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Falla's skink Falla's skink or the Three Kings skink (Oligosoma fallai ) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. Etymology The specific name, fallai, is in honor of New Zealander ornithologist Robert Falla. Geographic range O. fallai is endemic to the Three Kings Islands off the coast of New Zealand. It is f...
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DeBusk, Tennessee DeBusk is an unincorporated community in central Greene County, Tennessee. It is located south of Greeneville. Education DeBusk Elementary School is in DeBusk. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Tennessee Category:Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Tennessee
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January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) January 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 13 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 25 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For January 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 30. Fea...
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Mudéjar art Mudéjar art refers to a style of ornamentation and decoration used in the Iberian Christian kingdoms primarily from the 13th to the 15th centuries and that incorporated as decorative motifs some constructive and stylistic techniques brought to or developed by Muslims in Al-Andalus. Mudéjar elements were d...
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Firmus Energy Firmus Energy is an energy company based in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Bord Gáis had a plan to develop the gas market in Northern Ireland. A pipeline from Carrickfergus to Derry was completed in October 2004 and now serves Coolkeeragh Power Station. A second pipeline, known as the South-North pipeline, w...
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Guillaume de Steenhuys Guillaume de Steenhuys, Lord of Flers (1558–1638) was a noble magistrate and diplomat in the Spanish Netherlands. Family Steenhuys was born at Lannoy on 8 October 1558, son of Jean de Steenhuys, Lord of Linghen, and Charlotte de Preys. In 1591 he married Marguerite de Gottignies, daughter of ...
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Andrei Chadov Andrei Aleksandrovich Chadov (Russian: Андрей Александрович Чадов, born 22 May 1980) is a Russian actor. Biography Early life His father, Aleksandr Chadov, died in 1986, and both he and his brother were raised by single mother. She raised the children as best friends. Brothers look alike, but they are ...
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First Jonckheer cabinet The First Jonckheer cabinet was the 1st cabinet of the Netherlands Antilles after the ratification of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Composition The cabinet was composed as follows: |Minister of General Affairs |Efrain Jonckheer |DP |8 December 1954 |- |Minister of Finance |...
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Regions of Brazil Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (); each region is composed of three or more states. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factor...
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Anders Jordahl Anders Olsen Jordahl (April 4, 1878 – February 18, 1969) was a Norwegian-American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. Anders Olsen Jordahl was born at Elverum in Hedmark, Norway. His parents were Ole Jordahl and Mary (Furer) Jordahl. His father was a schoolteacher. His family was originally from th...
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Mary Grace Canfield Mary Grace Canfield (September 3, 1924 – February 15, 2014) was an American theatre, film and television actress. Early life and career Mary Grace Canfield was born in Rochester, New York, the second child of Hildegard (née Jacobson) and Hubert Canfield. She grew up in Pittsford, New York. She had...
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Vytegra River The Vytegra () is a river in Vytegorsky District of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It nominally flows out of Lake Matkozero and is a tributary of Lake Onega. It is long, and the area of its basin . The principal tributary is the Tagazhma River (left). The river is a part of the Volga-Baltic Waterway. When t...
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Walter Froucester Walter Froucester (died 1412), was abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester. Froucester had previously officiated as chamberlain of the monastery. On the death of John Boyfield in January 1382, Froucester was elected his successor, being the twentieth abbot. Boyfield's rule had not been successful; he was w...
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Boy Scouts Boy Scouts may refer to: Boy Scout, a participant in the Boy Scout Movement. Scouting also known as the Boy Scout Movement. An organisation in the Scouting Movement, although many of these organizations also have female members. There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations, mostl...
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Healthcare engineering In its succinct definition, “Healthcare Engineering is engineering involved in all aspects of healthcare”. The term “engineering” in this definition covers all engineering disciplines such as Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, Information, Materials, Me...
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Nonsymmetric gravitational theory In theoretical physics, the nonsymmetric gravitational theory (NGT) of John Moffat is a classical theory of gravitation that tries to explain the observation of the flat rotation curves of galaxies. In general relativity, the gravitational field is characterized by a symmetric rank-2...
