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Sirig () is a village located in the Temerin municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,010 people (2002 census). Historical population 1961: 2,269 1971: 2,201 1981: 2,286 1991: 2,54...
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Geist ("spirit") is a German term used in philosophy, in particular by Hegel. Geist may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Geist (DC Comics), a superhero appearing in Detective Comics Geist (Marvel Comics), a supervillain opponent of Wolverine Geist (magazine), a Canadian literary magazine Geist (video...
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The Solina String Ensemble, also marketed as the ARP String Ensemble, is a fully polyphonic multi-orchestral synthesizer with a 49-key keyboard, produced by Eminent BV (known for their Solina brand). It was distributed in the United States by ARP Instruments from 1974 to 1981. The sounds it incorporates are violin, vio...
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Amelie Kober (born 16 November 1987, in Bad Aibling) is a German Federal Police officer and Olympic medalist in snowboarding. Biography At the Junior World Championships 2005 in Zermatt, Switzerland she won silver. In the World Cup she was ranked fifth. She was the youngest competitor in the Parallel Giant Slalom com...
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Steve Shak (born February 8, 1978 in Cerritos, California) is a retired American soccer player. He currently works for Northwestern Mutual. Previously Shak was an assistant coach with the Charlotte Eagles of the USL Second Division. He also joined the North Carolina State coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach ...
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is in Fontana, Gozo Island, part of the Maltese Archipelago. It is the parish church of Fontana, one of the smallest villages on the island. History The foundation stone was laid on 29 January 1893. The church was dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on 29 January 1905 by Bishop Giov...
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New Marske is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, in the region of North East England. Roughly a mile south-west of Marske-by-the-Sea and set on a hillside, it was originally a group of miners' terraced houses. 1966 saw the development of wh...
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Upleatham is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book and the name derives from Old English and Old Norse as Upper Slope, in that it was further up the hill than Kirkleatham. An ironstone seam that w...
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Gunthorpe is a residential area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Since 2015 Gunthorpe has its own ward within Peterborough City Council that also encompasses parts of South Werrington. Development in Gunthorpe has been ongoing since the 1950s. The new Roman Fields deve...
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, also known as Ouchi Sakyo-no-Tayu, was a Muromachi period samurai clan head and military leader. Yoshirio was the second son of Ōuchi Hiroyo, and a member of the Ōuchi clan which served under Ashikaga Takauji. The Ōuchi became known as the shugo of Suō and Nagato in 1363 for assisting the Ashikaga against many other...
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Dormanstown is an area of Redcar in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Named after and built by the Dorman Long iron and steelworks in the 20th century, the area was originally built on the doorstep of the popular seaside town Redcar, for Dorman's hundreds of ste...
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Lazenby is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located just off the A174, a 2-minute drive away from Eston. Lazenby is very small, and has just one general store, one pub and a social club. History Lazenby was named in the Domesday Boo...
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Gonzalo Carrera is a Spanish keyboard player who has performed in several progressive rock bands. He is best known as a former member of the British progressive rock bands Landmarq (2002–2005) and more recently Karnataka (2005–2010). Carrera has also previously worked with Spanish progressive rock band Galadriel and B...
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Oak Grove Lutheran School is a private, Lutheran school for students in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 in Fargo, North Dakota. It was founded in 1906. Oak Grove began as school that housed mostly Norwegian schoolgirls. History In March 2009, the permanent dike surrounding the school was breached by the Red River, ...
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The Faculty of Engineering of UMons (French: Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs)) is a faculty of engineering at the University of Mons in the Wallonia region in Belgium. Before the 2009 merger of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons and the University of Mons-Hainaut, the FPMs was the oldest university of the city of M...
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Miroslav Táborský (born 9 November 1959 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech actor who has appeared on Czech television series, as well as in American movies. Táborský studied physics at the University of Hradec Králové, and then graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in...
