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Violence in ice hockey
Violence is often common in the sport of Ice Hockey. Originally a sport played by richer people, when the sport became popular it got more violent. Up until the 1950s deaths were not uncommon in ice hockey.
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Kraken (Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Gerard K. O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen “Gerry” O’Neill (February 6, 1927–April 27, 1992) was an American scientist. He taught physics at Princeton University. He invented a machine for holding subatomic particles. He also invented the mass driver, a machine used to launch things into outer space. He wrote about building cities in space. His s...
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Hamsters
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Katherine of Aragon
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Rosary
The Rosary is a Catholic form of prayer using beads. It is a cycle of repeated formal prayers, such as the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary, done while thinking about important events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. This is called "saying the Rosary" or "praying the Rosary." A rosary can also be the series of joined bea...
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Kazakh language
Kazakh is a Turkic language that is mostly spoken in Kazakhstan, a country in Central Asia. It, along with Russian, is one of Kazakhstan's official languages. History. The Kazakh language had been written in the Cyrillic alphabet since the Russian Empire started to occupy that country in the 19th century. In 1917, peop...
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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was the semi-mythical fifth king of Uruk, an ancient city-state of Sumer. His supposed historical reign is believed to have been 27th to 25th centuries BC, around 2 to 4 centuries before he appears as a protagonist in the Sumerian epic named "Epic of Gilgamesh". Gilgamesh's father was named Lugalbanda, who wa...
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Spring green
Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. It is one of the official web colors. The first recorded use of "spring green" as a color name in English was in 1766, referring to roughly the color we now call "spring bud".
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Third
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SFL
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Oriental Orthodox
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Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline. They play at East End Park and are nicknamed "The Pars". They are currently managed by Neil Lennon who was given the job on a temporary basis in March 2025.
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Dunfermline Athletic FC
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Greenock Morton F.C.
Greenock Morton Football Club are a football team, who currently play in the Scottish Championship. The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest senior Scottish clubs. Greenock Morton are popularly known as "The Pride of the Clyde", a tradition which pre-dates the club's renaming in...
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Greenock Morton FC
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Livingston F.C.
Livingston Football Club is a Scottish football team based in Livingston, West Lothian. They currently play in the Scottish Premiership. Current squad. "As of August 26, 2008"
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Livingston FC
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Queen of the South F.C.
Queen of the South Football Club is a Scottish professional football club founded in 1919. It is in Dumfries in southwest Scotland. They currently play in the Scottish First Division. Officially nicknamed "The Doonhamers", but usually referred to as "Queens" and sometimes as "QoS" (as also listed on the club badge), th...
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Queen of the South FC
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Ross County F.C.
Ross County F.C. are a Scottish professional football team who currently play in the Scottish Football League. They play their home matches at Victoria Park in the Highland town of Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. Their manager, until October 2005, was former Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Heart of Midlothian manager Jo...
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Ross County FC
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Irn-Bru
Irn-Bru is a carbonated drink made by Barrs in Scotland, United Kingdom. It was invented in Glasgow in 1901. It is a bright orange colour, and is nicknamed "Scotland's other national drink" – a reference to whisky. Recipe. The recipe remains a secret today, with competing drinks trying to make their own copy of Irn-Bru...
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Iron Bru
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Scottish Football League First Division
The Irn-Bru Scottish Football League First Division (or Scottish First Division) was the second tier of the Scottish football league system which ran between 1975 and 2013. In July 2013 it was replaced by the Scottish Championship. Format. The league contained 10 teams, each team played the other teams four times. Team...
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Ave Maria
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Rain gauge
A rain gauge is an instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to measure liquid precipitation (rain) in a certain amount of time. It is usually measured in millimetres and inches. Rain gauge is a meteorological instrument for determining the depth of precipitation (usually in mm) that occurs over a unit area (u...
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Rain guage
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Millimetres
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Zürich S-Bahn
Zürich S-Bahn (German "S-Bahn Zürich") is a suburban rail system that links Zürich to its metropolitan area. The system started in 1990, when it was the first suburban rail system to begin operating in Switzerland. Mid 2008, there were 380 kilometres of railway track, 171 stations and 28 lines. In 2007, about 355’653 p...
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Thousand Foot Krutch
Thousand Foot Krutch is a Canadian Christian hard rock band that was formed in 1997. They have released a number of albums (including 2 remix albums) the latest being Exhale, sequel to Oxygen: Inhale. While TFK had rap influences, obvious with Trevor's vocals in earlier TFK albums, "The Flame In All Of Us" and "Welcome...
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah (, literally "head of the year," Biblical: , Israeli: , Yiddish: ) is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the "Jewish New Year." It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. The festival lasts for two days. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or "Y...
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Mass noun
In linguistics, a mass noun is a common noun that refers to an amount, not an item or unit. Common mass nouns are "water, chocolate, meat, time," and "space." Mass nouns are always singular and uncountable. The set of uncountable nouns and mass nouns is not identical. There are uncountable nouns, such as "scissors" whi...