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William A. Russell (New York politician) William A. Russell (after 1820 – before 1897) was an American politician from New York. He was the son of Congressman David Abel Russell and Alida (Lansing) Russell. He was Sheriff of Washington County from 1850 to 1852. He was an Inspector of State Prisons from 1856 to 1858...
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Auburn Tigers The Auburn Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University, a public four-year coeducational university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. The Auburn Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). ...
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England v Scotland representative football matches (1870–1872) Between 1870 and 1872, the Football Association (FA) organised five representative association football matches between teams representing England and Scotland, all held in London. The first of these matches was held at The Oval on 5 March 1870, and the fi...
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Suddenly Seventeen Suddenly Seventeen () is a 2016 Chinese fantasy romance drama film starring Ni Ni, Wallace Huo and Wang Talu. It is the directorial debut of Zhang Mo, Zhang Yimou's daughter. It was released in China by Le Vision Pictures on December 9, 2016. Synopsis 28-year-old Liang Xia (Ni Ni) and 34-year-old ...
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International Studies Association The International Studies Association (ISA) is a professional association for scholars, practitioners and graduate students in the field of international studies. Founded in 1959, ISA now has over 7,000 members in 110 countries and is the most respected and widely known scholarly asso...
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Ebenezer Walden Ebenezer Walden (1777–1857) was mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving in 1838–1839. He was born in 1777 in Massachusetts. In 1799, he graduated from Williams College, then made his way to Oneida County, New York where he studied law. In 1806, he was admitted to the New York State bar and moved to Buffalo...
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Canna leaf roller Canna leaf roller refers to two different Lepidoptera species that are pests of cultivated cannas. Caterpillars of the Brazilian skipper butterfly (Calpodes ethlius), also known as the larger canna leaf roller, cut the leaves and roll them over to live inside while pupating and eating the leaf. In a...
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Tip of My Tongue (Tommy Quickly song) "Tip of My Tongue" is a single by Tommy Quickly backed by The Remo Four. Written by Paul McCartney and attributed to the songwriting partnership of Lennon–McCartney, it was one of their relatively few songs that were never officially released by the Beatles. Several takes of this ...
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National Highway 305 (India) National Highway 305, commonly called NH 305 is a national highway in India. It is a branch of National Highway 5. NH-305 traverses the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. Geography National Highway 305 is located in higher altitudes in Himachal Pradesh. The passage remains closed for f...
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Bryson, California Bryson (originally, Sapaque) is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California. It is located south-southeast of Jolon, at an elevation of 968 feet (295 m). The Bryson post office operated from 1887 to 1937, moving in 1889, 1898, 1899, 1905, and 1906. The place, originally called Sapaq...
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Domenico Monegario Domenico Monegario was the traditional sixth Doge of Venice (756–764). History He was elected with the support of the Lombard king Desiderius. However, in order to maintain necessary good relations with Byzantium and the Franks, two tribunes were elected annually to limit ducal power. Domenico came...
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Von Essen Mountain Von Essen Mountain () is a mountain, 2,665 m, marking the southwest end of the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expeditio...
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The Winds of Green Monday The Winds of Green Monday was a 1965 Australian television play by Michael Noonan. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. It starred Terry Norris and was directed by Oscar Whitbread. Plot A crew deserts a ship to find their fortune in the 1850s goldfields and the captain must get them back. ...
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Terry Hunte Terence 'Terry' Anderson Hunte (born 4 April 1962) is a former Barbadian cricketer. Hunte was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Saint Philip, Barbados. Barbados Hunte made his first-class debut for Barbados in 1984 against Jamaica. He played first-class cricket for Ba...
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Sinezona pacifica Sinezona pacifica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit shells. Description The height of the shell reaches 1 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Macqua...
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Oppressing the Masses Oppressing the Masses is second album recorded by the San Francisco Bay Area thrash band Vio-lence. It was released originally in 1990 on Megaforce Records. The original print (20,000) contained the song "Torture Tactics," but all copies were destroyed because of Atlantic's objection to the lyric...
