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Mule's methodic teachings follow these guidelines:
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Valiantine was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He worked as a manufacturer before he discovered mediumship. He gave séances in America and Europe. Valiantine predicted in the 1920s that aliens would visit earth. He also claimed contact with spirit guides known as Hawk Chief and Kokum.
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The French supreme command considered violating the neutrality of the Low Countries if they had not joined the Anglo-French coalition before the planned large Entente offensive in the summer of 1941, but the French Cabinet, fearing a negative public reaction, vetoed the idea. Kept into consideration was a plan to invad...
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Star Wars Trilogy Arcade is an arcade game first released in 1998. The game is a 3-D rail shooter based on the original trilogy of Star Wars films and was released along with the special editions of these films. Accompanied by the Star Wars Trilogy pinball game, it is the second in Sega's Star Wars Arcade series; it is...
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Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Debbie Allen, Lil' C, Adam Shankman, Mia Michaels
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Michael Foucault understood the art of living (French art de vivre, Latin ars vivendi) and the care of self (French le souci de soi) to be central to philosophy. The third volume of his three-volume study The History of Sexuality is dedicated to this notion. For Foucault, the notion of care of self (epimeleia heautou) ...
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Cowell has composed more than 200 songs, almost 150 have been recorded and several of them have become well known. Among them 'Walk Hand in Hand', 'His Girl,' and '(These Are) the Young Years' with Floyd Cramer. His song 'Walk Hand in Hand' (1956) has been recorded over 90 times making Cowell one of Canada's most succ...
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Fokma attended the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS), and studied architecture for one year at the Delft University of Technology , but then switched to the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He attended classes by Piet Esser. In 1957 he settled in Leeuwarden, where he spend his entire career. In 1961 he married Anneke Brouwer, who w...
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Bart starts to withdraw and lash out at his family, greatly worrying them. Bart begins to pressure Corrine to tell him about his biological father, about whom he knows nothing. John Amos continues to influence Bart regarding the sins and hypocrisy of the family, further straining his relationship with his parents and b...
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Galaxolide is classified as under the EU DSD and as H410 under EU CLP classification rules.
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Variations and combinations of these tricks also exist, for example a 360° tailwhip would be where the rider spins 360° in one direction and the frame of the bike spins 360° around the steer tube, both bike and rider will then meet again, with the rider catching the pedals, facing the same direction as before the trick...
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Fontaine returned to Penn in 1943 and audited graduate courses until 1946. Drafted during World War II, he worked at Holabird Signal Depot in Baltimore, Maryland. He taught basic education to illiterate soldiers.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation found a gouge in the pipe, probably caused by excavation equipment years earlier; in combination with brittle pipe material and excessive operating pressures likely led to the rupture. NTSB also found fault with the lack of automatic or remote-controlled shu...
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The 2016 season contains eleven rounds. It started in Spain on May 14 and is finished in Abu Dhabi on November 27.
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Tetraanthraporphyrin exhibit strongly red-shifted and hyperchromic absorption bands. The maximum of absorption is about 830 nm. The molar extinction coefficients reach 10 scale. Very strong red-shift of absorption by about 90 nm upon protonation of nitrogen atoms and blue-shift by 20−40 nm upon metal insertion are obse...
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In 2012, Fly Union was one of the artists featured in BET's Music Matters Tour.
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The office of the Code Reviser is established in the Revised Code of Washington. They are appointed by the Statute Law Committee, which consists of four members of the legislature (two from each of the two largest political parties), an attorney appointed by the Washington State Bar, an attorney appointed by the Govern...
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Meares Island became historically significant shortly after 1984, when the Nuu-chah-nulth began protesting forestry giant MacMillan Bloedel's potential harvesting activities. The Nuu-chah-nulth, with significant cooperation from environmental groups, eventually erected a blockade, preventing MacMillan Bloedel from logg...
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Polls put Galifianakis well ahead until late in the campaign, but Helms, facing all but certain defeat, hired a professional campaign manager, F. Clifton White, giving him dictatorial control over campaign strategy. While Galifianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal George McGovern, H...
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In September 2009, he terminated the contract with Monza and returned to Avellino for its Serie D campaign. In 2010–11 season, Avellino admitted to Seconda Divisione as numbers of club quit professional football.
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In 1997 Dhamma Cetiya Vihara in Boston was founded by Ven. Gotami of Thailand, then a 10 precept nun; when she received full ordination in 2000, her dwelling became America's first Theravada Buddhist bhikkhuni vihara.
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Sir William Jameson Soulsby (4 April 1851–13 February 1937) was an English barrister who served as Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London for 55 years. The Times referred to him as "in a sense, the permanent Lord Mayor."