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Dianthus
Dianthus is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, found mainly in Europe and Asia, with a few species found south to north Africa, and one species ("D. repens") in Arctic North America. Common names include carnation ("D. caryophyllus"), pink ("D. plumarius" and related species...
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American Dream
The American Dream is the hope that in the United States of America, anyone can become successful if they work hard and try their very best. Immigration. Many migrants, people who come to America from other countries, come to America because they hope for a better life. America is attractive to migrants, because often ...
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Thousand foot krutch
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Jason Upton
Jason Upton (born December 15, 1973) is an independent Christian worship leader and musician. He has a large underground following. He has released 12 albums since the year 2000:
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Jason upton
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Tangled (Maroon 5 song)
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Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as the title character in the television series "MacGyver", and for his role as Jack O'Neill in the television series "Stargate SG-1".
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Tangled (song)
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Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He became famous for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson on the television series "Stargate SG-1". He also provided the voice of the character Thor for this show. He is a film and television actor.
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Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium leprae is a bacteria. It causes the disease, leprosy, also known as the Hanson's Disease. Discovery. The bacterium was discovered in 1873 by a Norwegian doctor named Gerhard Armauer Hansen. "M. leprae" is a gram-positive, aerobic rod surrounded by the characteristic waxy coating unique to Mycobacteria. ...
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by the American grunge band, Nirvana, from their second album "Nevermind". It is their most famous song, and one of the most famous songs ever. Many people thought the song represented the ideas of the people in Generation X (people born in the United States between 1965 and 1980.) W...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacterium that causes tuberculosis. "M. tuberculosis" was first described on 24 March 1882 by Robert Koch. The bacterium was first called the "tubercle bacillus", and is now also known as Koch's bacillus. This disease is spread by the air and from getting coughed or sneezed on by an infe...
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Billabong (clothing)
Billabong is an Australian brand of surf clothing which is popular with young people, in particular the Australian surf community, however, more recently of the skating, and other sporting communities. History. Billabong started in the Gold Coast in 1973 when surfing culture in Australia was popular. Surfers Gordon and...
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Sand (disambiguation)
Sand may refer to:
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George Sand
Amandine "Aurore" Lucile Dupin, later Baroness (French:"baronne") Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and feminist. Early life. Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was the grandson of the Marshall General of France, Maurice, Comte de Saxe. He was also a dist...
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Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
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Sûzat
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Type 23 frigate
The type 23 frigate or "Duke" class frigate is a warship operated by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and by the Chilean Navy of Chile. However it is not operated by the Royal Canadian Navy of Canada.
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Black Metal
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Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws is the name for three (historically: two laws) that were set into practice in Germany in 1935, and that were valid until 1945. They are named after the city of Nuremberg where the legislative assembly met. They were: On the 14th of November 1935, the Nuremberg laws were expanded prohibiting Roma (Gyp...
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Thrice
Thrice is an American experimental rock band formed in 1998. They are always changing their sound from different albums. The four members in Thrice are the same four people as when they started 10 years ago. In 2004, the band released a DVD about the band. In the DVD, it talks about the members. They talk about experie...
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Neurotransmitters
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Egyptian Arabic language
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Synapse
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Sidewalk
A sidewalk is a path for pedestrians that runs along the side of a road. It is called a sidewalk in American English, but can also be called a pavement (mainly British English and South African English), a footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term)...
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Maria Esther de Capovilla
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Songs from Folie à Deux by Fall Out Boy
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BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW, ) is a German automobile and motorcycle maker, founded on 7 March 1916. It is one of the most famous automobile makers in the world. The headquarters is located in Munich, Bavaria. BMW is part of the "German Big 3" luxury automobile manufacturers, along with Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Aut...
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In Love With A Girl
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Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation is a car manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan. Mazda is the 15th largest car maker in the world, and 12th largest in U.S. sales. The company was started in 1920. Today it has about 44,000 employees. Sales are 2,057,614,000,000 yen. History. In 1920, Toyo Koruku Kogyo was established. In 1984, ...
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Homogeneous mixture
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Itapema
Itapema is a city of the Santa Catarina state, in Brazil.
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Animal testing
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation and animal research is the use of animals for experiments. Escherichia coli, Fruit flies, and mice are often used for animal testing. About 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals and many more invertebrate animals are used around the world every year. The source of the...
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Campylobacter
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria. It is found in the intestines of many types of animal. "Campylobacter" is the most common bacterial cause of diarrhea and food poisoning. It is spiral shaped, and moves by using its flagella. Campylobacteriosis is a gastrointestinal tract infection caused by "Campylobacter". It cau...
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Emperor Taishō
was the 123rd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. His reign started in 30 July 1912 and ended with his death in 1926. He was Emperor of Japan from 1912-1926, and as head of state was involved in World War 1, fighting against the German Empire while allied with the British Empire, French ...
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Emperor Meiji
was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. His reign lasted from 1867 until his death in 1912. He was Emperor of the Empire of Japan from 1867 to 1912 and he was the leader of Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) and the Russo-Japanese ...
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Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida. They started in 1999 and became very successful. The members are: Matt Heafy (vocals, guitars), Corey Beaulieu (guitars), Paolo Gregoletto (bass) and Greyson Nekrutman (drums).
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Emily Browning
Emily Jane Browning (born 7 December 1988) is an Australian movie actress and singer. Browning made her movie debut in the Australian television movie "The Echo of Thunder". Later, she played recurring roles in Australian television shows "Blue Heelers" and "Something in the Air." Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 ...
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Trivium (liberal arts)
The word trivium, from Latin, is made of two parts. The first part "tres" meant "three" and the second part "vía" meant "way". In antiquity and the High Middle Ages, there were different ways of teaching young men at the university. The trivium was three simplest ways to study the world, and so young men learned them ...
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Ancient Greek boxing
Ancient Greek boxing is a very old sport. It has been practiced at least since the eighth century BC. Homer wrote about it in his poem "Iliad". At that time, Greece was made of many city-states that were independent. Each city state seems to have had its own version of the sport. Today, most of the sources that talk ab...
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London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (more commonly London School of Economics or LSE) is a college of the University of London in Westminster. The college opened in 1895. It joined the University of London in 1900. Today it is one of the leading universities for Law, Economics and Political Sciences. Q...
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London School of Economics and Political Science
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Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher. He became known because he strongly defended liberalism and free-market capitalism. He was against too much central control of the economy and society. He thought that forms of government like social...
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Ancient Olympic Games
The Ancient Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held between the city-states of Ancient Greece. They used to be called the Olympic Games (; "Olympiakoi Agones") until the modern day Olympic Games started. The Ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. Prizes at the games were olive wreat...
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Manhattan (movie)
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama movie by director Woody Allen. The movie is set in New York City. The movie is about Issac Davis (played by Allen), a divorced 42-year old dating a 17-year-old girl. His ex-wife is openly lesbian. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress ...
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Match Point
Match Point is a 2005 British crime drama thriller movie by director Woody Allen. It is set in London and stars Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The film had its limited theatrical release in the United States on December 28, 2005, and expanded to a wide release on January 20, 2006.
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Manhattan (film)
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Usb-creator
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Punching bag
A punching bag is a tough bag which is supposed to be punched a lot. It is used in exercise or stress relief to improve one of three areas: physical strength, aerobic fitness or punching technique. History. Punching bags have been used in martial arts for as long as there has been a written history of military training...
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Nocera Inferiore
Nocera Inferiore, is a town and comune in Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, at the foot of Monte Albino, 20 km east-south-east of Naples by rail, . above sea-level. Nuceria Alfaterna appears to have been the chief town in the valley of the Sarnus, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Stabiae and Surrentum all being depende...
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Hitchhiker's Guide
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Nevado del Ruiz
Nevado del Ruiz is a volcano in Colombia. It is also called Mount Ruiz. It is about west of Bogotá, close to the town of Armero. It is the tallest active volcano in Colombia. The eruption of 1985 caused a lahar. About 23,000 people died when the mud from the lahar covered Armero. This makes it the most deadly lahar th...
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Tao
Tao (Pinyin Dào ) is a metaphysical concept found in Taoism, Confucianism, and more often in ancient Chinese philosophy. The Chinese character translates as "way," "path," or "route". In Taoism, the Tao was the origin of the whole universe. Taoists believe that the "myriad things", or everything in the universe from an...
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Dao
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General Batista
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Vitaceae
Vitaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants including the grape and Virginia creeper. The family name comes from the genus "Vitis". The name sometimes appears as Vitidaceae, but Vitaceae is a conserved name and therefore has priority over both Vitidaceae and another name sometimes found in the older litera...
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Vitales
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Vitis
Vitis is a genus of about 60 species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The genus is made up of species most often found in the Northern hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, both for direct consumption of the fruit and for fermentation to produce wine. The cultivation ...
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Smiley Smile
Smiley Smile is the twelfth studio album by The Beach Boys. It was released in 1967.
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Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. It is a gas. It smells like burnt matches or rotten eggs. It can also cause suffocation. Sulfur dioxide is produced by volcanoes and in various industrial processes. It is also used to protect wine from oxygen and bacteria. It can be p...
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Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy (also called the international relations policy) is a set of goals about how the country will work with other countries economically, politically, socially and militarily. It includes such matters as international trade, foreign aid, military alliances, and war. Foreign policy also involves ...
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Philip II
Philip II may mean:
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Countess
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Dolná Krupá
Dolná Krupá is a village in the Trnava Region of Slovakia. It is in the Danubian Hills at around 12 km from the city of Trnava. The important sights in the village are:
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Little Carpathians
The Little Carpathians or Lesser Carpathians are a mountain range that are about 100 kilometers long. They are found in the western part of Slovakia, between Bratislava and Nové Mesto nad Váhom, and in Northeastern Austria.