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Macroblock Macroblock is a processing unit in image and video compression formats based on linear block transforms, typically the discrete cosine transform (DCT). A macroblock typically consists of 16×16 samples, and is further subdivided into transform blocks, and may be further subdivided into prediction blocks. For...
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Alfa Romeo 85 Alfa Romeo 85 is a truck produced by Alfa Romeo between 1934 and 1939, it was an updated version of licensed Büssing model. History Three versions were available: 85 (5.2 meters), 85 C (4.6 meters) and 85 G was (gas generator) version was produced since 1935. There was also bus version 85 A, replacing p...
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Ma Xichong Ma Xichong (馬希崇) was the sixth and final ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Chu. Background According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms, citing another work now lost, the Miscellaneous Records from a Blue Box (青箱雜記, Qingxiang Zaji), Ma Xichong was born in 9...
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Mamudnagar Union Mamudnagar Union () is a union of Nagarpur Upazila, Tangail District, Bangladesh. It is situated east of Nagarpur and south of Tangail city. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Mamudnagar Union had 9,112 households and a population of 38,410. The literacy rate (age 7 and over) was...
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Dick Whittinghill Noral Edwin "Dick" Whittinghill (March 5, 1913 – January 24, 2001) was an American film and television actor, recording artist and radio DJ in the United States. His early music career included membership in The Pied Pipers vocal group which sang with Tommy Dorsey's big band. Beginning in 1950, Whit...
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Felix Landau Felix Landau (May 21, 1910, Vienna, Austria – April 4, 1983), was a SS Hauptscharführer, a member of an Einsatzkommando during World War II, based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz. He was a "central figure in the Nazi program of the extermination of Galician Jews". He is...
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Belastok Region Belastok Voblast or Belostok Oblast (, Biełastockaja vobłasć, , ) was a short-lived territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) during World War II from September 1939 until Operation Barbarossa of 22 June 1941 and again for a short period in 1944. The administrative center of t...
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Hemaris beresowskii Hemaris beresowskii is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from south-western China. There is a transparent discal cell on the forewing that is generally divided longitudinally by a vestigial scaled fold. The hindwing upperside very similar to Hemaris ottonis. References B Category:Moth...
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William Longworth Dames Lieutenant-General William Longworth Dames (2 March 1806 – 20 February 1868) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot. Military career Dames was commissioned into the 66th Regiment of Foot on 26 July 1826 and promoted to lieutenant...
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Year 3000 "Year 3000" is a song performed by British pop punk band Busted. It was released as the second single from their debut studio album Busted (2002). "Year 3000" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the 34th biggest seller of the year with 165,000 units. The single was also a success in the r...
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Paul Watson (journalist) Paul Richard Watson (born July 13, 1959) is a Canadian photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of three books: Where War Lives, Magnum Revolution: 65 Years of Fighting for Freedom, and Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (2017). The Guardian newspaper named IC...
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International Narcotics Control Caucus The United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (also known as the Senate Narcotics Caucus) was created to monitor and encourage the U.S. government and private programs seeking to expand international cooperation against drug abuse and narcotics trafficking, a...
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Adenosine deaminase Adenosine deaminase (also known as adenosine aminohydrolase, or ADA) is an enzyme () involved in purine metabolism. It is needed for the breakdown of adenosine from food and for the turnover of nucleic acids in tissues. Its primary function in humans is the development and maintenance of the immun...
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Gautam Sharma Gautam Sharma is an Indian television and film actor. Sharma was raised in Bangalore. His father is a businessman. He completed his high school education from Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore and graduated from St Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore. He modelled before debuting with show Gr...
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Underemployment equilibrium In Keynesian economics, underemployment equilibrium is a situation with a persistent shortfall relative to full employment and potential output so that unemployment is higher than at the NAIRU or the "natural" rate of unemployment. Theoretical framework Origin The concept of underemployme...
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Rhinoprenes pentanemus Rhinoprenes pentanemus, the Threadfin scat, is a species of ephippid native to the Pacific Ocean around Papua New Guinea and Australia. This fish eats algae and also sewage. This species grows to a length of TL. This species is the only known member of its genus. References External links ...
