Edward Pierce (or Edward Pearse) (1630 or 1631–1694) was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.
Life
Pierce was born in Wales in 1630 or 1631 (the location and date is uncertain) and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford from 1650 to 1657 before his ordination in 1659. He ministered in various parishes in... | {
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List of judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia
Of the judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia, , 14 had previously served in the Parliament of South Australia Edward Gwynne, Sir Richard Hanson, Randolph Stow, Sir Samuel Way, Sir James Boucaut, Richard Andrews, Sir William Bundey, Sir John Gordon, Robert... | {
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Alex Finney (footballer, born 1996)
Alex Connor Finney (born 8 June 1996) is an English footballer who plays as a centre-back for Aldershot Town. He previously played for Bolton Wanderers, Queens Park Rangers and Maidstone United.
Career
Bolton Wanderers
Finney began his career with Bolton Wanderers. He started in t... | {
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GalleryBeat TV
GalleryBeat TV was a public access television show covering the art scene in New York City from 1993 to 2003. The show was hosted by Paul Hasegawa-Overacker (also known as Paul H-O). The show, which produced over 130 episodes, covered art openings in Manhattan art galleries by speaking with gallery-goer... | {
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Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta
The Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (Spanish: Partido Socialista del Pueblo de Ceuta, abbreviated to PSPC) is a political party in Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain, in north Africa. The PSPC was founded in 1985, amongst its members were defectors from Spanish Socialist W... | {
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Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes
The Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes is a journal dedicated to the study and use of medieval manuscripts. It was founded in 1839 and continues to provide bi-annual issues with articles and abstracts in French, English, and German. Starting in 1995, one issue each year is devote... | {
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Union station
A union station (also known as a union terminal and, in Europe, a joint station) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. The term 'union station' is used in North America and 'j... | {
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Mack's Apples
Mack's Apples (also known as Moose Hill Orchards) is an American farm and orchard in Londonderry, New Hampshire. It is the oldest family-run farm in the state, having been run by the Mack family for eight generations.
History
The farm was founded in 1732 when John Mack emigrated from Londonderry, Irela... | {
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Sogelau Tuvalu
Sogelau Tuvalu (born 5 June 1994) is a Samoan track and field athlete who represented American Samoa at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, in the 100 meters, despite being trained as a shot putter.
2011 World Athletics Championships
Having not qualified to compete at shot put, Tuvalu was entere... | {
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Marree Man
The Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant, is a modern geoglyph the circumstances of whose creation have not been ascertained. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man hunting with a boomerang or stick. It lies on a plateau at Finnis Springs west of the township of Marree in central South Australia. It is... | {
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Plunge
Plunge may refer to:
Plunge (American football), a play in American football
Plunge (geology), the inclination of a surface or axis of an anticline to the horizontal
The Plunge, a historic swim center in Richmond, California
Plunge Creek, a river in Alaska
Plungė, a city in Lithuania
Plunge, the former name for... | {
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Amar Osim
Amar Osim (born 18 July 1967) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.
Osim was a talented player during his teens. However, he did not transfer his tale... | {
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Steven A. Leadon
Steven A. (Tony) Leadon is a former professor of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina.
In 2003, a university found that Leadon had fabricated and falsified data in his research on DNA repair. In 2006, the United States Office of Research Integrity came to the same conclusion, sayin... | {
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I Miss You (Klymaxx song)
"I Miss You" is a hit single recorded by American R&B and pop band Klymaxx from their fourth album, Meeting in the Ladies Room (1984). Written and co-produced by Klymaxx keyboardist Lynn Malsby, the song was recorded and released as the album's third single. "I Miss You" eventually reached nu... | {
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Neverware
Neverware is an American technology company that provides a service intended to make aging PCs faster and more secure.
In February 2015 the company launched its second product, CloudReady; an operating system built on Google's open-source operating system Chromium. CloudReady is supported by PCs and Macint... | {
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You Run Away
"You Run Away" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. It is the first single from their album All in Good Time. It was released January 8 for online streaming. The commercial download single was released February 2, 2010.