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Gottlieb, Elizabeth Taylor and Mathilde Krim were founding chairs of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. The organization was established with a $250,000 gift from the estate of Rock Hudson. He served on the boards of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), the Pasadena AIDS Services Center and the Global AIDS Interfai...
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The school was established in 2007 as School D' Hospitality. It changed to its current name on 8 October 2012.
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In other cases (when it is not morpheme-final), word-internal -ng- does not show the effects of coalescence, and the pronunciation is retained, as in finger and angle. This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English. The process of NG-co...
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Nishio is a regional commercial center and fishing port, with a mixed economy of light manufacturing and agriculture. It is also the largest producer of powdered green tea in Japan and one of the leading producers of Unagi eels. There is a public fish market at the fishing port in Isshiki. Numerous suppliers to the Jap...
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He is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bi...
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Ehsaan Noorani is most notably associated with using the Fender Stratocaster guitar and is endorsed by the Fender family of brands. In 2011 Squire released the Ehsaan Noorani Signature Stratocaster which included several custom features such as a HSH pickup configuration and exclusive colors. Ehsaan is also endorsed b...
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The Day He Arrives (; lit. "In the direction of Bukchon" or "Bukchon-bound") is a 2011 South Korean drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. The film is in black and white. It premiered on 19 May 2011 in the Un Certain Regard section of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. The film received 45,223 admissions on its...
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Adeline Louisa Maria, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (24 December 1824, to 25 May 1915), was the second wife of the English peer James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan and later the wife of the Portuguese nobleman Don António Manuel de Saldanha e Lancastre, Conde de Lancastre. She was the author of scandalous memoir...
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The commander-in-chief of the armed forces is the President of Vietnam, through his post as Chairman of the Defense and Security Council, though this position is nominal and real power is assumed by the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The secretary of Central Military Commission (usually ...
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Eva Fuka-Engle (May 5, 1927 – November 25, 2015) was an American photographer. She was born in 1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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Christian Boesiger is a male badminton player from Switzerland.
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U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced in June 2016 that Maine’s New England Aqua Ventus I floating offshore wind demonstration project, designed by the DeepCwind Consortium, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to participate in the Offshore Wind Advanced Technology Demonstration program.
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Competing for the record against Rudolf Caracciola, Rosemeyer went out later in the day in his Auto Union streamliner, setting a new class record of 432 km/h (268 mph). In an effort to raise the record still higher, despite a report that wind was picking up, Rosemeyer took the streamliner again. After two preliminary r...
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In 2009 he competed in the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland, winning Gold in the under-16s men's 200m individual medley at the age of 15.
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There were 389 households out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.8% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 6...
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Both in traditional times and modern, the tangi of high-profile individuals can be both extended and elaborate.
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Verticordia etheliana var. formosa is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact shrub similar to var. etheliana but with smaller leaves and flowers.
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In June 2003 A. M. Best announced that it had affirmed the financial strength rating of A++ to TMR together with a negative rating outlook.
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On 21 and 22 November 2014 Gianluca participated in the Maltese national semi-final, and even in the final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 vying for another opportunity to represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. He was part of the group L-Aħwa with the song "Beautiful to Me". The group was made u...
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Interlac is also shown to be the language in which the Guardians of the Universe write the Book of Oa.
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In February 2015, a series of media reports detailed widespread use of live bait animals in the training of racing greyhounds. Despite self-regulatory efforts to address the issue of live baiting and other animal welfare issues, the revelation led to suspensions, inquiries, widespread condemnation of the practice, and,...
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The Gavilán was presented on June 10 of 2008 in San Diego, California by 'Hydra Technologies of Mexico' in AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) North America 2008, the biggest global expo of this particular industry in the world.
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On May 13, 1863, Union forces won the first Battle of Jackson, forcing Confederate forces to flee northward towards Canton. Subsequently, on May 15 Union troops under William Tecumseh Sherman burned and looted key facilities in Jackson. After driving the Confederates out of Jackson, Union forces turned west once again ...
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Born to a middle-class family in Delhi, she obtained a degree in IT, but left the field to pursue film.
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Important party members were Theodor Barth, Rudolf Breitscheid (first chairman) and Hellmut von Gerlach. Carl von Ossietzky joined the party in 1908, and from 1911 onwards published the party's weekly Das freie Volk.
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Amannus vittiger is a species of beetle in the Cerambycidae family. It was described by LeConte in 1858.
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A damage survey of buildings in the Innisfail region concluded that the majority of contemporary houses remained structurally intact, though many roller doors were destroyed. The report noted that the structures should have been able to withstand the cyclone, as the winds impacting the buildings were below the threshol...
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Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species fo...
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Koo was selected for the Australian national baseball team in two spring training exhibition matches against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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M. Mokshed Ali was an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Communist Party of India.
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The pre-selective finger-and-thumb lever for choosing gears is under the steering wheel and may be worked by the left hand.
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Nowell was a candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 1 in 1963 to succeed Everett G. Burkhalter; he placed second in the April primary to attorney Phill Silver. He won in the June final. He was easily reelected in 1965, but in 1969 he polled just 54% of the vote in the primary. He had a strong opponent that yea...
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Francisco del Plano y García de la Cueva (1658 in Daroca – September 15, 1739 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish painter who was active in Navarra and the Basque Country.
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Gold: 1999
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The B-Side Players are a San Diego based band that incorporate the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with the funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms of their homeland. The band also drops a bit of Cumbia, gritty street Samba, Son Montuno and Jarocho into the mix. Described as War meets Lenny Kravitz by way of Be...
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All characters in the show, with the notable exceptions of Archie and Penny (the latter whom only communicates through penguin-like noises) speak in Australian accents in all but the American dub in which certain characters are given American accents.
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That year the only songs which were performed in English were the Maltese entry, the Irish entry and the winning British entry, "Love Shine a Light".
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, there were 55 workers who commuted into the municipality and 175 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 7.3% of the workforce coming into Bedigliora are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working p...
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The Kollaa River (, or Kollasjoki) is a long river in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It starts from Lake Kollasjärvi in the Suoyarvsky District and flows to Lake Tulmozero () in the Pryazhinsky District.
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In 1992 Brightspark Productions released a 50-minute animation version, using an earlier BBC soundtrack with Burton as narrator. This was commissioned by S4C (a Welsh-language public service broadcaster). Music was composed specially by Trevor Herbert and performed by Treorchy Male Voice Choir and the Welsh Brass Conso...
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The Vienna Walzer Orchestra is represented and managed by Culturell Events, which is located in the 6th district of Vienna.
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There is not much sign of the writers helping each other that much, and the group is still reeling from last week's visiting writer (if you can count someone who is only publicised on the internet as a writer), whose summary, in Arnold's words, was that "You should get the F-word on with it" (to which Brevis points out...
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Captain Thomas Coupe (1818 – December 27, 1875) was a ship's captain and early settler of Whidbey Island.
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A lifting barrage was a development in which the barrage lifted periodically to a target further back, such as a second line of trenches. This was countered by the defenders infiltrating troops and machine guns into no-man's land or the areas between their own trench lines, so it was found necessary to comb the entire ...
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At the 2016 Summer Olympics, a record number of 118 athletes competed. Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal finish in Women's freestyle 58 kg category. Shuttler P. V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in Olympics and also the youngest...
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There were 737 goals in 278 matches in the qualifying phase and play-off round, for an average of 2.65 goals per match.
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DuMont Laboratories was founded in 1931 by Dr. Allen B. DuMont with only $1,000, and a laboratory in his basement. He and his staff were responsible for many early technical innovations, including the first consumer all-electronic television set in 1938. The company's television sets soon became the gold standard of th...
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O'Brien moved back to Sydney and began to call herself Gertrude Abbott, later nicknamed Mother Abbott. She formed a small community of women in the hopes of starting a new religious congregation. They lived in scattered residences around Sydney and worked together, supporting themselves through dressmaking. Abbott nur...
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The median age in the village was 63.2 years. 12.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 3.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 12.7% were from 25 to 44; 25.4% were from 45 to 64; and 45.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 50.9% male and 49.1% female.
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During his tenure as Premier, Prakasam publicly declared his intention to scrap all existing textile industries in the province and replace them with khadi manufacturing and weaving units. In February 1947, Communists broke into a full-scale revolt. On Vallabhbhai Patel's advice, Prakasam responded with widespread arre...
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A system of type theory requires some basic terms and types to operate on. Some systems build them out of functions using Church encoding. Other systems have inductive types: a set of base types and a set of type constructors that generate types with well-behaved properties. For example, certain recursive functions cal...
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Ekstrand's awards:
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Diminishing marginal returns from computers, the opposite of the time lag hypothesis, is that computers, in the form of mainframes, were used in the most productive areas, like high volume transactions of banking, accounting and airline reservations, over two decades before personal computers. Also, computers replaced...
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The city of Niš, in the southeast of Serbia, is one of the oldest cities in Europe and has long been an important bridge between East and West. Two millennia ago, it was used as a link between modern-day Belgrade and Istanbul. In a historical sense, it is most famous for being the birthplace of the Roman Emperor Consta...
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Land between two rivers is called DOAB in the local language.The name Indus comes from the Sanskrit word "sindhu", meaning "ocean", from which also come the words Sindh, Hindu, and India. The Indus River, one of the great rivers of the world, rises in southwestern Tibet only about 160 kilometers west of the source of t...
