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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago
Crime in Chicago
During the Progressive Era, the first juvenile system was created by Chicago officials and, to make the court system more organized and specific, specialized courts, like those for domestic disputes, were created. Not only did the court and corrections systems change, there was also a change in policing. Divisions and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago
Crime in Chicago
The Chicago Police Department has also been criticized for its liberal use of the controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy. For decades, the policy gave officers much more autonomy to conduct stops and pat-downs if there exists a reasonable suspicion that a suspect might be armed and dangerous. The ACLU has claimed that t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago
Crime in Chicago
CPD tallied 22 police-involved shootings in 2015, eight of which resulted in fatalities. Fatality cases involving an African American perpetrator often gave rise to a media sensation, both in Chicago and elsewhere. In December 2015, the US Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago
Crime in Chicago
Professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles at the University of Utah later analyzed the 2016 Chicago homicide "spike" and concluded that the most likely cause was a consent decree entered into by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with the Chicago Police Department restricting stop and frisks. Cassell and Fowles...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago
Crime in Chicago
Gun laws and dealers The city of Chicago has one of the highest murder rates among large cities. Despite generally strict gun laws compared to neighboring areas, there are still many illegal guns in Chicago. It is estimated that 80% of homicides in Chicago are committed with firearms. Chicago recorded 780 murders in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezs%C5%91%20B%C3%A1lint%20%28painter%29
Rezső Bálint (painter)
Rezső Bálint (14 October 1885 – 18 November 1945, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter known for his landscape paintings. He had two younger brothers. Albert Berger (originally Béla) (1898–1938) and Jenő Bálint (Berger) (1889(?)–1945). Both of them chose careers close to painting, dealing with art sales, supporting n...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezs%C5%91%20B%C3%A1lint%20%28painter%29
Rezső Bálint (painter)
After 1920 he lived in Izbég a municipality of Szentendre where he mostly painted landscapes. The Hungarian National Gallery today contains three of his pictures: "Mother with Her Child", "Interieur", "A Hospital Scene". Once, a Catholic community asked him to paint and decorate the church, but he said no. He stated t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka%20Legislative%20Assembly
Karnataka Legislative Assembly
On Wednesday, 18 June 1952, at 11:00 am, the first session of the newly-formed Mysore Legislative Assembly was held at a conference hall in the old Public Offices building (the Attara Kacheri, the current seat of the Karnataka High Court) in Bangalore. The first assembly in Mysore formed under the Constitution of India...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20solani
Fusarium solani
Fusarium solani is a species complex of at least 26 closely related filamentous fungi in the division Ascomycota, family Nectriaceae. It is the anamorph of Nectria haematococca. It is a common soil inhabiting mold. Fusarium solani is implicated in plant diseases as well as in serious human diseases such as fungal kerat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20solani
Fusarium solani
F. solani has aerial hyphae that give rise to conidiophores laterally. The conidiophores branch into thin, elongated monophialides that produce conidia. Phialides that produce macroconidia are shorter than those that produce microconidia. The macroconidia produced by F. solani are slightly curved, hyaline, and broad, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20solani
Fusarium solani
Life cycle F. solani can be found in soils worldwide, where its chlamydospores overwinter on plant tissue/seed or as mycelium in the soil. The pathogen enters hosts through developing roots, where it can infect the host. After infection, F. solani produces asexual macro and microconidia which are dispersed through win...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20solani
Fusarium solani
As of 2006, there has been increasing evidence that F. solani  can act as a causal agent of mycoses in humans. F. solani has been implicated in the following diseases: disseminated disease, osteomyelitis, skin infection, fungemia, and endophthalmitis. Half of human disease involving Fusarium is caused by F. solani and...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Frontier
Sea Frontier
Sea Frontiers were several, now disestablished, commands of the United States Navy as areas of defense against enemy vessels, especially submarines, along the U.S. coasts. They existed from 1 July 1941 until in some cases the 1970s. Sea Frontiers generally started at the shore of the United States and extended outwards...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Frontier
Sea Frontier
The Hawaiian Sea Frontier (HawSeaFron) was a formation of the United States Navy established during World War II. It was organized to defend the island of Oahu. Vice Admiral David W. Bagley served as COMHAWSEAFRON from 4 April 1942 until July 1943. The Hawaiian Sea Frontier did not actually come into a settled form unt...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinirampus
Pinirampus
Pinirampus pirinampu is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Pimelodidae. P. pirinampu is also known as the flatwhiskered catfish. Taxonomy This species was first described as Pimelodus barbancho; however, this is considered a nomen oblitum. It was then described as Pimelodus pirinampu in 1829. In 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mall%20Wood%20Green
The Mall Wood Green
The Mall Wood Green is a large shopping centre and residential complex in Wood Green, north London. It was originally known as Wood Green Shopping City. The Mall had over 100 retail shops, seven of them anchor stores, 45 market stalls, and an average of 221,000 customers per week. The centre and the adjoining shops o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mall%20Wood%20Green
The Mall Wood Green
The centre was bought by current owners The Mall Fund in 2002 and renamed "The Mall Wood Green", although the "Shopping City" signage remained as late as 2012. The new owners carried out a £30 million rebuilding programme, altering the layout of the shops and adding a 12-screen cinema. The market hall was expanded, wit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists%20in%20biographies%20by%20Filippo%20Baldinucci
Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali (or Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670) was a major art biography of Baroque painters. The work covered 6 volumes, published between 1681 and 1728. Content...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nea%20River
Nea River
, , or is an long river in Norway and Sweden. The long river runs through Berg Municipality and Åre Municipality in Jämtland county (in Sweden) and then Tydal Municipality and Selbu Municipality in Trøndelag county (in Norway). The river Nea is a part of the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget watershed. Some of the main villages ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo%27s%20Haunted%20Mansion
Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion
Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion is a Scooby-Doo-themed interactive dark ride series created by Sally Corporation based on Hanna-Barbera's long-running animated television series. The ride transports guests in a vehicle equipped with light guns that are used to shoot at various targets to collect points throughout the ride...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Ice%20Art%20Championships
World Ice Art Championships
The World Ice Art Championships is an ice sculpting contest in Fairbanks, Alaska produced on by Ice Alaska, a non-profit corporation started in 1989. The contest is the largest of its kind in the world and attended by more than 100 sculptors from 30 countries every year. The contest also draws tens of thousands of spec...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose
Nose
A nose is a sensory organ and respiratory structure in vertebrates. It consists of a nasal cavity inside the head, and an external nose on the face. The external nose houses the nostrils, or nares, a pair of tubes providing airflow through the nose for respiration. Where the nostrils pass through the nasal cavity they ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose
Nose
Hair inside nostrils filter incoming air, as a first line of defense against dust particles, smoke, and other potential obstructions that would otherwise inhibit respiration, and as a kind of filter against airborne illness. In addition to acting as a filter, mucus produced within the nose supplements the body's effort...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose
Nose
In reptiles, the nasal chamber is generally larger, with the choanae located much further back in the roof of the mouth. In crocodilians, the chamber is exceptionally long, helping the animal to breathe while partially submerged. The reptilian nasal chamber is divided into three parts: an anterior vestibule, the main o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose
Nose
The nasal cavities in mammals are both fused into one. Among most species, they are exceptionally large, typically occupying up to half the length of the skull. In some groups, however, including primates, bats, and cetaceans, the nose has been secondarily reduced, and these animals consequently have a relatively poor ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmstr%C3%B6m%27s%20theorem
Holmström's theorem
In economics, Holmström's theorem is an impossibility theorem or trilemma attributed to Bengt R. Holmström proving that no incentive system for a team of agents can make all of the following true: Income equals outflow (the budget balances), The system has a Nash equilibrium, and The system is Pareto efficient. Th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20shibboleths
List of shibboleths
Culture, religion and language-specific shibboleths English-speaking Allied personnel in Europe, during the Second World War, frequently made use of passwords in which labio-velar approximants (w-sounds) or voiceless dental fricatives (th-sounds) were prominent, as these are unusual in spoken German, and the letter w ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20shibboleths
List of shibboleths
Place-name terms In Southern California, locals generally use the article "the" preceding the number of a freeway. Northern California locals generally do not use "the" before a numerical freeway name. For example, Southern Californians usually refer to Highway 101 as "The 101," whereas Northern Californians will refe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan%20Institute%20of%20Performing%20Arts
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts
The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) was founded by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on reaching McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, India in exile from Tibet in August 1959. It was then called Tibetan Music, Dance and Drama Society, which was one of the first institutes set up by the Dalai Lama, and was estab...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Times
