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Johnny Clegg
Jonathan "Johnny" Clegg (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a British-born musician from South Africa. He was in the bands Juluka and Savuka. Career. Juluka were able to tour in Europe. They had two platinum and five gold albums. They were an international success. The Savuka album "Shadow Man" sold 250,000 copies within ...
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Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass is a comicbook and movie about superheroes. The movie opened in theatres in the United Kingdom 26 March 2010 and 16 April 2010 in the United States. The movie and comic tell the story of a teenager called Dave Lizewski. Lizewski is an average teenager who wonders why nobody in real life has ever decided to bec...
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Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a jet airliner. It was made by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1958 until 1979. It only has two rows of seats, which means it is a narrow-body plane. It also has four engines. The name is often said as "Seven Oh Seven". There are many different types of 707, and they can hold from 140 to 189 passenge...
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Fischer-Tropsch process
The Fischer–Tropsch process (or Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis or F-T) is a set of chemical reactions that changes a mixture of carbon monoxide gas and hydrogen gas into liquid hydrocarbons (like gasoline or kerosene). Process chemistry. The Fischer–Tropsch process involves many kinds of reactions, which lead to both wanted...
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John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist. Brown supported using violence to end slavery in the United States. He first got national attention when he led small groups of people during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers F...
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Sinocentrism
Sinocentrism is the belief that China is the cultural center of the world. This idea may have possibly been reinforced by the Chinese Isolationist policy enforced by Emperor Hongwu during the Ming Dynasty.
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Thoroughfare Gap
Thoroughfare Gap is an album by American singer-songwriter Stephen Stills. The album was released in 1978. Track listing. Most tracks were composed by Stephen Stills.
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Annabeth Chase
Annabeth Chase is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson "and Heroes of Olympus" series. She is a demigod, half-mortal and half goddess. Her father is the mortal Frederick Chase and her mother is Athena, the goddess of wisdom, crafts, arts, and battle strategy. She appears first in the first novel of the...
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Percy Jackson
Perseus "Percy" Jackson is the main character and narrator of Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. He is a demigod, meaning he is half-mortal and half god. His father is Poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mother is the mortal Sally Jackson. First introduced in "The Lightning Thief" as a trouble...
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IPad
The iPad is a small tablet computer made by Apple Inc. Apple first showed it on January 26, 2010. It is larger than a smartphone and smaller than a laptop computer. It has a multiple touch interface (use two or more fingers to do certain things). It is different than a laptop in that it does not have a keyboard. Instea...
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Pseudocode
Pseudocode (sometimes written as pseudo-code) is a description of the source code of a computer program or an algorithm in a language that is easily understood by humans. It uses the general structure of a computer programming language, but does not use the details that are required by machines to understand and execut...
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University of Central Florida
The University of Central Florida is the biggest university in the state of Florida, and the second-biggest in the entire United States. It also has more undergraduate students than any other single campus in the U.S. It is located slightly to the east of Orlando, one of the most popular places to visit in the entire w...
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CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA is a test that is used to separate humans and machines. CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." It is normally an image test or a simple mathematics problem which a human can read or solve, but a computer cannot. It is made to stop computer hackers from...
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LGPL
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GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license created by the Free Software Foundation. It is similar to the GNU General Public License and is also an open source license. It's mostly used for "library" software (meaning parts of other software), with the license name formerly meaning Library G...
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Maple (CAS)
Maple is a commercial computer algebra system created (made) by Waterloo Maple Inc.
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Hello world!
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Hello, world!
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Waterloo Maple
Waterloo Maple Inc. (Maplesoft) is a Canadian software company. They are in Waterloo, Ontario. They are most well known for creating the Maple computer algebra system. Waterloo Maple Inc. was registrated under the name Waterloo Maple Software in April 1988.
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Maple (software)
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Null device
In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that ignores anything written to it but returns that the write worked. This device is called codice_1 on Unix and Unix-like systems, codice_2 or codice_3 on CP/M and DOS (internally codice_4), codice_5 on newer Windows systems (internally codice_6 on Windows N...
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*nix
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Magenta rose
Magenta rose is a color that is a representation of the color of a particular type of rose called a "magenta rose", which can come in various tones of magenta or rose. The first recorded use of "magenta rose" as a color name in English was in 1927.
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Grover Underwood
Grover Underwood is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series. He is a satyr, a mythological Greek being that is half goat and half human. He has the upper body of a human and the legs and horns of a goat. He uses fake feet when he wants to look like a human. His horns are usually...
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Waterloo Maple Inc.