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VMO can refer to: Vlaamse Militanten Order (the Order of Flemish militants) Vastus medialis obliquus (a muscle) VMO, maximum operating speed of an aircraft, see V speeds VMO, designation of observation squadrons of the US Marine Corps 'Views my own' – a disclaimer Vanishing mean oscillation in mathematics
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Karen Irving is a Canadian writer. Irving is the author of the Katy Klein mystery novel series. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Irving was educated at Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, where she received her master's degree in Social Work in 1988. Irving is known for her Katy...
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Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984) was an American musician who worked on jazz and world music. Early life Walcott was born in New York City, United States. He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and was a percussion student at Indiana University. After graduating in 1966, he went to the Universit...
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Grünstadt () is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde – a kind of collective municipality – but is nonetheless the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland. Geography Location The town lies ...
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True Carnage is the fourth album by American death metal band Six Feet Under. The album contains fan favourites such as "The Day the Dead Walked", "One Bullet Left" and "Sick and Twisted". It is the band's first album to feature their modern logo on the cover, as well as their shortest album to date. Track listing P...
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Pluto Rising is a 1999 novel by Karen Irving (). The novel is the first in a series of mystery novels about Katy Klein, a psychologist who has become a professional astrologer and is struggling financially to support her teenaged daughter. She is drawn into a world of terror by Adam, a mysterious individual who believe...
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Crago may refer to: Places Crago Observatory in Australia Crago, Scotland, an island in the Outer Hebrides People Barry Crago, American politician from Wyoming Patrick E. Crago, biomedical engineer and professor Prince Crago,'The Crow', Alamannic prince Scott F. Crago (born 1963), American drummer Thomas S. Crago (...
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Haßloch (or Hassloch) is a municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Unlike most municipalities in the district, it does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde – a type of collective municipality. It lies near the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen built-up area. The municipality has grown out of a sin...
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Fabián Alberto O'Neill Domínguez (14 October 1973 – 25 December 2022) was a Uruguayan professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He began and finished his career at Nacional, where he won the Uruguayan Primera División in his debut season in 1992. He spent most of his career in Italy, mainly with Cagliari and...
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Centralbron (, "The Central Bridge") is a major bridge in central Stockholm, Sweden, connecting the northern district Norrmalm to the southern Södermalm. It is 1,200 metres long and consists of two viaducts passing over Söderström ("Southern Stream") and Riddarfjärden close to Norrström ("Northern Stream") with an int...
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Johnny Mølby (born 4 February 1969) is a Danish football manager and former professional footballer. He is currently the assistant coach of AGF. He played 16 matches for the Denmark national football team, and was a part of the team which won the Euro 1992, even though he did not play a single match at the tournament....
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The First Battle of Wawer was fought on 19 and 20 February 1831, between Poland and Russia. Polish forces, led by Jan Skrzynecki, defeated Russian 1st Corps, commanded by Hans Karl von Diebitsch. After the battle, Polish commanders did not receive any reinforcements, so the victory was not decisive. References Confli...
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Two Mile Hill is an area away from Bridgetown, in Saint Michael Parish, Barbados. The Two Mile Hill area was historically one of the railway stations on the island of Barbados. The Barbados Railway was a part of the island's colonial distribution network for the sugar cane industry while the country was under the cont...
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Deidesheim () is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with some 3,700 inhabitants. The town lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration and since 1973 it has been the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Deidesheim. The most important industries are tourism and winegrowing....
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Yelli is the song sung by Baka women early in the morning. See also Baka Beyond Baka (Cameroon and Gabon) External links The Baka - Songs and Rhythms:YELLI Cameroonian songs Year of song unknown Songwriter unknown
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Freinsheim (; Palatine German: Fränsem) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With about 5,000 inhabitants, it is among the state's smaller towns. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality. Geography Freinsheim lies in the Upper Rhine ...
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Richard Hope is a British actor who gained recognition from Brideshead Revisited as the doltish junior officer, Hooper, under Jeremy Irons charge. He is best known for playing Harris Pascoe in the UK TV drama Poldark. His theatre career includes portraying Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace at the Royal National Theatre ...