San Francisco Bay Times
The San Francisco Bay Times, the first LGBTQ newspaper founded jointly by gay men and women, launched in 1978 and remains one of the largest and oldest LGBTQ newspapers in Northern California. The business includes the 24/7 live-streaming Castro Street Cam that streams Harvey Milk Plaza and the Castro live to the world...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley-Grow%20T8P-1
Barkley-Grow T8P-1
The Barkley-Grow T8P-1 was an airliner developed in the United States shortly before the Second World War. Although it saw limited production, the type was well-received as a bush plane in Canada. Design and development Typical for the era, the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 was a low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction with...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona%20of%20Pisa
Bona of Pisa
Bona of Pisa (c. 1156–1207) was a member of the Third order of the Augustinian nuns who helped lead travellers on pilgrimages. In 1962, she was canonized a saint in the Catholic Church by Pope John XXIII. She is considered the patron saint of travellers, and specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims, flight attendants, a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar%20Geller
Tamar Geller
Tamar Geller is a dog trainer who developed "TheLoved Dog" method of dog training. After serving as an intelligence officer working with the Israeli Special Forces, she spent time observing wolves in the wild and studying how parent canines trained their young. By using similar techniques as the wolves, she created a m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichmann%20the%20Younger
Wichmann the Younger
Wichmann II the Younger (also spelled Wigmann or Wichman) (about 930 – 22 September 967) was a member of the Saxon House of Billung. He was a son of Count Wichmann the Elder and his wife Frederuna, a niece of Queen Matilda. The cousin of Emperor Otto I became known as a fierce enemy of the ruling Ottonian dynasty. Wic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichmann%20the%20Younger
Wichmann the Younger
Wichmann and his brother Egbert the One-Eyed, still feeling deprived of their heritage, marauded through Saxony and in 955 arrived in the lands of the Slavic Obotrites at Liubice (Lübeck), where they instigated a revolt under Prince Nako that was suppressed by King Otto at the Battle of Recknitz. The young Billungs fle...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Institute%20of%20Higher%20Tibetan%20Studies
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS; ), formerly called Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS), is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967, as an autonomous organisation under Union Ministry of Culture. The CIHTS was founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation wi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Institute%20of%20Higher%20Tibetan%20Studies
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
Sino-Indian Border Conflict Relations between India and Communist China quickly deteriorated in the 1950s as the PRC rushed to secure a southern border which would provide adequate security in the Himalayan frontier. The border dispute between the two countries was further fueled by the situation in Tibet. In 1959, a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Institute%20of%20Higher%20Tibetan%20Studies
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
Tibetology The uprising in 1959 sparked a wave of mass emigration to India by tens-of-thousands of Tibetans who feared persecution by the People's Liberation Army. This significant Tibetan diaspora, under the shared governance of the Dalai Lama's Central Tibetan Administration and the Indian government, sought to main...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Institute%20of%20Higher%20Tibetan%20Studies
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
The government of India reviewed the institution's progress until deciding to grant it status as an autonomous entity in 1977, while still enjoying continued “100% financial support” from India. In 1988, the Indian government declared it a “deemed university,” officially recognizing its status as an institution for hi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Lomonosov
Yury Lomonosov
Yury Vladimirovich Lomonosov (; 24 April 1876 – 19 November 1952) was a Russian railway engineer and a leading figure in the development of Russian Railways in the early 20th century. He was best known for design and construction of the world's first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive, the E el-2. This...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Lomonosov
Yury Lomonosov
In April 1905 Lomonosov defended his habilitation on the dynamics of locomotives and became the youngest full professor of the institute. In December 1907 he was appointed head of the locomotive section of St. Catherine's railroads. During this period, he became convinced of the futility of steam engines and concluded ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh%2C%20Gregg%20County%2C%20Texas
Shiloh, Gregg County, Texas
Shiloh is a small unincorporated farming community on Shiloh Road near White Oak in north central Gregg County, Texas, United States. Located just south of the Upshur County line, Shiloh was established by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the end of the Civil War. Early history The area around Shiloh wa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh%2C%20Gregg%20County%2C%20Texas
Shiloh, Gregg County, Texas
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, the newly free Black community established a one-room school in Shiloh that operated until the school was destroyed in a major storm in the 1890s. Classes were held in the Shiloh Baptist Church. With funding from the Rosenwald rural school building program, which helped Black co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur%20Mutsurayev