History
"You Run Away" was written by Ed Robertson, and was partially in... | {
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Religion in Louisville, Kentucky
Religion in Louisville, Kentucky includes religious institutions of various faiths; including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
Christianity
Roman Catholic Church
There are 135,421 Roman Catholic Louisvillians who are part of the Archdiocese of Louisville,... | {
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Garni (crater)
Garni is an impact crater on Mars, in which, according to NASA, there is evidence of liquid water. In the press release of its finding on 28 September 2015, NASA considered it "the latest of many breakthroughs" in their Mars exploration. NASA and the US Geological Survey named the crater after the Armen... | {
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Cullen Castle
Cullen Castle was a royal castle about east of Cullen, Moray, Scotland, west of the burn of Deskford, and south of Seatown.
This is not to be confused with Cullen House or Castle of Cullen of Buchan. There is also a ruin of a Cullen Castle in County Waterford, Ireland.
History
Elizabeth de Burgh, th... | {
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Greensborough Plaza
Greensborough Plaza is a major regional shopping centre, located in Greensborough, Victoria in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
The centre, also known to some locals as “Greensy”, has more than 180 stores over three levels, anchored by Coles, Kmart, Target, Aldi, JB Hi-Fi Home an... | {
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Dilling
Dilling may refer to:
Dilling people, an ethnic group of Sudan
Dilling language, language spoken by the Dilling people, part of the Nubian branch of the Nilo-Saharan family
Dalang, Sudan, a city in Sudan
Dilling, a village in Østfold, Norway
People with the surname Dilling include:
Walter James Dilling (1886... | {
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Tia Seu Lupe
Tia Seu Lupe is a historical site at Fatuoaiga, American Samoa, which is maintained by the American Samoa Department of Parks and Recreation. The Tia Seu Lupe Historic Monument was dedicated by Governor Peter Tali Coleman in May 1990. It is located on a 0.2 ha plot of land on the Tafuna Plain which has be... | {
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Smells Like Green Spirit
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Saburō Nagai, serialized in Fusion Product's Comic Be between 2011 and 2013. The series has been collected in two tankōbon volumes. A series of two Drama CDs have also been released.
Plot
Futoshi Mishima, a student at a high school in the ... | {
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Cripps question
In patent law, the Cripps question is:
"Was it for all practical purpose obvious to any skilled chemist in the state of chemical knowledge existing at the date of the patent which consists of the chemical literature available (a selection of which appears in the Particulars of Objections) and his gen... | {
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Motegi, Tochigi
is a town located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of May 2015, the town had an estimated population of 13,501, and a population density of 78.2 persons per km². Its total area is 172.69 km².
Geography
Motegi is located on the far eastern border of Tochigi Prefecture.
Surrounding municipalities
Toch... | {
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Fyffe (surname)
Fyffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jahmaal Fyffe (born 1990), English hip-hop rapper who has performed as Chip and as Chipmunk (rapper)
Jim Fyffe (1945–2003), American sportscaster and radio talk show host
Joseph P. Fyffe (1832–1896), American admiral
Nick Fyffe (born 1972), ... | {
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Letters from the Park
Letters from the Park () is a 1988 Cuban drama film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The film was selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Víctor Laplace
Ivonne López Arenal
Miguel Paneke
Mirta Ibarra
... | {
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New Inn Hall Street
New Inn Hall Street is a street in central Oxford, England, and is one of Oxford's oldest streets. It is a shopping street running north–south parallel and to the west of Cornmarket Street, with George Street to the north and Bonn Square at the west end of Queen Street to the south. St Michael's St... | {
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Hind Rattan
The Hind Rattan (Hindi phrase translated to English as "Jewel of India") is one of the highest Indian diasporic awards granted annually to non-resident persons of Indian origin (NRIs) by the NRI Welfare Society of India. The award is granted at the Society's annual congress on the eve of India's Republic... | {
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Blockhouse
A blockhouse in military science is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It usually refers to an isolated fort in the form of a single building, serving as a defensive strong point against any enemy that does not... | {
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Gettysburg and Northern Railroad
The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is a short-line railroad located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The railroad operates a long line running between Gettysburg in Adams County and Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County. The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is owned by Pioneer... | {
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Pyranoflavonoid
The pyranoflavonoids are a type of flavonoids possessing a pyran group.
