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Ogre, Latvia
Ogre is a city in Latvia. It has had town rights since 1929. It is the principal town of Ogre District in Central Latvia. It is where the Daugava and Ogre rivers come together.
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Olaine
Olaine is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1967.
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Pāvilosta
Pāvilosta is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
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Piltene
Piltene is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1557.
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Pļaviņas
Pļaviņas is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1927.
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Preiļi
Preiļi is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Priekule, Latvia
Priekule is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Rūjiena
Rūjiena is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1920.
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Sabile
Sabile is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1917.
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Salacgrīva
Salacgrīva is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Salaspils
Salaspils is a town in Latvia. It has had town rights since 1993. It is nearby the river Daugava and 18 kilometers from Riga.
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Saldus
Saldus is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1917.
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Saulkrasti
Saulkrasti () is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
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Seda, Latvia
Seda is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
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Sigulda
Sigulda is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928. It is the center of the Sigulda District. As of 2020, Sigulda had a population of 14,396 people. River Gauja travels through the city. Sigulda is the capital town of Gauja National Park.
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Skrunda
Skrunda is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1996.
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Smiltene
Smiltene is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1920.
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Staicele
Staicele is a town in Latvia. It has had town rights since 1992.
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Stende
Stende is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
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Strenči
Strenči is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Subate
Subate is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1917.
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Talsi
Talsi is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1917.
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Tukums
Tukums is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1795. In 2019, half of Latvia's tires were being recycled in the town. It has the second largest tire recycling plant in the Baltic country. In 2020, Latvian president Egils Levits praised the region's leaders for its COVID-19 efforts and offering counselling to its res...
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Valdemārpils
Valdemārpils is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1917.
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Valka
Valka is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1584.
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Valmiera
Valmiera (; ) is a city in Latvia with town rights since 1323, it is the largest city of the historical Vidzeme region, Latvia, with a total area of . It is the center of the Valmiera District. As of 2002, Valmiera had a population of 27,323, and in 2008 – 27,569. It lies at the crossroads of several important roads, t...
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Vangaži
Vangaži is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
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Varakļāni
Varakļāni is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Viesīte
Viesīte is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Viļaka
Viļaka is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1945.
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Viļāni
Viļāni is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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Zilupe
Zilupe is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1931.
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie
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Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger (; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was an English biochemist. Sanger is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. Sanger is the fourth person to have been given two Nobel Prizes, either individually or in tandem with others. In 1958 he was given a Nobel prize in chemi...
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List of settlements in Latvia
There are 10 cities and 71 towns in Latvia. This is a list of the cities and towns.
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Verrocchio
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Mats Sundin
Mats Johan Sundin (born February 13, 1971) is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey player. Sundin played a career total of 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Quebec Nordiques, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Vancouver Canucks. Sundin served as the team captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs for...
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Khorasan province
Khorasan (Persian: خراسان) was the largest province of Iran until it was divided into three provinces on September 29, 2004: Khorasan is famous worldwide for its saffron and zereshk which are produced in the southern cities of the province. It is also known for its famous rugs. Khorasan is the birthplace of Ferdowsi,...
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Geoffrey Prior
Sir Geoffrey Prior (1896-1972) was the first Chief commissioner of Balochistan (Pakistan) from 15 August 1947 to 3 October 1947.
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Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas
Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas KCIE, CSI (b.1899-d.1973) was the second chief commissioner of Balochistan (Pakistan) from 4 October 1947 - 8 April 1948, and the second governor of the North West Frontier Province from 9 April 1948 - 16 July 1949. Dundas was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1952 to 1959.
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Frederick Chalmers Bourne
Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne (12 August 1891 – 1977) was an English colonial administrator. He served in British India. He began his service in the Royal Army. He then served in the civil service from 1920. He worked in Lahore for several years, and held several high positions for the government of Punjab. Bourne was ...
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Francis Mudie
Sir Francis Mudie (1890–1976) was the first governor of the Punjab in Pakistan from 15 August 1947 to 2 August 1949.
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George Cunningham (governor)
Sir George Cunningham (1888 - 1964) was the first governor of the North-West Frontier Province province in Pakistan. He was governor from 15 August 1947 to 8 April 1948.
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1899 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1899 Atlantic hurricane season was during the summer and fall of 1899. Nine storms were seen during this time, five of them were hurricane and the other four were tropical storms. Hurricane Three or the Hurricane San Ciriaco was the longest lived Atlantic hurricane. It also killed about 3433 people, making it the t...
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1890 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1890 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the least active hurricane seasons, with only 4 storms. This season got an early start, as Tropical Storm One started in May. There were also only 9 deaths in 1890.
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French painter. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France, and died of pneumonia there. The artistic career of Paul Cézanne lasted more than forty years, from roughly 1860 to 1906. A busy artist, he produced more than 900 oil paintings and 400 watercol...