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Julip Horses Ltd is a United Kingdom-based company which produces a range of 1/12-scale model horses. Overview In 1945, Lavender Dower (d. 2003) began making model horses out of chamois leather, using the lead from London buildings bombed during World War II to make their legs. Five years later the company switched...
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Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Jalil Karamatullah Nasiruddin Mukhataram Shah Radziallah Hu'an-hu, KCMG (15 January 1890 - 4 January 1963) was the 32nd Sultan of Perak, a state in the then Federation of Malaya. Early life and education Raja Yussuff was born on 15 January 1890 at Bukit Chandan, ...
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Stefani may refer to: Places Stefani, Boeotia, a settlement in Boeotia, Greece Stefani, Corinthia, a village in the municipal unit of Tenea Stefani, Preveza, a village in the municipality of Louros, Preveza regional unit, Greece Stefani, Trikala, a village in the municipality of Kalampaka, Trikala regional unit, ...
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Count Nikolay Semyonovich Mordvinov (; 17 April 1754 – 30 March 1845) was one of the most reputable Russian political thinkers of Alexander I's reign. He is associated with the reforms of Mikhail Speransky, who he advised on the ways to improve the performance of the national economy. Mordvinov was an admiral's son an...
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Lord Chedworth, Baron of Chedworth, in the County of Gloucester, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created on 12 May 1741 for John Howe, who had earlier represented Wiltshire in Parliament. In 1736 he had succeeded to the estates of his cousin Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet (see Howe Baronets and below...
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30 by Ella is a 1968 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. The album's unusual construction of six medleys of songs were arranged by Benny Carter. This album was Fitzgerald's final recording made for Capitol Records. The following album release on Capitol from Fitzgerald, Misty Blue had been record...
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Lambrecht is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany lying roughly 6 km northwest of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Palatinate, and indeed in the middle of the Palatinate Forest. It is crossed...
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Delta is a railway and metro station in the municipality of Auderghem, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium. It is located near the intersection of the / and the / and provides access to the adjacent Plaine campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and to the Etterbeek campus of the Vrije Universiteit Bruss...
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In heraldry, an avellane cross is a form of cross which resembles four hazel filberts in their husks or cases, joined together at the great end. The term comes from the Latin name for the hazel, originally Nux avellana. It was fairly rare in English heraldry. References Crosses in heraldry
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Murder Investigation Team was a British police procedural drama/cop thriller series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series recounts the activities of the Metropolitan Police's Murder Investigation Team, who are led by D.I. Vivien Friend (Samantha Spiro) and D.S. Ros...
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The Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary in the southern state of Kerala in India is spread over the southeast corner of the Western Ghats, and covers a total area of . It is located between 77° 8’ to 77° 17’ east longitude and 8° 29’ to 8° 37’ north latitude, central location . Although it was declared as a sanctuary in 195...
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Four Elms is a village within the civil parish of Hever in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The village is located on a crossroads between Edenbridge and Sevenoaks, two miles (3.2 km) northeast of the former place. The church, part of a united benefice with Hever and Markbeech, is dedicated to St Paul. The fi...
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John Denton may refer to: John Denton (fl. 1413–1416), MP for Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency) John Denton (died 1576), MP for Banbury (UK Parliament constituency) John B. Denton (1806–1841), American Methodist Episcopal Church minister and soldier John Bailey Denton (1814–1893), British surveyor and civil engi...
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Allose is an aldohexose sugar. It is a rare monosaccharide that occurs as a 6-O-cinnamyl glycoside in the leaves of the African shrub Protea rubropilosa. Extracts from the fresh-water alga Ochromas malhamensis contain this sugar but of unknown absolute configuration. It is soluble in water and practically insoluble in...
