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Vernon Islands Vernon Islands, also known as the Potinga Islands, is an island group in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the Clarence Strait about north-east of the territory capital of Darwin. The group consists of three islands which were first sighted in 1818 by Europeans on a British navy ship unde...
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Joey Bosa Joseph Anthony Bosa (born July 11, 1995) is an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State, and was selected by the Chargers third overall in the 2016 NFL Draft. High school career Bosa attended St. Thomas Aquin...
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John Alderton (American football) John Reber Alderton (September 5, 1931 – May 8, 2013) was a professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League, a 1953 Draft pick for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was born in Cumberland, Maryland. He captained for the Maryland Terrapins during their undefe...
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Swanthamevide Bandhamevide Swanthamevide? Bandhamevide? () is a 1984 Indian Malayalam-language family drama film directed by J. Sasikumar and written by S. L. Puram Sadanandan from a story by Sasikumar. The film is about the issues cropping up inside a family after the marriage of two sons. Mohanlal, Jose Prakash, Swa...
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Billy Monk Billy Monk (born William John Monk, ? – 31 July 1982) was a South African, known for his photographs of a Cape Town nightclub between 1967 and 1969, during apartheid. In 2012 a posthumous book was published, Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs. Early life Not much is known about the early life of Monk. Altho...
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List of The Muppet Show episodes This is a complete listing of episodes of the live-action/puppet television series The Muppet Show. The 120 episodes were produced in the UK between 1976 and 1980; two pilot episodes were also produced, one in 1974 and the other in 1975. The UK broadcasts featured extra scenes that we...
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JCB HMEE The JCB HMEE (High Mobility Engineer Excavator) is a military vehicle made by JCB. Design The HMEE is an armoured backhoe loader designed for high speeds in order to self-deploy with military convoys. Most backhoes are limited to much lower speeds. It is also capable of towing heavy loads and has good off-ro...
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Fancy Chemutai Fancy Chemutai (born March 20, 1995) is a Kenyan long distance runner who specializes in the half marathon. She finished third in her debut at the Prague Half Marathon and won the Göteborgsvarvet in Gothenburg in 1:07:58. On October 22, 2017 in Valencia, she finished second behind Joyciline Jepkosgei, ...
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Oleg Balan Oleg Balan (born 27 November 1969 in Cîrpești) is a Moldovan jurist, politician, and university teacher, who served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 20 January 2016. From December 2014 until 18 February 2015 Oleg Balan was a Member of Parliament of Moldova, before bei...
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Jim Wilson (Los Angeles) Jim Wilson (October 21, 1872 – February 8, 1956) was a pioneer banker and businessman of the San Fernando Valley who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941. Biography Wilson was born on October 21, 1872, in Butler, Ohio, the son of John W. Wilson and Harriet Andrews, both of B...
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Remember the Titans Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of African-American coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate ...
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Le nabab Le nabab is a three-act opéra comique by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Eugène Scribe. The title refers to a Nawab or Indian notable. The opera was the last collaboration of Scribe and Halévy, which began in 1835 with La Juive, Halévy's greatest success. It premiered in Paris on 1 September 1853. The op...
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Mlesna Mlesna Tea is a tea company owned by Euro-Scan Exports based in Sri Lanka. The company produces a range of loose teas, tea bags and gifts including: black tea, green tea, flavoured teas, and herbal teas. History The company was established by Anselm Perera in 1983. Perera was initially employed as a tea taste...
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List of equipment of the Argentine Army Equipment of the Argentine Army lists weapons and other materiel currently in service with the Argentine Army. Totals for each item are estimated as per sources cited. Tanks Armored vehicles Utility vehicles Artillery Air defence systems Small arms Anti-tank weapons Infa...
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Sérgio Godinho Sérgio Godinho, OL () is a Portuguese poet, composer, and singer. He was born on August 31, 1945 in Porto, Portugal, and is one of the most influential popular musicians in Portugal. He's often considered the greatest name of Portuguese popular music, after Zeca Afonso, even if their music styles are qu...
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List of international goals scored by Edin Džeko Edin Džeko, a Bosnian association footballer, made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a 3–2 win over Turkey on 2 June 2007. He also scored his first international goal in the match to level the scores at 2–2 in stoppage time of the first half. As of 18 November 201...
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Giovanni Maria Bernardoni Giovanni Maria Bernardoni (1541–1605) was a Jesuit and an Italian architect who was the first to design the Baroque style in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Early life Giovanni Maria Bernardoni was born in northern Italy in the commune of Cagno in 1541. He worked as a mason until he...