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Antoine de Loménie Antoine de Lomenie, lord of La Ville-aux-Clerics (1560 - 17 January 1638 Paris) was a Secretary of the Navy under Louis XIII of 7 November 1613 to 10 August 1615, and Ambassador Extraordinary of France to England. He was the son of Martial Lomenie, Seigneur de Versailles (†1572 in the St. Bartholom...
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Heki Danjō Masatsugu was a warrior and the creator of the school of basic archery skills for footsoldiers. Heki Danjō's teaching started one of the prominent schools of kyūdō, which is named Heki-ryū after him. Several Heki-ryū branches are taught actively even today. Heki Danjō lived in warlike times when it was con...
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Ritual of oak and mistletoe The ritual of oak and mistletoe is a Celtic religious ceremony, in which white-clad druids climbed a sacred oak, cut down the mistletoe growing on it, sacrificed two white bulls and used the mistletoe to make an elixir to cure infertility and the effects of poison. The ritual, known from a ...
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Transient acantholytic dermatosis Grover's disease (GD) is a polymorphic, pruritic, papulovesicular dermatosis characterized histologically by acantholysis with or without dyskeratosis. Once confirmed, most cases of Grover's disease last six to twelve months, which is why it was originally called "transient". However...
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Aron Baynes Aron John Baynes (born 9 December 1986) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Washington State University before starting his professional career in Europe. In 2013, he joined the San Antonio Spurs...
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Virginia Commando Virginia Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve. History Origins With the SADF During this era, the commando was mainly tasked with area force protection, search ...
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Lawrence G. Sager Lawrence Gene Sager (born 1941) is a former dean of the University of Texas School of Law. He holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair. Sager, who joined the Law School faculty in 2002, is the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history. He is best known for his theory of underenfo...
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Yasen Petrov Yasen Petrov Petrov (; born 23 June 1968) is a Bulgarian former football player. His nickname is Giannini from Plovdiv. Career Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Petrov played for the PFC Botev Plovdiv, PFC Levski Sofia, PFC Slavia Sofia and PFC Lokomotiv Sofia. He also played for the Bulgaria national team. Ma...
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Drum Tower and Bell Tower of Beijing The Drum Tower of Beijing, or Gulou (), is situated at the northern end of the central axis of the Inner City to the north of Di'anmen Street. Originally built for musical reasons, it was later used to announce the time and is now a tourist attraction. The Bell Tower of Beijing, ...
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Scott Bloomquist Scott Bloomquist (born November 14, 1963) is a nationally touring dirt late model race car driver in the United States. Bloomquist was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He was inducted in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in its second class in 2002. Racing career Bloomquist is the son of an airplane...
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Method of matched asymptotic expansions In mathematics, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is a common approach to finding an accurate approximation to the solution to an equation, or system of equations. It is particularly used when solving singularly perturbed differential equations. It involves finding sev...
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Jean Kluger Jean Joseph Kluger (born 31 March 1937) is a Belgian record producer, music publisher and composer. Biography Jean Kluger was born in Antwerp, Belgium, the eldest son of Jacques and Adela Kluger. His career started in 1957, working for his father's company, World Music. He established his own company, E...
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Italian football league system The Italian football league system, also known as the Italian football pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for the association football in Italy. It consists of nine national and regional tournaments, the first three being professional, while the remaining ...
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Barbara Kunkel Barbara Kunkel (born 17 September 1969) is an American taekwondo practitioner. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She won a bronze medal in middleweight at the 1999 Pan American Games. References External links Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:American female taek...
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2013 Masters Tournament The 2013 Masters Tournament was the 77th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships to be held in 2013. It was held from April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Adam Scott won the tournament on the second hole of a sudden death play...
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"Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis "Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis is a species of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Xinlong Formation of Guangxi Province, southern China. It is known only from teeth that were initially identified as those of a pliosauroid, but are now known to have come from an animal simi...