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Paul Cezanne
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Alice DeeJay
Alice DeeJay was a Dutch electronic music group, who achieved success from 1999 to 2002. The group consisted of record producers Pronti (born Sebastiaan Molijn), Kalmani (born Eelke Kalberg) and DJ Jurgen, with lead singer Judith Anna Pronk. The groups best known song is "Better Off Alone" from their 2000 album, "Who N...
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Myriapoda
The Myriapoda is a subphylum of arthropods. It contains the millipedes, centipedes, and others. The group has 13,000 species, all of which are terrestrial. Their name suggests they have many legs. In fact one has over 750 legs ("Illacme plenipes"), but some have fewer than ten legs. The fossil record of myriapods goes ...
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, more commonly referred to as TENS (or sometimes TeNS), is defined by the American Physical Therapy Association as application of electrical current through the skin for pain control.
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Fenwick Island, Delaware
Fenwick Island is a town in Sussex County, which is in the state of Delaware in the United States. There were 343 people in the town in 2020. Fenwick Island is part of the Seaford, Delaware Micropolitan Statistical Area. Fenwick Island is on the Atlantic Ocean north of Ocean City, Maryland.
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General American English
General American (GA) is a major accent of American English. Within American English, General American and accents approximating it are contrasted with Southern American English, several Northeastern accents, and other distinct regional accents and social group accents like African American Vernacular English.
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Thomas Linley the younger
Thomas Linley (born Bath, England, 5 May 1756; died Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire 5 August 1778) was an English composer and violinist. He was born in the same year as Mozart and, like Mozart, he was an astonishing child prodigy. He would almost certainly have been one of England’s greatest composers if he had not died at ...
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Kaiane Aldorino
Kaiane Loise Aldorino Lopez, GMH (née Aldorino; born 8 July 1986) is a Gibraltarian politician and beauty queen. She won Miss World 2009 on December 12, 2009. She was born July 8, 1986 in Gibraltar. From 2017 to 2019, she was Mayor of Gibraltar.
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Thomas Linley the elder
Thomas Linley (born Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, 17 January 1733; died London 19 November 1795), was an English composer, harpsichordist and singing teacher. He studied with Thomas Chilcot, organist of Bath Abbey, and later with William Boyce and possibly also with Paradies, the Italian harpsichordist who had c...
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Hypothetical imperative
A hypothetical imperative is a rule of the form "If you want x, then do y". Moral theories may generally have this structure. This means that only those who want x, must do y. Another view is that moral values are not relative to some objective, but are the same for all, that is they are unconditional, or categorical. ...
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William Boyce
William Boyce (born London, 11 September 1711; died Kensington, 7 February 1779) is one of the most important English composers of the 18th century. He was composing during the last years of the Baroque period and the early years of the Classical Period. He is famous for his church music as well as music for the theatr...
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Mac OS X v10.4
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Mac OS X v10.5
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The Starry Night
The Starry Night is a famous painting of a moonlit sky with stars in it by Vincent van Gogh. It was painted in 1889. It was one of the last paintings he made.
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Starry, Starry Night
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Money Talks
Money Talks is a 1997 action/comedy movie directed by Brett Ratner and starring Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen. It was released to theaters by New Line Cinema
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Money (song)
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8 Mile (movie)
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Leberkase
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Kalgan River
The Kalgan River is in Western Australia near Albany. It is one of the oldest rivers in the world and has seen dinosaurs on its banks. It is about in length. History. The river was named the 'Riviere des Francais' by the French Scientific Expedition in 1803 led by Nicolas Baudin. Early settlers called it the 'French Ri...
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Gas mask
A gas mask is a kind of mask that fits over the face area and nose. It protects from poison gases and many other hazards in the air. They are often used in war. Gas masks in the United States are checked by NIOSH.
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George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 26, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American Medical doctor and scientist. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with George Minot and William P. Murphy, for their discoveries about how eating liver could cure anaemia.
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Milişăuţi
Milişăuţi is a town in Suceava County, Romania. In 2011, 4,958 people lived there according to the census.
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Fălticeni
Fălticeni (; ; ) is a city in Suceava County, Romania, capital of the former Baia County (1929-1950). As of 2003 the population is 28,899, and the city covers an area of 28,76 km², of which 25% are orchards and lakes. The city is away from Suceava, the capital of the county.
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Vicovu de Sus
Vicovu de Sus () is a town in northern Suceava County, Romania. It is on the border with Ukraine.
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Neanderthal Man
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George Minot
George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 - February 25, 1950) was an American doctor. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with George Whipple and William P. Murphy, for their discoveries how eating liver could cure anaemia.
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Tertiary
The Tertiary was an official geological period, but it is no longer used. It included the first part of the Cainozoic. This is now divided into the Palaeogene and the Neogene. The previous use of the term "Tertiary" explains why the last period of the Cainozoic is called the Quarternary. There was a big debate about th...
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current geological period. It is the most recent of the three periods of the Cainozoic era. The Quaternary follows the Neogene, which is the second period of the Cainozoic. The Quaternary began about 2.6 million years ago, and continues today. A great deal of information is considered when geologi...
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ICal
iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the macOS operating system. iCal was the first calendar application for macOS to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server. Originally released as a free download for Mac OS X v10.2 on Sept...