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On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People ({{zh|s=) is a 1957 essay by the Chinese Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong published during the Eleventh Session of the Supreme State Conference. This essays explores the concepts developed by Mao in ...
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Dylann Roof Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015 in the U.S. state of South Carolina. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all Afric...
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Actual cash value In the property and casualty insurance industry, Actual Cash Value (ACV) is a method of valuing insured property, or the value computed by that method. Actual Cash Value (ACV) is not equal to replacement cost value (RCV). ACV is computed by subtracting depreciation from replacement cost. The deprec...
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MinX MinX was a very short-lived British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group. The channel was launched on 8 October 2007 and was replaced by NME TV on 22 November 2007 at 6.00am. MinX broadcast 24 hours a day on Sky Digital Channel 377; however, it only showed 8 hours of music videos in ful...
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Entomodestes Entomodestes is a small genus of birds in the thrush family. They are found in humid Andean highland forest in South America. The two species both have black underparts and head, and a white patch on the lower face, but differ in the colour of the back. Species White-eared solitaire, Entomodestes leuco...
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Ram Sharma Ram Sharma (1837–1918) was a nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poet who alternately criticized and praised the government in his poems and newspaper articles. He began his literary career in the 1860s but pursued steady writing only after his retirement from a government post in 1878. He practiced Yoga for 40...
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General Diamond Workers' Association of Belgium The General Diamond Workers' Association of Belgium (, ADB; ) was a trade union representing workers in the diamond trade in Belgium. The union was founded on 19 August 1895, as the Antwerp Diamond Workers' Association. It rapidly became one of the leading trade unions...
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Henry Klein Henry Klein (October 4, 1841 – December 5, 1901) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Sayler's Creek. Born in Germany, Klein immigrated to the United States in 1853. He settled...
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Michael Dulin Michael Dulin is an American pianist and composer. In addition to performing his original music, Dulin has appeared both solo and with orchestra in performances of classical music. He has also toured as keyboardist with the Motown group, the Temptations. Four of Dulin's albums The One I Waited For, Atm...
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Heather Robinson Heather Robinson Ross (born July 31, 1978) is an American screenwriter, film producer and author. Early life Robinson was raised in Littleton, Colorado, and graduated from Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, in 1996. She became the youngest employee at American Cablevision, moving up the crew ran...
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Anjathe Sridhar P.S. Sridhar (known as Anjathe Sridhar) is an Indian film actor and film director who works in Tamil films. He is known for his villainous act in highly successful Anjathe directed by Mysskin. He was also the villain in Natarajan Subramaniam's Milaga as well as in 6 Melugu Vathigal. Ananda Vikatan app...
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Uptown Top Ranking "Uptown Top Ranking" is a song and single by the Jamaican teenage singers Althea Forrest and Donna Reid, recorded when they were 17 and 18 years old respectively. Released in 1977, the song comprises the girls ad-libbing to deejay track "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity. The song was initially recorded...
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The Enterprise of Law The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State is a 1990 book by Bruce L. Benson, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about the nature of the legal justice system. Benson uses "economic theory to compare institutions and incentives that influence public policy and private performance i...
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Swordfish (clipper) Swordfish was an 1851 clipper ship which has been called William H. Webb’s masterpiece. She is known for her record-breaking race to San Francisco with the clipper Flying Fish. “On her first passage out to San Francisco a race was arranged for large stakes between her and the Flying-fish, a Boston...
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Fluoroform Fluoroform is the chemical compound with the formula CHF3. It is one of the "haloforms", a class of compounds with the formula CHX3 (X = halogen) with C3v symmetry. Fluoroform is used in diverse applications in organic synthesis. It is not an ozone depleter but is a greenhouse gas. Synthesis About 20M ...
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James Ivory (watchmaker) James Ivory (1729 – 1793) was a Scottish watchmaker, clockmaker, and engraver. He was briefly followed by his son Thomas Ivory. Biography James Ivory was a very prominent watchmaker and clockmaker in Dundee, Scotland during the mid-to-late 18th century. Born in Liberton, near Edinburgh in 172...
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Battle of Domažlice The Battle of Domažlice () or Battle of Taus () or Battle of Tausch was fought on 14 August 1431 as the part of the 5th crusade against Hussites. The crusade was sent to Bohemia after negotiations, held in Pressburg and Cheb, between Hussites and the emperor Sigismund had failed. Outcome The Imp...
