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Controversy
A controversy is a prolonged public dispute or debate, with people having different opinions. There may be several groups of people who have different opinions and who cannot agree. Examples for controversial topics are the question of whether abortion should be legal, or whether research on embryonic stem cells should...
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German Trade Union Confederation
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund is a confederation of German trade unions. It was a national trade union center of Germany. The DGB hat 8 German trade unions with more than 7 million people (31.12.2004). It was founded in Munich in 12 October 1949.
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The Best Damn Thing (song)
"The Best Damn Thing" is the fourth single off the album The Best Damn Thing by Avril Lavigne. The song was released June 13, 2008.
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Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft
ver.di is a large German trade union. It is the largest trade union in the world, with 2.6 million members. "ver.di" is an abbreviation for Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, which means "United Services Union." In 2001 ver.di was formed when the Deutsche Angestellten Gewerkschaft (DAG) ("German Salaried Employees")...
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Deutscher Beamtenbund
Deutscher Beamtenbund (dbb) ("Civil Service Federation") is a national trade union center of Germany. The DBB was started in 1918 and organizes workers of public administration. DBB has a membership of 1,250,000 members. President is Peter Heesen
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Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer
Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL) () is a trade union of Germany. Its president is Claus Weselsky , who took over from Manfred Schell in 2008. The GDL has a membership of 34,000. Most members live in the old East Germany. GDL is a member of the Deutscher Beamtenbund (dbb).
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TRANSNET Gewerkschaft
TRANSNET, which stands for Transport, Service, and Networks, is a trade union in Germany. It represents 283,000 workers, and is one of eight industrial affiliations of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB). Its president is Norbert Hansen.
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Can-can
The can-can – also spelled "cancan" – is a music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, like the fashions of the 1890s. The can-can was first danced in low class ballrooms of Montparnasse in Paris about 1830. The dancers of the 1890...
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819, in Cologne – 5 October 1880, in Paris) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era. He is seen as one of the originators of the operetta form. He was of German-Jewish descent. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century. Many of ...
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Shane MacDougall
Shane MacDougall is a Canadian stand-up comedian, former columnist, television writer, and documentarian. Best known for his 1999 challenge to Queen Elizabeth II to a kickboxing match or math test for the monarchy of Canada, the challenge resulted in him receiving death threats but also brought much media attention to ...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter of the Post-Impressionist period. He was born into a noble family, but lived for most of his life among the actors, dancers and prostitutes of Paris. He is famous for painting the lives of these people, the en...
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Feeling
Feeling can mean:
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Alleghany County, North Carolina
Alleghany County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 10,888 people lived there. Its county seat is Sparta. History. The county was made in 1859 from the eastern part of Ashe County, North Carolina. Government. Alleghany County is part of the High Country Council of Governments. Weather. Since it i...
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Sparta, North Carolina
Sparta is a town in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,834 people as of the year 2020. It is the county seat of Alleghany County. Teapot Museum. The Sparta Teapot Museum is being built right now and should be finished by the summer of 2008.
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Anson County, North Carolina
Anson County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 22,055 people lived there. Its county seat is Wadesboro. History. The county was made in 1750 from Bladen County. In 1753, the northern part of Anson County became Rowan County. In 1762 the western part of the county became Mecklenburg County. In 17...
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Wadesboro, North Carolina
Wadesboro is a town in Anson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,008 people as of the year 2020. It is the county seat of Anson County.
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Alexander County, North Carolina
Alexander County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 36,444 people lived there. Its county seat is Taylorsville. Government. Alexander County is part of the Western Piedmont Council of Governments. Connected Counties. These counties are connected to Alexander County: Cities and Towns. These cities...
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Ashe County, North Carolina
Ashe County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 26,577 people lived there. Its county seat is Jefferson. History. Native Americans used to live in Ashe County. Pieces of broken pottery, arrowheads, and other Native American things have been found in the county. In 1849, the southwestern part of As...
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Long March
The Long March is the retreat of Mao Zedong and the Communists in 1934-35. The communists went to their stronghold away from Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. Here they were able to join together and start fighting again to beat the Nationalists. They trekked 6,000 miles over 370 days, and only 8,000 survived out o...
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Avery County, North Carolina
Avery County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 17,806 people lived there. Its county seat is Newland. It is known for growing Fraser Fir Christmas trees. Avery County is part of the High Council of Governments. History. The county was made in 1911 from parts of Caldwell County, Mitchell County,...