Timur Mutsurayev
Timur Khamzatovich Mutsurayev (; ; born 25 July 1976), also spelled Mucuraev or Mutsuraev, is a Chechen singer-songwriter or bard who sang in Russian and, rarely, in Chechen. A majority of his songs are about the conflict in Chechnya. Biography Mutsurayev was born in Grozny on 25 July 1976. In 1991, he became the cham...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Panorama%20of%20Alabama%20Agriculture
Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
The Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture was a series of murals commissioned by the Alabama Extension Service (now Alabama Cooperative Extension System) and partly funded by the Works Progress Administration for the 1939 Alabama State Fair, held October 2–7 in Birmingham. John Augustus Walker The commission was...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Panorama%20of%20Alabama%20Agriculture
Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
Alabama, Davis stressed, was diversifying, moving from a primarily cotton-based economy "into a combination of cotton and other cash crops plus livestock and poultry." He envisioned these murals and the supporting fair exhibits not only as a celebration of the past but also as a means of focusing farmers on a "vision ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Panorama%20of%20Alabama%20Agriculture
Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
The panorama was the brainchild of fair vice president Warren Leech, who wanted to develop a radically different and more effective way to showcase Alabama agriculture by combining all of these separate county exhibits into one agricultural show. Leech paid a visit to Alabama Extension Service Director P. O. Davis in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Panorama%20of%20Alabama%20Agriculture
Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
Even so, these planners were unwilling to defer solely to Walker's talents and exercised creative oversight throughout the course of the project. Davis and other Alabama Extension employees involved with the project expressed concerns about historical accuracy, however inaccurate some of their historical views may have...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Panorama%20of%20Alabama%20Agriculture
Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
The fair also garnered front-page news coverage for five consecutive days, apparently filling the role fairs typically served during this era — diverting a weary state from its economic woes and concerns about the looming conflict in Europe . Moreover, the agriculture and industry exhibits appeared to generate more pu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20of%20Paul%20Guihard
Murder of Paul Guihard
University of Mississippi assignment and death On 30 September 1962, AFP assigned Guihard, aged 30, to cover the developing story of James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi, the first time an African-American enrolled at the school. As an editor, Guihard infrequently went out on assignment, and did...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabala%20Radar%20Station
Gabala Radar Station
Strategic Importance of Gabala During the 33rd G8 summit in Germany on June 7–8, 2007, Russian president Vladimir Putin made an offer to deploy elements of an American anti-ballistic missile system in Azerbaijan, instead of Poland (see US missile defense complex in Poland) and the Czech Republic, using the Gabala Radar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabala%20Radar%20Station
Gabala Radar Station
Some sources say that the station occupies about ; however, the Russian military says . Opponents of the station say that another 400 hectares of forest were cut down while laying transmission lines to service the station and that the underground water level has fallen sharply after 16 boreholes were drilled to supply ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual%20autobiography
Spiritual autobiography
Spiritual autobiography is a genre of non-fiction prose that dominated Protestant writing during the seventeenth century, particularly in England, particularly that of Dissenters. The narrative generally follows the believer from a state of damnation to a state of grace; the most famous example is perhaps John Bunyan's...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual%20autobiography
Spiritual autobiography
Revelations of Divine Love written sometime in the 14th and 15th centuries by Julian of Norwich, which is the earliest surviving example of a book in the English language known to have been written by a woman, is also considered an important spiritual autobiography. Evolution The spiritual autobiography's intense focu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20accelerator
Windows accelerator
A Windows accelerator was a type of graphics processing unit for personal computers with additional acceleration features like 2D line-drawing, blitter, clipping, font caching, hardware cursor support, color expansion, linear addressing, and pattern, polygon and area fills. This functionality was marketed for accelerat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregatibacter%20actinomycetemcomitans
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobe, nonmotile bacterium that is often found in association with localized aggressive periodontitis, a severe infection of the periodontium. It is also suspected to be involved in chronic periodontitis. Less frequently, A. actinomycetemcomitans...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20masters
Separation masters
Separation masters are a method of long-term preservation for most modern color motion picture film. Since monopack color film - (where materials for registering all the colors of the spectrum are contained on one film - its opposite is bipack colour film where two films face each other and the lower spectrum reds and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickasaw%20Shipyard%20Village%20Historic%20District