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Ardmore, Alabama Ardmore is a town in Limestone County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Metro Area. It is home to the Saturn IB rocket at the Alabama Welcome Center, just south of the Tennessee border, on Interstate 65. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town is 1,194. It bo...
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2014 GFA Premier Division In the 2014 season the GFA Premier Division, the top football league in Grenada, was won by the ASOMS Paradise team. Table 1.Paradise 18 14 1 3 49-15 43 Champions 2.Carib Hurricane 18 9 6 3 25-19 33 3.GBSS 18 9 2...
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Margaret Joachim Dr Margaret Jane Joachim (born 25 June 1949) is a British former Liberal Party and current Liberal Democrat politician who was Chair of the Women's Liberal Democrats. Background Joachim was daughter of Reginald and Joyce Margaret Carpenter. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, St Hugh's...
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Peter August Poppe Peter August Poppe (17 August 1870 – 13 February 1933) was a Norwegian-born engineer, designer and developer of engines and complete motor vehicles for the British motor industry. He was a co-founder of the engine manufacturer White and Poppe. Biography Poppe was born at Skogn in Nord-Trøndelag, No...
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Popular Music from Vittula Popular Music from Vittula () is a novel by Mikael Niemi. It was published in Sweden in 2000, the English translation by Laurie Thompson followed in 2003. A film based on the book was released in 2004. The book won the 2000 August Prize. References Category:2000 Swedish novels Category:Au...
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Frank Pope Frank Pope (born 13 May 1973) is the Chief Executive Officer for Save the Elephants (STE). After studying zoology at the University of Edinburgh he began his career in marine science before joining The Times newspaper as the world's only Ocean Correspondent (between 2008 and 2011) to cover the fast-changing...
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Patrick Vieira Patrick Vieira (born 23 June 1976) is a French professional football head coach and former player. He is the manager of Nice. Considered one of the best players of his generation, Vieira began his career at Cannes in 1994, where several standout performances in his debut season garnered him a move to S...
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Hugh Sempill "Hugh Sempill" is also the name of several Lords Sempill. Hugh Sempill (or Semple) (in Latin, Hugo Simpelius or Sempilius) (between 1589 and 1596 – 1654) was a Scottish Jesuit mathematician and linguist. He describes himself in his work as Hugo Sempilius Craigbaitaeus, probably making him the Hew Sempil...
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Moyer v. Peabody Moyer v. Peabody, 212 U.S. 78 (1909), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the governor and officers of a state National Guard, acting in good faith and under authority of law, may imprison without probable cause a citizen of the United States in a time of insurrection and ...
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Talon-Talon Talon-Talon is a barangay located to the southeast of Zamboanga City in the Philippines. 30% of the land is used for farming, 10% is salt bed and the remaining 60% is residential. The coastal area is surrounded with seaweed and fishponds farming. History For a long time, the place where Talon-Talon is had...
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Samantha Baines Samantha Louise Baines (born 1987 in Southwark, London) is an English actress and comedian. She is best known for her appearances in Magic Mike Live London, The Crown (Netflix), Lee Nelson's Well Funny People (BBC3), Hank Zipzer (CBBC) and A Royal Night Out . Early life Baines grew up in Bromley, whe...
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Barry Enright Barry Ryan Enright (born March 30, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Enright attended St. Mary's High School in Stockton, California and Pepperdine University. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He played for T...
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So Blue (De Sylva, Brown and Henderson song) "So Blue" is a 1927 song written by Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson. The song has been covered by numerous artists. Versions Vera Lynn Peggy Lee, on Dream Street (Peggy Lee album) John Warren's Strictempo Orchestra 1959, The Cambridge Strings, Phil Tate And ...
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Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary is located in Ballari district in Karnataka. It is spread over . The sanctuary was created exclusively for the preservation of the sloth bear. It is about 50 km from Ballari and about 15 km from the World Heritage Site Hampi. The area between Daroji in Sandur t...
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Centenariosuchus Centenariosuchus is an extinct genus of caimanine crocodylian known from the Miocene of the Panama Canal Zone of Panama. It contains a single species, Centenariosuchus gilmorei, that was named in 2013 in honor of the upcoming centennial anniversary of the digging of the Panama Canal. Two fossil specim...
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Nick McCabe Nicholas John McCabe (born 14 July 1971) is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist of The Verve. Early life McCabe is the son of a bus driver father and a social worker mother and has two older brothers, Alan and Paul. When asked what it was that inspired him to become a guitarist, he answer...