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Palaeogene
The Palaeogene (meaning “old generation” in Greek) is the first geological period of the Cainozoic and the tenth period in the Phanerozoic eon. It began 65 million years ago, and ended 23 million years ago. Before it was the Cretaceous. The Palaeogene was followed by the Neogene. The Palaeogene had three stages: Palaeo...
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Paleogene
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Neogene
The Neogene is the second geological period of the Cainozoic. It began 23 million years ago, and ended about 2.58 million years ago. Before the Neogene was the Palaeogene. The Neogene and the preceding Palaeogene were originally together considered one period, the Tertiary. The Neogene has two stages: Miocene, and Plio...
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Palaeocene
The Palaeocene is the first geological epoch in the Palaeogene. It was from 66 to 56 million years ago. It started after the end of the Cretaceous, and it was followed by the Eocene epoch. The word "Palaeocene" may be spelled "Paleocene" quite correctly. It is just an alternative spelling. The Palaeocene began and end...
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Paleocene
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Byron Moreno
Byron Moreno (born 23 November 1969) is a former Ecuadorian football referee. He has been suspended for his job, because he showed illegal red cards. He was also arrested in New York for the possession of the illegal drug heroin and was fined for drunk driving.
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Eocene
The Eocene was the second geological epoch in the Palaeogene, and by far the longest. It began 56 million years ago, and ended 33.9 million years ago with a global warming crisis. Before the period was the Palaeocene, and after the time was the Oligocene, the time where paraceratheres, indricotheres, entelodonts, hyaen...
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Late Cretaceous
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Islam in Pakistan
Islam is the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. As of 2017, 97% of the population is Muslim, with 75% being Sunni and 20% Shi'a. There are about~230 millions (2021 est.) Muslim population in Pakistan which is the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. The Shi'a Muslim populat...
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Kashmir Smast
The Kashmir Smast caves are a series of natural limestone caves, artificially expanded from the Kushan Empire to the Shahi periods, in the Babozai mountains in the Mardan Valley in Northern Pakistan.
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Lower Cretaceous
The Lower Cretaceous is the first geological epoch in the Cretaceous. It began 145 million years ago, and ended 100.5 million years ago. Lasting for about 46 million years, this is the longest stage in the Phanerozoic eon. It is longer than some of the geological periods in the Phanerozoic. The Lower Cretaceous is bes...
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Trio sonata
A trio sonata is a type of music for four instruments which was very popular during the 17th century and early 18th century: the period known as the Baroque period. A trio sonata is written for three voices (three parts), in other words, it can be played by three different instruments. The two upper voices share the sa...
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K/T extinction event
The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, now called the Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction event, was about 65.5 million years ago. It may be called the K/T extinction event or K/Pg event for short. This is the famous event which killed most of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. It was a large-scale mass...
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Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event
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John Rutter
John Rutter (born London 24 September 1945) is an English composer and choral conductor. He has composed a lot of church music. Many of his anthems and songs are very popular indeed with church choirs as well as choral societies. He writes in a style that can be enjoyed easily, and at the same time it is excellent musi...
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Danny Bonaduce
Dante Daniel "Danny" Bonaduce (born August 13, 1959) is an American radio and TV host, and he was a child actor. He is famous for being on the 1970s sitcom/television series "The Partridge Family".
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Danny bonaduce
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Permian–Triassic extinction event
The Permian/Triassic extinction event was the largest extinction event in the Phanerozoic eon. 57% of all biological families, 83% of all genera, 96% of all marine species became extinct. This includes many fish and the last surviving trilobites, 70% of all terrestrial vertebrates and many of the large amphibia, primit...
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Permian/Triassic extinction event
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Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 12 November 1903) Born on Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands into a Jewish family, his given name at birth was Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro became one of the early influencers among Impressionist artists. He died in Paris at the age of 73. He was the only artist to exhibit in both Imp...
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Snowball Earth
Snowball Earth or Icehouse Earth refers to times when the Earth's surface was nearly or entirely frozen. The occurrence of Snowball (or Slushball) Earths is still controversial. However, it is probable that widespread glaciation occurred in periods of the Proterozoic. What is debatable is how widespread those glaciatio...
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Rivallo
Rivallo () was a legendary king of the Britons as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of King Cunedagius. During the time he ruled he was troubled by disasters: a rain of blood which lasted three days, a terrible plague, and a great swarm of flies. After he died his son Gurgustius became king.
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Pat Fenlon
Pat Fenlon (born 15 March 1969) is an Irish football manager who is currently managing Bohemians F.C.. His first job as a manager was at Shelbourne where he won the league in 2003, 2004 and 2006. In that time they also made history by managing the first Irish club to reach the third qualifying round of the Champions Le...
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Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood (19 May 1953, Prestwich, Lancashire – 20 April 2016, Highgate, North London) was an English comedienne, actress, singer, writer and television presenter. Career. Victoria Wood went to Bury Grammar Girls' School. She wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms. She was a stand-up comedian. She ...