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Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a "Kreis" (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. History. In 1821 districts were created in Hesse, including the districts Hersfeld and Rotenburg, which stayed nearly unchanged after Hesse-Kassel was taken over by Prussia. In 1972 both districts were joined into one.
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Rings of Rhea
The Saturnian moon Rhea may have a thin ring system with three narrow bands in a disk of solid particles. These would be the first rings seen around a moon. The discovery was announced in the journal "Science" on March 6 2008. In November of 2005 the "Cassini" orbiter found that Saturn's magnetosphere near Rhea did not...
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Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Werra-Meißner is a "Kreis" (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. History. The district was created in 1974 by merging the two district Eschwege and Witzenhausen, which both existed with only slight modifications since 1821. Geography. The main river in the district is the Werra. The "Hohe Meißner" with is the high...
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Wake county nc
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Durham county, nc
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Nash county nc
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Franklin county nc
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Granville county nc
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Johnston county nc
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Harnett county nc
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Waldeck-Frankenberg
Waldeck-Frankenberg is a "Kreis" (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. History. The district was created in 1972 by merging the two districts Frankenberg and Waldeck. Most of the area of the district was previously part of the old principality of Waldeck.
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Chatham county nc
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Carteret county nc
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Alleghany county nc
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Anson county nc
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Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Schwalm-Eder is a "Kreis" (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Partnerships. The district has partnerships with Geography. The two rivers Schwalm and Eder gave the district its name.
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Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver (VR), was a Grammy Award-winning rock supergroup that started in 2002. The members of the band were three Guns N' Roses band members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals) and Wasted Youth bassist Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar). Stone Temple Pilots'...
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Manchu people
The Manchu people are a Tungusic people who came from Manchuria (today's Northeastern China). In ancient times they were called "Juchen". During their rise in the seventeenth century they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, which established a ...
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Kristanna Loken
Kristanna Sommer Loken or Kristanna Sommer Løken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress known for her work in both film and television, and a former fashion model. She is perhaps known as T-X from the movie (2003) and Rayne from the movie Bloodrayne (2006). All of Loken's four grandparents were immigrants to the...
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Geneva
Geneva (, , , , ) is the second biggest city in Switzerland. Only Zürich is bigger. Geneva is the biggest city in Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). Geneva is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. It is situated where the Rhône River leaves Lake Geneva (called in French "Lac Léman"). Geneva ...
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Ring fort
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Balneario Camboriu
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Chapeco
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Einsatzgruppe
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Concubinage
Concubinage is the state of a woman in a relationship with a man of higher social status that gives her less rights than a marriage. In most of the cases the man has an official wife and one or more concubines. Concubines have only limited rights of support from the man, and their children have lower status than childr...
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Mistress (lover)
A mistress is a man's long term female sexual partner and companion who is not married to him. This term is especially used when the man is married to another woman. The relationship is generally stable; however, the couple do not live together openly. Also, the relationship is usually but not always secret. Rather oft...
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Canton of Geneva
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Eastern Front
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Italian Campaign
Italian Campaign can mean the following:
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Italian Front
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Gaia online
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List of counties in Wisconsin
The following is a list of the counties of Wisconsin:
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Criciuma
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Moomba Waterfest
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List of record labels starting with M
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List of record labels starting with N
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List of record labels starting with O
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List of record labels starting with P
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Invent
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List of record labels starting with Q
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List of record labels starting with R
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List of record labels starting with S
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List of record labels starting with T
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List of record labels starting with U
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List of record labels starting with V
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List of record labels starting with W
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List of record labels starting with X
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List of record labels starting with Y
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Eastern Front (World War I)
The Eastern Front of World War I was the theatre in which Germany and Austria-Hungary fought against the Russian Empire. Planning places to concentrate forces was very important because there were few railways on the Eastern Front, and troops could not be moved and reinforced as quickly as on the Western Front. Russia...
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Gibbon
Gibbons belong to the group of lesser apes. They are known for their ability to swing from one tree to another with great agility and swiftness. There are four genera of gibbons. Gibbons live in dense tropical forests, for example, in Sumatra, Thailand, and Malaysia. Extraordinary abilities. Gibbons are the best tree ...
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage and homosexual marriage) is a relationship in which two people of the same sex (same gender) live together as a family in a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage. Access to same-sex marriage is sometimes called "marriage equality", especially by suppo...
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Chiron (hypothetical moon)
Chiron is the name given to a moon of Saturn claimed to be sighted by Hermann Goldschmidt in 1861 which he said, orbited between Titan and Hyperion. But it has since been determined that it does not exist as it was never seen again for more than 100 years. It is now known as a centaur, which was found in 1977, named 20...
