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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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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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Weldon Glacier
Weldon Glacier is a glacier entering the southeast part of Weddell Sea about 30 nautical miles (60 km) west-southwest of Hayes Glacier. The glacier was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 reconnaissance flight over the coast of Coats Land, November 5, 1967, and was plotted by United States Ge... | {
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Sirotinskaya
Sirotinskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Ilovlinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 892 as of 2010. There are 21 streets.
References
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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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Dave Kavanagh
David Kavanagh (1 March 1887 – 5 August 1965) was an Irish hurler. His championship career with the Wexford team spanned the first two decades of the 20th century.
Kavanagh was born in Ballylucas, County Wexford to the former Mary Murphy and John Kavanagh. After a brief education he spent his working li... | {
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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.
On the Underground it is a stop on the District line and is also the eastern term... | {
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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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Atopobium vaginae
Atopobium vaginae is a species of bacteria in the genus of Actinobacteria, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. It is a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive rod-shaped or elliptical coccobacilli found as single elements or in pairs or short chains. It is typically isolated from 80% of women with bacteria... | {
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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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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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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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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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Mykolaiv Oblast Council
The Mykolaiv Oblast Council () is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Mykolaiv Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine.
Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 3 percent of the total vote.
Re... | {
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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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Apparatus (journal)
Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe () is a bi-annual open-access academic journal with double blind peer-review. Apparatus is supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation), hosted by Freie Universität Berlin and edited by Dr Natascha Drubek. The first iss... | {
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Prototheora petrosema
Prototheora petrosema is a species of moth of the family Prototheoridae. It is found in South Africa, where it ranges through much of the predominantly fynbos Cape vegetation to the temperate Knysna Forest. It has been found frequently around the lower slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town.
The ... | {
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The Island Hymn
The Island Hymn is the patriotic song of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The hymn's lyrics were written in 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was performed for the first time in public on May 22 of that year. It was sung to Lawrence W.Watson's music, which had been composed especially for ... | {
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Levington
Levington is a small village in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The population of the parish including Stratton Hall at the 2011 Census was 259.
History
Levington has a church called St Peters Church and a pub. It is near the large town of Ipswich and the village of Nacton. ... | {
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Marie-Joseph Farcot
Marie-Joseph-Denis Farcot (1798 – 1875) was a French engineer, inventor and manufacturer, working mainly with steam engines.
His son, Joseph Farcot, was also a noted inventor.
Early years
Marie-Joseph-Denis Farcot was born in 1798. His father was Joseph Jean Chrysostome Farcot, a former teacher ... | {
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Doc Powers
Michael Riley "Doc" Powers (September 22, 1870 – April 26, 1909) was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four teams from to .
He played for the Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators of the National League, and the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Highlanders of the American L... | {
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20th Battalion, London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich)
The 20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich), was a unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from Volunteer corps dating back to 1859. It saw considerable service on the Western Front, at Salonika and in Palesti... | {
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Ubari
Ubari or Awbari (Berber language: Ubari or Awbari); ) is a Tuareg Berber-speaking oasis town and the capital of the Wadi al Hayaa District, in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. It is in the Idehan Ubari, a Libyan section of the Sahara Desert. It was the capital of the former baladiyah (district) called Aw... | {
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Trumpeter (bird)
The trumpeters are a family of birds restricted to the humid forests of the Amazon and Guiana Shield in South America. They are named for the trumpeting or cackling threat call of the males. The three species resemble chickens in size; they measure long and weigh . They are rotund birds with long nec... | {
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Charles of Limburg Stirum
Count Charles Gaëtan Corneille Marie François-Xavier Ghislain of Limburg Stirum, GCVO, GCSG (15 September 1906 – 14 June 1989), a Count of the Holy Roman Empire and Knight of the Golden Fleece (Austrian branch), was a member of the House of Limburg-Stirum. During his life he was a Belgian Sen... | {
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1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27 and 28 July. Senior implements (106.7cm (3'6) hurdles, 7257g shot, 2kg discus) were used.
Medalists... | {
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2011 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2011 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played on March 9–11, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The tournament champion became the NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier from the conference. The Arizona Wildcats, f... | {
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Word
In linguistics, a word of a spoken language can be defined as the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. For many languages, words also correspond to sequences of graphemes ("letters") in their standard writing systems that are delimited by spaces wide... | {
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Ravensara
Ravensara is a genus of trees and shrubs of the family Lauraceae and endemic to the island of Madagascar (Central and Eastern regions) and the Comoro Islands. The bark, leaves and fruit of the various species are rich in aromatic essential oils. In a recent generic classification of Lauraceae based on DNA se... | {
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3-Hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA deacylase deficiency
3-Hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA deacylase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive condition that is associated with severely delayed psychomotor development, neurodegeneration, increased lactic acid and brain lesions in the basal ganglia. Fewer than 10 patients have been described... | {
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Petya Petkova
Petya Petkova (Bulgarian: Петя Петкова) is a Bulgarian football defender currently playing for NSA Sofia in the Bulgarian Championship. She played the Champions League with Apollon Limassol and NSA Sofia.