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NBU may refer to: Universities North Bengal University, West Bengal, India New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Ningbo University, Zhejiang province, China Nippon Bunri University, Ōita, Japan Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia Other National Bee Unit, a bee research institute in the UK National Ba...
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Gulose is an aldohexose sugar. It is a monosaccharide that is very rare in nature, but has been found in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. It also exists as a syrup with a sweet taste. It is soluble in water and slightly soluble in methanol. Neither the - nor -forms are fermentable by yeast. D-Gulose is a C-3 epimer ...
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Middlesbrough Council, formerly known as Middlesbrough Borough Council, is the unitary authority for the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. The authority has combined some duties with nearby councils to form the Tees Valley Combined Authority. Middlesbrough Council's area had a resident population in 2...
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Pepe Plata was a 1990 Spanish-language sitcom produced by DIC Entertainment and aired on Univision with 65 episodes. Episodes Recuerdos de Alfonso Tortilla Mistica Rock & Roll Pepe Vamos a Bailar El Dinosaurio de Pepe DVD release DIC Entertainment currently has no plans to release the show on DVD at this time. Ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe%20Plata
Maitland Jones Jr. (born November 23, 1937) is an American experimental chemist. Jones worked at Princeton University in his research lab from 1964 until his 2007 retirement. He then taught at New York University from 2007 until his dismissal in 2022. He is known for changing how the subject of organic chemistry is tau...
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Altrose is an aldohexose sugar. D-Altrose is an unnatural monosaccharide. It is soluble in water and practically insoluble in methanol. However, L-altrose has been isolated from strains of the bacterium Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. Altrose is a C-3 epimer of mannose. The ring conformation of α-altropyranoside is flexib...
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Grand Central Stockport is a retail, entertainment and leisure complex in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is adjacent to Stockport railway station and the complex first opened in 1991. Since then it has included various leisure facilities such as a multiplex cinema, a swimming pool, a Cineworld Cinema a bowling alley...
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Talose is an aldohexose sugar. It is an unnatural monosaccharide, that is soluble in water and slightly soluble in methanol. Some etymologists suggest that talose's name derives from the automaton of Greek mythology named Talos, but the relevance is unclear. Talose is a C-2 epimer of galactose and a C-4 epimer of mann...
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IMS Health was an American company that provided information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. IMS stood for Intercontinental Medical Statistics. It was the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. IMS Health was founded in 1954 by Bill Frohlich and David Dubow with Arthur Sackler having ...
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Markbeech (sometimes styled Mark Beech) is a village in the civil parish of Hever in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The village is located on the northern ridges of the High Weald, nine miles (13 km) north-west of Tunbridge Wells. The church, part of a united benefice with Hever and Four Elms, is dedicated ...
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Ingrid Marcella Lacey (born 6 November 1958) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Julia in Series 2 of London's Burning, Helen Cooper in the Channel 4 sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey (1993–98). Her film appearances include Funny Man (1994), In Love and War (1996) and The Cat's Meow (2001). Career Lacey is be...
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Sultan Abdul Aziz al-Mutasim Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Raja Muda Musa (عبد العزيز بيراك, 14 November 1887 – 26 March 1948) was the 31st Sultan of Perak, a state in the British-administered Federated Malay States. Early life Raja Abdul Aziz was born on 14 November 1887 at Kampung Bandar, Teluk Anson, Perak. He was the...
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Dragon Quest: Young Yangus and the Mysterious Dungeon is a prequel and spin-off to Dragon Quest VIII, developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix as part of the Mystery Dungeon series. Gameplay The game utilizes randomly generated dungeons and combat taken in turns. Players must fight through different floors of e...
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The Volkstheater in Vienna (roughly translated as "People's Theatre") was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater. It was erected according to designs by Fe...
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A twizzle is "a multirotational, one-foot turn that moves across the ice" in the sport of figure skating. First performed by David Grant in 1990 the International Skating Union (ISU) defines a twizzle as "a traveling turn on one foot with one or more rotations which is quickly rotated with a continuous (uninterrupted) ...