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Dual monarchy
Dual monarchy is a union of two monarchies where the thrones of each monarchy are combined. A typical case is a personal union in which the crowns of the separate kingdoms are held by one person. The following are examples of dual monarchies, listed alphabetically with the dominant or co-dominant nation first:
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Union
Union generally means that two or more things are joined into one. That can be an organization of several people or organizations, several objects combined into one, and so on. The term may mean: In education. The term student union can be used in either of two senses: In the United States, the phrase more commonly ref...
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Carl von Moers
Carl von Moers (9 December 1871 in Neuwied – 26 May 1957) was a German horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He and his horse "May-Queen" won the silver medal as members of the German team at the 1912 Summer Olympics. But he was 15th in the individual eventing competition. He also participated in the in...
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Burnham Grammar School
Burnham Grammar School (BGS) is a grammar school in Burnham, Buckinghamshire. It was established and opened in 1960. They are a community education school. The school takes children from the age of 11 to the age of 18. The school has an estimated 900 pupils. The pupils are split into five houses. The school has an all ...
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Avant-garde
Avant-garde (pronounced ) in French means "front guard", "advance guard", or "vanguard". The term is commonly used in French, English, and German for people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly in the areas of art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a going against what is accepted as ...
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Avant-garde (disambiguation)
Avant-garde refers to experimental work in art, music, culture, or politics. It can also refer to:
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Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck is a 2001 movie written and directed by Craig Clyde and starring Scott Baio, Tracy Nelson, Hal Linden and Eileen Brennan.
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European cup
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Gil Fates
Gil Fates (born Joseph Gilbert Fates on 29 September 1914 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; died 1 May 2000 in New York City, United States) was an American television producer. He produced many shows, like "What's My Line?". Fates also hosted "CBS Television Quiz", which was the first television game show to be sh...
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Innovation
The classic definitions of innovation include: In economics, business and government policy,- something new - must be substantially different, not an unimportant change. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. Innovations are intended to make someone better off, and the successi...
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Innovation (disambiguation)
Innovation may refer to one of the following.
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Santieh River
The Santieh River is a river in Taiwan. It flows through Tainan County for .
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Scott S. Sheppard
Scott S. Sheppard is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He graduated from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. He discovered many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the second known Neptune Trojan, 2004 UP10 as well as...
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List of rivers of Taiwan
This is a list of rivers in Taiwan that are 19 kilometers or longer:
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List of mountains in Taiwan
Taiwan has a lot of mountains, and mountain climbing is a favorite activity of the and many Taiwanese people. A list of One Hundred Mountains Ranking () was created in 1971, which listed the best mountains for climbing on the island. Climbing all one hundred mountains is the greatest challenge for Taiwanese climbers.
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Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart DS is a 2005 racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the fifth game in the series and the first which used Nintendo's free online service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The game was released in the North America, Australia, and Europe in 30 November 2005, and in Japan in 19 De...
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website which collects expert reviews for movies, TV, video games, music and formally books. It provides a Metascore, an average score out of 100 possible points based on published reviews. It has the score in one of three colours, red being negative, yellow being mixed and green being positive.
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Marktbreit
Marktbreit am Main () is a town in Kitzingen in the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken in Bavaria, Germany. It is at the most southern point of the Main river. Marktbreit is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease. With its suburb , Marktbreit has about...
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Eclipse
An eclipse is an astronomical event. It is when one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object. When an eclipse happens within a system of stars, like the Solar System, it makes a type of syzygy. This means that three or more objects in the sky are lined up in a straight line in the same gravitation...
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Lena Gercke
Lena Johanna Gercke is a model. She is the winner of the first cycle (season) of "Germany’s Next Topmodel" by Heidi Klum. After a casting, Lena Gercke made it to the last 12 girls and eventually won the competition.
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Twilight (novel series)
Twilight is a series of fantasy/romance books by Stephenie Meyer. A movie adaptation of "Twilight" came out in 2008, "" in 2009, "Eclipse" in 2010, and "Breaking Dawn," which was divided into two parts; the first part in 2011 and the second part in 2012. Books. "Twilight". Twilight is a book series with vampires and we...
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Karl Popper
Sir Karl Popper CH FRS FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He also wrote on social and political philosophy, especially the evils of tot...
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Eclipse (disambiguation)
Eclipse can be any of the following:
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The Castle
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Castle (disambiguation)
A castle is a fortified structure used to defend a territory. Castle or Castles can mean: The Castle may also refer to:
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The British Museum
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The Warriors
The Warriors can mean: