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Take This to Your Grave
Take This to Your Grave is the debut studio album by rock band Fall Out Boy. The album was released 2003. Credits are Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman, and Andy Hurley. Tracklisting. 1. "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today" 2. "Dead on Arrival" 3. "Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy" 4. ...
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Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko
Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko (May 9, 1896 – December 18, 1969) also known as Stephen G.C. Ensko, was an expert on American antique silver. His book is the standard reference work for antique silver. Biography. Ensko was born in 1896 in New York City to Robert Ensko (1855-1934) and Mary Elizabeth Blakeley (1857-?). He ma...
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List of characters in Pirates of the Caribbean
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Will Turner
William Turner Jr. is a fictional character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. He appears in ' (2003), ' (2006), ' (2007), and ' (2017). He is played by Orlando Bloom. William Turner is a blacksmith's working in Port Royal, Jamaica. His love interest is Elizabeth Swann, the governor's daughter and upper class. W...
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Jack Sparrow
Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series. Sparrow is the main character in the series. Sparrow is played by Johnny Depp. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Background. Sparrow is based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Ke...
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James Norrington
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Lord Cutler Beckett
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Lord Beckett
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Cutler Beckett
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Elizabeth Swann
Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) is a fictional character and the tritagonist of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series. She appears in ' (2003) and three of its sequels, ' (2006), ' (2007) and ' (2017). She is played by Keira Knightley. She is married to Will Turner. Elizabeth is the only child to Weather...
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Tom Hollander
Tom Hollander (born 25 August, 1967) is an award-winning English actor. He had roles in productions such as "Enigma", "Gosford Park", "Cambridge Spies", "Pride and Prejudice" and "Pirates of the Caribbean".
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Jack Davenport
Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English movie and television actor. His first important role was in the mid-1990s in the television series "This Life". He has since become best known for his roles in the "Coupling" television series and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series of movies. He has also appeared in m...
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Yulia MacLean
Yulia (full name Yulia MacLean) is a Russian-born New Zealand crossover singer. Her first Solo Album 'Into The West' went platinum in its first week of sales in New Zealand, achieving four times platinum sales. She won 2 NZ Music Awards; 'Best female solo artist' and '42Below Best selling album in New Zealand'. She has...
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Tia Dalma
Tia Dalma is a fictional character from the movies ' and '. She is the sea goddess Calypso in human form. She is played by Naomi Harris. Tia Dalma is a voodoo priestess with black teeth and blue lips, and she has her hair in dreadlocks. She speaks in Jamaican Patois.
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Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Sao Feng
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Infatuation (song)
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Twelve apostles
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Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam before it was made), is a dam on the Sacramento River in California. It was built from 1938 to 1945. It is high and long. It creates a lake called "Shasta Lake". It is a popular spot for boating and fishing.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He is best known for writing "Moby-Dick".
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Hermann Melville
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher. His best known book, "Being and Time", is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. It is a very difficult book, even for the German reader. Works. In it, and later works, Heidegger maintained that our way o...
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Parmenides
Parmenides (also Parmenides of Elea) (, early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, Italy and was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. His only known work is a poem, but only bits and pieces have survived. In it, he describes two views of reality. These thoughts strongly influenced ...
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Democritus
Democritus () was an ancient Greek philosopher. He was born in Thrace, Greece, circa 460 BC. He was a rich citizen of Abdera, in Thrace, and a student of Leucippus, another Greek philosopher. He studied natural philosophy in Thrace, Athens and Abdera. He liked to study geometry and he travelled to many places, includin...
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Leucippus
Leucippus or Leukippos (, first half of 5th century BC) was a Greek philosopher. He was an early philosopher of atomism, the idea that everything is made up of many tiny things which always continue to exist, which he called Atoms. Leucippus was born at Miletus or Abdera, although apparently Epicurus said he never exis...
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Spinoza
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Heidegger
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Nietzsche
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Olympus
Mount Olympus (; also transliterated as Ólympos, and on Greek maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is high. Since its base is at sea level, it is one of the highest mountains in Europe in terms of topographic prominence, the relative altitude from base to top. In Greek mythology the mountain was ...
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Kate (text editor)
Kate is a text editor for the KDE desktop environment. The name is an acronym for "KDE Advanced Text Editor." It was first put in the KDE 2.2 release, on August 15, 2002. Features. The "advanced text editor" part of its name refers to its many abilities. It can do many more things than a simpler text editor, like Notep...
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Christopher Wolstenholme
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Ronald Laing
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Ronald David Laing
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927, Glasgow Scotland – 23 August 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who described mental illness, especially psychosis. Laing is known for his theories on the causes of the mental perturbations. His theory on the "schizogenous" (?) parents or schizophrenia was to exclude him from the ps...