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An analyser (British English) or analyzer (American English; see spelling differences) is a tool used to analyze data. For example, a gas analyzer tool is used to analyze gases. It examines the given data and tries to find patterns and relationships. An analyser can be a piece of hardware or software. Autoanalysers ar...
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Sultan Iskandar Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Idris Murshidul Azzam Shah Rahmatullah (10 May 1881 – 14 August 1938) was the 30th Sultan of Perak. Perak at that time was part of the British-administered Federated Malay States. He stayed at the Istana Kenangan, then moved to the Istana Iskandariah in Bukit Chandan, Kuala Ka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskandar%20of%20Perak
Grünstadt-Land is a former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Bad Dürkheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was situated on the north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, around the town Grünstadt, which was the seat of Grünstadt-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde. In January...
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This is a list of Liberal Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Liberal Party from 1922. This includes all those elected as National Liberals supporting David Lloyd George in 1922. Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons or the European Parl...
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Siegfried "Sigi" Grabner (born 4 February 1975, in Waiern, Carinthia) is an Austrian professional snowboarder. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy he won bronze in the Parallel Giant Slalom competition. Having won the Junior World Championship 1994 in Slovenia, he decided to go professional. He won the Europea...
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Hettenleidelheim (Palatine German: Hettrum) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Until 2018, it was the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Geography Location The municipality lies ...
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Michael Chorost (born December 26, 1964) is an American book author, essayist, and public speaker. Born with severe loss of hearing due to rubella, his hearing was partially restored with a cochlear implant in 2001 and he had his other ear implanted in 2007. Career and published works He wrote a memoir of the experien...
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The 38th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1988 winners were divided into ten categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short sto...
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Avenor can refer to: Avenor Ewe, a sub-tribe of the Ewe people of Ghana Canadian International Paper Company, at one time called Avenor Inc. Avener, an officer of the stables under the Master of the Horse
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RLA may refer to any of the following: Railway Labor Act, US Ram Lal Anand College, New Delhi, India Risk-limiting audit of election outcomes Robert Land Academy, Canadian military academy Royal Lao Army
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Virgin Cinemas was founded in 1995 when Richard Branson's Virgin Group acquired MGM Cinemas, the largest movie theatre operator in the United Kingdom. Virgin Group bought the cinemas for £195m, and subsequently sold 90 of the chain's smallest cinemas to Cinven and ABC for £70m to concentrate on multiplexes. In late 19...
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The 37th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1987 winners were divided into twelve categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] novel,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Palanca%20Awards
The 36th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1986 winners were divided into ten categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short sto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20Palanca%20Awards
The 35th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1985 winners were divided into ten categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short sto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20Palanca%20Awards
The 34th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. This year saw the category of Novel/Nobela, for both the English and Filipino Divisions, being open for competition only ev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Palanca%20Awards
Instincts is the third and final studio album by the American band Romeo Void. It was released in 1984 on Columbia Records. The single "A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)" reached No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album was produced by David Kahne. Critical reception The Philadelphia Inquirer w...
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The 32nd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1982 winners were divided into twelve categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] novel,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Palanca%20Awards
Accelerated Indirect GLX ("AIGLX") is an open source project founded by Red Hat and the Fedora community, led by Kristian Høgsberg, to allow accelerated indirect GLX rendering capabilities to the X.Org Server and DRI drivers. This allows remote X clients to get fully hardware accelerated rendering over the GLX protoc...
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Raja Gidh () by Bano Qudsia is an Urdu novel. Gidh is the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja is a Hindi synonym for king. The name anticipates the kingdom of vultures. In fact, parallel to the main plot of the novel, an allegorical story of such a kingdom is narrated. The metaphor of the vulture as an animal feeding most...