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Nissan Latio The Nissan Latio is an automotive nameplate which is used by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan since 2004 for two unrelated subcompact four-door sedans. Since 2004, the name "Nissan Tiida Latio" had been used for the Japanese market Nissan Tiida sedan, although the Indonesian, Malaysian, and Si...
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Scott Burgess (sound designer) Scott Burgess is an American audio engineer, composer, musician, sound designer, voice over artist and performer. In the category of Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production, he is a ten-time nominee and a two-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award. Biography Burgess was born in Colo...
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Vera Chirwa Vera Mlangazua Chirwa (born 1932) is a Malawian born lawyer and human and civil rights activist. She was Malawi's first female lawyer and a founding member of the Malawi Congress Party and the Nyasaland African Women's League. She fought for multiparty democratic rule in Malawi and was charged with treason...
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SM UC-95 SM UC-95 was a German Type UC III minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. Design A German Type UC III submarine, UC-95 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a length overall of , a beam of , and a draught of . The submarine was powe...
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National Health (album) For the Maxïmo Park album, see The National Health (album). National Health is the first album recorded by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene. Although it was created during the rise of punk,...
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Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Light flyweight The Light Flyweight class in the boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics competition is the lightest class. Light flyweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 48 kilograms (105.8 lbs). 29 boxers qualified for this category after the 2007 World Amateur Box...
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Collegiate Crescent Collegiate Crescent is a crescent forming part of the Broomhall Estate in S10, Sheffield, that intersects with Ecclesall Road. One of two long-standing campuses of Sheffield Hallam University, the facility is based in specially constructed buildings as well as many houses and villas on the left han...
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Muslim Dhagi The Muslim Dhagi are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They were also known as the Julahas. Origin The Muslim Dhagi are converts from the Hindu Dhagi caste. They get their name from the Hindi term dhaga, which means a thread. The Dhagi were traditionally involved in the man...
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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a collection of infrastructure projects that are currently under construction throughout Pakistan. Originally valued at $46 billion, the value of CPEC projects is worth $62 billion as of 2017. CPEC is intended to rapidly upgrade Pakistan's required...
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Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly The final of the men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 3, 1984. The first eight qualified for the final, the next eight for the B-final. Records ...
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Howard Kaloogian Howard James Kaloogian (born December 30, 1959) is an American politician and a former member of the California State Assembly. A Republican, he failed in 2004 to be elected to the United States Senate and in 2006 to be elected to the House. Biography Kaloogian grew up in Michigan, of Armenian-born p...
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Pond Lane Flood Gates Pond Lane Flood Gates is a redundant flood defence structure, located near Lea Bridge Road on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Hackney, England. History The flood gates were the third water control structure to be built in the vicinity. When the Hackney Cut was first opened in ...
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Guelph Airport Guelph Airport is located northeast of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It consists of two runways, 14/32 and 05/23. Although known to residents as the "Guelph Airport" or "Guelph Airpark", it is actually an aerodrome, being registered, and not certified, by Transport Canada. The airport is classified as an ...
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King's Field (video game) King's Field is a first-person role-playing video game (RPG) developed and published by FromSoftware for the PlayStation in December 1994. The debut title of the King's Field series, the game has players navigating a vast underground labyrinth to discover the source of an invasion of monsters...
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Rageh Daoud Rageh Sami Daoud (; born November 23, 1954; first name also spelled Ragueh and last name also spelled Dawood) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers. He has composed for piano, voice, and orchestra, and has written a numbe...
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Toscana virus Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) belonging to Bunyavirales, an order of negative-stranded, enveloped RNA viruses. The virus can be transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus. Toscana is not normally associated with disease, as indicated b...
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Illinois Route 140 Illinois Route 140 (IL 140) is a east–west highway with its western terminus at Illinois Route 143 in Alton and its eastern terminus at U.S. Route 40 (US 40) near Mulberry Grove. It also overlaps IL 111 in Alton and IL 127 in Greenville. Although this route may appear to be a derivative of US 40, ...
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Sanremo Music Festival 1968 The Sanremo Music Festival 1968 was the 18th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, province of Imperia, Italy, between 1 and 3 February 1968. The show was presented by Pippo Baudo, assisted by actress Luisa Rivelli. According to the rules of this edition ...