She is currently a member of the Bulgarian national team.
References
Category:1991 births
Categor... | {
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The Old Path (TOP) Channel
The Old Path (TOP) Channel (branded as TOP Channel) is a religious broadcast station owned and operated by the Members Church of God International (MCGI), an international Christian organization with headquarters in the Philippines. The station carries the 24/7 English broadcast of Ang Datin... | {
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KNEP
KNEP, virtual channel 4 (VHF digital channel 7), is an NBC-affiliated television station serving Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States that is licensed to Sidney. Owned by Gray Television, it is a sister station to Scottsbluff-licensed CBS affiliate KSTF (channel 10). KNEP's studios are located on 1st Avenue in Sc... | {
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Keokuk Indians
After baseball began in Keokuk, Iowa in 1875, the Keokuk Indians was the primary nickname of Keokuk minor league baseball teams. After the Indians (1904–1915, 1929–1933, 1935), Keokuk was home of the Keokuk Pirates (1947–1949), Keokuk Kernels (1952–1957), Keokuk Cardinals (1958–1961) and the Keokuk Dodg... | {
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Oškinis BRO-11
The Oškinis BRO-11 was a primary glider designed in the USSR. It was produced in large numbers from the 1950s.
Design and development
The Oškinis BRO-11 was a simple, single-seat primary glider in the open girder style exemplified by the pre-war SG 38 Schulgleiter. It was more refined, with slotted ai... | {
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Laurens Tan
Laurens Tan (born 1950) is a multidisciplinary Australian artist. His work includes sculpture, 3D animation, video, and graphics, and is influenced by architectural and industrial design. He lives and works in Sydney, Beijing, and Las Vegas..
His work is informed by Chinese heritage, language and meaning.... | {
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Swell, Gloucestershire
Swell is a civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire.The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 389.
Swell is located in the Cotswold district immediately west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The main settlements are Upper Swell () and Lower Swell () both of w... | {
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A Book on Angling
A Book on Angling – Being a complete treatise on the art of angling in every branch is a work of angling literature with significant fly fishing content written by Francis Francis, angling editor to The Field and published in London in 1867 by Longmans, Green and Company.
Synopsis
A Book on Angling ... | {
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Parvularcula
Parvularcula bermudensis is a marine bacterium which was identified in 2003 in the western Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. It forms a deep branch in the Alpha Proteobacteria, distinct from the other orders.
Parvularcula isolates are Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, slightly motile... | {
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Joe Salazar
Joseph A. Salazar (born 1971/72) is a former Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives, serving from 2013 to early 2019. Salazar is also an attorney with Smith, Shelton, Ragona and Salazar LLC. He focuses on employment law, civil rights and constitutional law.
He ran for Colorado Attorney... | {
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Paul Collins (athlete)
Paul Albert Collins (July 22, 1926 – January 31, 1995) was a long-distance runner from Canada, who was born in the London Borough of Lewisham. He represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he finished in 40th place.
Collins won t... | {
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Junior Daugherty
Forest Alton "Junior" Daugherty, Jr (born July 19, 1930 in Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico) is a fiddler, guitar player and songwriter. He has been ranked among the top five fiddlers in the United States over a fifteen-year period. Daugherty won the New Mexico state fiddling championship eight ye... | {
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The Dam Busters (video game)
The Dam Busters is a combat flight simulator set in World War II, published by U.S. Gold in 1984. It is loosely based on the real life Operation Chastise and the 1955 film. The game was released in 1984 for the ColecoVision and Commodore 64; in 1985 for Apple II, MS-DOS, MSX and ZX Spectru... | {
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Shaun Dooley
Shaun Dooley (born 30 March 1974) is an English actor and voice-over artist.
Early life
Dooley was born in Barnsley, United Kingdom. He studied at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester between 1992 and 1995.
Career
Dooley's first acting role was as Shaun in Groove on a Stanley Knife in 1997. He la... | {
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Benjamin Fordham
Benjamin O. Fordham is a political scientist at Binghamton University.
Education
Benjamin Fordham graduated from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University in 1988 with a B.S. in foreign service. He received Masters in Government in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... | {
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Kosmos 955
Kosmos 955 (International Designator: 1977-091A, satcat number 10362) was a Soviet ELINT satellite, launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on September 20, 1977 at 01:01 UTC. The satellite's mass was 2,500 kg. Kosmos 955 had a periapsis of 631 km, apoapsis of 664 km, period inclination of 81,2° and an orbita... | {
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Ennio Fantastichini
Ennio Fantastichini (20 February 1955 – 1 December 2018) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Gallese, province of Viterbo, Fantastichini studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. His breakout role was Tommaso Scalia in Gianni Amelio's Open Doors, a role... | {
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JBoss Tools
JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and JavaEE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio.