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Sultan Abdul Jalil Karamatullah Nasiruddin Mukhataram Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Idris Murshidul Azzam Shah Rahmatullah KCMG (23 April 1868 – 26 October 1918) was the 29th Sultan of Perak. During that period, Perak was part of the Federated Malay States. Life Born on 23 April 1868, he is eldest son of Sultan Idris Mur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Jalil%20Nasiruddin%20Muhtaram%20Shah%20of%20Perak
The 29th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. This year saw the inclusion of a new category, Essay/Sanaysay, for both the English and Filipino Divisions. LIST OF WINNE...
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The 28th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. LIST OF WINNERS The 1978 winners were divided into eight categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short s...
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Elemir (; ) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the province of Vojvodina. As of 2011 census, the village has a population of 4,338 inhabitants. Name In Serbian, the village is known as Elemir or Елемир, in Hungarian as Elemér and in German as ...
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Alexander McKay (1804 – 3 June 1830) was a Scottish heavyweight bare-knuckle fighter. He fought in just five prize fights, these are: Loss to Simon Byrne after 47 mins, in 5 rounds on 3 May 1827 Win over Peter Curran after 18 mins – in 1828 Win over Paul Spencer after 25 rounds on 16 October 1828 £40 Win over Pa...
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is a Japanese glass manufacturing company. In 2006, it acquired Pilkington of the United Kingdom. This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside another Japanese company Asahi Glass, Saint-Gobain, and Guardian Industries. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and i...
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The 26th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. This year saw the inclusion of a new category, Full-Length Play/Dulang Ganap ang Haba, for both the English and Filipino Di...
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Kirn is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Kirner Land. Kirn is a middle centre serving an area on the Nahe and in the Hunsrück. Geography Location Kirn lies in a landscape characterized by the Nahe valley and the valley of the Hahnenbach, cut deep...
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Thomas Orville Seaver (December 23, 1833 – July 11, 1912) rose to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. After the war Seaver was admitted to the Vermont bar and...
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Alan William Sealey (born Hampton, London, UK, 24 February 1942 – died February 1996) was an English footballer. Sealey, an outside right, initially played for Leyton Orient in 1960, before moving to West Ham United, in a player exchange for Dave Dunmore, where he played from 1961 to 1967. Sealey celebrated getting ma...
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Dick Greco Plaza is a HARTline transit center located in the southern end of downtown Tampa across from the Marriott Waterside and the Tampa Convention Center. It was the former terminal station for the TECO Line Streetcar until the opening of the Whiting street station. It still serves as the terminating point for the...
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A bracket turn is a kind of one-foot turn in figure skating. The transition between edges during the turn is the same as for a three turn—for example, forward inside edge to back outside edge—but unlike a three turn, in which the cusp of the turn points into the curve of the arc on which it is skated, a bracket turn ...
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UTC+04:51 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +04:51. History This was used as Bombay time until 1955 when it closed the gap of 39 minutes behind Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30). References UTC offsets Time in India
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Ukraine competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Medalists Sports/disciplines and athletes Ukraine was represented in 10 out of 14 disciplines. Despite the increase in number of disciplines, Ukraine stayed with those that it competed previously and increased number of its athletes. Alpine skiing (2; 1 ...
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Kirn-Land is a former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was located around the town Kirn, which was the seat of Kirn-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde. On 1 January 2020 it was merged into the new Verbandsgemeinde Kirner Land. K...
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Ruth Simpson (March 15, 1926 – May 8, 2008) was the founder of the United States' first lesbian community center, an author, and former president of Daughters of Bilitis, New York. Her book, From the Closet to the Courts was published in 1977 and republished in 2007. She also produced the weekly hour-long program "Min...
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John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the Neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realism and d...
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Luke Clausen of the Spokane Valley is a professional fisherman. Clausen won the 36th Bassmaster Classic held on Lake Tohopekaliga in central Florida, from February 23–26, 2006. References American fishers Living people People from Spokane Valley, Washington Sportspeople from Spokane County, Washington Year of birth m...
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John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher.<ref name="Boase">Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921</ref> His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis...
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