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Pontifical Academy of Science
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Districts of Bern
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Alcoholic drink
An alcoholic drink is a drink that contains 0.5% or more ethanol. In chemistry there is a whole class of substances known as alcohols. Overview. The alcohol used in alcoholic drinks is known as ethanol or "grain alcohol". Grain alcohol is generally made through a process called fermentation. In fermentation, bacteria c...
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Hapoel Asi Gilboa F.C.
Hapoel Asi Gilboa is an Israeli football club based in Prazon on Mount Gilboa. The club currently plays in the northern division of Liga Alef. Their main rivals are Hapoel Afula. In 2001 the club won the Liga Bet North B division and was promoted to Liga Alef after 18 years in Liga Bet.
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Hapoel asi gilboa.
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Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Lee (born December 13, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the co-founder, lead vocalist, keyboardist and main songwriter of the rock band Evanescence. She is a classically trained pianist and a multi-instrumentalist. Lee was musically influenced by composers and artists of different ge...
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Wild Dances
"Wild Dances" is a song by Ukrainian pop-star Ruslana Lyzhichko (Ruslana). It won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004.
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Lancaster
Lancaster may be
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A Man For All Seasons
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Call of Duty 4
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COD 4
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Sir Thomas More
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Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade or an RPG is the name for any kind of weapon, held on the shoulder that fires rockets that have an explosive warhead. These warheads are attached to a rocket motor and the rocket has fins which help it to fly straight. Some types of RPG are reloadable, while others are used only once and then...
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, is a vast and high plateau. It covers most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Qinghai Province in China, most of Northern Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of northern India. The Tibetan Plateau covers an area of around 1,000 by 5,500 Kilometers, and has an ave...
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus or Herakleitos (c.535 – 475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a native of Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. His teaching, as we have it now, is a series of epigrams. This means his teachings are sayings and remarks, rather than systematic essays. Heraclitus is famous for h...
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Thales
Thales of Miletus, about 624 BC – 546 BC, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was from Miletus in Asia Minor. Many, notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. According to Bertrand Russell, "Western philosophy begins with Thales". Thales attempted to explain natural phenomena wi...
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Hardancourt
Hardancourt is a village in the Vosges département of northeastern France.
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Anaximander
Anaximander (; "Anaximandros"; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded him and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and Pythagoras amongs...
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Anaximenes of Miletus
Anaximenes () of Miletus (c. 585 BC-c. 525 BC) was a Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher from the latter half of the 6th century, probably a younger contemporary of Anaximander, whose pupil or friend he is said to have been. His ideas. Anaximenes, like others in his school of thought, practised material monism, the idea tha...
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Disputed Territory
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Eberhardt del’Antonio
Eberhardt del’Antonio (April 21, 1926 in Lichtenstein – February 22, 1997 in Dresden) was a German writer. Life. Eberhardt Del'Antonio was the son of a locksmith. He learned the job as an technical drawer. He was fighting for the German army during the Second World War.
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Gorgias
Gorgias (, ca. 487-376 BC), Greek sophist, presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. His theory was su...
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Sophism
Sophism can mean two very different things. In Ancient Greece, sophism was practiced by "sophists", who were a group of teachers of rhetoric. In modern usage, a sophism is a confusing or slightly incorrect argument used for deceiving someone. Etymology. The word sophism derived from the Greek word σόφισμα ("sophisma" f...
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Sophist
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Sophistry
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Protagoras
Protagoras () (ca. 490–420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is called one of the sophists by Plato, the Greek philosopher who followed Socrates. In Plato's dialogue "Protagoras", he credits Protagoras with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue. Philosophy. It is thought t...
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Joshamee Gibbs
Joshamee Gibbs (known as Mr. Gibbs or Master Gibbs) is a fictional character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series. Alongside Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, he is one of the few characters to appear in every movie. Gibbs is played by Kevin McNally in the movies. Writer Terry Rossio has said he actually thin...
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Mr. Gibbs
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Weatherby Swann
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Governor Swann
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Pintel
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Ragetti
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Pintel and Ragetti
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Bill Turner
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Bootstrap Bill Turner
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Captain Teague
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Hallelujah (paramore song)
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Pirate code
A pirate code is a code of conduct for pirates - a set of rules for how to behave. Some of these codes were used by real pirates; others are from movies. There was never a single pirate code that all pirates followed. Pirate codes changed from one captain to another. Sometimes they were different from one voyage (journ...
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Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
"Hallelujah" is a folk-rock song by Canadian singer/guitarist Leonard Cohen. It was first released on his 1984 album "Various Positions". Following its increased popularity after being featured in the movie "Shrek" (2001), it has been re-recorded by many different artists including Jeff Buckley, Anand Bhatt, Rufus Wain...