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Wilhelm Biener Wilhelm Biener (Bienner) (1590 – 17 July 1651) was a lawyer, and chancellor of Tyrol. Born in Lauchheim in what is now Baden-Württemberg, he was employed by Margrave Karl von Burgau from 1620 onwards. After having served under the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian I from 1625 to 1630, he was appointed by ...
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The Waltz You Saved for Me "The Waltz You Saved for Me" is a popular song written in 1930 by Wayne King and Emil Flindt with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song soon became associated as the theme song of Wayne King and His Orchestra. Notable artists who have recorded the song include: Al Bowlly (1931), Bert Ambrose (193...
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Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude () is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object, on an inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale. An object's absolute magnitude is defined to be equal to the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were viewed from a distance of exactly , without extinc...
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Onderweg naar Morgen Onderweg naar Morgen is a Dutch television soap opera based on Ryan's Hope. The series was aired by Veronica between 1994 and 2001, including co-broadcasting with TROS in 1994 and 1995. When Veronica announced that it would leave the join venture with Holland Media Groep, RTL was forced to rebrand...
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Battlefield Germany Battlefield Germany is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services for the Commodore 64 released in April 1987. It was also ported to the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum later that year. It is the eighth instalment to the Strategic Wargames series. The game is...
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Clinton, California Clinton (formerly, Sarahville, Sarahsville, and Lincoln) is a small town in Amador County, California. It is located south of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 1972 feet (601 m). Clinton was the center of a placer mining community during the 1850s and of quartz mining as late as the 1880s. This town...
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Bob Montgomery (boxer) Bob Montgomery (February 10, 1919 – August 25, 1998) was an American lightweight boxer who took the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) World Lightweight Championship in May 1943, and again in March 1944. His managers included Frankie Thomas, and Joe Gramby. Early life and career Montgom...
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50th World Science Fiction Convention The 50th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as MagiCon, was held September 3–7, 1992, at the Clarion Hotel, The Peabody Orlando, and the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, United States. The chairman was Joe Siclari; Becky Thomson was vice-...
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Jean Redcliffe-Maud Margaret Jean Redcliffe-Maud, Baroness Redcliffe-Maud (née Hamilton; 1904 – 6 November 1993) was a British pianist. Jean Hamilton was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She married John Maud, later to become Lord Redcliffe-Maud, on 20 June 1932 in Oxford. On 1 July of that year, they sailed f...
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Gappy Ranks Jacob Lee Williams (born c.1983), better known as Gappy Ranks, is an English dancehall musician of Jamaican and Dominican descent, from Harlesden, London. Career Born in Harlesden to a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, he dealt with numerous problems; including homelessness after leaving school. Once ...
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Bayan Productions Bayan Productions, Inc. is a co-production of ABS-CBN, responsible for the public affairs programme “Magandang Gabi, Bayan”. At the helm of Bayan Productions is Arlene de Castro, who is also ABS-CBN’s former Vice President for Current Affairs. Shows Previous Show Trip na Trip - A travel show focus...
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C. J. Sapong Charles "CJ" Nana Kwabena Sapong (; born December 27, 1988) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a forward for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer. Playing career College Sapong played college soccer at James Madison University, where he ended his career with 37 goals and 21 assists in fo...
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Hite Crossing Bridge The Hite Crossing Bridge is an arch bridge that carries Utah State Route 95 across the Colorado River northwest of Blanding, Utah, United States. The bridge informally marks the upstream limit of Lake Powell and the end of Cataract Canyon of the Colorado River, but when the lake is at normal wat...
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Savlaj Savlaj (also Savalaj) is a village in Tasgaon tehsil in Sangli district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is named after the village god Lord Savalsiddh or Savalsiddha. Savlaj has a grampanchayat with 17 members and is a major village within Sangli zilla parishad and constituency. Geography Savlaj is loc...
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Doomsday Book (novel) Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards. The title of the book refers to the Domesday Book of 1086; Kivrin Engle, the main character, says that her recording is "a record o...
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Chake-Chake Bay Chake-Chake Bay is a large indentation in the central west coast of Pemba Island, one of the two main islands of Tanzania's Zanzibar Archipelago. Geography The town of Chake-Chake, one of the island's main population centres, is located in the central coast of the bay. The bay is not particularly wi...