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Harpen-Rosenberg Harpen-Rosenberg is a statistical area of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Harpen-Rosenberg is a statistical area in the working-class north of Bochum. The large shopping center Ruhrpark, which includes a particularly large cinema, is ...
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Lotti Fraser Lotti Fraser (born 18 June 1989) is an English actress and singer. Fraser studied Drama and English in London and Miami. She has appeared in the British children's television program Crisis Control, and appeared in the 2011 American comedy film The Hangover Part II. Fraser retired from acting in her mid-...
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Ageo-shuku was the fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto during the Edo period. It was located in the present-day city of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. History The name "Ageo" appears as the name of a locality in Musashi Province in late Sengoku period documents, as a ...
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Przedzeń Przedzeń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ceków-Kolonia, within Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Kalisz and south-east of the regional capital Poznań. Notes Category:Villages in Kalisz County
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Good Technology Good Technology, owned by BlackBerry Limited, is a mobile security provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company serves more than 5,000 organizations worldwide in industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, legal, government, and...
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Abell catalogue The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift z ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, which had only 2,712 clusters, with a further 1,361 clustersthe "Southern Survey" ...
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Bernd Hengst Bernd Hengst (born 1943 or 1942) is a German Neonazi and terrorist. He founded the right-wing terrorist group named after him Wehrsportgruppe Hengst. The group was the first uncovered Right-wing terrorist group after WWII in the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD). Bernd Hengst was a trained electrician. ...
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George W. Rust George W. Rust (April 7, 1815 – May 12, 1888) was a nineteenth-century Virginia doctor and plantation owner who during the American Civil War served in various Confederate hospitals, as well as the Virginia House of Delegates from September 7, 1863 until the war's end, and later in the Virginia Constitu...
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Promenade des Berges de la Seine The Promenade des Berges de la Seine is a public park and promenade located along the left bank of the Seine river in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, between the Pont de l'Alma and the Musée d'Orsay. The promenade, created on the former highway that ran along the left bank, includes f...
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Huilong Township, Mianning County Huilong Township () is a township of Mianning County in the north of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Sichuan province, China, located southwest of the county seat as the crow flies. , it has six villages under its administration. References Category:Township-lev...
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Nirmalendu Goon Nirmalendu Goon (born 21 June 1945) is a Bangladeshi poet known for his accessible verse. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2001 and Independence Day Award by the Government of Bangladesh in 2016. He was also awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982. Early life and education Goon was born in Kasban...
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Barbaira (river) {{Infobox river | name = Barbaira | image =Barbaira 01.png | image_caption = | length = | source1_elevation = around | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = | source1_location = between punta dell'Arpetta and monte Simonasso | mou...
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Claude Pinoteau Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry. Filmography 1971 : It Only Happens to Others 1973 : with...
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James Clavell James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, 10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), was an Australian (and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have...
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Live at Mr. Kelly's Live at Mister Kelly's, often stylized as "Live" (At Mr. Kelly's), is a live album by blues musician Muddy Waters released by the Chess label in 1971. Reception Rolling Stone said "All in all, it’s a rainy night sounding, laid-back album with the emphasis on good solid blues" AllMusic reviewer Br...
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Masula boat Masula boat, also known as masulah boat, is a kind of non-rigid boat built without knees used on the coast of Madras (the present day city of Chennai), India, along with catamarans. Description Locally known as padagu or salangu among the fisher folks, the masula boat is a large, flat-bottomed, high-sided...
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Ceylonthelphusa nata Ceylonthelphusa nata is a species of decapod in the family Gecarcinucidae. The IUCN conservation status of Ceylonthelphusa nata is "CR", critically endangered. The species faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2008. References Furthe...
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Sheridan, California Sheridan is a census-designated place in Placer County, California, United States. It is located at the western edge of the county, along State Route 65. Sheridan is northwest of Lincoln. Its ZIP code is 95681 and area code 530. The elevation is . The population was 1,238 at the 2010 census. His...
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