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Echo (mythology)
Echo was a nymph in Greek mythology, and an Oread (a mountain nymph). She was very beautiful, but loved her own voice. Hera. According to "Ovid", Echo once had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus having relationships with other women. She did this by leading Hera away and flattering her. When Hera found out she was v...
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God versions in other mythologies
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Helios
Helios (, "Hēlios"; Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek) is the god of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is often thought to be the personification of the Sun itself. He is the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. He is the brother of Selene, goddess of the Moon, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. During the Hellenistic period, particula...
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Stanisław Lem
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Bia
Bia is the goddess of force in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Styx and Pallas, and also the sister of Nike, Cratos, and Zelus. She and her brothers and sister were the friends of Zeus and were always with him.
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Zelus
Zelus (, "zeal") is the god of dedication and emulation in Greek mythology. He is the son of Styx and Pallas, and also the brother of Nike, Cratos, and Bia. He and his brothers and sister were the friends of Zeus and were always with him. He was a constant companion of Zeus and personified zeal.
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Mnemosyne
Mnemosyne is the Titan of memory in Greek mythology. Her parents are Gaia and Uranos. With Zeus her children are the nine Muses. Her patron symbol is a mask and she is often seen wearing one. Her patron animal is the partridge.
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Coeus
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Harmonia
Harmonia (; ) is the goddess of peace, agreement and harmony in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. She is the opposite of Eris, goddess of disagreement. Her Roman equivalent is Concordia. Origins. Harmonia is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. Her children are Ino, Polydorus, Autonoe, Agaue an...
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President pro tempore of the United States Senate
The president "pro tempore" ( or ), or president pro tem, of the United States Senate is the longest serving senator from the majority political party in the United States Senate. According to the Constitution, this is the fourth highest office in the United States. It is the third in the U.S. presidential line of succ...
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President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
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David Tennant
David John Tennant (né McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He is known for portraying the Tenth Doctor on "Doctor Who" from 2005 to 2010, and portraying the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023, Giacomo Casanova in the television series "Casanova, and as Crowley in the television adaptation of the book Good Omens." In 2...
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcast Company (ABC) is an American television network. Along with CBS, NBC and Fox, it is one of the country's four major television networks. The network is owned by The Walt Disney Company following the acquisition of the Capital Cities/ABC by the company in 1995.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox (styled as FOX) is an American television network. It is owned by .
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ABC
ABC are the first three letters in the Latin alphabet.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean. It is the east half of New Guinea island, plus some nearby islands. The capital city of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby. The population of Papua New Guinea are mostly the Indigenous peoples of the island. The island is in both Australasia and Oceania,...
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Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician. He was the oldest serving member of the United States Senate to date and the only senator to reach 100 while in office. He was also Governor of his home state South Carolina and a Presidential candidate. He was a lawyer. Thurmond sp...
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Roman Forum
The Roman Forum is an area of the city of Rome which the ancient city developed around. It is the place where commerce, business, cult, and the administration of justice took place. It was for centuries the centre of Roman public life. It was the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speech...
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Playwright
A playwright is a person who writes plays for the stage. Because the name of such a text is "drama", another word for this person is dramatist. Sometimes, dramas are written to be read and not played. In that case, they are called "closet dramas". The word "wright" does not come from write. It is an ancient English ter...
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Iambe
Iambe was the goddess of rhyme and merriment in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Pan and Echo. Iambic pentameter. Iambe is said to have created the iambic pentameter verse pattern in poetry. This is a metered verse with two different sounds, and it was named after Iambe. The iambic pentameter verse is used by m...
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Triangle (musical instrument)
A triangle is a musical instrument with three sides and curved corners. There is always one corner where the sides do not join. This makes it possible for the instrument to vibrate. The player holds a small piece of string or leather from which the triangle is hanging, and they can make a sound by hitting the triangle ...
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Speaker
Speaker could mean:
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Surinam
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Bernie Little
Bernie Little ("born" in McComb, Ohio on circa 1926 - "died" April 25, 2003) was the most successful owner in Unlimited Hydroplane racing history. His "Miss Budweiser" team won 134 of the 354 hydroplane races they entered. They won the high points championship 22 years in 40 years of competition, and the Gold Cup 14 ti...
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Perseus
Perseus () is a hero in Greek mythology. He is the legendary founder of Mycenae and is most famous for killing the Gorgon Medusa. He is a demigod, the son of Zeus and the mortal princess Danaë. With his wife, the Ethiopian princess Andromeda, his children are the sons Perses, Alkaios, Sthenelos, Elektryon, and the daug...
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Cronos
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Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian composer and violin player. He is believed to be one of the greatest violinists who ever lived. He is known for 24 Caprices for Solo Violin and his La Campanella. Biography. Paganini was born October 27, 1782 in Genoa (in modern Italy). He started the viol...