Modules
JBoss Tools includes the following modules:
Visual Page Editor (VPE). T... | {
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Farr Alpaca F.C.
Farr Alpaca F.C. was an early twentieth-century American soccer team sponsored by the Farr Alpaca textile mill of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The team competed in amateur leagues in western Massachusetts, but experienced some success in national competitions.
One of the first mentions of Farr Alpaca F... | {
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Bebearia maximiana
Bebearia maximiana, the maximal forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on an unidentified dicotyledonous tree.
Subspecies
Bebearia maximiana maximiana (Ni... | {
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A Turf Conspiracy (novel)
A Turf Conspiracy is a 1916 sports crime novel by the British-Australian writer Nathaniel Gould. It is set in the world of horse racing.
Film adaptation
In 1918 the novel served as a basis for the British silent film A Turf Conspiracy directed by Frank Wilson.
References
Bibliography
Gobl... | {
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Alexander (surname)
Alexander is a surname originating in Scotland. It is originally an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacAlasdair. It is a somewhat common Scottish name, and the region of Scotland where it traditionally is most commonly found is in the Highlands region of Scotland.
Notable people with the su... | {
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Albert Jacob
Albert Paul Jacob (born 16 March 1980) is an Australian politician. He is the current Mayor for the City of Joondalup. He was the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ocean Reef from 2008 to 2017, and the Minister for the Environment and Heritage in Colin Barnett's government. He... | {
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Ross Fletcher
Ross Fletcher is an English sports presenter and commentator known for his work with BBC Radio and Seattle Sounders FC.
Career
BBC
Fletcher had a passion for radio at a young age and at 14 years old, he was the runner-up in a competition for aspiring broadcasters hosted by Garth Crooks's Go program on ... | {
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White-eyelid mangabey
The white-eyelid mangabeys are African Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Cercocebus. They are characterized by their bare upper eyelids, which are lighter than their facial skin colouring, and the uniformly coloured hairs of the fur. The other two genera of mangabeys, Lophocebus and Rungwe... | {
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Dhale
Dhale or Dhala, also spelled Dali and Dhalea and sometimes prefixed with Al or Ad ( Aḍ-Ḍāliʿ), is the capital town of Dhale Governorate in south-western Yemen. It is located at around , in the elevation of around 1500 metres.
History
Formerly it was the capital of the Emirate of Dhala.
Climate
Economy
Histor... | {
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Isaac Watts (naval architect)
Isaac Watts (1797–1876) was an early British naval architect. Together with Chief Engineer Thomas Lloyd, he designed HMS Warrior, the world's first armour-plated iron-hulled warship. When he retired his position as Chief Constructor was taken by Edward Reed.
References
External links
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HMAS Shepparton (A 03)
HMAS Shepparton (A 03) is a Paluma-class survey motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction
The Paluma-class vessels have a full load displacement of 320 tonnes. They are long overall and long between perpendiculars, have a beam of , and a draught of . Propulsion... | {
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Dean Buntrock
Dean L. Buntrock is an American businessman and philanthropist most well known for his founding and longtime leadership of Waste Management, Inc., North America's largest waste services company. Over his 40-year career, he and the team he assembled built a small family-owned business with less than $1 mi... | {
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Giovanni Battista Spangher
Johann Spangher (Villesse, May 24, 1802 – Villesse, July 29, 1852) was an Italian politician, judge and irredentist.
Biography
G.B Spangher was born in Villesse, a small town near Gorizia, from G.B. Spangar and from Vecchi Pasqua. The family was well off and practiced mercantile activity. H... | {
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Cerasus (near Trapezus)
Cerasus or Kerasous () was a town of ancient Pontus, on the Black Sea coast, a little to the west of Trapezus. The Ten Thousand, in their retreat, came to Trapezus, and leaving Trapezus, "they arrive on the third day at Cerasus, an Hellenic city on the sea, a colony of the Sinopeis, in Colchis.... | {
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Danube Express
The Danube Express is a private train operating in central and eastern Europe. It provides a hotel-on-wheels service with sleeping cars of three comfort categories (Superior DeLuxe, DeLuxe and Heritage classes), completed by restaurant, lounge and staff cars. Its operating season is generally from April... | {
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Acanthodactylus ahmaddisii
Acanthodactylus ahmaddisii or the Jordanian fringe-fingered lizard is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.
Geographic range
A. ahmaddisii is endemic to Jordan.
Etymology
The specific name, ahmaddisii, is in honor of Jordanian biologist Ahmad M. Disi.