Cyclocommunin is another natural pyranoflavonoid.
Pyranoanthocyanins
Pyranoisoflavones
Alpinumisoflavone
Di-O-methylalpinumisoflavone
4'-methyl-alpinumisoflavone
5,3′,4′-trihydroxy-2″,2″-dimethylpyrano (5″,6″:7,8) isoflavon... | {
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Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien
Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien is the second volume of Lawrence Martin's two-part biography of Jean Chrétien. It covers Chrétien's career as a politician and eventually, as Prime Minister of Canada.
Summary
The biography begins with a preface on Chrétien's tr... | {
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Tongass School of Arts and Sciences
Located in Ketchikan, Alaska, the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences (also known as TSAS) is a creative school. It has its own preschool and is available to grades K-6.
Art is taught by Loren McCue. She has facilitated public art installations by students at the Discovery Center, ... | {
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Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric is an exact solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity; it describes a homogeneous, isotropic, expanding (or otherwise, contracting) universe that is path-connected, but not necessarily simply connected. ... | {
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La La La (Snoop Lion song)
"La La La" is a song by American rapper Snoop Lion (mainly known as Snoop Dogg), taken from Snoop Lion's twelfth studio album Reincarnated (2013). The song was written by Snoop, Ariel Rechtshaid, Ken Boothe, Thomas Pentz, Joelle Clarke and William Cole, with production handled by Major Lazer... | {
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Coleridge Hundred
The hundred of Coleridge was the name of one of thirty-two ancient administrative units of Devon, England.
The parishes in the hundred were:
Ashprington,
Blackawton,
Buckland-Tout-Saints,
Charleton,
Chivelstone,
Cornworthy,
Dartmouth St Petrox,
Dartmouth St Saviour,
Dartmouth Townstall,
Dittisham,
... | {
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Goydərə
Goydərə may refer to:
Gëydere, Azerbaijan
Goydərə, Gobustan, Azerbaijan
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Window Water Baby Moving
Window Water Baby Moving is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, filmed in November 1958 and released in 1959. The film documents the birth of the director's first child, Myrrena, by his then-wife Jane Brakhage, now Jane Wodening.
Production
Stan Brakhage's wife, Jane, had insisted th... | {
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British Champions Sprint Stakes
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The British Champions Sprint Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in October.
History
The event was established in ... | {
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The Little Devil
The Little Devil (original Italian name Il piccolo diavolo) is a 1988 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, also starring Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli, Nicoletta Braschi and John Lurie. In some European countries and in Australia, an English version of the film, with local subti... | {
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Marc Marot
Marc Marot is a UK record executive and visual artist. He spent 9 years living in Germany and 3 years in the Yemen with his family before settling in the UK.
Early years
Marot started his professional career upon leaving art college in 1978. At 19 years old he joined members of prog-rock band Van der Gra... | {
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Spalding Hall
Spalding Hall is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bardstown, Kentucky. It was built in conjunction with the Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral.
The hall was originally built in 1826 and named for Bishop Martin John Spalding.
It was the main building of St. Josep... | {
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Virola sebifera
Virola sebifera is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae, from North and South America
Description
V. sebifera is a tall, thin tree which grows tall. The leaves are simple and grow up to long. The small flowers are single-sexed and are found in panicles. The fruit is reddish, oval-shaped, a... | {
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John D. Freeman
John D. Freeman (died January 17, 1886) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born in Cooperstown, New York, Freeman attended the common schools. He moved to Mississippi and located in Grand Gulf. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced.
He served as district attorney. He moved ... | {
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Tomorrow, Today!
Tomorrow, Today! was a radio sitcom originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2006 and 2008. It is itself a spoof of radio science fiction dramas of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The writer is Christopher William Hill.
The action takes place in a BBC studio in 1961, where a motley crew of "brig... | {
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Emily Giffin
Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit.
Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only.