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Right whale
The right whales (Eubalaena spp.), also known as the black whales are baleen whales with bow-shaped lower jaw and a head that is up to one-quarter of the body length. The head is hairier than most whales; up to 300 hairs are found on the tip of the lower jaw and 100 are on the upper jaw. There are also callosities (a s...
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Rick Riordan
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author best known for the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series. He also wrote the "Tres Navarre" mystery series for adults and helped to edit "Demigods and Monsters", a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped dev...
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Companion books (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
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Luke Castellan
Luke Castellan is one of the main antagonists in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & The Olympians" series. He is a demigod son of the Greek god Hermes. Luke is played by Jake Abel in the movies ', the film adaption of the first book, "The Lightning Thief" and ', the film adaption of the second book "The Sea of Monster...
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Clarisse La Rue
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Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a red haired fictional character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" stories. Unlike other big characters in the series, none of her parents are gods. Instead, they both are mortal. Despite this, Rachel has the ability to see through Mist, a thing that makes most humans unawar...
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Nico di Angelo
Niccolò 'Nico' di Angelo is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & The Olympians," "The Heroes of Olympus" series and "The Trials of Apollo", also starring in ' series featuring: ', and . In the series, he is the demigod son of Hades and mortal Maria di Angelo. As such, Nico has extraordinary powe...
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Thalia Grace
Thalia Grace is a fictional supporting character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series, as well as a minor character in the Heroes of Olympus. She is the demigod daughter of Zeus and Beryl Grace, a famous mortal actress. Thalia has angel-blue eyes, black short spiky hair, and a spray of freckles an...
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Tyson the Cyclops
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The Titan's Curse
The Titan's Curse is fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology. It was written by Rick Riordan and was published in 2007. "The Titan's Curse" is the third novel in the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. It is the next book after "The Sea of Monsters". The book tells the story of the adventures of the fo...
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The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Battle of the Labyrinth is a 2008 fantasy Adventure novel based on Greek mythology and the fourth book in the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series by Rick Riordan. Demigod Percy Jackson, who is almost fifteen years old, tries to stop Luke and his army from invading Camp Half-Blood by navigating Daedalus's lab...
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The Demigod Files
The Demigod Files is a collection of stories by Rick Riordan published on February 10, 2009. It is a companion book to the main series, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians". It contains three short stories, titled "Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot", "Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon", and "Percy Jackson and the Swo...
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List of Percy Jackson and the Olympians characters
This is a list of characters in the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series of fantasy novels by the author Rick Riordan. Main Characters. He is portrayed by Logan Lerman in the film adaptation and by Chris McCarrell in the musical. Walker Scobell is set to portray him in the upcoming TV adaptation on Disney+. She ...
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The Last Olympian
The Last Olympian is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology by Rick Riordan published on May 5, 2009. It is the fifth and final installment in the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series and serves as the direct sequel to "The Battle of the Labyrinth". There is a statement at the end of the book referenc...
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Vineyard
A vineyard is a place where grapes are grown. Some vineyards belong to wineries. The grapes grown in those are used to make wine.
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Tyson (Percy Jackson)
Tyson is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series. He is a cyclops. Percy Jackson, the main character of the series, is his half-brother. They have the same father, the Greek god Poseidon. He first appears as a homeless boy in the second book of the series, "The Sea of Monsters t...
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Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an Arctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length. The arched mouth is up to 10 feet (3 m) wide and 20 feet (6 m) deep. The eyes are very small and lips are huge. Bowheads live in pods, are rich in blubber (a subcutaneous l...
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Balaena mysticetus
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Marcos Senna
Marcos Senna (born 17 July 1976) is a former Spanish football player. He played for Villarreal and the Spain national team, among others. Club career statistics. 177||13 177||13 International career statistics. !Total||27||1
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Coupe de France
The Coupe de France, also known in English as the French Cup is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Federation (FFF). History. The Coupe de France was formed on 15 January 1917 by the "French Interfederal Committee" (CFI), an early predecessor of the French Football ...
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Boris Gelfand
Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968 in Minsk) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess grandmaster. He won the 2009 World Chess Cup. In 1998, Gelfand emigrated to Israel, where he is their top ranking chess player. Chess career. Gelfand was Junior Champion of the Soviet Union at 17, and European Junior Champion two years ...
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Yue Wang
Yue Wang (born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He was the first Chinese chess player to reach the top 10 in the world, and the highest ranked Chinese player of all time until 2015. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17. In October 2007, Wang became the first Chinese player, and thi...