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Cait MacPhee Catherine Elizabeth "Cait" MacPhee is Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Edinburgh. After studying for her BSc in biochemistry and her PhD in medicine at the University of Melbourne she moved to the University of Oxford for postdoctoral research, where she was a research fellow at St H...
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Stephen Fleet Stephen George Fleet (September 28, 1936 – May 18, 2006) was a Master of Downing College, Cambridge, the Cambridge University Registrary and a researcher in mineral sciences and crystallography. Stephen Fleet was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, Lewes County Grammar School, Sussex and St John's Col...
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Rayshawn Jenkins Rayshawn Jenkins (born January 25, 1994) is an American football safety for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami. He was drafted by the Chargers in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft. Professional career On December 5, 2016, it was an...
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Common collector In electronics, a common collector amplifier (also known as an emitter follower) is one of three basic single-stage bipolar junction transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage buffer. In this circuit the base terminal of the transistor serves as the input, the emitter is the ...
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Johann Georg Steigerthal Johann Georg Steigerthal (2 February 1666, Nienburg - 27 June 1740, Hanover) was a court physician and medical writer. Life Steigerthal was one of the sons of Johann Georg Steigerthal senior, a city-preacher and later superintendent of Nienburg, and his wife Catharina Ursula Wessling. He stu...
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Rómulo Díaz de la Vega Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (23 May 1800 — 3 October 1877) was de facto president of Mexico in 1855. He studied military science and rose to the rank of general. In 1821, he joined the Plan of Iguala. He fought in the Texas War of Independence and for that he was appointed lieutenant. He fought in 1...
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Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati 'Ganga Jamuna Saraswati' (Hindi: गंगा जमुना सरस्वती) is 1988 Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai, financed by Harakh Chand Nahata, produced by S. Ramanathan and starring Amitabh Bachchan as Ganga, Meenakshi Sheshadri as Jamuna, and Jaya Prada as Saraswati. Other cast includes Mithun Chakrab...
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Boby Lapointe Robert Jean-François Joseph Pascal Lapointe (; 16 April 1922 – 29 June 1972), better known by his stage name Boby Lapointe (), was a French actor and singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words. Biography Lapointe was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of southern Fra...
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C. K. Vineeth Chekiyot Kizhakkeveettill Vineeth (born 20 May 1988), commonly known as C. K. Vineeth, is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Jamshedpur in the Indian Super League. Personal life Born in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, he studied in S. N. College, Kannur. He was the f...
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Arun River, China–Nepal The Arun River () is a trans-boundary river and is part of the Kosi or Sapt Koshi river system in Nepal. It originates in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China where it is called the Phung Chu or Bum-chu. Name In Tibet, the river is called Bum-chu, also transliterated Phung...
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Ronald Harvey (administrator) Ronald George "Ron" Harvey, (born 9 June 1934) is a former senior Australian public servant and sport administrator. He was the third Director of the Australian Institute of Sport, serving in the role from 1987 until 1989. Early life Harvey was born on 9 June 1934 in the Perth suburb of...
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Li'l Abner (musical) Li'l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies, but it is also a pointed satire on other topics, ranging from Americ...
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Gay Trip Gay Trip was a racehorse noted for winning the 1970 Grand National. Gay Trip was a small bay gelding owned by Tony Chambers and trained by Fred Rimell. Formerly a flat racing horse, Gay Trip was switched to National Hunt racing as a five-year-old and won the Mackeson Gold Cup in 1969. In the 1970 Grand Natio...
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Conference on Disarmament The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament forum established by the international community to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements based at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference meets annually in three separate sessions in Geneva. History The C...
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Babs Babs or BABS may refer to: People nickname of Barbara Windsor (born 1937), British actress Babs McMillan, Australian actress Babs Olusanmokun, American actor Babs Reingold, American artist Babs Fafunwa (1923-2010), Nigerian educationist, scholar and Minister for Education, full name Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa ...
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List of Pennsylvania railroads The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Common freight carriers Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad (AOR) Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR) Allentown & Auburn Railroad (ALLN) BD Highspire Holdings (BDHH) Belvidere and Delaware River Railway (BDRV) Brandywine Valle...
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Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art The Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (TZCVA) is an artist cooperative located in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1993, TZCVA was established to create an artist-owned and managed building that provides stable, safe, and ...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (later titled Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of O...
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Annapurna Labs Annapurna Labs is an Israel-based microelectronics company that was acquired by Amazon.com for its Amazon Web Services division, reputedly for US$350–370M in January 2015. Annapurna Labs, named after an Himalayan peak Annapurna Massif, was co-founded by Bilik (Billy) Hrvoye, a Bosnian Jewish refugee, a...