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Samer Kamal
Samer Kamal is a Jordanian athlete. He won the bronze medal in Taekwondo (a form of martial arts) in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was the first Jordanian athlete to get a medal for Jordan in the Olympics in Seoul. This gave many Jordanians pride in this achievement during the 1980s. Samer Kamal ho...
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Violet (plant)
The violet is a genus of flowering plants. The common blue violet ("Viola sororia") is the state flower of the U.S. state of Illinois. There is also a famous poem that refers to violets. It goes "Roses are red, violets are blue", and then the poet adds his or her own lines to it. It is also February's birth flower. Som...
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Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear. He was created by A. A. Milne. He is based on a stuffed toy that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne. The toy was named after "Winnipeg" ("Winnie" for short), who was a black bear at the London Zoo, and "Pooh", which was a n...
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960s
The 960s was a decade that started on 1 January 960 and ended on 31 December 969. It is distinct from the decade known as the 97th decade which began on January 1, 961 and ended on December 31, 970.
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Aleksander Kwasniewski
Aleksander Kwaśniewski (; born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician. He served as President for two terms (1995-2000 and 2000-2005). He was born in Białogard in Northwest Poland. Before became a politician, he was a journalist. Before became president, he was minister and deputy to the Sejm. In the late 1980s, he ...
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Joy Division (band)
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Viola sororia
Viola sororia, also known as Viola papilionacea, blue violet, common violet, meadow violet or purple violet, is a species of violet. It is a perennial flowering plant that lives in most of eastern North America. The common blue violet is the state flower of the U.S. states of Rhode Island, Illinois, and New Jersey. In ...
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Common meadow violet
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Purple violet
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Common blue violet
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Viola papilionacea
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Keydrive
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NAND gate
A NAND gate is a logic gate used to build digital logic circuits. It is a combination of an AND and NOT gate. The name refers to this. The NAND gate is a “universal gate”, that means all other types of logic gates can be obtained by wiring exclusively one or more NAND gates in a particular manner. Behavior. Given two i...
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Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow is a 1981 comedy movie starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and Billy Barty. The plot is loosely based on the gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel, to audition for roles as "munchkins" in the movie "The Wizard of Oz". The movie also has nobility, assassins, spies, and tourists. T...
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Gillidanda
Gilli 'गिल्ली" -danda "डन्डा" is a game played by children in South Asia. It is usually played by using a small round stick, about as long as a baseball or cricket bat. This is the "danda". There is another smaller stick, round in the middle and tapering towards the ends. This is the "gilli". The game gilli-danda is si...
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Southern United States
The Southern United States (also known as the Southern States or the South) is a term for the southeast of the United States. All of the states in the Confederacy were in the South, but not all Southern states joined the Confederacy. The slave states that did not join are called the "border states." The Southern States...
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Redneck
A Redneck is a derogatory term for an American stereotype. It is a term for people who live in rural areas, especially on farms and ranches and is usually meant as an insult and considered offensive to most people. It is mostly used to describe people in the Southern United States.
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Babelfish
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gas reflects radiation that the Earth emits, preventing it from escaping into space. This occurrence is known as the "greenhouse effect". Many greenhouse gases are natural, with water vapor being the most common and responsible for most of the greenhouse effect on Earth. Other significant greenhouse gases in...
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Omaha hold'em
Omaha Hold 'Em is a poker game, similar to Texas Hold 'Em. In Omaha, each player is given four cards. Then there is a round of betting. Then three community cards are placed on the table. Another round of betting is after that. Then a fourth community card is put down. After this, there is another round of betting. The...
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Leverkusen
Leverkusen (Low Franconian: "Leverkuuse") is a city near Cologne at the river Rhine in Germany. As of October 2005, about 162,000 people lived there.
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Tocotronic
Tocotronic is a German indie rock band. They were founded in 1993 in Hamburg.
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Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus () (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), real name Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish writer. He was born in Hrubieszów and died in Warsaw. As a 15-year-old high-school student, he fought in Poland's January 1863 Uprising. Prus is best known for his novels, "Lalka" (The Doll) and the historical novel "Faraon" (P...
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Wayne Mixson
John Wayne Mixson (June 16, 1922 – July 8, 2020) was an American politician. He was born in New Brockton, Alabama, but was raised in Jackson County, Florida. He was a democrat. He served in Florida's House of Representatives. In 1978 he was elected a lieutenant governor (deputy governor) to governor Bob Graham. They we...
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Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Neustadt an der Weinstraße is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It has about 54,000 people. The main parts of the town's economy are tourism and winegrowing. Every year the town is the location of the German wine harvest festival with the election of the German wine queen. Districts. Its districts are Traffic. N...
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Reubin Askew
Reubin O'Donovan Askew (September 11, 1928 – March 13, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Democrat from Florida. He was born in Muskogee (Oklahoma), but since 1937 he lived in Florida. He was a lawyer. He served both in US Army and US Air Force. Early life. Askew was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He studied at Fl...
