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Vålerenga Fotball
Vålerenga Fotball is a Norwegian football club from Oslo. It was founded in 1913. During the 2024-season, they are playing at the second level. During the 2025-season, they are scheduled to play at the top level (in Norway), according to media. They are named after the neighbourhood of Vålerenga. They finished as runne...
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Volga
The Volga is the longest river in Europe. In Russian it is called Волга, in the Tatar language its name is İdel. Many people see it as the national river of Russia. It flows through the western part of the country. It is Europe's longest river, with a length of 3,530 kilometres, and forms the core of the largest river...
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Oi!
Oi! is a type of punk rock that was started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The people that started it wanted to connect punk with a working class street-level following. Oi! is a mixing of the styles of early punk bands, such as The Clash, Sex Pistols and the Ramones. It is also influenced by early British ro...
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Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (German: "Die Brüder Grimm", also "Gebrüder Grimm") were the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. They were German academics and most famous for their collections of folktales and fairy tales, and for their work in linguistics. The Grimm brothers both became linguists. They are the inventors of German p...
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Heavy metal
Heavy metal may mean:
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Bryozoa
Bryozoans, also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or moss animals, are a phylum of small aquatic animals living in colonies. The colonies usually have a skeleton of calcium carbonate. Bryozoans have a long fossil history, starting in the Ordovician. In their life-style they resemble the polyps which form coral. They gen...
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Porifera
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Placebo
A placebo is a treatment for a disease or condition which is deliberately ineffective. The motive usually is that if a person "believes" that a medicine, diet, or other treatment is good for them, then it "is" good for them. Sometimes sick people who receive a placebo feel like they are getting better, and sometimes th...
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Identity (mathematics)
In mathematics, the term identity has several important uses: An equality in mathematical sense is only true under more particular conditions. For this, the symbol ≡ is sometimes used (note, however, that the same symbol can also be used for a congruence relation as well.) Examples. Identity relation. A common example ...
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Equality
Equality can mean several things: In sciences: In humanities: People and places:
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Identity
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Equality (mathematics)
In mathematics, two things are equal if and only if they are exactly the same in every way. That is, they have the same (mathematical) value and the same mathematical properties. Mathematicians use the equals sign (=) to say this. This defines a binary relation, equality. The statement ""x" = "y"" means that "x" and "y...
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Half-Life
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Ministry
The term ministry could mean:
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Religious ministry
Ministry, in Christianity, is the activity that is done by members of the church to serve the purposes of the church. It can mean this activity as a whole, or specific activities, or organizations in a church that perform specific activities. Age-specific Ministry. As churches attempt to meet the needs of their congr...
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Ministry (government department)
A ministry is a department of a government, led by a political minister. Ministries are usually subordinate to the cabinet, and prime minister, president or chancellor. A government will usually have several ministries, each with a specialised field of service. National ministries vary greatly between countries, but s...
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Strong nuclear force
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Galerius
Galerius (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, ~250 – 5 May 311), was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311. Galerius served as a soldier with distinction. When the Tetrarchy was introduced by Diocletian in 293 Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were given the rank of "Caesar". Galerius married Diocletian's daughter Valeria, and ...
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Placebo (disambiguation)
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Placebo effect (disambiguation)
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Square foot gardening
Square foot gardening is a method of gardening made popular by Mel Bartholemew in 1981. It is based on the idea that wide rows, used in traditional gardening, waste time, work, water, seeds and soil. It shows that quality vegetables can be grown in less space with less work. In this method, the garden space is divided ...
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Guerrila
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Blender
A blender is an electric kitchen appliance used for making drinks, mixing liquids, and puréeing (chopping up into small bits) fruits and vegetables for sauces and soups. Parts of a blender. A blender consists of a glass or plastic container with a mounted blade in the bottom, and a base that has an electric motor and ...
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Drinking straw
A drinking straw (or "straw") is a utensil used to consume cold drinks such as milk shakes, smoothies, cola, and fruit juice. Drinking straws are usually made from plastic that is formed into a tube. To use a drinking straw, a person places the straw in a glass that contains a liquid and then sucks the straw with their...
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Whole-tone scale
In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from the next one by an interval of a whole tone. There is always one note (a semitone) in between each neighbouring pair of notes of the whole-tone scale. Whatever note is started on, the whole tone scale will contain one of the following sets of ...
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Whole tone scale
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Pentatonic scale
In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes in each octave. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found in folk music from all over the world. Any scale using five notes is "pentatonic" ("penta" is Greek for "five"). However, the pentatonic scale which is used in most Western music uses notes which do n...
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Major scale
In music theory, the major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales. It is made up of seven separate notes, plus an eighth which is the same as the first an octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti/Si, Do". The simplest major scale to write or play on the...