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District is a historic district comprising buildings and areas within Chickasaw, Alabama, which is a northern suburb of Mobile in Mobile County. The site is historically significant due to its role as a company town for the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard during the first hal...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickasaw%20Shipyard%20Village%20Historic%20District
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District
Many of the original homes still remain in Chickasaw and form the heart of a historic district. Primarily through the efforts of Gene Ford, an architectural historian from the University of Alabama, this area was documented and data was collected about its buildings and history. It was added to the National Register o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20New%20England%20Council
Heart of New England Council
Camp Wanocksett is a Boy Scouts of America camp located in Dublin, New Hampshire, and borders the Monadnock State Park. It is used by the Heart of New England Council, which is based in central Massachusetts. Summer camp and weekend programs take place at the camp, and units can rent campsites and cabins. Camp Wanocks...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahasia
Rahasia
Rahasia is an adventure module, self-published by DayStar West Media in 1980 and published by TSR, Inc. in 1983 and 1984, for the Basic Set rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Its product designation is TSR 9115. It was designed by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and features artwork by Jeff Easley and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Reigns
Steven Reigns
Steven Reigns (born 1975) is an American poet, artist and activist known for his poetry publications, his work as West Hollywood's first City Poet, his participatory art projects, his LGBT activism, and his scholarly work on Anaïs Nin. Biography Early years Reigns grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. From a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking%20Stewart
Walking Stewart
John "Walking" Stewart (19 February 1747 – 20 February 1822) was an English philosopher and traveller. Stewart developed a unique system of materialistic pantheism. Travels Known as "Walking" Stewart to his contemporaries for having travelled on foot from Madras, India (where he had worked as a clerk for the East In...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20Hastings
Beatrice Hastings
Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh (27 January 1879 – 30 October 1943), an English writer, literary critic, poet and theosophist. Her work was integral to British magazine The New Age which she helped edit along with her lover, A. R. Orage, prior to the outbreak of World War I. Hastings was also fr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto%20Institute%20of%20Technology
Kyoto Institute of Technology
is a national university established in 1949 in Kyoto, Japan. The Institute's history extends back to two schools, Kyoto Craft High School (established in 1902 at Sakyo-ku, Yoshida) and Kyoto Sericulture Training School (established in 1899 at Kita-ku, Daishogun, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Nicolas%20d%27Oultremont
Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont
Charles-Nicolas-Alexandre d'Oultremont (26 June 1716 – 22 October 1771) was Prince-Bishop of Liège from 20 April 1763 to his death in 1771. He was the eighth child of Jean-François-Paul-Emile, Count of Oultremont and of the Holy Roman Empire, and Marie-Isabelle of Bavaria, Countess of Warfusée and Druynen and Baroness ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Kouri%20Barreto
Ada Kouri Barreto
Dr. Ada Kouri Barreto (May 26, 1917 in Havana, Cuba – July 11, 2005 in Rome, Italy) was a Cuban cardiologist and revolutionary. She was the wife of the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Raúl Roa García, and mother to the Cuban diplomat, Raúl Roa Kouri. Kouri was the eldest daughter of seven children of the prominent surgeon ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra%20Radvanovsky
Sondra Radvanovsky
Sondra Dee Radvanovsky (born 11 April 1969) is an American and Canadian soprano. Specializing in 19th-century Italian opera, Radvanovsky is widely regarded as a leading interpreter of bel canto, verismo, and works by Giuseppe Verdi. Her repertoire includes the title roles in Médée, Norma, Tosca, and Rusalka, Leonora in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%20Air%20Force%20Base
Foster Air Force Base
Foster Air Force Base (1941–1945, 1952–1959) is a former United States Air Force facility in Texas, located in Victoria County, approximately east-northeast of Victoria. A flying training airfield during World War II, it was part of Tactical Air Command (TAC) during the early years of the Cold War as a tactical fight...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%20Air%20Force%20Base
Foster Air Force Base
On 1 January 1945, the 2539th Army Air Forces Base Unit took control of the ground station administrative functions. As World War II wound down that summer, Foster Field took control of several smaller facilities as they were being closed. On 1 September, the mission at the airfield changed from pilot training to becom...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%20Air%20Force%20Base
Foster Air Force Base
Foster Air Force Base was designated a permanent military installation on 1 July 1954. Col Frank L. Dunn became the new commander, replacing Col C.D. Sonnkalb. Under Tactical Air Command, the 450th Fighter-Bomber Wing, was activated at Foster, on 1 July 1954, replacing and absorbing the assets of the 3580th PTW. Four...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parantaka%20I