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Trabant
The Trabant (or "Trabi") was a series of cars built in the German Democratic Republic. When the first cars were released, people saw them as being innovative. The cars were also easy on fuel, they did not need much fuel. Trabant had a two-stroke engine. The outside of the Trabant was not made with steel or iron, becaus...
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Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Lohan is most famous for her movies "The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, and" "Mean Girls", which made her popular in the United States. Early life. Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2, 1986, in The Bronx borough of New York City, and grew up in Merrick ...
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Postum
Postum is a drink first made by C. W. Post in 1895. It is a powder substitute for coffee that is mixed with water. The ingredients are wheat bran, wheat, molasses, and corn dextrin. It is advertised as a healthier choice of drink than coffee.
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Brok
Brok nad Bugiem (English: "Brok near Bug") is a small town in Mazowsze Voivodship, Poland. Brok is in Ostrowian County (head town of this region is Ostrów Mazowiecka). Brok is one of the smallest places in Europe with town status (since 1500). Brok is regarded by many as one of the most beautiful places in this part of...
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Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician. He is known for his trumpet playing with his group, Tijuana Brass. He is also the co-founder and one of the heads of A&M Records.
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Teddy bear
A teddy bear is a type of toy that looks like a bear. The teddy bear normally looks like a cub or baby bear. It became popular in Germany and the United States in 1902 when the name was invented. In Russia, bears were used as children's toys and were the subject of folklore or stories, long before the 20th century. Ted...
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Hangul
Hangeul () is the alphabet (or alphabetic syllabary) used for the Korean language. It was created by Sejong the Great, the 4th King of the Joseon Dynasty in 1443. It is still being used now. When Hangeul was spreading, King Sejong published "Hunminjeong'eum Haeryebon" (). It was chosen as the 'Memory of the World' by U...
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Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is an American politician. He was the Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. Before becoming governor, he was a junior U.S. Senator of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2007. In 2016, he made a brief and unsuccessful bid for President of the United States in the 2016 Democrat...
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Sascha Fischer
Sascha Fischer (born 24 December 1970 in Stuttgart) is a German rugby union player. He started with volleyball, then he began to play rugby for DSV 1878 Hannover (Lower Saxony). Right now he is playing in France as a pro for C.A. Périgueux-Dordogne. With his former team, C.S. Bourgoin-Jallieu, he took part at Heineken ...
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Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (November 9, 1936 – April 16, 2024) was an American politician. He was a well-known member of the Democratic Party. Graham has never lost an election. His career started with being a state legislator (Representative 1966-1969, and Senator 1971-1979). Career. Early career. In 1978 he was elect...
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Americans
Americans are citizens of the United States. Also, there are other groups that did not immigrate to the United States but became American because of American expansion in the late 19th century. In addition to the United States, Americans and people of American descent can be found around the world. Three to seven milli...
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USB port
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Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private university in Delaware, Ohio and a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio. Wesleyan was founded in September 1844.
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Lakshmi
Lakshmi is the goddess of money, wisdom and good luck in Hinduism. Most Hindus pray to her on Diwali, which is a festival in India. She is regarded as an equivalent goddess of Emoinu, her Meitei counterpart. Lakshmi has four arms, fair skin and sits on a lotus flower and is normally surrounded by elephants. She is cove...
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Ancient Australia
Ancient Australia (also called the Prehistory of Australia), is the time from when the first humans came to Australia to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. Aboriginal artefacts have been found. They most likely lived in Australia for over 80,000 years. Sea levels were lower because more water was in the form of ic...
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Dreamtime
In Australian Aboriginal culture, life is based on a foundation of beliefs which are called the Dreamtime, or The Dreaming. This is a complex set of ideas with deep levels of meanings. The Dreamtime has four parts: The beginning of everything; the life and power of the ancestors; the way of life and death; and power in...
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Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster, also referred to as Nessie, is a supposed animal, said to live in the Scottish loch of Loch Ness, the second biggest loch in the country. The Loch Ness Monster story was big in the field of cryptozoology. Most scientists believe that the Loch Ness Monster is not real, and they say that many of th...
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Wesleyan
Wesleyan is the adjective form of "Wesley", which could also mean:
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The Dreaming
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Prehistory of Australia
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Simple english
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Macintosh
Macintosh, Mackintosh, or McIntosh can be: Macintosh and similar spellings is a surname:
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Southern rock
Southern rock is a kind of rock music from the southern part of the United States. Some southern rock music groups include: Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and Molly Hatchet.
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Ostrów Mazowiecka
Ostrów Mazowiecka is a main town of Ostrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
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100
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is a common year of the Gregorian calendar. It started on a Friday. It is one of only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are 1 AD (I), 5 AD (V), 10 AD (X), 50 AD (L), 100 AD (C), 500 AD (D), and 1000 AD (M).
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Nintendo Wii
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Monicagate