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Minor scale
A minor scale in music theory is any scale that has at least three scale degrees: the tonic, the minor third above the tonic, and the perfect fifth above the tonic. Together they make the minor triad. This includes many scales and modes such as Dorian mode and the Phrygian mode. In simple terms, a minor scale is a seri...
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Yeast
Yeast are microorganisms. They are single-celled fungi. There are about 1,500 different species of yeast. Most reproduce asexually, by budding. Some use binary fission to reproduce asexually. A particular species of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been used for thousands of years. It is used for baking bread becau...
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Budding
Budding is a method of asexual reproduction. With budding, a new organism grows on another one. It stays attached, while it grows. Only when it is fully grown does it detach from the parent organism. Since the reproduction is asexual, the newly created organism is a clone and is genetically identical to the parent orga...
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Binary fission
Binary fission ("division in half") is a kind of asexual reproduction. It is the most common form of reproduction in prokaryotes such as bacteria. It occurs in some single-celled Eukaryotes like the "Amoeba" and the "Paramoecium". In binary fission DNA replication and segregation occur simultaneously. In binary fission...
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Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel". Personal life. Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. At 15, her family moved to Rosarito B.C., Mexico. Later, th...
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Paul Watzlawick
Paul Watzlawick PhD (July 25, 1921 – March 31, 2007) was a theoretician in communication theory. He also commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He lived and worked in California until his death in 2007 in Palo Alto. He formulated five axioms. They are: Works. Watzlawick is author of 18 boo...
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Neurotransmitter
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers. They send information between neurons by crossing a synapse. Electrical signals are not able to cross the gap between most neurons. They are changed into chemical signals to cross the gap. Neurotransmitters act mostly on chemical synapses. Once they reach the next neuron they ...
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Hard rock
Hard rock is a variation of rock music with roots in early 1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock. The term "hard rock" may be used several genres such as punk rock and grunge in order to distinguish them from the more radio-friendly pop rock genre.
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Sally Beamish
Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956 in London) is an English composer. She has written orchestra, chamber music, vocal and choral music. Sally studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music. Later she studied in Germany and Italy. Sally started her career playing the viola in a chamber group called the Raphael...
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Nakhodka
Nakhodka (Russian "Находка") is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is one of the most eastern cities in Russia. Nakhodka is a port on the Japan Sea. It is located around Nakhodka Bay. "Nakhodka" means "Lucky find" in Russian. The village Amerikanka was the first permanent settlement at the location of the curren...
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Sumatra
Sumatra, known also as "Sumatera", is the sixth largest island in the world. It is in western Indonesia. It is to the west of the Sunda Islands, and is bordered by the Indian Ocean. Sumatra contains the provinces of Daerah Istimewa Aceh, Riau, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung Islands, Jambi, Bengkulu, Lampung, North Sumat...
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Whigs
The Whigs were a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The Whigs' start was in constitutional monarchism and disagreement with absolute monarchy. Between the 1680s and 1850s, they tried to win power over their rivals, the Tories. The British prime minister was us...
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Espionage
Espionage, or spying, is a practice of getting information without permission about an organization, society, or country that is meant to be secret or confidential. Espionage usually involves having access to where the needed information is stored or to the people that know the information. In wartime, espionage is a w...
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Spy
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Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH, (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was one of Britain's most important composers. He was born in Accrington, Lancashire. Early life. In 1952, Birtwistle entered the Royal Manchester College of Music in Manchester on a clarinet scholarship. While there he met other young composers like Peter Maxw...
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Punch and Judy (Big Shot)
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Punch and Judy (disambiguation)
Punch and Judy could mean:
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Lorsch
Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany ( south of Frankfurt am Main) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of the state of Hessen. More than 12,000 people live in the town. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, which used to be one of the greatest centers of Carolingian art. Several Carolingian kings of Germany were b...
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Calvinist
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Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something from or related to Scotland, a country in northern Europe. These may include:
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Herge
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Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He is well known for playing Merry Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". He is also well known for playing Charlie Pace on the television series "Lost". Personal life. Monaghan was born...
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Crazy Horse (cabaret)
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse Paris is a nightclub in Paris, founded in 1951. It is famous for its cabaret, which features nude female dancers. It was opened by Alain Bernardin, who also managed it until his suicide in 1994. Today the cabaret is run by Bernardin's children. The franchise includes "Crazy Horse...
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Umbrella term
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Chili
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Cnidaria
Cnidaria is a phylum with about 11,000 species of animals. All of them are simple and aquatic, and most of them live in the sea. Some are colonial, composed of zooids which may be clones. Cnidarian zooids may take the form of polyps or medusae at different phases of their life. Cnidaria take their name from special cel...
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Path
Path may refer to: Physical paths: In mathematics and computing:
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Calvinism
Calvinism is a Reformed church of Protestant Christianity that goes back to John Calvin and other theologians. Overview. Important Calvinists from Europe include Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli and Huldrych Zwingli. In England, Reformers include Thomas Cranmer and John Jewel. Because John Calvin...
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John Calvin
Jean Cauvin, or Jean Calvin (English: John Calvin, July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564), was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation who was a central developer of the system of Christian theology that is called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In Geneva, he rejected papal authority and established a n...
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Trebuchet
A Trebuchet was a device used in wars and sieges in the Middle Ages. It could be used to throw stones at ramparts, trying to break them down. It could also be used to throw things over the walls of a city. These could be corpses of animals or people that had died of the plague. Trebuchets were more accurate than other ...
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Tarascon
Tarascon, sometimes called Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a city in the south of France. The city is about 20 km from either Arles or Avignon. The city was founded by the Romans in the year 48. Some people know the city from the book Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. There is also a castle near the city. About 14.000 pe...
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Kurdistan
Kurdistan (; ), or Greater Kurdistan, is the region in the Middle East where the Kurds inhabit and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Geographically, Kurdistan is located between the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. Kurdistan is home to many r...
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Aigues-Mortes
Aigues-Mortes (French for "dead waters") is a city in the south of France. It is in the Gard department and the Occitanie region. It was originally founded by the Romans in the year 102 BC. The first records mentioning it under its current name date from the 10th century. Louis IX of France rebuilt the port in the 13th...
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Phillipines
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3 BC
Year 3 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday or Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla.
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Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.
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Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was King of the Belgians from 1865 until his death in 1909. Leopold created and controlled the Congo Free State. His harsh rule killed as many as 10 million Congolese people. The Congo Free State. Leopold is mainly remembered as the fo...
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George V
George V (né Prince George of Wales, formerly George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June, 186520 January, 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the Emperor of India. He was the first British monarch with the family name Windsor. His father was Edward VII. George was born in 1865. He was in the Royal Navy when he was twe...
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Candy
Candy, also called a sweet, is a sweet kind of food that is usually made from sugar and water, with flavors and other ingredients added. The word "candy", and probably also from Sanskrit khanda, which means "piece (of sugar)". Candy is found in almost any store because they are made in many companies. Candy can also b...
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Loanword
A loanword is a word that is adopted by a language that comes from another language. Since people who speak different languages often need to talk to each other, it is actually very common for languages to "borrow" words from other languages. Examples of this can be seen in the English language because it has many loa...
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Moray eel
Moray eels are a family of eels in the family Muraenidae. Moray eels can be found all over the world. There are 200 different species in 15 genera. Body. Like all eels, moray eels look like a cross between a fish and a snake. The body is generally patterned. In some species, the inside of the mouth is also patterned. ...
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Anguilloidei
The Anguilloidei are a suborder of the order Anguilliformes (the eels) containing three families: This suborder used to include several other families that have recently been moved to new suborders:
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Carcassonne
Carcassonne () is a fortified French town, in the "Aude département", Occitanie region. It is separated into the fortified "Cité de Carcassonne" and the more expansive lower city, the "ville basse". This bastide, which was thoroughly restored from 1853 by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was added to t...
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Carcassonne (disambiguation)
Carcassonne can mean:
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Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Gascon: "Vilanuèva d'Olt") is a town and commune in southwestern France, in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is a subprefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department. The commune was formerly named "Villeneuve-d'Agen". It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Villeneuve-sur-Lot and of 2 "can...
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Agen
Agen is a commune in southwestern France, in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department and the capital of the "arrondissement" of Agen. The "Agenais", the region where is the "commune", is a natural region of the old province of Aquitaine, now in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Geograp...
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Libourne
Libourne (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the wine-making capital of northern Gironde and lies near Saint-Émilion and Pomerol, both known for their wines. History. Libourne was created as a bastide by Rog...
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Mirepoix (Ariège)
Mirepoix is a city in the south of France. Today, about 3.000 people live there. It was founded as a bastide. Though it is not a bastide in the sense that it is a planned city. It was rebuilt following complete destruction after the local river overboarded. This reconstruction was done according to the 'bastide' idea.
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Kiss (Kiss album)
Kiss is the self-titled first album from the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It was released on February 8, 1974.
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Hotter Than Hell
Hotter Than Hell is the second album from the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It was released on October 22, 1974.
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Dressed to Kill
Dressed to Kill is the third studio album from the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It was released on March 19, 1975.
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Alive!
Alive! is the fourth album from the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It is also their first live album. It was released on September 10, 1975.
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Destroyer (album)
Destroyer is the fourth studio album and fifth album overall by the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It was released on March 15, 1976.
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12-hour clock
The 12-hour clock is a way of dividing the 24 hours of the day into two sections. The two halves are called ante meridiem (a.m.) and post meridiem (p.m.). Both names are from Latin and ', means "before midday" and ' means "after midday". Each period has 12 hours and are numbered 12 (acting as 0), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...