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Pirates
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Islamic State of Afghanistan
The Islamic State of Afghanistan was the name given to the nation of Afghanistan during the rule of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan government. After 2001, the country was renamed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Governmental Ideologies: Tajik Islamic-Nationalism Pan-Islamism Sunni-Shia Unity...
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and painter. His work was mostly about religion, politics, sexuality, and personal relationships. All of these ideas can be seen in his best known work, "Hallelujah". Cohen was added into both the ...
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Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American singer and guitarist. His father was Tim Buckley. He was also a musician. Buckley died after drowning in the Wolf River in Memphis at the age of 30. His body was found on 4 June. Life and death. Buckley was born in Anaheim, California. He...
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Stigmata
Stigmata are marks on a person's body, that are like the wounds Jesus got from being crucified. They supposedly happen to other religious people like Saint Francis of Assisi, as well as Jesus. The marks include nail holes in the hands and feet, as if the person had been crucified, but without that having happened. Con...
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Flag of Turkmenistan
The flag of Turkmenistan was adopted on January 24, 2001 in the 2:3 ratio as Turkmenistan's national flag, though the flag was adopted in the 1:2 ratio on February 19, 1992. It is often described as the most detailed national flag in the world. It features a green field with a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, ...
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Philolaus
Philolaus (ca. 480 BC – ca. 385 BC, ) was a Greek Pythagorean and Presocratic. He argued that all matter is composed of limited and unlimited things, and that the universe is determined by numbers. He is credited with originating the theory that the earth was not the center of the universe.
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Coat of arms of Turkmenistan
The coat of arms of Turkmenistan was created after Turkmenistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The eight-point green starburst (known as the star of Rub El Hizb (۞), a symbol of Islam, to which a majority of Turkmen profess) with golden edges features in its center a red circular disc which carries ...
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Pre-Socratic philosophy
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were active before Socrates. The popular usage of the term comes from Hermann Diels' work "Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker" ("The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics", 1903). Most of what we know about the pre-Socractic philosophers come from quotations by later philosophers and historian...
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Milesian school
The Milesian school was a school of thought founded in the 6th Century BC. The ideas associated with it are exemplified by three philosophers from the Ionian town of Miletus: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.
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Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were much influenced by mathematics. They thought the world was made of numbers, and that various integers had distinct sacred meanings in their numerology. Later resurgence of ideas simil...
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (, fl. 480 BC – 450 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras was an Ionian Greek. He was born in Asia Minor, in Clazomenae. This was a town in what is now Turkey. Anaxagoras was the first known atheist. He also introduced the concept of "νούσ" ("nous", or mind), the ordering force behind the Univ...
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Pythagoreans
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Miletus
Miletus (mī lē' təs) (Ancient Greek: Μίλητος, literally transliterated "Milētos", Latin "Miletus") was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia (in what is now Aydin Province, Turkey), near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria.
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Tooth fairy
The tooth fairy is a mythical figure found in modern folklore. Around the world, families have many different traditions to celebrate the loss of a child's tooth, especially a first tooth. Many of the traditions involve throwing a tooth on a roof, under a house, burying it under a tree, or leaving it for a rodent. One...
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Turquoise (colour)
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Amber (colour)
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James Hendrix
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Jimmy Hendrix
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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 — 10 June 1190) was born in 1122 in the monastery Weingarten. He was the son of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia and Guelph Judith. Frederick had a cousin, called "Henry the Lion", who was his greatest enemy. In the year 1152, Frederick Barbarossa was crowned King of Germany. Nickname. H...
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Children's BBC
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BBC Weather
BBC Weather is the BBC's department in charge of preparing and broadcasting weather forecasts and is now part of BBC News. The broadcast meteorologists are employed by the Met Office. The longest serving presenter of BBC weather was Michael Fish, now retired, who appeared for 30 years between 1974 and 2004. History. Ea...
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Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick are a rock band from Illinois, USA. They were very popular in the 1970s and 80s. Some of their hits include: Surrender, Dream Police and I Want You to Want Me. They are still very big in Japan and are called the "American Beatles" in Japan.
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Strychnine
Strychnine is a poisonous substance which is naturally produced by the plant "Strychnos nux-vomica". Together with brucine, another poison, strychnine is found in the leaves and seeds of this plant. They are a rather extreme example of the way some plants protect themselves against herbivores. The substances were disco...
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Alkaloid
An alkaloid is a chemical compound that can be made naturally. They contain basic nitrogen atoms. The name comes from the word alkaline and was used to describe any alkaline containing nitrogen. Alkaloids are made by a large variety of organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals and are part of the group of...
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Crystal meth