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Levon Aronin
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Winchester College football
Winchester College football, also known as Wincofo or winkies, is a style of football, the game also called soccer, that is played at Winchester College in England during the spring term. The Winchester students call this period "common time." It was originally played during the autumn term, or "short half." It is very...
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Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili (; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess player. She was the strongest female player of the 1960s and 70s, and became the sixth Women's World Chess Champion (1962–1978). She was the first woman to achieve the Grandmaster title. In 1961, aged 20, Gaprindashvili won the fourth women's Candidates Tourna...
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Laffy Taffy
Laffy Taffy is a type of taffy that comes in many fruit flavours. It is made by Nestlé and the Willy Wonka Candy Company. Laffy Taffy comes with jokes written on the wrapper. A piece of Laffy Taffy has 160 calories.
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Death Penalty
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Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian painter and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the "Scuola metafisica" art movement. The name means "Metaphysical school". The "Scuola metafisica" was a big influence on the surrealist painters. After 1919, he became interested in more...
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Chris Hitchens
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Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CBE (born 6 August 1934 in Hampstead, London) is a British mountaineer, someone who climbs mountains. His has been to the Himalayas nineteen times. Four of those times, he climbed Mount Everest. He was the first to climb of the south part of the mountain Annapurna.
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Jersey Telecom
Jersey Telecom is the former monopoly telephone operator in the Bailiwick of Jersey. Jersey is incorporated into the UK National Telephone Numbering Plan Ofcom | The National Numbering Scheme - Telephone Numbers administered by Ofcom area codes of +44 1534 for landlines and +44 7797 for Jersey Telecom mobiles, +44 7700...
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Giorgio Chirico
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The Cable Guy
The Cable Guy is an 1996 American black comedy thriller movie that was produced by Judd Apatow and Bernie Brillstein and was directed by Ben Stiller. Jim Carrey plays a man with borderline personality disorder who installs cable television in people's homes. He is obsessed with one of his customers, played by Matthew B...
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Annabeth
Annabeth is a female English given name. It is a combination of two names, Anna and Elizabeth, which are both classic and timeless names. This is a unique name (not in the 2021 national ranking of newborn mobility).
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Lucy Beale
Lucy Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". The character was played by Eva Brittin-Snell (from 1993 to 1996), Casey Anne Rothery (from 1996 until 2004), Melissa Suffield (from 2004 to 2010), and Hetti Bywater (from 2012 to 2015). Lucy was introduced in December 1993 as the baby daughter o...
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Camilla and Rebecca Rosso
Camilla Rosso and Rebecca Rosso (born 6 July 1994 in Wimbledon, London, England) are identical twin actresses. They had a role on "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", where they were the twins Janice (Camilla) and Jessica (Rebecca). They also had the principal roles in the third movie in the series of "Legally Blonde", "...
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Department of the Treasury
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Women's Rights
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Masahiko Kimura
was a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as a judoka or expert in the sport of judo. He is widely considered one of the greatest judoka of all time.
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Alexander Karelin
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR) is an athlete from the Russian Federation. He is considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time and one of the best wrestlers of his time. He won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympic Games.
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Aris F.C.
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Tori Amos
Myra Ellen "Tori" Amos (born August 22, 1963) is an American singer and songwriter. She has won many awards for her music. Tori Amos sings in the mezzo-soprano range. She was born in Catawba County, North Carolina. Her father, Edison Amos, is a Methodist minister. She claims her mother, Mary Ellen Amos, is part Cheroke...
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Ireland national football team
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Hittite Empire
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Satellite
Satellite may mean one of these:
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Computer vision
Computer vision is a sub-field of computer science that studies ways to use a computer to process visual information contained in an image or video. The goal is for computers to understand and interpret what they see. Unlike computer graphics (which uses computers to make new images), computer vision takes visual infor...
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Ailihphilia
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Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC. It is the largest and most well preserved Neolithic site found to date. The site is in Turkey. The population was about 6,000 and the food they ate was mainly wheat, barley and ri...
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Çatal Hüyük
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Lost city
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Tui Sutherland
Tui Tamara Sutherland (born July 31, 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a writer of children's novels who has written both under her own name and several pen names. Originally working as the editor of the "Warriors" series, Sutherland is known for writing the epic dragon fantasy "Wings of Fire" book series, and has sold ov...
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Blood and soil
Blood and soil is a concept first developed in the 19th century. It looks at a person's blood, to see where they come from, and who their ancestors were. It also looks at the soil a person is working on, to make a claim that they should indeed work and occupy that land. In the nineteenth century, the idea was linked to...