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Speculatores Speculatores and Exploratores were the scouts and reconnaissance element of the Roman army. In both the legions and in the praetorian camp, speculatores were initially scouts but became bodyguards, couriers, law-enforcers, and sometimes executioners. Exploratores were tasked to keep watch on enemy movemen...
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Margareta Stafhell Margareta Stafhell, also called Staffhell, Stafell and Staffhell-Åkerman, (1720–1762), was a Swedish Chalcography artist. Biography Margareta Stafhell was the daughter of the silversmith Gustaf Stafhell (1683-1761) and Catharina Olofsdotter Beckman. She was the sister of silversmiths Gustaf Andre...
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Laxton, Nottinghamshire Laxton is a small village in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse in the English county of Nottinghamshire, situated about 25 miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population of the civil parish (including Ompton and Ossington) at the 2011 Census was 489. Laxton is best known for ...
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Orobanche minor Orobanche minor, the hellroot, common broomrape, lesser broomrape, small broomrape or clover broomrape, is a holoparasitic flowering plant belonging to the genus Orobanche; a genus of about 150 non-photosynthetic plants that parasitize other autotrophic plants. Characteristics and growth requirements ...
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Nikolai Shakura Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура; born October 7, 1945 in Belarus SSR) is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks, as we...
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Mario Machado Mário Machado (born Mário José de Souza Machado; April 22, 1935 – May 4, 2013) was a television and radio broadcaster. He made television history when, in 1970, when he became the first Chinese-American on-air television news reporter and anchor in Los Angeles and perhaps in the nation. Early life Mach...
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Jose Villa Panganiban Jose Villa Panganiban (12 June 1903 – 13 October 1972 ) was a lexicographer, professor, linguist, poet, playwright, author, and lyricist. Panganiban was a prolific writer, with over 1,000 works to his name (textbooks, dictionaries, books, poems, short stories, articles, plays, etc.). Among his te...
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Hyperion Stakes The Hyperion Stakes is a Perth Racing Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race held under Weight for Age conditions, over a distance of 1600 metres at Belmont Park Racecourse, Perth, Australia in June. Prizemoney is A$150,000. History Distance 1972 - 5 furlongs (~1000 metres) 1973 - 1000 metres 1974 - 1200...
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Firstbahn The Firstbahn AG operates the Gondola ride from Grindelwald, Switzerland to First Schreckfeld via Bort and Schreckfeld. Each gondola can accommodate six people and it can transport 1,200 people per hour over the 5,226 meter distance, which takes about twenty-five minutes. The line is owned by Jungfraubahn ...
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Books-A-Million Books-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!, owns and operates the second largest bookstore chain in the United States, operating 260 stores in 32 states. Stores range in size from 4,000 to 30,000 square feet and sell books, magazines, collectibles, toys, technology, and gifts. Most Books-A-Million store...
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Poets and Madmen Poets and Madmen is the eleventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Savatage, released in 2001. It was their last album before their 12-year hiatus, which lasted from 2002 to 2014. The album has a loose concept inspired by the career and death of journalist Kevin Carter, but has much less n...
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Sioux City Tribune The Sioux City Tribune was a newspaper serving Sioux City, Iowa from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. History The Tribune was formed out of the Sioux City Daily and Weekly Times, a paper which had been founded in May 1869 by a stock company. In 1874, a Mr. Warner purchased the Da...
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Handful of Keys (album) A Handful of Keys is an album of live performances by Fats Waller and His Rhythm, the only authorized live performances of the musician. It features previously unreleased live radio transcriptions originally broadcast in 1938. Musicians Fats Waller: piano and vocals Herman Autrey: trumpet Gene...
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Air France Flight 212 (1969) Air France Flight 212 was a passenger flight operated by a Boeing 707, registration F-BHSZ, that crashed on 3 December 1969. None of the 62 people on board survived. Circumstances On 3 December 1969, Flight 212, which originated from Santiago International Airport, was flying to Paris, F...
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Cask'n Flagon The Cask 'N Flagon is a restaurant and sports bar with locations at Fenway Park in Boston and on RT. 139 in Marshfield, MA. Both locations are owned locally. ESPN has rated it second "Top Baseball Bar in America." The bar/restaurant began as a small neighborhood bar known as Oliver's over forty years ...
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