Parantaka I
Parantaka Chola I (Tamil: பராந்தக சோழன் I; 873 CE–955 CE) was a Chola emperor who ruled for forty-eight years, annexing Pandya by defeating Rajasimhan II and in the Deccan won the Battle of Vallala against Rashtrakutas which happened before 916 CE. The best part of his reign was marked by increasing success and prosper...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parantaka%20I
Parantaka I
Personal life From his inscriptions we can gather a few details about Parantaka I's personal life. He had many wives, of whom no fewer than eleven appear in the inscriptions. He was religious but secular and encouraged various faiths. We find various members of his family building temples and regularly making donations...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Plane
Invisible Plane
The Invisible Plane (commonly known as the Invisible Jet) is a plane appearing in DC Comics, commonly used by Wonder Woman as a mode of transport. It was created by William Moulton Marston and first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942). Fictional history In pre-Crisis continuity, Wonder Woman used the Invisi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping%20channel
Shopping channel
Shopping channels (also referred to in British English as teleshopping) are television programs or specialty channels dedicated to home shopping. These channels typically feature live presentations and product demonstrations, with on-air hosts and spokespeople delivering a sales pitch. Viewers are provided with instruc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgay%20%28river%29
Turgay (river)
The Turgay ([torɣai]) (also known as Torgai, Torghay or Turgai; , Romanised: Torğai; Romanised: Turgay) is a river in Kazakhstan. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Naurzum Nature Reserve is a protected area located in the river basin. Course The river originates at the confluence of the Zhaldama and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Johann%20Nepomuk%20von%20Crantz
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (Roodt-sur-Eisch, Luxembourg, 25 November 1722 – 18 January 1799, Judenburg, Austria) was a botanist and a physician. In 1750 he obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). He studied obstetrics in Paris and London. In Paris h...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUT
KUT
A year later, on March 22, 1922, a new AM band broadcasting station license was issued, bearing the randomly assigned call letters WCM. In its first years, the broadcasting station was used for a number of purposes, beginning as a demonstration project in the Physics Department, whose Professor Simpson L. Brown had per...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge%20Cove
Dodge Cove
Ferry service proposal In March 2015, a proposal for a commercial ferry service between Prince Rupert and Dodge Cove, Oona River and Hunt's Inlet was presented to Des Nobels, the director of Dodge Cove, and Karl Bergman, director of Oona River. The proposal was based upon a request by the Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regiona...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge%20Cove
Dodge Cove
Proposed LNG facility In September 2015, Dodge Cove residents voiced concerns about the proposed construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility by Aurora LNG on Digby Island. Aurora LNG is a joint venture among Nexen Energy and INPEX Gas British Columbia Ltd. Residents expressed concerns due to the proposed sit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20House%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29
Government House (Nova Scotia)
A fire erupted in the mansion's attic in 1854; however, the blaze was kept under control due to the fireproofing precautions taken during the design and construction of the edifice. Government House was not well maintained in the latter half of the 20th century. As one of the oldest official residences in Canada, Gov...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette%20La%20Flesche
Susette La Flesche
Susette La Flesche, later Susette LaFlesche Tibbles and also called Inshata Theumba, meaning "Bright Eyes" (c. 1854–1903), was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter, and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska. La Flesche was a progressive who was a spokesperson for Native American rights. She was of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette%20La%20Flesche
Susette La Flesche
From 1862 to 1869, La Flesche attended Presbyterian Mission Boarding Day School on the reservation where she learned to read, write, and speak in English as well as cook and sew. After the Presbyterian mission school on the reservation closed, Susette La Flesche attended Elizabeth Institute for young ladies, a private ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette%20La%20Flesche
Susette La Flesche
La Flesche worked with Thomas Tibbles, an editor with the Omaha World Herald, to publicize the poor conditions they found at the southern reservation: the Ponca had been moved too late in the year to plant crops, the government was late with supplies and promised infrastructure and improvements, and malaria was endemic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette%20La%20Flesche
Susette La Flesche
Following the trial, La Flesche and her half-brother Francis accompanied Standing Bear and others on a speaking tour of the eastern United States, organized by Tibbles. In addition to taking turns interpreting for Standing Bear, Susette La Flesche spoke in her own right. During the tour, La Flesche and Tibbles also te...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomme%20de%20Terre%20River%20%28Missouri%29
Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