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Increased AP-1 levels lead to increased transactivation of target gene expression. Regulation of AP-1 activity is therefore critical for cell function and occurs through specific interactions controlled by dimer-composition, transcriptional and post-translational events, and interaction with accessory proteins.
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2012 - Ingenuity announces commercial availability of Ingenuity iReport and Ingenuity Variant Analysis
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The 2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines is a part of larger global flu epidemic that involves new Influenza A virus strain, H1N1. The pandemic reached the Philippines on May 21, 2009 when a young Filipina girl first contracted the A(H1N1) virus while vacationing in Houston, Texas, US. In the following days, several lo...
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Francesco II (or IV) Gonzaga ( – ) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1484 until his death.
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Bharatmala is a name given to ambitious road and highways project of Modi Government. The project will start from Gujarat and Rajasthan, move to Punjab and then cover the entire string of Himalayan states - Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand - and then portions of borders of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar alongs...
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Brown formed Brazzaville in Los Angeles, in late 1997. One day he was reading a story in the L.A. Times about the civil war in Congo. The dateline of the story read BRAZZAVILLE Reuters. The word jumped out at him and he knew he had found the name for the new band. It was only later that he discovered what an amazing m...
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The unit is operationally part of the U.S. Army Band. It is not the only fanfare unit in the United States military. The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command also fields a 15-man herald trumpet unit posted at Fort Eustis near Newport News, Virginia, while the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of the 3rd United States In...
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Under the name 'Westgate FC', the club began the 1987 Victorian State League Division 2 season with a 3–0 home victory against North Geelong Warriors on 28 March, Pedro Gasco scored a double. In the following fixtures, Westgate were thrashed 5–1 away against Prahran City on 4 April, with Pedro Gasco again scoring. By R...
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Ponso borders the following municipalities: Carceri, Ospedaletto Euganeo, Piacenza d'Adige, Santa Margherita d'Adige, Vighizzolo d'Este.
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Leko was also a very harsh critic of the urban development of Belgrade. He was often labeled as "too provocative" and "revolutionary" in his criticism of urbanism in Belgrade, and some of the problems he addressed, such as the problem of the regulation of the Terazije Terrace and the banks of the Sava River, still rem...
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Charlottesville's downtown is a center of business for Albemarle County. It is home to the Downtown Mall, one of the longest outdoor pedestrian malls in the nation, with stores, restaurants, and civic attractions. The renovated Paramount Theater hosts various events, including Broadway shows and concerts. Local theatri...
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To date, the band have done multiple tours across the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Denmark.
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In March 2015 Taapsee Pannu, Deeksha Seth and Akshara Haasan were being considered for the roles of Khan's on-screen daughters. In April 2015, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra were cast as the daughters, who hailed from the Jat community of Balali village of Bhiwani, Haryana. Geeta Phogat had participated in the ...
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Dr Chakravorty was born in 1937 in Kolkata. She cultivated an interest in science and mathematics due to the influence of her maternal grandfather. She matriculated in 1950, graduated with a B.Sc from Presidency College, Kolkata, obtained her M.Sc from the University of Calcutta and he PhD from the Bose Institute, Kolk...
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In addition, Caffè Bene features Misugaru, which "consists of black sesame seeds, black bean, black and brown rice and barley". According to their press release, Misugaru "is rich in vitamins, calcium, magnesium, molybdenum, folate and selenium". Misugaru drinks are a feature that differentiates Caffè Bene from its com...
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Gilles-Joseph-Martin Bruneteau Saint-Suzanne (7 March 1760 – 26 August 1830) was a French Revolutionary and Napoleonic general. A Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, he was made a Count under the First French Empire. His name is inscribed "S SUZANNE" on the east pillar of the Arc de Triomphe.
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Mayaro Bay is the largest bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the island of Trinidad in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The beach which lines this bay, Mayaro Beach, is a popular destination for holidays, long weekends, and is one of the traditional places to spend the Easter holidays. The shore is li...
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In the 13th century, the center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was inhabited by a majority which spoke Lithuanian, but it was not a written language until the 16th century. In the other parts of the duchy, the majority of the population, including Ruthenian nobles and ordinary people used both spoken and written Ruth...
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Dream incubation is a practiced technique of learning to "plant a seed" in the mind, in order for a specific dream topic to occur, either for recreation or to attempt to solve a problem. For example, a person might go to bed repeating to themselves that they will dream about a presentation they have coming up, or a vac...
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A Roman road (now a bridleway) forms the northern boundary of the parish and is a scheduled monument.
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NOCs in italics no longer compete at the Winter Olympics
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The Community of the Epiphany was founded in 1883 by George Wilkinson, Bishop of Truro, who afterwards became Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. The community was formed for work in the Truro diocese and was based at the Convent of the Epiphany, Truro, Cornwall. The sisters were involved in pastoral and educat...