Early life
Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Nap... | {
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Empire of Cricket
Empire of Cricket is a 2009 television series produced by the BBC. The series features four episodes profiling the histories of four leading Test cricketing nations: England, the West Indies, Australia, and India. Each episode is approximately one hour and features some of the most well-known inciden... | {
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Pamela Balch
Dr. Pamela Balch Ed.D is the 18th president of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Dr. Balch is a 1971 graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, and was the unanimous choice as the eighteenth president of the college by the Board of Trustees.
Balch has spent 28 years in higher ... | {
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Jan Matthys
Jan Matthys (also known as Jan Matthias, Johann Mathyszoon, Jan Mattijs, Jan Matthijszoon; c. 1500, Haarlem – 5 April 1534, Münster) was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.
Matthys was a baker in Haarlem, in the Holy Roman Empire's County of Ho... | {
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Aurelia Molins
Aurelia Molins or Aurelia Florio (1582 – 1641) was an English midwife. She is known for examining Lancashire witches.
Life
Her father, John Florio, had married the sister of the poet Samuel Daniel. Her father was a language tutor in the court of James I of England. Aurelia Florio is thought to have be... | {
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Advocate (Pittsburgh)
The Advocate was a newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under several title variants from 1832 to 1844. It was the second daily newspaper issued in the city, the first being its eventual purchaser, the Gazette. Politically, the paper supported the principles of the Whig Party.
Histor... | {
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Publius Sempronius Tuditanus
Publius Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus (fl. 3rd century BC) was a Roman Republican consul and censor, best known for leading about 600 men to safety at Cannae in August, 216 BC.
Tuditanus at Cannae
The consul L. Aemilius Paullus (who died at Cannae) had left a reserve camp of about 10,000 men ... | {
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Cape white-eye
The Cape white-eye (Zosterops virens) is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is native to southern Africa.
Taxonomy
There are two subspecies:
Z. v. capensis Sundevall, 1850 – south-western South Africa, Lesotho and adjacent western KwaZulu-Natal.
Z. v. virens Sundevall, 1850 – eastern... | {
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Hlomela Bucwa
Hlomela Bucwa is a South African politician, a member of the Democratic Alliance. In 2016 she became the youngest member of parliament in South Africa.
Education
She attended the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU ) and is known to have studied Law. In 2015, she was the Student Representative... | {
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Tidal Wave (Taking Back Sunday album)
Tidal Wave is the seventh studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. During the touring cycle for Happiness Is (2014), the group worked on material for their next record. Following a holiday show in late 2015, guitarist John Nolan was expecting his second child and wis... | {
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Barking station
Barking is an interchange station serving the town of Barking, east London. It is served by London Underground, London Overground and National Rail main line services. It is located on Station Parade, in the town centre.
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Alexander A. Galushkin
Alexander A. Galushkin is a well-known Russian scientist and lawyer,, permanent representative of the Russian scientific community to the United Nation in Geneva and Vienna since 2018, Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Doctor of Education and Professor, academian of the Russian Academy of Natural Sci... | {
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Sven Tumba
Sven Tumba (born Sven Olof Gunnar Johansson; 27 August 1931 – 1 October 2011) was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing.
Johansson first became known as "Tumba" in the 19... | {
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Filter (magazine)
FILTER was a seasonal American music and off-beat entertainment magazine which was founded in 2002. It featured commentary and photos of up-and-coming musicians and filmmakers ranging from actors to writer-directors. Each season's (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Holiday) issue highlighted a reason... | {
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WSES
WSES, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 36), is a Heroes & Icons-affiliated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to Tuscaloosa. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WSES' advertising sales office is locate... | {
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Yakyū-kyō no Uta
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do veterinary medicine at college but instead she became a baseball player. It was originally serialized in the Kodansha's Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine between... | {
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Holy Mother of God Church
Holy Mother of God Church may refer to one of the following:
Holy Mother of God Church (Kuršumlija)
Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran
Holy Mother of God Church, Vagharshapat
Holy Mother of God Church, Voskepar
Holy Mother of God Church, Yeghvard
Holy Mother of God Church of Bethlehem, Tbilis... | {
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Innocents (Moby album)
Innocents is the eleventh studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in October 2013 by record labels Little Idiot and Mute. The album features collaborations on seven of the album's twelve tracks.