The Pomme de Terre River (pronounced pohm de TEHR) is a tributary of the Osage River in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Pomme de terre is French for potato, a food Indians harvested in the area. Before the French ex...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan%20Club
Elizabethan Club
The Elizabethan Club is a social club at Yale University named for Queen Elizabeth I and her era. Its profile and members tend toward a literary disposition, and conversation is one of the Club's chief purposes. The Elizabethan Club's collection of 16th- and 17th-century books and artifacts include Shakespearean folio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan%20Club
Elizabethan Club
Cochran’s gift of 141 folios and quartos includes, among other important volumes, the first four Shakespeare Folios, one of the three known copies of the 1604 Hamlet, and the copy of Ben Jonson’s Works (1616) inscribed by the author to his friend Francis Young. Over the years additional volumes of equal importance, suc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan%20Club
Elizabethan Club
Activities The club is dedicated to conversation, tea, the art of the book, and literature focused on—but not exclusively of—the Elizabethan era. During the academic year, the clubhouse is open daily for the use of its members from 8 in the morning until 10 in the evening. Tea is served every afternoon during term tim...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan%20Club
Elizabethan Club
The Lizzie informally fosters an appreciation for the Art of the Book and of fine printing and typography, befitting a campus with several working old-fashioned undergraduate presses. Guests sign in upon entering; consequently, Lizzie's collection of these guestbooks includes autographs of prominent literary, arts, an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Mackinnon%2C%201st%20Baronet
Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet
Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet, (23 March 1823 – 22 June 1893) was a Scottish ship-owner and businessman who built up substantial commercial interests in India and East Africa. He established the British-India Steam Navigation Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company. Biography Early life He was born...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Battalion%2C%202nd%20Marines
2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines
Second Battalion was reactivated on January 14, 1941. On August 9, 1942, the Battle of Guadalcanal began with Marines landing on the Tulagi Island Complex. On October 10, elements of the 2d Battalion conducted a two-day raid on the villages of Koilotamaria and Garabaus. During January 1943, 2d Battalion participated in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Agajanian
Ben Agajanian
Benjamin James Agajanian (August 28, 1919 – February 8, 2018), nicknamed "the Toeless Wonder", was an American football player, primarily a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL), the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL). Early life Born in Santa Ana, California, he grad...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola%20de%20mono
Cola de mono
Cola de mono or Colemono (literally, "monkey's tail") is a traditional Chilean drink served around Christmas time. Although there are many versions of this drink, it contains mainly aguardiente, milk, sugar, coffee, and cloves. A virgin version can be made simply without the alcohol. Etymology There are several theo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20fan
Computer fan
Physical characteristics Due to the low pressure, high volume air flows they create, most fans used in computers are of the axial flow type; centrifugal and crossflow fans type. Two important functional specifications are the airflow that can be moved, typically stated in cubic feet per minute (CFM), and static press...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20fan
Computer fan
Rotational speed The speed of rotation (specified in revolutions per minute, RPM) together with the static pressure determine the airflow for a given fan. Where noise is an issue, larger, slower-turning fans are quieter than smaller, faster fans that can move the same airflow. Fan noise has been found to be roughly pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolomoki%20Mounds
Kolomoki Mounds
The Kolomoki Mounds is one of the largest and earliest Woodland period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States and is the largest in Georgia. Constructed from 350 to 600, the mound complex is located in southwest Georgia, in present-day Early County near the Chattahoochee River. The mounds were des...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolomoki%20Mounds
Kolomoki Mounds
Temple Mound The Temple Mound is high and measures 325 by at the base. Research indicates that it would have taken over two million basket loads carried by individual workers, each holding one cubic foot of earth, to build this mound. The southern half of the mound is three feet higher and was probably the templ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimolette
Mimolette
Mimolette is a cheese traditionally produced around the city of Lille, France. In France it is also known as Boule de Lille after its city of origin, or vieux Hollande because it was originally inspired by the Dutch Edam cheese. Description Mimolette has a spherical shape and is similar in appearance to a cantaloupe m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Kala
El Kala
El Kala (, ) is a seaport of Algeria, in El Tarf Province, 56 miles (90 km) by rail east of Annaba and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Tunisian frontier. It is the centre of the Algerian and Tunisian coral fisheries and has an extensive industry in the curing of sardines. The harbor is small and exposed to the northeast a...
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