Habitat
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Baby Blue Paper
Baby Blue Paper is the eleventh album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson, released on 28 October 2008. The album was recorded in Nashville. It peaked at #3 at the Swedish album charts.
Track listing
Personnel
Scott Baggett - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass
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Jean-Paul Dupré
Jean-Paul Dupré (born 5 February 1944 in Davejean, Aude) French millionaire, member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Aude department, and is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. He is the mayor of Limoux.
R... | {
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Sea-pie
Sea pie is also an old name for an oystercatcher
Sea-pie is a layered meat pie made with meat or fish, and is known to have been served to British sailors during the 18th century. Its popularity was passed on to the New England colonies sufficiently to be included in American Cookery.
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Carlos Casares (governor)
For the town of the same name, see Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires.
Carlos Casares (February 13, 1830 — May 2, 1883) was an Argentine rancher, executive, and politician.
Life and times
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Raisin Bran
Raisin bran (sultana bran in some countries) is a breakfast cereal containing raisins and wheat bran. Raisin bran is manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names, including the popularly known Kellogg's Raisin Bran, General Mills' Total Raisin Bran, and Post Cereals' Raisin Bran. This p... | {
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Cottonwood Lake (Grant and Stevens counties, Minnesota)
Cottonwood Lake is a lake in Grant County and Stevens counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Cottonwood Lake was named for the cottonwood trees near its banks.
See also
List of lakes in Minnesota
References
Category:Lakes of Minnesota
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Taxation in New Jersey
The U.S. state of New Jersey levies a state personal income tax and state corporate income tax and a state sales tax. Property taxes are also levied by municipalities, counties, and school districts.
Income tax
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Goniobranchus decorus
Goniobranchus decorus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.
Taxonomic history
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Rolando Araya Monge
Rolando Araya Monge (born 20 August 1947) is a Costa Rican socialist politician. He is a nephew of former president Luis Alberto Monge.
Biography
Rolando Araya went to school in Palmares, the place he was born, and at the Lincoln Park High School, Michigan. In 1970 after his university career at... | {
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Citra (drink)
Citra was a clear lemon- and lime-flavoured soda sold in India in the 1980s and early 1990s. Citra was owned by Parle Bisleri. Along with other Parle brands, Thums Up, Limca, Gold Spot and Maaza, Citra was sold to Coca-Cola in 1993 in a deal that was reportedly worth $40 million. At the time of sale, t... | {
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Thurmond Clarke
Thurmond Clarke (June 29, 1902 – February 28, 1971) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Education and career
Born in Santa Paula, California, Clarke ... | {
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Tiborszállás
Tiborszállás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 1023 people (2015).
References
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Kolbeinn Pálsson
Kolbeinn Hermann Pálsson (born 26 November 1945) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of the Icelandic national team. In 1966 he became the first basketball player to be named the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year. He served as the chairman of the Icelandic Basketball Associat... | {
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Latrice Walker
Latrice Monique Walker is the Assembly member for the 55th District of the New York State Assembly. She is a Democrat. The district includes portions of Brownsville in Brooklyn.
Life and career
Walker was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn in Prospect Plaza Houses, a NYCHA development. She attend... | {
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1992 Armenian Cup
The 1992 Armenian Cup was the first edition of the Armenian Cup, a football competition, since the Armenian independence. In 1992, the tournament had 31 participant, none of which were reserve teams.
Results
First round
Malatia received a bye to the second round.
The matches were played on 4 and ... | {
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Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy
Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy (English: "I am Shivajiraje Bhosale Speaking") is a Marathi film released in 2009. The movie is produced by Sanjay Chhabria along with Ashwami Manjrekar and directed by Santosh Manjrekar. The film follows an underdog who fights against the evil in society, to... | {
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Wieldządz
Wieldządz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płużnica, within Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Płużnica, north-west of Wąbrzeźno, and north of Toruń.
References
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Flowers (TV series)
Flowers is a British black comedy-drama sitcom written by Will Sharpe and starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt. It was commissioned by the British broadcaster Channel 4, in association with the American TV streaming service Seeso. The first series premiered in the U.K. with two episodes on 25 ... | {
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Nane Sarma
Nane Sarma (, "Grandma Frost") is a mythical character in Iranian folklore. She is the wife of Amu Nowruz, the "Uncle Nowruz".
In 2012, the first Iranian folktale of Nane Sarma was published in English, in the book Pomegranates and Roses: A Persian Love Story.
See also
Snegurochka, a related character in... | {
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Korobiec
Korobiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suwałki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Suwałki and north of the regional capital Białystok.
References
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John Barnard Bush
John Barnard Bush (born 1937) is an English farmer, landowner and Justice of the Peace. He was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2004 to 2012, having previously served as the county's High Sheriff.
Early life
The son of Barnard Robert Swanton Bush, of Norton St Philip, Somerset, and of Elizabeth Bu... | {
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