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Elle McFeast
Elle McFeast was a fictional character played by Australian comedienne Libbi Gorr, who started off on a show with Andrew Denton about sport in Australia called "Live and Sweaty". Gorr made up her character's name to make fun of Australian model Elle Macpherson. "McFeast" was the name of a hamburger from McDonald's. Mc...
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Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson (Eleanor Nancy Gow on 29 March 1964 in Killara, Australia) was an Australian supermodel and actress. She first became famous because of her advertisements for Coca-Cola where she wore a string bikini. She became a supermodel and became very famous. She is part owner of a cafe in America. She has been in...
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Andrew Denton
Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian comedian and television presenter who likes to make fun of politics. He is famous for his comedy and interviewing technique. Career. Andrew Denton used to have a television programme about sports in Australia called "Live and Sweaty". He now has a programme called "Enough Rope...
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Rene Rivkin
Rene Rivkin (June 6, 1944 – May 1, 2005) was an Australian man, born in Shanghai, who made much money by buying stocks and shares on the Australian stockmarket. Rivkin had his own television show and magazine to help people to make money. Rivkin had cheated to make money from the stock market. Rivkin became depressed. ...
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Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinović on 9 August 1968) is an Australian actor. He was a comedian for a long time, and he was in a show called "The Comedy Company". He then became a serious actor in the movie "Chopper" which is a biopic of criminal Chopper Read. His careerstarted with the sketch series "Full Frontal." He be...
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African-American Vernacular English
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a name for the way some African-American people talk in English. Linguists named it AAVE, which is used by some non-black people. Some of the dialects' pronunciations and grammar are similar to how West African languages. Overview. AAVE first came about in the 16th and the ...
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60s BC
The events that happened between 60 BC and 51 BC.
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Joe Vialls
Joe Vialls (  1944 – 17 July 2005) was an Australian Internet journalist and conspiracy theorist. He was once a policeman and detective, but became a private investigator. He is most famous for writing many stories on the Internet about famous things that have happened around the world. On April 17, 1984, a police woma...
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Tatts Group Limited
Tatts Group Limited, formerly known as Tattersalls, is the name of a company in Australia that helps people to bet money. Tattersalls has made lots of money. A woman named Helen Harvey owned Tattersalls and had lots of money.
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Tsukuba
Tsukuba is a new city in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is 50 km northeast of Tokyo and 40 km from Narita International Airport. It has been recognized as a special city since 2007.
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Narita International Airport
is a Japanese airport that is in Chiba, near Tokyo. It is one of the two primary airports in the Tokyo region. The airport is east of Tokyo Station and east-southeast of Narita Station in the city of Narita in Chiba Prefecture.
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McDonalds
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Gogogoch
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Elle MacFeast
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Elle MacPherson
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Puppies
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Pup
Pup means the babies of several species of animals, such as: Pup could also mean:
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Monitor
The word monitor is a Latin word for "warner" or "suggester". The many uses of the word are listed below.
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Chest
The chest is the front part of the torso. It is between the neck and abdomen. In mammals, the parts that make up the thorax are the sternum, the thoracic vertebrae and the ribs. It starts from the neck and stops at the diaphragm. Women develop breasts on the chest during puberty, while male chests generally remain fla...
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Resolution (Computer Sciences)
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Resolution (computer science)
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AAVE
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Blackburn
Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England. The town has a population of about 105,000 people. Blackburn is mentioned in one of the Beatles' songs. The town's football team is Blackburn Rovers F.C.
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Springfield
Springfield can be:
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National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is part of the US government and is responsible for the global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for domestic and foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, and specializes in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The agency is a...
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Robert Pershing Wadlow
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Robert Wadlow
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) was the tallest person who ever lived. Early life. Robert Pershing Wadlow was born to Addie Johnson and Harold Wadlow in Alton, Illinois on February 22, 1918, and was the oldest of five children. During elementary school, they had to make a special desk for him...
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Code
A code is a way of changing information into something else. Sometimes this is done as a way of keeping a message secret. This is called encryption or cryptography. One source gives this explanation: a code is "a word, number or some other symbol used to represent a word, phrase or syllable in plaintext". It is one of...
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Sergio Aragones
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Goaltender
The goaltender (also known colloquially as goalie, tendy, or netminder) in ice hockey is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus stopping the other team from scoring. They usually stay close to the net. At the very end of a game, if a team is losing by...
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Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a sister project of Wikipedia, and so it is a wiki supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a free directory of species that wants to make a full catalog of all living things. It tells of how "species" are classified into groups (taxonomy), and how those groups are similar to one another. It calls it...
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Takeshima
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Lopp Lagoon
Lopp Lagoon is a tidal lake on Cape Prince of Wales (the westernmost tip of the Seward Peninsula) in the U.S. state of Alaska. Many creeks empty into it, but the most water comes from the Mint River. Some salt water from the Pacific Ocean also enters the lagoon through several channels between it and the Bering Strait....
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Welsh people
The Welsh are people from Wales, a country in the United Kingdom. Welsh people speak two languages, Welsh and English. They can also speak other languages occasionally.
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League of Nations
The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations) was the predecessor to the United Nations. The League was founded in 1920, after World War I, but failed to maintain peace and prevent World War II. The League had a Council of the great powers and an Assembly of all of its member countries. The League of Nations w...
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Audiolingual method
The Audiolingual Method is a method for teaching foreign languages. Linguists at the University of Michigan invented this method in the late 1950s. In the Audiolingual method, students first hear a language. Later, they speak the language, and after that, they read and write in it. This way of language teaching is simi...
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Montenegro
Montenegro (meaning Black Mountain) is a small country in Southeastern Europe. It is on the Adriatic Sea, between Albania (to the South) and Croatia to the North. Inland (to the East and South-East) it also has a common border with Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For most of the 20th century it was part of Yugoslav...
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Solar eclipse
As seen from earth, a solar eclipse /"ee-klips"/ happens when the moon is directly between the earth and the sun. This makes the moon fully or partially (partly) cover the sun. Solar eclipses can only happen during a new moon. Every year there are about two solar eclipses. Sometimes there are even five solar eclipses i...
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Kate Fischer
Kate Fischer (born November 30, 1973) is an Australian model and actress. She was a very famous model for a long time. She had a job working on television on a cartoon program with a puppet called "Agro". She was in a movie called "Sirens" with Elle Macpherson and Sam Neill.
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Sam Neil
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Alton, Illinois
Alton is a city in Madison County, Illinois, in the United States. About 26,000 people lived in Alton as of the year 2020. People from the city: Miles Davis (d. 1991), jazz musician, trumpet player
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Armenian
Armenian may mean:
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis ( ), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. St. Paul and Minneapolis are known as the Twin Cities. As of the 2020 census the population was 429,954. The Mississippi River runs through the city. Etymology. Minneapolis derives from the Dakota word for "wa...
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St. Louis
St. Louis is a large and major city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is by the Mississippi River. It was founded by the French. It was named after King Louis IX of France, who is also a Saint. It is often called the "Gateway City" because it was important to settlers traveling out west. Its most famous landmark is the...
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Albert Coady Wedemeyer
General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897–1989) was an American army officer during World War II. Wedemeyer was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 9, 1897. He studied at the United States Military Academy in West Point and graduated in 1919. After the start of World War II, he was made a temporary Lieutenant Colonel in 1941. B...
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William H. Tunner
Lt. General William H. Tunner (July 14, 1906 - April 6, 1983) was an American general. After the Burma Road was cut by the advancing Japanese in early 1942, he organized the Allied logisitical airlift from India in to China over the Hump which was to support Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese forces and the Flying Tigers until ...
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Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota is a city on the West coast of Florida, in the United States. It is the place where the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has its home. In 2020, 54,842 people lived there (US. Census 2020). Many famous people have lived in the city, such as: Tom Cruise (actor), Brian Johnson (band singer), and Paul...
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Pee-wee Herman
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Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) was a Jewish American actor, writer, movie producer, game show host, and comedian, best known for portraying Pee-wee Herman. He was of Jewish descent. He appeared in many movies and television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s and worked with a ...
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Peekskill, New York
Peekskill is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the birthplace of New York Governor, George Pataki. Other famous people born there include Paul Reubens and Mel Gibson.
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Gaming
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Małkinia Górna
Małkinia Górna is a village in Małkinia Dolna Community, Ostrowian County (head town of the county: Ostrów Mazowiecka), Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. There is probably the greatest village in Europe (by population) and one of the greatest places without town status.
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John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American politician who was the vice president of the United States for John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun was the vice president under two different presidents; the only other to do so was George Clinton. Calhoun's father was an Irish immigrant....
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Pelvis
The pelvis (plural: "pelves") is the part of the vertebrate body to which the legs attach. It has a very ancient history. This article is only about the human pelvis. Pelvis can mean the lower part of the trunk of the human body, between the abdomen and the thighs. Or it can mean just the bones in that region. The pelv...
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Cyprus Mail
The Cyprus Mail is a newspaper written in English based in Cyprus. It is made every day, except Monday. Some of its news can be found on its website.
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Collision
A collision occurs when two objects come in contact with each other. All collisions have the same momentum before and after a collision. of collisions include car crashes, bouncing a ball, and playing pool. Collisions are made from two smaller sections called elastic and inelastic collisions. Elastic Collisions. In th...
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Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital city of the country of Serbia. Before the wars of the 1990s, it was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1992 after the Kingdom of Serbia collapsed in 1918 along with Austria-Hungary after World War 1. Belgrade is also one of the most popular travel destinations in Southeastern Europe. It is f...
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Puncknowle
Puncknowle is a village in Southwest Dorset, England, United Kingdom. In 2001, 491 people lived in it.
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Netminder
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Goalie
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Hydrogen economy
A hydrogen economy is a hypothetical future economy in which the primary energy used for automobiles and other vehicles as well as creating electricity comes from hydrogen and renewable energy sources, like windmills and solar panel. Purpose. The reason to use this is to replace the use of petroleum. It would also sto...
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Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus (meaning "Arm lizard") was a herbivorous dinosaur genus that lived in the Upper Jurassic period. The name comes from the fact that the Brachiosaur's front legs were longer than its back legs. Most other dinosaurs had back legs that were longer than their front legs or arms. "Brachiosaurus" was about 25 m ...
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Barnacle
A barnacle is a cirripede, a kind of crustacean. It is covered with hard plates of calcium carbonate, and lives stuck to hard surfaces. It does not look like a crustacean, and for many centuries it was thought to be a mollusc. In the 1830s, J.V. Thompson found their larvae, and followed their development through to the...
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International organization
An international organization is an organization, active in more than one country. These organizations can not command countries and citizens in a way a government can. Many are intergovernmental organizations meaning that rather than having people as members, they have individual countries as members. They make rules ...
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Weapon of mass destruction
Weapons of mass destruction are weapons that can cause a lot of damage to many people. In general, people see the following as weapons of mass destruction:
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Port Arthur, Tasmania
Port Arthur is a small town on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is about 80 km south east of the state capital, Hobart. It was settled as a penal colony (a very large prison for convicts). Port Arthur is now one of Australia's most important historic areas. In 2010 it was included on the UNESCO list of ...
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Odysseus
In Greek mythology, Odysseus was the great-grandson of the Greek god Hermes. He was the king of the island Ithaca. He was married to Penelope. Odysseus and Penelope had a son called Telemachos. Odysseus is a major character in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". Odysseus fought in the Trojan War. He invented the Trojan Hors...
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Cast iron
Cast iron is an alloy of iron. The term is usually used for grey cast iron. There are two main types of cast iron: "grey cast iron" and "white cast iron". The differences between the two are mainly based on the amount of silicon in the alloy. All cast iron has about 95% iron in it. Grey cast iron has 3% silicon and 2% ...
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Codes
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Incest
Incest means sexual intercourse between people who are closely related. Usually, this means members of the same family. In many societies, it is forbidden by law and religion. Which relatives it is forbidden to have sex with depends on the law, religion and culture. Incest is now regarded as bad for the genetic health ...
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was written in the 14th century. It was one of the first books of Middle English literature. The book is about a group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in the city of Canterbury. The thirty characters ...
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Sweat
Sweat, or perspiration, is a liquid made by the skin when the body is hot. Sweat is made in sweat glands under the surface of the skin. It comes out of tiny holes in the skin called pores. Sweat is mostly water, but it also contains some salts. The body makes sweat to cool itself down. It is part of the body's thermor...
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Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] since 2003 and is also shortened to [as]) is an American adult-oriented nighttime programming block on the basic cable network Cartoon Network that is programmed by its in-house production studio, Williams Street. Marketed as a separate network for ratings purposes, Adult Swim broad...
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Bogota
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WESC
WESC is a Swedish company. The company makes clothing, like jeans and shirts. Many people like these clothes, and they can buy them in many countries, for example in the United States, Japan and Germany. Because some famous people use the clothes, other people want to buy them too.
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Ozámiz
Ozámiz is a city in the Philippines, in the province of Misamis Occidental. There were 141,828 people living there according to the 2015 census. Ozámiz is named after Senator José F. Ozámiz, a hero of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War 2.
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Tillage
Tillage is the process in which soil is loosened and softened by tillers or harrows pulled by a tractor or by a plough pulled by an animal or human. The plough breaks the upper crust of the soil so that air and sunlight enter into the soil. This makes the soil more fertile but too much or frequent tillage may make it l...
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Yarmouth
Yarmouth could mean one of the following places. In Canada: In England: In the United States:
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Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth is a town in the province of Nova Scotia in the country of Canada. In 2021, the population of Yarmouth was 6,829.
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Spleen
The spleen is an organ in vertebrates. The spleen is part of the lymphatic system. In people, it is on the left side of the body, under the heart. The spleen helps fight infections and keeps the blood cells healthy. Tasks. The spleen cleans out old blood cells from the blood and recycles them. It helps save the iron an...
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Placenta
The placenta is a temporary organ in the uterus (womb) of pregnant female mammals. Its main role is to transfer oxygen and nutrients from the mother's heart to the baby, and to transfer waste back from the baby to the mother through blood circulation. The placenta has blood supply from the umbilical cord, which takes...
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Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was an event in the history of England and of Scotland in 1688. Many people did not like King James II because he was a Catholic. A Protestant, William III of Orange-Nassau, James's nephew, took over as king and came to England with his wife, Queen Mary, the daughter of James II and William's fi...
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Glorious revolution
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Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. The others are gravity, and the strong and weak interactions of particle physics. The electromagnetic force pushes or pulls anything that has an electric charge, like electrons and protons. It includes the electric force, which pushes all charged particl...
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Afterbirth
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Acton, Massachusetts
Acton is a town in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is 21 miles away from Boston.
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Urbana, Illinois
Urbana is a city in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the twin city of Champaign, Illinois and is separated by a single street. The main campus of the University of Illinois is in Urbana and Champaign. As of 2020, it has population of 38,336. Population. Population (2020) • City 38,336
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UV ray
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X rays
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UV rays
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X ray
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X-rays
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Ultraviolet rays
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Ultraviolet ray
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Bill Oddie
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie OBE (born 7 July 1941) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television personality. Oddie was born in Rochdale, Lancashire and grew up in Birmingham. He read English Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he gained an MA. He is most famous for his birdwatching and conservation w...
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U.S. states
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US states
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US state