Background
For Record Store Day 2013, Moby released a 7-inch record called "T... | {
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U-89843A
U-89843A (PNU-89843) is a sedative drug which acts as an agonist at GABAA receptors, specifically acting as a positive allosteric modulator selective for the α1, α3 and α6 subtypes. It has sedative effects in animals but without causing ataxia, and also acts as an antioxidant and may have neuroprotective effe... | {
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Shilha people
The Shilha people, or Ishelhien, are a major Berber subgroup primarily inhabiting the southwestern mountains, Sous River, and southern coastal regions of Morocco.
Overview
The Shilha people traditionally call themselves ishelhien. This endonym is rendered as les Chleuh in French. The Ishelhien are also... | {
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Swenglish
Swenglish is a colloquial term referring to the English language heavily influenced by Swedish in terms of vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation.
English heavily influenced by Swedish
The name Swenglish is a portmanteau term of the names of the two languages and is first recorded from 1938, making it one ... | {
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George Pelham (bishop)
George Pelham (13 October 1766 – 7 February 1827) was a Church of England bishop, serving in the sees of Bristol (1802–1807), Exeter (1807–1820) and Lincoln (1820–1827). He began his career as Vicar of Hellingly in Sussex in 1800.
George Pelham was the third son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Ch... | {
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Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Marilyn Jordan Taylor (born 1949) an American architect, who has been a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill since the early 1980s and served as its first female chairman. She specializes in urban architectural projects and designed the master plan for the Manhattanville expansion, the Consolida... | {
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William Wright (cricketer, born 1841)
William Henry Wright (10 August 1841 – 28 December 1916) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Wright was born in August 1841 at Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Marlborough College, before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwic... | {
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Utica Community Schools
Utica Community Schools (UCS) is a public school district located in Macomb County, Michigan in the Metropolitan Detroit area. UCS serves the city of Utica, the majority of Shelby Township, the northern portion of Sterling Heights, and parts of Ray, Washington, and Macomb townships in the U.S. ... | {
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Charles Peter McColough
Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1, 1922 – December 13, 2006) was the chief executive officer and chair of the Xerox Corporation who, during his tenure at Xerox, founded the PARC (company). He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over fourteen years as CEO. Aside from his tenure ... | {
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Galo da Madrugada
Galo da Madrugada (in Portuguese: Dawn's Rooster) is a carnival block from Recife, Brazil. The block was created in 1978 by Enéias Freire.
Galos parades every Saturday of carnival at neighborhood.
The main rhythm is the frevo, but other rhythms are also played.
It is named in The Guinness Book of ... | {
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Illegal drug trade in China
The illegal drug trade in China is influenced by factors such as history, location, size, population, and current economic conditions. China has one-fifth of the world's population and a large and expanding economy while opium has played an important role in the country's history since befo... | {
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Aisha Rateb
Aisha Rateb (February 22, 1928 – May 4, 2013) was an Egyptian lawyer, politician, and Egypt's first female ambassador. She also was a professor of international law at Cairo University.
Biography
Rateb was born in Cairo to a middle-class, educated family.
Education
When she attended college, she first s... | {
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Topical steroid
Topical steroids are the topical forms of corticosteroids. Topical steroids are the most commonly prescribed topical medications for the treatment of rash, eczema, and dermatitis. Topical steroids have anti-inflammatory properties, and are classified based on their skin vasoconstrictive abilities. Ther... | {
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John Tuttle (politician)
John L. Tuttle, Jr. is an American politician from Maine. Tuttle served as a Democratic State Senator from Maine's 3rd District, representing part of York County including his residence of Sanford. He was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1978, serving until 1984 when he s... | {
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Faena
Faena may refer to
A term in the Spanish-style bullfighting
Faena Arts Center, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faena Hotel Buenos Aires
Alan Faena (born 1963), Argentine hotelier and real estate developer
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